NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1122
SENATE BILL 423

AN ACT TO PROVIDE AN APPROPRIATION OF $750,000 FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PROGRAM OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE AGED AND OTHERS IN NORTH CAROLINA.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated for the biennium 1963-65 the sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000.00) for the purpose of providing dental care to persons 65 years of age or over, in accordance with the provisions of the Act to provide for the establishment of a program of medical assistance for the aged and other groups in North Carolina.
Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated for the biennium 1963-65 the sum of four hundred fifty thousand dollars ($450,000.00) for the purpose of providing out-patient services and drugs in accordance with the provisions of the Act hereinbefore referred to. In addition, the State Board of Public Welfare is authorized, in its discretion, to transfer and add to the appropriations made in this Section all or any portion of the appropriation? for old age assistance, aid to families with dependent children, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled as are necessary to include in the monthly grants to persons covered by such programs the ten dollars($10.00) per month for medical care, in order that medical care for public assistance recipients may, insofar as is practicable, hereafter be provided on a vendor payment basis.
Sec. 3.  There is hereby appropriated for the biennium 1963-65 the sum of one hundred thousand dollars $(100,000.00) for the purposes of assisting the counties in the administration of the expanded medical programs provided in the Act hereinbefore referred to.
Sec. 3 ½.  Subject to the approval of the Advisory Budget Commission, the State Board of Public Welfare may transfer funds herein appropriated between the programs established by this Act.
Sec. 4.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5.  This Act shall be effective on July 1, 1963.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.