A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to change the penalty for the unauthorized practice of medicine from a misdemeanor to a felony.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 90‑18(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	No person shall perform any act constituting the practice of medicine or surgery, as defined in this Article, or any of the branches thereof, unless the person shall have been first licensed and registered so to do in the manner provided in this Article, and if any person shall practice medicine or surgery without being duly licensed and registered, as provided in this Article, the person shall not be allowed to maintain any action to collect any fee for such services. The person so practicing without license shall be guilty of a Class I felony."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2009, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.