NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1442

SENATE BILL 1248

AN ACT TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DIVISION OF MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, TO PROVIDE FOR A MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM AND PLANNING FOR A MODEL MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  In addition to all other funds appropriated by the 1974 Session of the General Assembly for the support of Area Mental Health Programs, there is hereby appropriated out of the General Fund of the State the sum of five hundred eighty-one thousand six hundred twenty-two dollars ($581,622) to the Division of Mental Health Services, Department of Human Resources, for a management information system and planning for a model mental health system.

Sec. 2.  The expenditure of the funds herein appropriated shall not be subject to any of the limitations or restrictions on expenditure of funds contained in Chapter 122 of the General Statutes.

Sec. 3.  The Mental Health Care Study Commission established and structured by 1973 General Assembly Resolution 80 and 1973 Session Law Chapter 806 is hereby revived and authorized to continue in existence until July 1,1975.

Sec. 4.  The continued Mental Health Care Study Commission shall have all of the powers and duties of the original Study Commission as they are necessary to continue the original study, assist in the implementation of the original Study Commission recommendations, and plan further activity on the subject of the study.

Sec. 5.  Members of the original Mental Health Care Study Commission shall remain members of the continued Study Commission, but they shall serve at the pleasure of the person holding the office authorized to make the original appointment. Members of the General Assembly who are not reelected shall not be disqualified from membership on the continued Study Commission because they are no longer members of the General Assembly, but the person holding the office authorized to make the original appointment may replace them and any other member of the Study Commission with new appointees since they serve at the pleasure of these officers.

Sec. 6.  Members and staff of the continued Mental Health Care Study Commission shall receive the same compensation and expenses as under the original authorization in 1973 General Assembly Resolution 80, and funding for the continued Study Commission shall be from the same source as authorized in that original resolution.

Sec. 7.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1974.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of April, 1974.