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NC H491
Bill
Status
3/27/2019
Primary Sponsor
Donny Lambeth
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AI Summary
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Appropriates $2,940,515 for fiscal year 2019-2020 and $14,566,220 for fiscal year 2020-2021 from the General Fund to Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center for construction of a new regional autopsy center in Winston-Salem
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New facility will serve 32 counties in western North Carolina with capacity for approximately 1,760 medicolegal autopsies per year, including eight autopsy work stations and refrigerated storage for 50 bodies
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Current autopsy center operates in inadequate space that does not comply with National Association of Medical Examiners standards and performed 1,226 postmortem examinations in 2018
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Facility is intended to address expected increases in autopsy volume due to population growth and deaths from the opioid epidemic
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Act becomes effective July 1, 2019
Legislative Description
WF Baptist Health Regional Autopsy Ctr Funds
Last Action
Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Appropriations, Health and Human Services, if favorable, Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
3/28/2019