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The Daily Bulletin: 2021-05-04
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 367 (2021-2022) UNIFORM PARTITION OF HEIRS PROPERTY ACT. Filed Mar 23 2021, AN ACT TO ENACT THE UNIFORM
PAR TITION OF HEIRS PROPER TY ACT
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Amends the following provisions to require that the court order the petitioner to send the required notice instead of the court
sending it: GS 46A-92(c), (e), (g); and GS 46A-93(a), (d2), (d3). Changes the act's effective date to July 1, 2022 (was, January
1,2022).
Intro, by Szoka, K. Hall, White, Turner.
GS 46A
Courts/Judiciary, Civil, Civil Law, Development, Land Use
and Housing, Property and Housing
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H 395 (2021-2022) HIE DEADLINE EXTENSION & PATIENT PROTECTION. (NEW) Filed Mar 24 2021 , AN ACT EXEMPTING
AMBULATORY SURGICAL CENTERS FROM THE REQUIREMENT TO SUBMIT DEMOGRAPHIC AND CLINICAL DATA,
EXTENDING FOR CERTAIN PROVIDERS AND ENTITIES THE DEADLINES FOR MANDATORY PARTICIPATION IN THE
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WIDE HEA L TH INFORMA TION EXCHA NGE NETWORK KNO WN AS NC HEAL THCONNEX, AND INSTITUTING REFORMS
TO PROTECT PA TIENTS.
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Revises the proposed changes to and further amends GS 90-414.4. Adds a new provision, explicitly charging the Department
oflnformation Technology (DIT). the Department of State Treasurer, State Health Plan Division, and the Department of Health
and Human Serv ices (DHHS), Division of Health Benefits (DHB) with the affirmative duty to facilitate and support
participation by covered entities in the statewide health information exchange network (HIE network). Revises the mandatory
HIE Network participation dates as follows. Requires participation by providers of Medicaid and State-funded health care
sendees, now explicitly including their affiliated entities, not othenvise provided for by January 1 , 2023 (was. extended to
October 1, 2022, from October 1. 2021 ). Requires participation by licensed dentists, licensed physicians with a primary
practice in psychiatry, and the State Lab of Public Health by January 1. 2023 (was, extended to June 1, 2022. from June 1.
2021). Requires participation by registered pharmacies, and State health care facilities under the Secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Services' jurisdiction by January 1 . 2023 (was, extended to June 1. 2022. from June 1. 2021). Makes
conforming changes to the prohibitions against extensions beyond the new deadline of January 1 . 2023, for these specified
entities. No longer requires participation by ambulatory surgical centers by June 1 . 2021 (was, extended to June 1. 2021 ; now
eliminated with no replacement deadline). Makes conforming changes to exclude ambulatory surgical centers from the
provisions of subsection (b). which condition State funding upon twice daily data submissions regarding services rendered to
Medicaid and other State- funded health care program beneficiaries and paid for with Medicaid or other State- funded health
care funds. Enacts a new subsection to prohibit providers or entities whose receipt of State funds is negatively impacted by a
failure to connect to the HIE Network and submit required data from balance billing any services rendered to State-funded
health care program beneficiaries, and deems those beneficiaries not responsible for improper charges.
Amends GS 90-414.6 to prohibit the HIE Authority from fulfilling a request for electronic health information or other medical
records from an individual, an individual's personal representative, or an individual or entity purporting to act on an
individual's behalf. Instead, requires the Authority to make available to the requester and the public, on its website, educational
materials about how to access such information from other sources.
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