GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2009
SESSION LAW 2010-100
HOUSE BILL 1136
AN ACT to permit the personal representative of a deceased candidate who did not file a written designation prior to death to file such written designation within ninety days of death.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 163-278.16B(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c) Contributions
made to a candidate or candidate campaign committee do not become a part of the
personal estate of the individual candidate. The candidate may file with the
board a written designation of those funds that directs to which of the
permitted uses in subsection (a) of this section they those funds shall
be paid in the event of the death or incapacity of the candidate. If the
candidate fails to file the written designation before death, the personal
representative of the estate may file the written designation within 90 days of
the date of death, and may only direct those funds to donations under
subdivision (a)(3) of this section. After the payment of permitted
outstanding debts of the account, the candidate's filed written designation
shall control. If the candidate files no such written designation, the funds
after payment of permitted outstanding debts shall be distributed in accordance
with subdivision (a)(8) of this section."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. For any candidate campaign committee that is in active status with the State Board of Elections as of the date this act becomes law, the personal representative of the estate may file the written designation within 90 days of the day this act receives preclearance under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of July, 2010.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved 3:12 p.m. this 20th day of July, 2010