GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-291
SENATE BILL 160

AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE NORTH CAROLINA BOARD OF NURSING TO ESTABLISH PROGRAMS TO AID THE REHABILITATION AND MONITORING OF NURSES WHO EXPERIENCE CERTAIN ADDICTIONS AND DISABILITIES.

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