GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999
SESSION LAW 1999-291
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 90-171.23(b) is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(18) Establish programs for aiding in the recovery and rehabilitation of nurses who experience chemical addiction or abuse or mental or physical disabilities and programs for monitoring such nurses for safe practice."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of July, 1999.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor
Approved 10:03 p.m. this 14th day of July, 1999