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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-06-06 | Legislative Reporting Service
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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-06-06
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 70 (2019-2020) DELAY NC HEALTHCONNEX FOR CERTAIN PROVIDERS. Filed Feb 13 2019, AN ACT EXTENDING THE
DEADLINES
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Y WHICH CERTAIN PROVIDERS ARE REQUIRED TO CONNECT TO AND PARTICIPA
ТЕ
IN NORTH CAROLINA S
HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE NETWORK KNOWN AS NC HEALTHCONNEX AND EXPANDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF
THE NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH INFORMA TION EXCHANGE AD VISORY BOARD.
AN ACT EXTENDING THE DEADLINES BY WHICH CERTAIN PROVIDERS ARE REQUIRED TO CONNECT TO
AND PARTICIPATE IN NORTH CAROLINA'S HEALTH INFORMATION EXCHANGE NETWORK KNOWN AS NC
HEALTHCONNEX AND EXPANDING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH INFORMATION
EXCHANGE ADVISORY BOARD. Enacted June 6, 2019. Effective June 6, 2019.
Intro, by Dobson, White, Murphy, Lambeth. GS 90
Health and Human Services, Health, Health Care Facilities
and Providers
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PUBLIC/SENATE BILLS
S 315 (2019-2020) NORTH CAROLINA FARM ACT OF 2019. Filed Mar 20 2019 , AN ACT TO MAKE VARIOUS CHANGES TO THE
AGRICULTURAL LA WS OF THE STATE.
Senate committee substitute modifies and adds to the 1st edition as follows.
Changes the act's long title and makes organizational changes.
Sections 1 through 7
Makes the following changes to Article 50E of GS Chapter 106. Retitles the Article as North Carolina Hemp Commission
(was. Industrial Hemp). Amends the legislative findings and purpose set forth for the Article, declaring hemp to be a viable
agricultural commodity and the promotion of the hemp industry to be in the best interest of citizens (previously established an
agricultural pilot program for the cultivation of industrial hemp). Adds to the Article’s defined terms: cannabidiol,
cannabinoid, commercial sale, cultivating, federally defined THC level for hemp, handling, hemp, hemp extract, licensee,
processing, and smokable hemp. Removes commercial use, grower, industrial hemp, industrial hemp research program, state
land grant university, and verified propagule from the defined terms given. Modifies the definitions for hemp product and
tetrahydrocanna bin ol.
Renames the NC Industrial Hemp Commission as the NC Hemp Commission (Commission) and sets current members' terms
to expire July 1 . 202 1 . Now allows the two appointments of the Governor to the Commission to be a full-time faculty member
or Emeritus faculty member of a State land grant university who regularly works in agricultural science or research
(previously, limited to only full-time faculty members). Modifies and adds to the powers and duties of the Commission, now
charging the Commission with establishing the NC Hemp Program (Program) to cultivate hemp in the State, issuing licenses
for cultivating and handling hemp, and adopting necessary rules that prescribe sampling and testing procedures and set a
schedule of nonre fundable fees for administering the Program. Eliminates all powers and duties related to the industrial hemp
research program and cultivation licenses. Provides for hemp licensing qualifications for persons to cultivate or handle hemp in
the State, issuable by the Commission and limited to qualifying fanners or conditional qualifying fanners. Allows the
Commission to grant a license to cultivate hemp to a State agency or higher learning institution, or an employee thereof for use
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