NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 1399
HOUSE BILL 1642

AN ACT TO STUDY COMMUNITY COLLEGE STANDARDS AND TO PROVIDE LIABILITY INSURANCE FOR NONTEACHING PERSONNEL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Within funds available, the Legislative Research Commission may study the issue of health and other specialized studies in community colleges, specifically in order to recommend the development of standards for instructional programs in these respective fields. The Legislative Research Commission may report its findings, including any legislative recommendations, to the 1983 General Assembly.
Sec. 2. Standards dealing with instructional programs for nursing shall be maintained at current levels until new standards can be prepared and adopted pursuant to the Legislative Research Commission's study.
Sec. 3. The Department of Public Education and the State Board of Education shall provide for liability insurance for nonteaching public school personnel to the extent that such personnel's salaries are funded by the State. The insurance shall cover claims made for injury liability and property damage liability on account of an act done or an omission made in the course of the employee's duties. As provided by law or the rules and policies of the Department of Public Education or the local school administrative unit, the Department and State Board of Education shall comply with the State's laws in securing the insurance and shall provide it at the earliest possible date for the 1982‑83 school year. Funds for this purpose shall be allocated from the State's Contingency and Emergency Fund. Nothing in this section shall prevent the Department and the State Board from furnishing the same liability insurance protection for nonteaching public school personnel not supported by State funds, provided that the cost of the protection shall be funded from the same source that supports the salaries of these employees.
Sec. 4. This act shall become effective July 1, 1982.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1982.