A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT defining additional offices of certain existing hospices as not being 'new institution health services' for the purposes of state certificate of need law.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 131E‑176(16)o. reads as rewritten:
"o.	The opening of an additional office by an existing home health agency or hospice within its service area as defined by rules adopted by the Department; or the opening of any office by an existing home health agency or hospice outside its service area as defined by rules adopted by the Department. An additional office of an existing hospice is not a new institutional health service if the additional office was licensed on or before December 31, 2005."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.