Senate Bill 808 Summary

• Appropriates $15,000,000 for Dorothea Dix campus relocation project planning and $32,554,480 for NC FAST system operations, maintenance, and child welfare program updates for fiscal year 2020-2021.

• Allocates $170,000,000 in Coronavirus Relief Funds for behavioral health and crisis services ($50M), early childhood initiatives ($20M), and COVID-19 testing, contact tracing, and analysis efforts ($100M).

• Provides $213,000,000 plus transfers from Medicaid reserves totaling approximately $250,000,000 for Medicaid and NC Health Choice program operations and rebase for fiscal year 2020-2021.

• Delays implementation of Medicaid transformation capitated contracts to no later than July 1, 2021, and extends initial prepaid health plan contracts from three to four years with extension options.

• Repeals Article 7 hospital assessment provisions and establishes new supplemental and base hospital assessment rates of 2.14% and 1.94% respectively effective July 1, 2021, and creates a 1.9% tax on prepaid health plan capitation payments.