HOSPITAL POLICE OFFICER/AUTHORITY/INFO ACCESS.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 851 (Public) Filed Wednesday, April 9, 2025
AN ACT TO TREAT HOSPITAL POLICE OFFICERS AS A DISTINCT CATEGORY OF COMPANY POLICE OFFICERS AND TO PROVIDE CERTAIN AUTHORITY AND INFORMATION ACCESS TO THESE OFFICERS.
Intro. by Reeder, Miller, Pyrtle.
Status: Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action) (Apr 10 2025)

Bill History:

H 851

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill H 851 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Apr 9 2025 - View Summary

    Enacts subparagraph (b)(1a) in GS 74E-6, creating the new classification of “hospital police officers” as a type of company police officers. Enacts subsection (d1), providing for the powers of hospital police officers on hospital property and roads and highways passing through or adjoining the property, and allowing a hospital governing board to enter into mutual aid agreements with municipalities and sheriff’s offices. Enacts new subsection (f1) granting hospital police access to the Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Automated Data System, and subsection (f2) granting access and making hospital police participating agencies of the Division of Criminal Information Network.

    Amends GS 115D-5(b)(2) to include hospital police agencies in the list of organizations eligible for tuition waiver/uniform registration fees for courses from the State Board of Community Colleges that support their training needs.

    Clarifies that there will be no impediment to the use of the Voice Interoperability Plan for Emergency Responders (VIPER) System for hospital police.

    Education, Higher Education, Government, Public Safety and Emergency Management, State Agencies, Community Colleges System Office, Health and Human Services, Health, Health Care Facilities and Providers
    GS 74E, GS 115D
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