GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1989 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 695

HOUSE BILL 70

 

AN ACT TO REQUIRE THAT THE DIVISION OF AGING PROVIDE FOR THE COORDINATION OF EXISTING DATA REGARDING THE ELDERLY AND TO REQUIRE THAT ALL STATE AGENCIES AND ENTITIES POSSESSING SUCH DATA COOPERATE WITH THE DIVISION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  The Division of Aging, Department of Human Resources, shall maintain an inventory of existing data sets regarding the elderly in North Carolina, in order to ensure that adequate demographic, geographic, health, social, economic, and other pertinent indicators are available to generate its regularly updated Plan for Serving Older Adults.

Upon request, the Division shall make information on these data sets available within a reasonable time.

All State agencies and entities that possess data relating to the elderly, including the Department of Human Resources' Division of Health Services, the Division of Facility Services, and the Division of Social Services, and the Department of Administration, shall cooperate, upon request, with the Division of Aging in implementing this act.

No additional appropriations are required by this act.

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of July, 1989.