GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 455

Short Title:  Glaucoma Program Repealed/AB.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Dockham.

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Referred to:  Insurance.

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March 10, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE GENERAL STATUTES CONCERNING THE DETECTION, PREVENTION, CARE, AND TREATMENT OF GLAUCOMA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The title to Part 3 of Article 7 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes reads as rewritten:
"Part 3. Diabetes."
Section 2.  G.S. 130A-221 reads as rewritten:
"§ 130A-221.  Department to establish program.
(a)	The Department shall establish and administer a program for the detection and prevention of diabetes and the care and treatment of persons with diabetes.  The program may include:
(1)	Education of patients, health care personnel and the public;
(2)	Development and expansion of services to persons with diabetes; and
(3)	Provision of supplies, equipment and medication for detection and control of diabetes.
(b)	The Commission is authorized to adopt rules necessary to implement the program."
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.