GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

SESSION LAW 1997-491
SENATE BILL 445

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF NURSING TO ENTER INTO INTERSTATE COMPACTS TO FACILITATE THE PRACTICE AND REGULATION OF NURSING.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-171.23(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(17)	Enter into interstate compacts to facilitate the practice and regulation of nursing."
Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of August, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 11:17 a.m. this 10th day of September, 1997