AN ACT to repeal a budget special provision concerning health benefit plan co‑payments for chiropractic services.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 3(b) of S.L. 2005‑345 is repealed.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2007, and applies to policies issued or renewed on or after that date. For the purposes of this act, renewal of a health benefit plan is presumed to occur on each anniversary of the date on which coverage was first effective on the person or persons covered by the health benefit plan.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of April, 2007.

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor