NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 572

HOUSE BILL 290

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 90, ARTICLE 22 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO SPEECH AND LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 90-294(b) is amended on line 5 by deleting the citation "G.S. 90-296" and substituting therefor "G.S. 90-297".

Sec. 2. G.S. 90-294(f) is amended on line 3 by deleting the words "in industrial operations" and on line 4 by deleting the word "company".

Sec. 3. G.S. 90-296(a) is amended by deleting the first word in line 2 and substituting therefor the word "satisfied" and by deleting the first word in line 3 and substituting therefor the word "before".

Sec. 4. G.S. 90-301 is amended on line 4 by deleting the reference to "Chapter 150" and substituting therefor "Chapter 150A".

Sec. 5. G.S. 90-303(a) is amended on line 2 by deleting the word "five" and substituting therefor the word "seven". G.S. 90-303(a) is further amended by adding at the end the following: "Two members shall be appointed by the Governor to represent the interest of the public at large. These two members shall be neither licensed speech and language pathologists nor audiologists. These members shall be appointed not later than July 1, 1981; one shall be initially appointed for a term of two years; the other shall be appointed for a term of three years. Thereafter all public members shall serve three-year terms."

Sec. 6. G.S. 90-303(c) is amended by deleting the last sentence thereof and substituting the following: "All board members serving on June 30, 1981, shall be eligible to complete their respective terms. No member appointed to a term on or after July 1, 1981, shall serve more than two complete consecutive three-year terms."

Sec. 7. G.S. 90-304 is amended by inserting on line 1 after the symbol " - " and before the word "The" the symbol "(a)".

G.S. 90-304 is further amended by adding at the end a new subsection to read as follows: "(b) The board shall not adopt or enforce any rule or regulation which prohibits advertising except for false or misleading advertising."

Sec. 8. G.S. 143-34.13 is amended by deleting lines 3 and 4 of the section which read as follows:

"Chapter 90, Article 22, entitled 'Licensure Act for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists'."

Sec. 9. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 15th day of June, 1981.