GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 182
SENATE BILL 890

AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAM AND TO MAKE CONFORMING CHANGES TO THE LAW GOVERNING CARDIAC REHABILITATION PROGRAMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 131E-165(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	The purpose of this Article is to provide for the development, establishment, and enforcement of rules and certification:
(1)	For the care and treatment of individuals in outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programs; and
(2)	For the maintenance and operation of cardiac rehabilitation programs to ensure safe and adequate treatment of individuals in cardiac rehabilitation programs."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 131E-166(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	'Cardiac Rehabilitation Program' means a program certified under this Article for the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation services to outpatients and includes, but shall not be limited to, coordinated, physician- directed, individualized programs of therapeutic activity and adaption designed to assist the cardiac patient in attaining the highest rehabilitative potential."
Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives