NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1067

HOUSE BILL 1472

 

 

AN ACT TO SPECIFY FOR THE PROCESS OF SELECTION OF LEGISLATIVE INTERNS AND TO APPROPRIATE MONEY TO EXPAND THE NUMBER OF INTERNS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-57 is rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 120-57.  Legislative Intern Program Council to promulgate a plan for the use of legislative interns. — The Legislative Intern Program Council is hereby empowered and is directed to promulgate for each session of the General Assembly a plan providing for the selection, tenure, duties and compensation of legislative interns. Interns shall be selected from institutions of higher education (four-year colleges and universities) within North Carolina, including but not limited to all units of the university system. The selection shall be based upon guidelines set forth by the Legislative Intern Program Council; these guidelines shall permit the proper consideration of each applicant."

Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the budget of the General Assembly an additional ten thousand eight hundred dollars ($10,800) for the fiscal years of the 1980-81 fiscal year for the purpose of increasing the number of legislative interns for the 1981 Session of the General Assembly from 10 to 16. Selection of these interns is pursuant to G.S. 120-57.

Sec. 3.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.