Chapter 143B

(a) No later than December 15, 1998, the Secretary shall develop a school technology plan for the residential schools that meets the requirements of the State school technology plan. In developing a school technology plan, the Secretary is encouraged to coordinate its planning wi…

The Secretary shall establish a procedure for the resolution of disputes between the residential schools and the parents or guardians of students who attend the schools. An appeal shall lie from the decision of all residential school personnel to the Secretary or the Secretary's …

When the principal has personal knowledge or actual notice from residential school personnel or other reliable source that an act has occurred on school property involving assault resulting in serious personal injury, sexual assault, sexual offense, rape, kidnapping, indecent lib…

(a) As used in this section: (1) "Criminal history" means a county, state, or federal criminal history of conviction of a crime, whether a misdemeanor or a felony, that indicates the employee (i) poses a threat to the physical safety of students or personnel, or (ii) has demonstr…

(a) The Secretary, in consultation with the General Assembly and the State Board, may designate residential schools that must participate in the Program. The primary goal of the Program is to improve student performance. The Program is based upon an accountability, recognition, a…

(a) The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall consult with the State Board of Education in its implementation of this act as it pertains to improving the educational programs at the residential schools. The Secretary also shall fully inform and consult with the chairs of t…

The Program shall (i) focus on student performance in the basics of reading, mathematics, and communications skills in elementary and middle schools, (ii) focus on student performance in courses required for graduation and on other measures required by the State Board in the high…

(a) The State Board shall design and implement a procedure to identify low-performing schools on an annual basis. Low-performing schools are those participating schools in which there is a failure to meet the minimum growth standards, as defined by the State Board, and a majority…

(a) The State Board may assign an assistance team to any school identified as low-performing under this Part or to any other school that the State Board determines would benefit from an assistance team. The State Board shall give priority to low-performing schools in which the ed…

(a) Within 30 days of the initial identification of a school as low-performing, whether by the Secretary under G.S. 143B-146.5(b) or by the State Board under G.S. 143B-146.5(a), the Secretary shall take one of the following actions concerning the school's principal: (i) decide wh…

(a) Annual Evaluations; Low-Performing Schools. - The principal shall evaluate at least once each year all licensed personnel assigned to a participating school that has been identified as low-performing but has not received an assistance team. The evaluation shall occur early en…

The State Board shall develop guidelines for the Secretary to use to create assessment teams. The Secretary shall assign an assessment team to every low-performing school that has not received an assistance team. The Secretary shall ensure that assessment team members are trained…

There is hereby created and established a division to be known as the Division of Health Services of the Department of Adult Correction. The Division shall have the powers and duties as are set forth in this Chapter and are prescribed by the Secretary of the Department of Adult C…

(a) There is hereby created the Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services of the Department of Health and Human Services with the power and duty to adopt, amend and repeal rules to be followed in the conduct of State and local mental h…

(a) The Department of Adult Correction shall reimburse those providers and facilities providing approved medical services to inmates outside the correctional facility the lesser amount of either a rate of seventy percent (70%) of the provider’s then-current prevailing charge or t…

(a) The Division of Health Services of the Department of Adult Correction and the Department of Health and Human Services shall work together to enable social workers in the Department of Public Safety, Health Services Section, to qualify for and receive federal reimbursement for…

(a) The Health Services Division shall collect data on medication losses that occur during inmate transfer. The collection methods shall provide, at a minimum, for all of the following: (1) A mechanism to easily summarize medication losses across all identified reasons for the lo…

(a) The Health Services Division shall adopt a statewide reimbursement for local purchases of limited quantities of medicine. The statewide reimbursement rate shall be based on the North Carolina State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees reimbursement rate for prescripti…

The Department of Adult Correction (DAC) shall establish and implement a partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) in order for DAC to be eligible to operate as a 340B covered entity. The DAC shall contract for consultant services in order to implement t…

(a) The Department of Public Safety shall partner with the University of North Carolina Health Care System (UNC-HCS) by October 1, 2019, to begin receiving all 340B Program savings realized from medications prescribed to inmates, but not administered, at a 340B Program-registered…

(a) The Department of Adult Correction shall report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety and the Fiscal Research Division by October 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, regarding: (1) Savings achieved from its partnership with the Department of …

(a) The Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services of the Department of Health and Human Services shall consist of 32 members, as follows: (1) Eight shall be appointed by the General Assembly, four upon the recommendation of the Speaker…

There is hereby created and established a division to be known as the Division of Community Supervision and Reentry within the Department. The Division of Community Supervision and Reentry shall have the power and duty to implement Parts 5 through 7 of this Article and shall have…

(a) The Department of Adult Correction shall report by March 1 of each year to the Chairs of the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety on caseload av…

(a) The Department of Adult Correction and the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission shall report by March 1 of each year to the Chairs of the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on Justice and Public Safety and to the Chairs of the Joint Leg…

