GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION

CHAPTER 234
SENATE BILL 604

AN ACT TO DESIGNATE THE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS AS THE DEFERRAL AGENCY FOR CASES UNDER THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 7A-759(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The Office of Administrative Hearings is designated to serve as the State's deferral agency for cases deferred by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to the Office of Administrative Hearings as provided in Section 706 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, 29 U.S.C. § 621 et seq., and the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. for charges filed by State or local government employees covered under Chapter 126 of the General Statutes and shall have all of the powers and authority necessary to function as a deferral agency."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 1993.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 29th day of June, 1993.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives