NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1112

SENATE BILL 74

 

 

AN ACT TO CONTINUE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE EDUCATION OF NORTH CAROLINIANS AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF DUKE UNIVERSITY AND WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Higher Education, out of the General Fund of the State, the sum of $519,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1971, and the sum of $717,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1972, these sums to be used for the education of physicians at the School of Medicine at Duke University and at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. The funds shall be disbursed on certification of the respective school of medicine showing the number of North Carolina residents enrolled as first, second and third year students in the school as of November 1, 1971, and the number of North Carolina residents enrolled as first, second, third and fourth year students in the school as of November 1, 1972. To the extent of the appropriation made herein, disbursement shall be made to the school in the amount of $3,000 for each such student, $500.00 of which shall be placed by the school in a fund to be used to provide for tuition remission to financially needy North Carolina students who are enrolled in the school, provided that no individual student shall be awarded assistance from this fund in excess of $1,500 a year. Any funds appropriated for the first fiscal year of the biennium but not expended in that year shall be available for expenditure in the second fiscal year of the biennium.

Sec. 2.  The Board of Higher Education shall prescribe regulations for determining which students are residents of North Carolina. The Board shall also make such regulations as it may deem desirable to insure that these funds are used directly for instruction in the medical programs of the schools and not for religious or other non-public purposes. The Board shall encourage the two schools to orient students toward personal health care in North Carolina giving special emphasis to family and community medicine. It shall make any other rules or regulations which it may deem desirable in carrying out the purposes of this act.

Sec. 3.  This act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1971.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.