GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 972*

Short Title:  Transp. Costs/Invol. Commitment.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Insko and Hackney.

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Referred to:  Mental Health.

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April 12, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT THE COST AND EXPENSES OF TRANSPORTING A RESPONDENT IN AN INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT PROCEEDING MAY BE RECOVERED FROM THE RESPONDENT'S COUNTY OF RESIDENCE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 122C-251(h) reads as rewritten:
"(h)	The cost and expenses of transporting a respondent to or from a 24-hour facility is the responsibility of the county of residence of the respondent.  The State (when providing transportation under G.S. 122C-408(b)), a city, or a county is entitled to recover the reasonable cost of transportation from the county of residence of the respondent.  The county of residence of the respondent shall reimburse the State, another county, or a city the reasonable transportation costs incurred as authorized by this subsection.  The county of residence of the respondent is entitled to recover from its resident respondent or some other individual liable for the resident respondent's support and maintenance if there is property sufficient to pay the cost, unless its resident respondent is indigent, the reasonable cost of transportation that it has paid to another county."
Section 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.