NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 49
SENATE BILL 78

AN ACT TO EXTEND THE MENTAL HEALTH STUDY COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. The Mental Health Study Commission, established and structured by 1973 General Assembly Resolution 80; Chapter 806, 1973 Session Laws; Chapter 185, 1975 Session Laws; Chapter 184, 1977 Session Laws; Chapter 285, 1979 Session Laws; 1979 General Assembly Resolution 20, is revived and authorized to continue in existence until July 1, 1983.
Sec. 2. The continued Mental Health Study Commission shall have all the powers and duties of the original Study Commission as they are necessary to continue the original study, to assist in the implementation of the original and succeeding Study Commission recommendations and to plan further activity on the subject of the study.
Sec. 3. Members of the present Mental Health Study Commission shall remain members of the continued Study Commission, but they shall serve at the pleasure of the person holding the office authorized to make the original appointment. Members of the General Assembly who are not reelected shall not be disqualified from membership on the continued Study Commission because they are no longer members of the General Assembly but the person holding the office authorized to make the original appointment may replace them with new appointees.
Sec. 4. Members and staff of the continued Mental Health Study Commission shall receive compensation and expenses as under the original authorization in the 1973 General Assembly Resolution 80 and the Department of Human Resources is authorized to reallocate fiscal resources under Budget Code (14460-8211) to be the funding source for the Mental Health Study Commission.
Sec. 5. This act shall become effective on July 1, 1981.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 26th day of February, 1981.