GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 616

Short Title:  Abolish Department of Admin.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Sherrill.

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Referred to:  State Government.

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March 29, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ABOLISH THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION AND TRANSFER ITS FUNCTIONS TO THE OFFICE OF STATE BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT IN THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR, AND TO DIRECT THE OFFICE OF STATE BUDGET AND MANAGEMENT TO ELIMINATE FIFTY PERCENT OF POSITIONS IN THE OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF ADMINISTRATION.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The statutory authority, powers, duties and functions, records, personnel, property, unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations or other funds, including the functions of budgeting and purchasing, of the Department of Administration are transferred to the Office of State Budget and Management of the Office of the Governor.  The Department of Administration is abolished.
Sec. 2. (a)	The Revisor of Statutes shall change any cross-references in the General Statutes to the "Department of Administration" to the "Office of State Budget and Management", and shall change any references to the "Secretary of Administration" or the "Secretary of the Department of Administration" to the "State Budget Officer".
(b)	Any references in any laws other than those referred to in subsection (a) of this section which refer to the "Department of Administration" shall be construed to be references to the "Office of State Budget and Management", and any references to the "Secretary of Administration" or the "Secretary of the Department of Administration" shall be construed to be to the "State Budget Officer".
Sec. 3.  The State Budget Officer shall develop a plan for the elimination of fifty percent (50%) of the positions within the office of the Secretary of Administration and shall implement that plan upon transfer of the Department of Administration to the Office of State Budget and Management pursuant to Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 4.  G.S. 143B-6(8) is repealed.
Sec. 5.  G.S. 143B-10 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"( a1)	Notwithstanding that the Office of State Budget and Management is in the Office of the Governor under Chapter 143A of the General Statutes, the Office of State Budget and Management shall be considered a principal State Department for the purpose of this Part.  The State Budget Officer shall be considered the head of the department for the purpose of this Part."
Sec. 6.  G.S. 20-79.5(a) reads as rewritten:
	"(a)	Plates. – The State government officials listed in this section are eligible for a special registration plate under G.S. 20-79.4. The plate shall bear the number designated in the following table for the position held by the official.

