GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-30
HOUSE BILL 697
AN ACT authorizing the social services commission to adopt rules establishing educational requirements for staff employed by maternity homes, child placing agencies, and residential child care facilities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 131D-1(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The Department of
Health and Human Services shall inspect and license all maternity homes
established in the State under such rules and regulations
adopted by as the Social Services Commission may adopt.Commission.
The Commission shall adopt rules establishing educational requirements for
executive directors and staff employed in maternity homes."
SECTION 2. G.S. 131D-10.5 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"§ 131D-10.5. Powers and duties of the Commission.
In addition to other powers and duties prescribed by law, the Commission shall exercise the following powers and duties:
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(7) Adopt rules establishing educational requirements for executive directors and staff employed by child placing agencies and residential child care facilities."
SECTION 3. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of April, 2007.
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 11:40 a.m. this 28th day of April, 2007