A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT exempting from certificate of need review continuing care retirement communities that provide home health services to individuals receiving lodging within these communities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 131E‑184 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(f)	The Department shall exempt from certificate of need review the establishment of a home health agency by a continuing care retirement community licensed under Article 64 of Chapter 58 of the General Statutes to provide home health services to one or more residents of a continuing care retirement community who have entered into a contract with the continuing care retirement community to receive continuing care services with lodging. As used in this subsection, the terms "continuing care" and "lodging" are as defined in G.S. 58‑64‑1. A continuing care retirement community that seeks to provide home health services to individuals who do not reside at the continuing care retirement community pursuant to a contract to receive continuing care services with lodging shall be required to obtain a certificate of need as a home health agency prior to developing or offering home health services to any individual not a resident of the continuing care retirement community under a contract to receive continuing care services with lodging."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to continuing care retirement communities engaged in the direct provision of home health services on or after that date.