GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 1991

CHAPTER 1037
SENATE BILL 1277

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE IMMUNITY HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 120-9 reads as rewritten:
"§ 120-9.  Freedom of speech; protection from arrest.
The members shall have freedom of speech and debate in the General Assembly, and shall not be liable to impeachment or question, in any court or place out of the General Assembly, for words therein spoken. "
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of July, 1992.

Henson P. Barnes
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives