GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 95

Short Title:  Modify C.C. & UNC Bd. Membership.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Lee, Cooper; and Perdue.

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Referred to:  Education/Higher Education.

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February 15, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MODIFY THE ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE STATE BOARD OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND FOR MEMBERSHIP ON THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 115D-2.1(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	No member of the General Assembly, no employee of the Department of Community Colleges, and no officer or employee of an institution under the jurisdiction of the State Board and no spouse of any of those persons, shall be eligible to serve on the State Board.  Furthermore, no person who within the prior five years has been an employee of the Department of Community Colleges shall be eligible to serve on the State Board."
Section 2.  G.S. 116-7(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	From and after July 1, 1973, no member of the General Assembly or officer or employee of any constituent institution or spouse of any such member, officer or employee may be a member of the Board of Governors. Any member of the Board of Governors who is elected or appointed to the General Assembly or who becomes an officer or employee of any constituent institution or whose spouse is elected or appointed to the General Assembly or becomes such officer or employee shall be deemed thereupon to resign from his membership on the Board of Governors."
Section 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.