GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

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HOUSE BILL 627
Committee Substitute Favorable 5/13/91

Short Title:  Health Svces. Commn./Public Mbrs.	(Public)
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April 9, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF PUBLIC MEMBERS TO THE HEALTH SERVICES COMMISSION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 130A-30 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-30.  Commission for Health Services – members; selection; quorum; compensation.
(a)	The Commission for Health Services shall consist of 14 members, four of whom shall be elected by the North Carolina Medical Society, eight of whom shall be appointed by the Governor, one of whom shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and one of whom shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
(b)	One of the members appointed by the Governor shall be a licensed pharmacist, one a registered engineer experienced in sanitary engineering or a soil scientist, one a licensed veterinarian, one a licensed optometrist, one a licensed dentist, and one a registered nurse.  The members appointed by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall be public members who represent the citizenry at large and who are not members of any of the professions that qualify a person for appointment or election under this section. The initial members of the Commission shall be the members of the State Board of Health who shall serve for a period equal to the remainder of their current terms on the State Board of Health, three of whose appointments expire May 1, 1973, and two of whose appointments expire May 1, 1975.  At the end of the respective terms of office of initial members of the Commission, their successors shall be appointed for terms of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify.  Any appointment to fill a vacancy on the Commission created by the resignation, dismissal, death, or disability of a member shall be for the balance of the unexpired term.
(c)	The North Carolina Medical Society shall have the right to remove any member elected by it for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance, and the Governor shall have the right to remove any member appointed by him for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 143B-13.  Vacancies on said Commission among the membership elected by the North Carolina Medical Society shall be filled by the executive committee of the Medical Society until the next meeting of the Medical Society, when the Medical Society shall fill the vacancy for the unexpired term.  Vacancies on said Commission among the membership appointed by the Governor shall be filled by the Governor for the unexpired term. Vacancies on the Commission among the members appointed by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate shall be filled by the appointing authority for the unexpired term.
(d)	A majority of the members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
(e)	The members of the Commission shall receive per diem and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses in accordance with the provisions of G.S. 138-5."
Sec. 2. This act is effective upon ratification.  The General Assembly shall make its appointments within 30 days after ratification.