GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 2000-50
HOUSE BILL 1514

AN ACT TO REPEAL THE SUNSET ON REQUIREMENTS PERTAINING TO THE REIMBURSEMENT RATE FOR THE RESPITE CARE PROGRAM, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE MEDICAL CARE COMMISSION TO ADOPT TEMPORARY RULES PERTAINING TO RESPITE CARE.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 3 of S.L. 1998-97 reads as rewritten:
"Section 3. This act is effective when it becomes law."
Section 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 150B-21.1(a), the Medical Care Commission shall adopt temporary rules for the purpose of defining the circumstances under which adult care homes may admit residents on a short-term basis for the purpose of caregiver respite and the rules that shall apply during the course of their stay.  The Commission's authority to adopt temporary rules under this section expires on the date that permanent rules pertaining to the same subject matter adopted by the Commission as authorized under G.S. 143B-165(10) become effective.
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 22nd day of June, 2000.

s/	Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

s/	James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 1:20 p.m. this 30th day of June, 2000