Bill Summary – FastDemocracy

FILED SENATE
                                                                                     Mar 29, 2021
                         GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
                                                                S.B. 371
                                     SESSION 2021           PRINCIPAL CLERK
     S                                                                   D
                              SENATE BILL DRS45190-MRa-82
     Short Title:   Resume Funding Adult & Pediatric TBI Pilot.                              (Public)
     Sponsors:      Senators Krawiec, Perry, and Burgin (Primary Sponsors).
     Referred to:
                                    A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 AN ACT TO RESUME FUNDING FOR THE ADULT AND PEDIATRIC TRAUMATIC
     BRAIN INJURY PILOT PROGRAM.
 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
             SECTION 1.(a) The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental
 Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services (DMH), shall resume the adult
 and pediatric traumatic brain injury pilot program (TBI pilot program) authorized under Section
 11F.9 of S.L. 2017-57, as amended by Section 3.3 of S.L. 2017-212.
             SECTION 1.(b) There is appropriated from the General Fund to DMH the sum of
 six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2021-2022 fiscal year to
 be used to pay the contracted vendor for currently unfunded costs accrued by that vendor's
 continuation of the TBI pilot program during the 2019-2021 biennium. There is appropriated
 from the General Fund to DMH the sum of three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000) in
 nonrecurring funds for the 2021-2022 fiscal year and three hundred thousand dollars ($300,000)
 in nonrecurring funds for the 2022-2023 fiscal year to be used for the TBI pilot program.
             SECTION 1.(c) No later than April 1, 2022, DMH shall submit a report on the TBI
 pilot program to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services and
 the Fiscal Research Division. At a minimum, the report shall include all of the following:
             (1)    The number and outcome of patients served at each program site, broken down
                    by patient age and county of origin.
             (2)    A breakdown of expenditures at each program site by type of service.
             (3)    An estimate of the cost to expand the program incrementally and statewide.
             (4)    An estimate of any potential savings of State funds associated with expansion
                    of the program.
             (5)    If expansion of the TBI pilot program is recommended, a time line and plan
                    for expanding the program.
             SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2021.
                                  *DRS45190-MRa-82*