GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1999

SENATE BILL 622
RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT TO IMPOSE ADDITIONAL FEES AND COSTS AND TO INCREASE EXISTING FEES COLLECTED UNDER THE NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS BOARD ACT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 90-280 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90-280.  Fees; display of license; duplicate license; inactive list.
(a)	Each applicant for an examination administered by the Board and each applicant for an administrator-in-training program shall pay a processing fee set by the Board not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) plus the actual cost of the exam.
(b)	Each person licensed as a nursing home administrator shall be required to pay a license fee in an amount set by the Board not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00). A license shall expire on the thirtieth day of September of the second year following its issuance and shall be renewable biennially upon payment of a renewal fee set by the Board not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).
(c)	Each person licensed as a nursing home administrator shall display his license certificate, along with the current certificate of renewal, in a conspicuous place in his place of employment.
(d)	Any person licensed as a nursing home administrator may receive a duplicate license by payment of a fee set by the Board not to exceed twenty-five dollars ($25.00).
(e)	Any person licensed as a nursing home administrator who is not acting, serving, or holding himself out to be a nursing home administrator may have his name placed on an inactive list for such period of time not to exceed four years upon payment of a fee set by the Board not to exceed fifty dollars ($50.00) per year.  Each year during that four-year period, upon request and payment of the fee, the person's name may remain on an inactive list for one additional year.
(f)	Any person having a temporary license issued pursuant to G.S. 90-278(3) shall pay a fee in an amount set by the Board not to exceed two hundred dollars ($200.00). If the Board renews the temporary license, no further fee  shall be required.
(g)	The Board may set fees not to exceed two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for conducting and administering initial training and continuing education courses, and may set a fee not to exceed one hundred dollars ($100.00) for certifying a course submitted for review by another individual or agency wishing to offer such courses or may set an annual fee not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000) for certifying a course provider in lieu of certifying each course offered by the provider."
Section 2. This act becomes effective October 1, 1999.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of June 1999.

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	Dennis A. Wicker
	President of the Senate

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	James B. Black
	Speaker of the House of Representatives

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	James B. Hunt, Jr.
	Governor

Approved 	.m. this 	 day of 	, 19