GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 70

Short Title:  Div. of Aging/Data.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representative Wiser; Bowman and Warner.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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January 24, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT THE DIVISION OF AGING PROVIDE FOR THE COORDINATION OF ALL EXISTING DATA REGARDING THE ELDERLY AND TO REQUIRE THAT ALL STATE AGENCIES AND ENTITIES POSSESSION SUCH DATA COOPERATE WITH THE DIVISION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Division of Aging, Department of Human Resources, shall provide for the obtaining, coordinating, and analyzing of all existing data sets regarding the elderly in North Carolina, in order to ensure that adequate demographic, geographic, health, social, economic, and other pertinent indicators are available to generate its regularly updated Plan for Serving Older Adults.
Upon request, the Division shall make available those data sets required by other State Agencies and entities serving older adults within a reasonable time.
All State agencies and entities that possess data relating to the elderly, including the Department of Human Resources' Division of Health Services, the Division of Facility Services, and the Division of Social Services, and the Department of Administration, shall cooperate, upon request, with the Division of Aging in implementing this act.
No additional appropriations are required by this act.
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.