GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	1 

SENATE BILL 718

Short Title:  Salary Study Commission.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Winner.
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Referred to:  Appropriations.
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April 3, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION TO STUDY SALARIES OF MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND JUSTICES AND JUDGES AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE 1990 SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Legislative and Judicial Salary Study Commission is created.  The Commission shall consist of 15 members appointed by the Governor.   No member of the General Assembly or Justice or Judge of the General Court of Justice may serve on the Commission.
Sec. 2.  The Governor shall designate one member of the Commission as chairman.
Sec. 3.  The Commission shall study the salaries of the members of the General Assembly and Justices and Judges of the General Court of Justice.
Sec. 4.  The Commission shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly on or before the first day the 1989 Session of the General Assembly reconvenes in 1990 by filing the report with the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  Upon filing its report, the Commission shall terminate.
Sec. 5.  The Commission may meet at any time upon the call of the chairman.  The Commission may meet in the Legislative Building or the Legislative Office Building.
Sec. 6. Members of the Commission shall receive per diem, subsistence and travel expenses as provided by law.
Sec. 7. The Commission may contract for professional, clerical, or consultant services. The Governor shall assign professional and clerical staff to assist in the work of the Commission.
Sec. 8. When a vacancy occurs in the membership of the Commission the vacancy shall be filled by the Governor.
Sec. 9. All State departments and agencies and local governments and their subdivisions shall furnish the Commission with any information in their possession or available to them.
Sec. 10. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly for fiscal year 1989-90 the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for the expenses of the Commission.
Sec. 11.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.