GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION LAW 2001-511
AN ACT authorizing the north carolina board of dental examiners to establish regulatory standards for the administration and monitoring of enteral sedation for outpatients in the dental setting in addition to existing standards for general anesthesia and parenteral sedation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 90-30.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 90-30.1. Standards for general anesthesia and enteral and parenteral sedation; fees authorized.
The North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners may establish by
regulation reasonable education, training, and equipment standards for safe administration
and monitoring of general anesthesia and enteral and parenteral sedation
for outpatients in the dental setting. Regulatory standards may include a
permit process for general anesthesia and enteral and parenteral
sedation by dentists. The requirements of any permit process adopted under the
authority of this section mustshall include provisions that will
allow a dentist to qualify for continued use of general anesthesia,enteral
sedation, if he or she is licensed to practice dentistry in North Carolina
and shows the Board that he or she has been utilizing general anesthesiaenteral
sedation in a competent manner for the five years preceding July 1,
1988,January 1, 2002, and his or her office facilities pass an on-site
examination and inspection by qualified representatives of the Board. For
purposes of this section, oral premedication administered for minimal sedation
(anxiolysis) shall not be included in the definition of enteral sedation.
In order to provide the means of regulating general anesthesia and enteral
and parenteral sedation, including examination and inspection of dental
offices involved, the Board may charge and collect fees established by its
rules for each permit application, each annual permit renewal, and each office
inspection in an amount not to exceed the maximum fee amounts set forth in G.S.
90-39."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective January 1, 2002.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 6th day of December, 2001.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ James B. Black
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 4:32 p.m. this 4th day of January, 2002