Title: S.L. 1995-99
Category: Session Law

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 99
SENATE BILL 771

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE STATUS OF INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS OF PUBLIC HOSPITALS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 131E-97.1 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(c)	Information regarding the qualifications, competence, performance, character, fitness, or conditions of appointment  of an independent contractor who provides health care services under a contract with a public hospital as defined in G.S. 159-39, or with a hospital which has been sold or conveyed pursuant to G.S. 131E-8, is not a public record as defined by Chapter 132 of the General Statutes.  Information regarding a hearing or investigation of a complaint, charge, or grievance by or against an independent contractor who provides health care services under a contract with a public hospital as defined in G.S. 159-39 or with a hospital which has been sold or conveyed pursuant to G.S. 131E-8, is not a public record as defined by Chapter 132 of the General Statutes.  Final action making an appointment or discharge or removal by a public hospital having final authority for the appointment or discharge or removal shall be taken in an open meeting, unless otherwise exempted by law.  The following information with respect to each independent contractor of health care services of a public hospital, as defined by G.S. 159-39, is a matter of public record:  name; age; date of original contract; beginning and ending dates; position title; position descriptions; and total compensation of current and former positions; and the date of the most recent promotion, demotion, transfer, suspension, separation, or other change in position classification."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 23rd day of May, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

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