GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 1113

Short Title:  Dom. Care Licensing Act.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Nye; and Bowman.
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Referred to:  Health and Human Services.
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April 19, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE LAW REGARDING DOMICILIARY CARE LICENSING.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 131D-2(a) is amended by inserting a new subdivision to read:
"(1a)	'Assisted living' means community-based living arrangements where residents reside in individual or multiunit housing."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 131D-2(a)(3) reads as rewritten:
"(3)	'Domiciliary home' means any facility, by whatever name it is called, which provides residential care for aged or disabled persons whose principal need is a home which provides the supervision, personal care, and medical care appropriate to their age or disability. Personal care given in a domiciliary home includes direct assistance, by designated staff, to residents in personal grooming, bathing, dressing, feeding, shopping, laundering clothes, handling personal finances, arranging transportation, scheduling medical or business appointments, as well as attending to any personal needs residents may be incapable of or unable to attend for themselves. Domiciliary homes are to be distinguished from nursing homes subject to licensure under G.S. 131E-102. The three types of domiciliary homes are homes for the aged and disabled, family care homes and group homes for developmentally disabled adults."
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1993, and applies to licensure requirements on or after that date.