GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

SESSION LAW 1999-136

SENATE BILL 620

AN ACT TO ALLOW PROFESSIONAL CORPORATIONS TO BE FORMED BETWEEN ANY PHYSICIAN AND CERTAIN NURSING SPECIALISTS, SOCIAL WORKERS, AND COUNSELORS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 55B-14(c)(4) reads as rewritten:

"(4)      A physician practicing psychiatry, physician, or a licensed psychologist, or both, and a certified clinical specialist in psychiatric and mental health nursing, a certified clinical social worker, a licensed professional counselor, or each of them, to render psychotherapeutic and related services that the respective stockholders are licensed, certified, or otherwise approved to provide."

Section 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of May, 1999.

s/   Dennis A. Wicker

President of the Senate

s/   James B. Black

Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/   James B. Hunt, Jr.

Governor

Approved 4:11 p.m. this 4th day of June, 1999