GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2008-166
HOUSE BILL 2409
AN ACT to require multiunit Assisted housing with services (MAHS) PRograms to register annually with the division of Health service regulation and to authorize the Department of Health and Human Services to establish certain fees, as recommended by the study commission on aging.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 131D-2(a)(7a) reads as rewritten:
"(7a) Effective July 1, 1996,
"multiunit assisted housing with services" means an assisted living
residence in which hands-on personal care services and nursing services which
are arranged by housing management are provided by a licensed home care or
hospice agency, through an individualized written care plan. The housing
management has a financial interest or financial affiliation or formal written
agreement which makes personal care services accessible and available through
at least one licensed home care or hospice agency. The resident has a choice of
any provider, and the housing management may not combine charges for housing
and personal care services. All residents, or their compensatory agents, must
be capable, through informed consent, of entering into a contract and must not
be in need of 24-hour supervision. Assistance with self-administration of
medications may be provided by appropriately trained staff when delegated by a
licensed nurse according to the home care agency's established plan of care.
Multiunit assisted housing with services programs are required to registerregister
annually with the Division of Health Service Regulation and to provide a
disclosure statement. Regulation. The Department shall charge each
registered multiunit assisted housing with services program a nonrefundable
annual registration fee of three hundred and fifty dollars ($350.00). Any
individual or corporation that establishes, conducts, manages, or operates a
multiunit housing with services program, subject to registration under this
section, that fails to register is guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall be punishable only by a fine of not more than fifty dollars
($50.00) for the first offense and not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00)
for each subsequent offense. Each day of a continuing violation after
conviction shall be considered a separate offense. Multiunit assisted housing
with services programs are required to provide a disclosure statement to the
Division of Health Service Regulation. The disclosure statement is required
to be a part of the annual rental contract that includes a description of the
following requirements:
a. Emergency response system;
b. Charges for services offered;
c. Limitations of tenancy;
d. Limitations of services;
e. Resident responsibilities;
f. Financial/legal relationship between housing management and home care or hospice agencies;
g. A listing of all home care or hospice agencies and other community services in the area;
h. An appeals process; and
i. Procedures for required initial and annual resident screening and referrals for services.
Continuing care retirement communities, subject to regulation by the Department of Insurance under Chapter 58 of the General Statutes, are exempt from the regulatory requirements for multiunit assisted housing with services programs."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective January 1, 2010.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2008.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 3:47 a.m. this 3rd day of August, 2008