GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

SESSION LAW 2007-125

SENATE BILL 748

AN ACT to direct the Department of Health and Human Services to extend the restriction on the issuing of licenses for home care agencies by one year.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 2 of S.L. 2006‑194 reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 2. Beginning January 1, 2007, and for a period of one yeartwo years thereafter, the Department of Health and Human Services shall not issue any licenses for new home care agencies that intend to offer in‑home aide services. This shall not restrict the Department from issuing licenses to certified home health agencies that intend to offer in‑home aide services or to agencies that need a new license for an existing home care agency being acquired. This will allow the Department the time necessary to implement newly adopted home care rules. more time to work with existing home care agencies to assure compliance with the newly adopted home care rules."

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20^th day of June, 2007.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 5:44 p.m. this 27^th day of June, 2007