GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA 
SESSION 1997

SESSION LAW 1998-204
SENATE BILL 1424

AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT CABARRUS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL MAY AWARD A BACCALAUREATE DEGREE TO GRADUATES OF ITS NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAMS AS APPROPRIATE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 11 of Chapter 307, Public-Local Laws of 1935, as amended by Chapter 947 of the 1987 Session Laws, is amended by rewriting that section to read:
"Sec. 11.  Notwithstanding G.S. 116-15, the Executive Committee of Cabarrus Memorial Hospital may establish and maintain in connection with and as a part of the hospital an educational program for nursing and allied health sciences.  The Executive Committee may award an Associate Degree or Baccalaureate Degree to graduates of the nursing education or allied health sciences programs as appropriate."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27th day of October, 1998.
s/	Frank W. Ballance, Jr.
Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives