A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT requiring the department of health and human services to study and REPORT TO THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES its recommendations for extending health care transparency requirements to additional health care providers, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE LEGISLATIVE RESEARCH COMMISSION STUDY COMMITTEE ON HEALTH CARE PROVIDER practice SUSTAINABILITY and training/additional transparency in health care.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  By December 1, 2014, the Department of Health and Human Services shall study and submit a written report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services summarizing its recommendations for extending North Carolina's Health Care Cost Reduction and Transparency Act of 2013 to additional health care providers. The report shall identify all of the following:
(1)	Recommended categories of additional health care providers that should be subject to the requirements of the Act.
(2)	Recommended data to be collected for the purpose of transparency from each category of identified health care providers.
(3)	Recommended exemptions, if any, from certain requirements of the Act for each category of identified health care providers.
(4)	Recommended effective dates for the applicability of the Act to each category of identified health care providers.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.