NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 1273

HOUSE BILL 653

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE EDUCATION OF NORTH CAROLINIANS AT THE MEDICAL SCHOOLS OF DUKE UNIVERSITY AND WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  There is hereby appropriated to the Board of Higher Education, out of the General Fund of the State, the sum of $100,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1969, and the sum of $250,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1970, these sums to be used for the education of physicians at the School of Medicine at Duke University and at the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University. The funds shall be disbursed on certification of the respective school of medicine showing an increase in the number of North Carolina residents enrolled as first-year students in the school as of November 1, 1969, and the number of North Carolina residents enrolled as first- and second-year students in the school as of November 1, 1970. To the extent of the appropriation made herein, disbursement shall be made to the school in the amount of $2,500 for each such student, $250 of which shall be credited to the annual tuition of each such student. Any funds appropriated for the first fiscal year of the biennium but not expended in that year shall be available for expenditure in the second fiscal year of the biennium.

Sec. 2.  The Board of Higher Education shall prescribe regulations for determining which students are residents of North Carolina. The Board shall also make such regulations as it may deem desirable to insure that these funds are used directly for instruction in the medical programs of the schools and not for religious or other non-public purposes. The Board shall encourage the two schools to orient students toward personal health care in North Carolina. It shall make any other rules or regulations which it may deem desirable in carrying out the purposes of this Act. The appropriation authorized by this Act shall be expended for purposes that will strengthen the practice of family and community medicine in North Carolina.

Sec. 2.5.  This appropriation is limited to the biennium 1969-71, and is not intended to be a continuing appropriation, and any funds not expended during the biennium shall revert to the General fund.

Sec. 3.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4.  This Act shall be in full force and effect from and after July 1, 1969.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1969.