NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1332

SENATE BILL 862

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THE TREATMENT OF HEMOPHILIA.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Human Resources the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) for fiscal year 1982-83 to be used for the treatment of hemophilia, including the blood products used in such treatment, at the medical facilities affiliated with the Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Duke University School of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, and any other facilities designated in the guidelines developed by the Department of Human Resources pursuant to Section 2 of this act.

Sec. 2. The Department of Human Resources shall maintain and update, as necessary, guidelines for the use of these funds to assist those persons who require continuing treatment with blood, blood derivatives, or manufactured pharmaceutical products to avoid crippling or other effects associated with hemophilia, but who are unable to pay for the entire cost of these services.

Sec. 3. The Department of Human Resources shall, in any action taken pursuant to Section 2 of this act, consult with at least one representative of the hemophilia programs at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Charlotte Memorial Hospital, Duke University School of Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, plus at least one representative of the North Carolina Chapter of the National Hemophilia Foundation.

Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.