GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

S	1 

SENATE BILL 651

Short Title:  Local Confinement Med. Services.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Daniel.
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Referred to:  Human Resources.
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April 16, 1991

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO DEFINE EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES FOR PRISONERS IN LOCAL CONFINEMENT FACILITIES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 153A-217 reads as rewritten:
"§ 153A-217. Definitions.
Unless otherwise clearly required by the context, the words and phrases defined in this section have the meanings indicated when used in this Part:
(1)	‘Commission' means the Social Services Commission.
(2)	‘Secretary' means the Secretary of Human Resources.
(3)	‘Department' means the Department of Human Resources.
(4)	‘Governing body' means the governing body of a county or city or the policy-making body for a district or regional confinement facility.
(5)	‘Local confinement facility' includes a county or city jail,  a local lockup, a regional or district jail, a juvenile detention home, a detention facility for adults operated by a local government, and any other facility operated by a local government for confinement of persons awaiting trial or serving sentences except that it shall not include a county satellite jail/work release unit governed by Part 3 of Article 10 of Chapter 153A.
(6)	‘Prisoner' includes any person, adult or juvenile, confined or detained in a confinement facility.
(7)	 ‘Unit,' ‘unit of local government,' or ‘local government' means a county or city.
(8)	‘Emergency medical services' means the care rendered by a physician or on the advice of a physician for the treatment of an injury or illness of an urgent, critical nature in order to save life or limb, while the prisoner is legally confined to a local confinement facility.  ‘Emergency medical services' does not mean any care rendered of a nonemergency nature for a serious medical condition, nor does it mean any care rendered after the prisoner is released from a local confinement facility."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to emergency medical services given on and after this date.