Bill Summary for H 600 (2023-2024)

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May 4 2023

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View NCGA Bill Details2023-2024 Session
House Bill 600 (Public) Filed Thursday, April 13, 2023
AN ACT TO PROVIDE FURTHER REGULATORY RELIEF TO THE CITIZENS OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Intro. by Riddell, Zenger, Brody, Chesser.

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House amendments to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.

Part III.

Section 16.

Amendment #1 appropriates $250,000 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Labor (DOL) for 2023-24 so that it can carry out a study on the existing requirements for electrical work conducted during the installation of elevators to identify deficiencies or conflicts in statute or rule in consultation with the NC Building Code Council.

Part IV.

Amendment #3 makes the following changes.

Section 19.

Amends GS 91-414.8 to change the composition of the members appointed to the North Carolina Health Information Exchange Advisory Board so that one of the five appointees by the President Pro Tempore of the General Assembly must now be a representative from a State-funded Prepaid Health Plan as defined in GS 108D-1(was, a provider of Medicaid or other State-funded health care services that is connected to the Health Information Exchange Network) and one of the five appointees by the Speaker of the House of Representatives is a representative from a provider-led accountable care organization (was, a provider of Medicaid or other State-funded health care services that is connected to the Health Information Exchange Network).

Amends GS 90-414.6 (State ownership of Health Information Exchange [HIE] Network data) as follows. Specifies that patient identifiers created and utilized by the NC HIE Authority (Authority) to integrate identity data in the HIE Network, along with the minimum necessary required demographic information related to those patients, will be released to the NC Government Data Analytics Center (GDAC) for purposes of entity resolution and master data management. Specifies that the identifiers are not considered public records pursuant to GS Chapter 132. Allows the Authority to release patient identifiers to other entities for the purposes set forth in GS 90-414(a) and GS 90-414.2 (setting forth the purpose of the HIE).

Amends the act's long title.