NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1969 SESSION
CHAPTER 1138
HOUSE BILL 278
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HOSPITAL PROGRAMS OF NURSING EDUCATION LEADING TO DIPLOMAS IN NURSING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:
Section 1. There is hereby appropriated to the State Board of Education, in addition to all other appropriations, from the General Fund of the State the sum of six hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($650,000.00) for the 1969-71 biennium to provide financial assistance to hospital programs of nursing education leading to diplomas in nursing. Any of these funds not expended by the Board during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970, shall be available to the Board for expenditure for this purpose during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1971. To qualify for financial assistance under this Act a program must be conducted by an educational unit in nursing which is fully accredited by the North Carolina Board of Nursing and which is operated under the authority of a public or non-profit hospital licensed by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission. The State Board of Education each year of the biennium shall distribute sums to eligible educational units in nursing or hospitals, upon their application for financial assistance, on the basis of two hundred dollars ($200.00) for each student duly enrolled in the program as of December 1 of the preceding year and on the condition that accreditation is maintained. The Board may make such reasonable rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act and to insure that this financial assistance is used directly for the operation and maintenance of diploma nursing programs and not for religious or other non-public purposes.
Sec. 2. These funds are to be appropriated in addition to any other funds that are provided for this program.
Sec. 3. All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 1969.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 30th day of June, 1969.