GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1993

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HOUSE BILL 701

Short Title:  Info to Legislators.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Representatives Ellis; and Gamble.
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Referred to:  Judiciary I.
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April 1, 1993

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE IT A MISDEMEANOR FOR A STATE OFFICIAL TO FAIL TO PROVIDE INFORMATION TO LEGISLATORS AND LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 120-19 reads as rewritten:
"§ 120-19. State officers, etc., upon request, to furnish data and information to legislative committees.
(a)	All officers, agents, agencies and departments of the State are required to give to any committee of the General Assembly, upon request, all information and all data within their possession, or ascertainable from their records. This requirement is mandatory and shall include requests made by any individual member of the General Assembly or any of its committees or chairmen thereof.
(b)	Any employee or officer of the State who fails to supply, within 30 days of receiving a written request, information or data to a member of the General Assembly or a committee of the General Assembly, when the request was for information or data which subsection (a) of this section requires to be provided, is guilty of a misdemeanor.  A misdemeanor under this section is punishable by a fine not to exceed two thousand dollars ($2,000)."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.