GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2005
SESSION LAW 2006-110
SENATE BILL 1279
AN ACT to direct the department of health and human services to collaborate with providers and advocates of home and community-based services to review and make recommendations addressing biases identified in the North Carolina Institutional Bias Study Report, as recommended by the study commission on aging.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. The Department of Health and Human Services shall collaborate with providers and advocates of home and community-based long-term care services to review the North Carolina Institutional Bias Study Report prepared by the Lewin Group and make recommendations on ways to address the biases identified in the report. The Department shall report its findings and recommendations to the North Carolina Study Commission on Aging on or before October 15, 2006.
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 2006.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 10:56 a.m. this 13th day of July, 2006