GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

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HOUSE BILL 1108

Short Title:  Vol. Athlete Doctors/Good Samar.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Foster; Chapin, Diamont, and Miller.
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Referred to:  Judiciary.
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April 7, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCLUDE UNDER THE GOOD SAMARITAN STATUTE PHYSICIANS WHO VOLUNTEER TO PROVIDE, WITHOUT COMPENSATION, MEDICAL TREATMENT TO ATHLETES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 90-21.14(b) reads as rewritten:
	"(b) Nothing in this section shall be deemed or construed to relieve any person from liability for damages for injury or death caused by an act or omission on the part of such person while rendering health care services in the normal and ordinary course of his business or profession. For purposes of this section, first aid or emergency treatment medical services provided by a licensed physician on a voluntary basis and without compensation to members of public school athletic teams are deemed not to be in the normal and ordinary course of the physician's business or profession."
Sec. 2. This act shall become effective August 1, 1989, and shall apply to actions filed on or after that date.