A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO AMEND THE CERTIFICATE OF NEED REQUIREMENTS TO ALLOW for AN expedited review process for an ADULT CARE HOME or a nursing home TO RELOCATE WITHIN THE SAME COUNTY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Facility Services, shall develop an expedited certificate of need review process for a current holder of a certificate of need for an adult care home or a nursing home to relocate from one licensed facility or campus to another. This expedited certificate of need review process shall be available only to a facility that meets the following criteria:
(1)	The facility currently holds a certificate of need for an adult care home or nursing home.
(2)	The facility proposes to move from one licensed facility or campus to another licensed facility or campus.
(3)	Both the current and the proposed facilities or campuses are located within the same county.
(4)	The relocation of the adult care home or nursing home would not result in an increase in the total number of adult care home beds or nursing home beds for that facility or campus.
SECTION 2.  The Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Facility Services, shall implement the expedited certificate of need review process no later than October 1, 2007.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to certificate of need applications for the relocation of adult care homes and adult care home beds or nursing homes and nursing home beds within the same county filed on or after the date of implementation of the expedited review process by the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Facility Services.