GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

HOUSE BILL 720

RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT to change the name of the division of facility services and the commission for health services to better reflect the functions and duties performed by the division and the commission.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  In order to better reflect the functions and duties performed by the Division of Facility Services of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Division of Facility Services is renamed the Division of Health Service Regulation.  Wherever the name "Division of Facility Services" appears in the General Statutes, the Revisor of Statutes shall replace "Division of Facility Services" with "Division of Health Service Regulation."

SECTION 1.1.  The following sections of the General Statutes are amended by deleting "Division of Facilities Services" and substituting "Division of Health Service Regulation": G.S. 90-21.15, 131D-34, 131E-129, and 143-519.

SECTION 1.2.  The following section of the General Statutes is amended by deleting "Commission of Health Services" and substituting "Commission for Public Health": G.S. 90-210.129.

SECTION 1.3  The following sections of the General Statutes are amended by deleting "Health Services Commission" and substituting "Commission for Public Health": G.S. 7B-1413, 131D-9, and 131E-113.

SECTION 2.  In order to better reflect the functions and duties performed by the Commission for Health Services of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Commission for Health Services is renamed the Commission for Public Health.  Wherever the name "Commission for Health Services" appears in the General Statutes, the Revisor of Statutes shall replace "Commission for Health Services" with "Commission for Public Health."

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27^th day of June, 2007.

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                                                                         Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

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                                                                         Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

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                                                                         Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2007