GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

 

 

SESSION LAW 2010-92

HOUSE BILL 1693

 

 

AN ACT to direct the North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program to coordinate workforce development Efforts to increase the number of dental care providers serving the special needs population.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.(a)  The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program shall coordinate efforts to increase the number of dental care providers serving the special needs population.   These efforts shall include, but are not limited to, the following:

(1)        Working with the dental schools at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and East Carolina University, the North Carolina Community College System, and current dental providers serving the special needs population to identify opportunities to increase the dental care workforce supply that is available and willing to treat the special needs population. These opportunities shall include, but are not limited to, options that could be undertaken without additional funding.

(2)        Working with the North Carolina State Board of Dental Examiners to explore the feasibility of allowing dental students, dental hygiene students, and assisting students the opportunity to receive training in long-term care facilities under the direction of nonprofit special care dental organizations.

SECTION 1.(b)  The North Carolina Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program shall report its findings and recommendations to the North Carolina Study Commission on Aging and the Public Health Study Commission on or before August 1, 2011.

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, 2010.

 

 

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/  Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 7:16 a.m. this 11th day of July, 2010