Bill Text: NC S675 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Prohibit Medicaid Fraud/Kickbacks

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2010-08-03 - Ch. SL 2010-185 [S675 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2010-S675-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

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SENATE BILL 675

Health Care Committee Substitute Adopted 4/1/09

 

Short Title:        Amend Public Health-Related Laws.		(Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:

March 19, 2009

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to AMEND PUBLIC HEALTH‑RELATED LAWS TO clarify PROCEDURES FOR INVESTIGATING AND CONTROLLING COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑534.3 reads as rewritten:

"§ 15A‑534.3.  Detention for communicable diseases.

If a judicial official conducting an initial appearance or first appearance hearing finds probable cause that an individual was exposedhad a nonsexual exposure to the defendant in a manner that poses a significant risk of transmission of the AIDS virus or Hepatitis B by such defendant, the judicial official shall order the defendant to be detained for a reasonable period of time, not to exceed 24 hours, for investigation by public health officials and for testing for AIDS virus infection and Hepatitis B infection if required by public health officials pursuant to G.S. 130A‑144 and G.S. 130A‑148."

SECTION 2.  G.S. 130A‑144(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Physicians and Physicians, persons in charge of medical facilities or laboratories laboratories, and other persons shall, upon request and proper identification, permit a local health director or the State Health Director to examine, review, and obtain a copy of medical or other records in their possession or under their control which the State Health Director or a local health director determines pertain to the (i) diagnosis, treatment, or prevention of a communicable disease or communicable condition for a person infected, exposed, or reasonably suspected of being infected or exposed to such a disease or condition, or (ii) the investigation of a known or reasonably suspected outbreak of a communicable disease or communicable condition."

SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.