GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1987 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 492

HOUSE BILL 1046

 

AN ACT TO ALLOW THE STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS FOR NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS TO SUBSTITUTE COMPARABLE PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE FOR THE REQUIREMENT OF AN INTERNSHIP AS AN ADMINISTRATOR-IN-TRAINING.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 90-278(1)d. is amended by inserting between the word "Board" and the semicolon following that word the phrase "or has professional experience the Board declares is comparable to a period of training as an administrator".

Sec. 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 150B-13, the State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators may, until six months from the effective date of this act, adopt temporary rules to implement this act without prior notice or hearing or upon any abbreviated notice or hearing the Board finds practicable.  The Board shall begin normal rule-making procedures on permanent rules in accordance with Article 2 of Chapter 150B of the General Statutes at the same time it adopts a temporary rule.  Temporary rules adopted under this section shall be published in the North Carolina Register and shall be effective for a period of not longer than 180 days.

Sec. 3.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of June, 1987.