NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 207

SENATE BILL 255

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND GENERAL STATUTE 131-126.12 TO PERMIT THE DISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN INFORMATION BY THE MEDICAL CARE COMMISSION AND THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 131-126.12, as the same appears in the 1977 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 131-126.12.  Information to be disclosed. — Information received by the North Carolina Medical Care Commission and the Department of Human Resources through filed reports, license applications, or inspections that are required or authorized by the provisions of this Article, may be disclosed publicly except where such disclosure would violate the confidential relationship existing between physician and patient. The department is authorized to adopt rules and regulations to enforce the provisions of this Article."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of March, 1979.