AN ACT TO DIRECT THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES' ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES TASK FORCE TO COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS INTERESTED IN IMPROVING ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES AND REPORT, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE NORTH CAROLINA STUDY COMMISSION ON AGING.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services, Adult Protective Services Task Force, shall collaborate with stakeholders and other persons interested in improving adult protective services and report its findings and recommendations to the North Carolina Study Commission on Aging and to the Legislative Study Commission on State Guardianship Laws on or before April 1, 2006.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 20th day of April, 2005.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2005