NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1963 SESSION

CHAPTER 1142
HOUSE BILL 218

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE ADDITIONAL FUNDS TO THE STATE BOARD OF PUBLIC WELFARE TO ENABLE THE STATE TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE HOSPITALIZATION FOR RECIPIENTS OF PUBLIC ASSISTANCE AND FOR THE MEDICALLY INDIGENT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the State Board of Public Welfare for the biennium 1963-65 the sum of three hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($325,000.00) to be deposited in the "State Fund for Hospitalization of Assistance Recipients", and to be used by said Board for the purpose of paying the actual costs of hospitalization of public assistance recipients in the three categories of old age assistance, aid to dependent children, and aid to the permanently and totally disabled, up to but not in excess of twenty dollars ($20.00) per day.
Sec. 2.  There is further appropriated from the General Fund of the State to the State Board of Public Welfare for the biennium 1963-65 the sum of one hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($175,000.00) to be used by said Board for the purpose of paying the actual costs for hospitalization for the "no money payment" medically indigent, up to but not in excess of twenty dollars ($20.00) per day.
Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective July 1, 1963.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 24th day of June, 1963.