GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

 

 

SESSION LAW 2009-535

SENATE BILL 643

 

 

AN ACT to provide that a PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEE required to submit to a controlled substance examination whose first screening test produces a positive result may waive a second examination that is intended to confirm the results.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 95-232(c1) reads as rewritten:

"(c1)     Confirmation test of samples: if a preliminary screening procedure or other screening test for a prospective employee produces a positive result, an approved laboratory shall confirm that result by a second examination of the sample utilizing gas chromatography with mass spectrometry or an equivalent scientifically accepted method.method, unless the examinee signs a written waiver at the time or after they receive the preliminary test result.  All screening tests for current employees that produce a positive result shall be confirmed by a second examination of the sample utilizing gas chromatography with mass spectrometry or an equivalent scientifically accepted method."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 11th day of August, 2009.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 10:01 a.m. this 28th day of August, 2009