GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1991 SESSION

CHAPTER 755
HOUSE BILL 6

AN ACT TO SPECIFY APPOINTMENTS TO THE OPEN GOVERNMENT THROUGH PUBLIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS STUDY COMMISSION.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  Section 6.1 of Chapter 1078 of the 1989 Session Laws (1990 Session) reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 6.1. There is created the Study Commission on Open Government Through Public Telecommunications, to be composed of 16 members, with four Senators appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; four Representatives, one of whom is the Legislative Liaison to the Open Public Events Network Committee, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House; the current and two previous chairmen of the Public Telecommunications Board of Commissioners; the chairman of the Open Public Events Network (ex officio member of the Board of Commissioners by statute); the Secretary of the Department of Administration (designated by statute as ex officio member and secretary of the Board of Commissioners); the chairman of the Planning Committee of the Board of Commissioners; a representative of the North Carolina cable television industry, to be appointed by the Speaker of the House; and a representative of the public television industry, to be appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate.  Vacancies in an appointive membership shall be filled by the original appointing authority.  The chairman of the Study Commission shall be the Legislative Liaison to the Open Public Events Network Committee."
Sec. 2.  Section 6.4 of Chapter 1078 of the 1989 Session Laws (1990 Session) reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 6.4.  The Study Commission will make a written report, including recommended legislation, to the 1992 Session of General Assembly not later than May 1, 1992.  The Study Commission shall terminate upon the filing of the report."
Sec. 3.  The new members authorized by this act shall be appointed within 30 days after its ratification.  This act shall not affect the status of those already appointed or designated.
Sec. 4.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 1991.

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James C. Gardner
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives