H.B. 1087
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
May 14, 2020
SESSION 2019 HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK
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HOUSE BILL DRH10768-LUa-171
Short Title: Health Care Funding Requests/COVID-19 - 1. (Public)
Sponsors: Representative Lambeth.
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR VARIOUS HEALTH CARE
3 RELATED NEEDS IN RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.
4 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
5 SECTION 1.(a) The State Controller shall transfer the sum of three hundred
6 thousand dollars ($300,000) for the 2019-2020 fiscal year from the Coronavirus Relief Reserve
7 established under Section 2.1 of S.L. 2020-4 to the Coronavirus Relief Fund under the
8 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020, P.L. 116-136,
9 established in Section 2.2 of that act.
10 SECTION 1.(b) There is appropriated from the Coronavirus Relief Fund under the
11 CARES Act to the Department of Health and Human Services the sum of three hundred thousand
12 dollars ($300,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2019-2020 fiscal year for various health care
13 needs related to public health and safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
14 SECTION 1.(c) The funds appropriated in this section shall not revert at the end of
15 the 2019-2020 fiscal year but shall remain available to expend until December 30, 2020.
16 SECTION 2. The Department of Health and Human Services shall provide a report
17 to the House Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, the Senate
18 Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, and the Fiscal Research Division by
19 March 1, 2021, detailing the use of funds appropriated under this act.
20 SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
*DRH10768-LUa-171*