GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

H	2 

HOUSE BILL 35*
Committee Substitute Favorable 3/3/93

Short Title:  Change Commission Membership.	(Public)
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Sponsors:
─────────────────────────────────────── 
Referred to:  
─────────────────────────────────────── 

February 3, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO CHANGE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY AWARENESS STUDY COMMISSION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 120-150 reads as rewritten:
"§ 120-150.  Creation; appointment of members.
There is created an Agriculture and Forestry Awareness Study Commission. Members of the Commission shall be citizens of North Carolina who are interested in the vitality of the agriculture and forestry sectors of the State's economy. Members shall be as follows:
(1)	Three appointed by the Governor;
(2)	Three appointed by the President of the Senate;
(3)	Three appointed by the Speaker of the House;
(4)	The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee;
(5)	The chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee;
(6)	The Commissioner of Agriculture or his designee;
(7)	A member of the Board of Agriculture designated by the chairman of the Board of Agriculture;
(8)	The President of the North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc., or his designee;
(9)	The Master of the North Carolina State Grange or his designee; 
(10)	The Secretary of the Department of Environment, Health, and Natural Resources or his designee; and
(11)	The President of the North Carolina Forestry Association, Inc., or his designee.
Members shall be appointed for two-year terms beginning October 1 of each odd-numbered year. The cochairmen of the Commission shall be the chairmen of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees respectively."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.