NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1971 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1202

SENATE BILL 994

 

 

AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE FOR SPECIAL NURSING CARE REQUIREMENTS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated from the General Fund one million seven hundred thousand dollars ($1,700,000) to the Department of Social Services to be used to provide the State's matching portion eighty-five percent (85%) for special nursing care requirements. The counties will provide their matching share (15%).

Sec. 2.  The State Board of Social Services, in establishing eligibility requirements for the aid to aged and disabled recipients, will include a special allowance not to exceed $110.00 a month for special nursing care, when such care is determined to be necessary in accordance with rules of the Board.

Sec. 3.  Disbursements of the funds appropriated under this act by the Department of Social Services shall be subject to, but not limited to, the following conditions:

(a)        The recipient shall be subject to existing lien laws applicable to public assistance recipients;

(b)        The regulations of the State Board of Social Services relating to the transfer of property when determining eligibility of public assistance recipients shall be applicable;

(c)        The eligibility of recipients of the special allowance for which provision is made in this act shall be subject to investigation and audit by the Department of Social Services.

Sec. 4.  The provisions of this act shall be subject to all of the provisions of Chapter 708 of the Session Laws of 1971 applicable to the Department of Social Services.

Sec. 5.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 21st day of July, 1971.