AN ACT TO PROVIDE that an administering organization as defined in G.S. 115c‑407.50 is a public body subject to the PROVISIONS of the open meetings law.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑407.60 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

(c)      An administering organization is a public body for the purposes of Article 33C of Chapter 143 of the General Statutes.

SECTION 2.  G.S. 143‑318.10(b) reads as rewritten:

(b)      As used in this Article, public body means any elected or appointed authority, board, commission, committee, council, or other body of the State, or of one or more counties, cities, school administrative units, constituent institutions of The University of North Carolina, or other political subdivisions or public corporations in the State that (i) is composed of two or more members and (ii) exercises or is authorized to exercise a legislative, policy‑making, quasi‑judicial, administrative, or advisory function. In addition, public body means the means the following:

(1)        The governing board of a public hospital as defined in G.S. 159‑39 and the G.S. 159‑39.

(2)        The governing board of any nonprofit corporation to which a hospital facility has been sold or conveyed pursuant to G.S. 131E‑8, any subsidiary of such nonprofit corporation, and any nonprofit corporation owning the corporation to which the hospital facility has been sold or conveyed.

(3)        An administering organization as defined in G.S. 115C‑407.50(1).

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.