AN ACT requiring the department of hEALTH and human services to develop and make available to adult care homes model infection prevention and control policies and procedures; and to develop updated infection prevention and control training requirements for adult care home supervisors.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 131D‑4.5C reads as rewritten:

§ 131D‑4.5C.  Adult care home supervisors; infection control training requirements.

(a)        The Department shall develop, in consultation with associations representing adult care home providers, model infection prevention and control policies and procedures that are consistent with accepted national standards and address the factors identified in G.S. 131D‑4.4A(b)(1). The Department shall make these model infection prevention and control policies and procedures available to adult care homes on the Department's internet website.

(b)        By December 1, 2011, the The Department shall develop a mandatory, annual course for adult care home supervisors on federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines on infection control. implementation of the model infection prevention and control policies and procedures developed by the Department in accordance with subsection (a) of this section. Each supervisor that successfully completes the mandatory infection control course shall receive credit, in an amount determined by the Department, toward the continuing education requirements for adult care home supervisors established by the Commission pursuant to G.S. 131D‑4.5.

SECTION 2.  By December 1, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services shall do the following:

(1)        Develop and post to its internet website the model infection prevention and control policies and procedures required by G.S. 131D‑4.5C(a), as enacted by this act.

(2)        Develop the mandatory, annual course for adult care home supervisors required by G.S. 131D‑4.5C(b), as enacted by this act.

SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2021.