(a) The Department of Adult Correction may conduct a community service program. The program shall provide oversight of offenders placed under the supervision of the Division of Community Supervision and Reentry and ordered to perform community service hours for criminal violation…

(a) The Secretary shall establish the State Reentry Council Collaborative (SRCC). The SRCC shall include up to two representatives from each of the following: (1) The Division of Motor Vehicles. (2) The Department of Health and Human Services. (3) The Administrative Office of the…

The Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services shall have a chairman and a vice-chairman. The chairman shall be designated by the Governor from among the members and shall serve as chairman at his pleasure. The vice-chairman shall be el…

(a) There is hereby created a Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission of the Division of Community Supervision and Reentry of the Department of Adult Correction with the authority to grant paroles, including both regular and temporary paroles, to persons held by virtue of …

(a) Effective August 1, 2005, the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission shall consist of one full-time member and two half-time members. The three members shall be appointed by the Governor from persons whose recognized ability, training, experience, and character qualif…

(a) Each fiscal year the Post-Release Supervision and Parole Commission shall, with the assistance of the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission and the Department of Adult Correction, analyze the amount of time each inmate who is eligible for parole on or befor…

This Subpart is the "Treatment for Effective Community Supervision Act of 2011" and may be cited by that name. (2011-192, s. 6(b); recodified from N.C. Gen. Stat. § 143B-1150 by 2021-180, s. 19C.9(l).)

The policy of the General Assembly with respect to the Treatment for Effective Community Supervision Program is to support the use of evidence-based practices to reduce recidivism and to promote coordination between State and community-based corrections programs. (2011-192, s. 6(…

The following definitions apply in this Subpart: (1) Certified and licensed. - North Carolina Substance Abuse Professional Practice Board certified or licensed substance abuse professionals or Department of Health and Human Services licensed agencies. (2) The Division of Communit…

Goals of community-based corrections programs funded under this Subpart. [Effective January 1, 2023 - see notes] The goals of community-based programs funded under this Subpart are to reduce recidivism and to reduce the rate of probation and post-release supervision revocations f…

(a) An eligible offender is an adult offender who was convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony offense or is sentenced under the conditional discharge program as defined in G.S. 90-96 and meets any one of the following criteria: (1) Received a nonincarcerative sentence of a communi…

The salary of members of full-time commissions shall be set by the General Assembly upon recommendation of the Governor to be submitted as a part of his budget requests. (1973, c. 476, s. 15.)

The Commission for Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services shall meet at least once in each quarter and may hold special meetings at any time and place within the State at the call of the chairman or upon the written request of at least eight membe…

(a) State funds appropriated to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Use Services, for the North Carolina Child Treatment Program shall be used exclusively for the following purposes: (1) To continue to …

The following definitions apply in this Article: (1) Child Fatality Prevention System. - The statewide system comprised of the following: a. Local Teams. b. The North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force created in G.S. 7B-1402. c. The State Office. d. Medical examiner child fatali…

The State Office of Child Fatality Prevention is established within the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, to serve as the lead agency for child fatality prevention in North Carolina. The purpose of the State Office is to oversee the coordination …

The State Office has the following powers and duties: (1) To coordinate the work of the statewide Child Fatality Prevention System. (2) To implement and manage a centralized data and information system capable of gathering, analyzing, and reporting aggregate information from chil…

(a) There is established the Family Preservation Services Program of the Department of Health and Human Services. To the extent that funds are made available, locally-based family preservation services shall be available to all 100 counties. The Secretary of the Department of Hea…

(a) Services: - Services to be provided under the Family Preservation Services Program shall include but are not limited to: family assessment, intensive family and individual counseling, client advocacy, case management, development and enhancement of parenting skills, and refer…

(a) In addition to those otherwise provided by law, the Division shall have the following duties: (1) To enter into contractual agreements with eligible entities for the operation of community-based corrections programs and monitor compliance with those agreements. (2) To develop…

(a) The Division shall contract with service providers through a competitive procurement process to provide community-based services to offenders on probation, parole, or post-release supervision. (b) Contracts for substance abuse treatment services shall be awarded to certified …

Based on the prioritized populations in G.S. 143B-1154(b), program types eligible for funding may include, but are not limited to, the following: (1) Substance abuse treatment services, to include co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorder services, residential, inte…

(a) The Justice Reinvestment Council is established to act as an advisory body to the Secretary with regard to this Part. The Council shall consist of 13 members as follows, to be appointed as provided in subsection (b) of this section: (1) Two members of the Senate. (2) Two memb…

(a) There is created in the Department of Health and Human Services the Family Resource Center Grant Program. The purpose of the program is to provide grants to implement family support programs that are research-based and have been evaluated for effectiveness that provide servic…

The Department of Health and Human Services shall develop and implement the Family Resource Center Grant Program. The Department shall: (1) Sponsor a statewide conference for teams of interested representatives to provide background information and assistance regarding all aspect…