NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1101

HOUSE BILL 900

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR PRENATAL CARE FOR ELIGIBLE PREGNANT WOMEN.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Medical Assistance, Department of Human Resources, the sum of six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) for fiscal year 1981-82 to provide funds for Medicaid coverage under the medically needy program for pregnant women who would be eligible for medical assistance as categorically needy except for income and resources and who meet federal requirements for medicaid eligibility and have no other children. From the effective date of this act, the State will, upon a determination of pregnancy, cover the health care costs, including prenatal and delivery costs, for women eligible under this act.

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective March 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 10th day of October, 1981.