A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to broaden the exemption from Charitable Solicitation licensing requirements for certain nonProfit adult residential treatment facilities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 122C‑22 reads as rewritten:
"§ 122C‑22.  Exclusions from licensure; deemed status.
(a)	The following are excluded from the provisions of this Article and are not required to obtain licensure under this Article:
(1)	Physicians and psychologists engaged in private office practice;
(2)	General hospitals licensed under Article 5 of Chapter 131E of the General Statutes, that operate special units for the mentally ill, developmentally disabled, or substance abusers;
(3)	State and federally operated facilities;
(4)	Adult care homes licensed under Chapter 131D of the General Statutes;
(5)	Developmental child care centers licensed under Article 7 of Chapter 110 of the General Statutes;
(6)	Persons subject to licensure under rules of the Social Services Commission;
(7)	Persons subject to rules and regulations of the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation Services;
(8)	Facilities that provide occasional respite care for not more than two individuals at a time; provided that the primary purpose of the facility is other than as defined in G.S. 122C‑3(14);
(9)	Twenty‑four‑hour nonprofit facilities established for the purposes of shelter care and recovery from alcohol or other drug addiction through a 12‑step, self‑help, peer role modeling, and self‑governance approach;
(10)	Inpatient chemical dependency or substance abuse facilities that provide services exclusively to inmates of the Department of Correction, as described in G.S. 148‑19.1; and
(11)	A charitable, nonprofit, faith‑based, adult residential treatment facility that does not receive any federal or State funding and is a religious organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue Code.
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SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.