Position	Number on Plate   
Governor	1
Lieutenant Governor	2
Speaker of the House of Representatives	3
President Pro Tempore of the Senate	4
Secretary of State	5
State Auditor	6
State Treasurer	7
Superintendent of Public Instruction	8
Attorney General	9
Commissioner of Agriculture	10
Commissioner of Labor	11
Commissioner of Insurance	12
Speaker Pro Tempore of the House	13
Legislative Administrative Officer	14
State Budget Officer	15
Secretary of Environment, Health,
  and Natural Resources	16
Secretary of Revenue	17
Secretary of Human Resources	18
Secretary of Commerce	19
Secretary of Correction	20
Secretary of Cultural Resources	21
Secretary of Crime Control and Public Safety	22
Governor's Staff	23-30
	State Personnel Director	31
Advisory Budget Commission Nonlegislative Member	32-41
Chair of the State Board of Education	42
President of the U.N.C. System	43
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission	44-46
Assistant Commissioners of Agriculture	47-48
Deputy Secretary of State	49
Deputy State Treasurer	50
Assistant State Treasurer	51
Deputy Commissioner for the Department of Labor	52
Chief Deputy for the Department of Insurance	53
Assistant Commissioner of Insurance	54
Deputies and Assistant to the Attorney General	55-65
Board of Economic Development Nonlegislative Member	66-88
State Ports Authority Nonlegislative Member	89-96
Utilities Commission Member	97-104
Parole Commission Member	105-109
State Board Member, Commission Member, or State
  Employee	110-200
Not Named in List".
Sec. 7.  G.S. 147-45 reads as rewritten:
"§ 147-45.  Distribution of copies of State publications.
The Secretary of State shall, at the State's expense, as soon as possible after publication, provide such number of copies of the Session Laws and Senate and House Journals to federal, State, and local governmental officials, departments and agencies, and to educational institutions of instruction and exchange use, as is set out in the table below:
Session	Assembly
Agency or Institution	Laws	Journals
Governor, Office of the	3	2
Office of State Budget and Management	8	1
Lieutenant Governor, Office of the	1	1
Secretary of State, Department of the	3	3
Auditor, Department of the State	3	1
Treasurer, Department of the State	3	1
Local Government Commission	2	0
State Board of Education	1	0
Department of Public Instruction	3	1
Controller	1	0
Technical Assistance Centers	1 ea.	0
Department of Community Colleges	3	1
Justice, Department of
Office of the Attorney General	25	3
Budget Bureau (Administration)	1	0
Property Control (Administration)	1	1
	State Bureau of Investigation	1	0
Agriculture, Department of	3	1
Labor, Department of	5	1
Insurance, Department of	5	1
														Environment, Health, and Natural
Resources, Department of	1	0
Division of Environmental Management	2	0
Board of Environment, Health, and
   Natural Resources	1	0
Soil and Water Conservation Commission	1	0
Wildlife Resources Commission	2	0
Revenue, Department of	5	1
Human Resources, Department of	3	0
Board of Human Resources	1	0
Health Services, Division of	3	0
Mental Health, Developmental
	   Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services,
   Division of	1	0
Social Services, Division of	3	0
Facilities Services, Division of	1	0
Youth Services, Division of	1	0
Hospitals and Institutions	1 ea.	0
Transportation, Department of	1	0
Board of Transportation	3	0
Motor Vehicles, Division of	1	0
Commerce, Department of	1	0
Economic Development, Division of	2	0
State Ports Authority	1	0
Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission,
   North Carolina	2	0
Banking Commission	2	0
Utilities Commission	8	1
Industrial Commission	7	0
Labor Force Development Council	1	0
Milk Commission	5	0
Employment Security Commission	1	1
Correction, Department of	1	0
Department of Correction	2	0
Parole Commission	2	0
State Prison	1	0
Correctional Institutions	1 ea.	0
Cultural Resources, Department of	1	0
Archives and History, Division of	5	1
State Library	5	5
Publications Division	1	1
Crime Control and Public Safety, Department of	2	1
North Carolina Crime Commission	1	0
Adjutant General	2	0
Elections, State Board of	2	0
Office of Administrative Hearings	2	0
Legislative Branch
State Senators	1 ea.	1 ea.
State Representatives	1 ea.	1 ea.
Principal Clerk – Senate	1	1
Principal Clerk – House	1	1
Reading Clerk – Senate	1	1
Reading Clerk – House	1	1
Sergeant at Arms – House	1	1
Sergeant at Arms – Senate	1	1
Enrolling Clerk	1	0
Engrossing Clerk	1	0
Indexer of the Laws	1	0
Legislative Building Library	35	15
Judicial System
Justices of the Supreme Court	1 ea.	1 ea.
Judges of the Court of Appeals	1 ea.	1 ea.
Judges of the Superior Court	1 ea.	0
Emergency and Special Judges of the
   Superior Court	1 ea.	0
District Court Judges	1 ea.	0
District Attorneys	1 ea.	0
Clerk of the Supreme Court	1	1
Clerk of the Court of Appeals	1	1
Administrative Office of the Courts	4	1
Supreme Court Library	AS MANY AS REQUESTED
Colleges and Universities
The University of North Carolina System
Administrative Offices	3	0
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	65	25
University of North Carolina, Charlotte	3	1
University of North Carolina, Greensboro	3	1
University of North Carolina, Asheville	2	1
University of North Carolina, Wilmington	2	1
North Carolina State University, Raleigh	5	3
Appalachian State University	2	1
East Carolina University	3	2
Elizabeth City State University	2	1
Fayetteville State University	2	1
North Carolina Agricultural and
Technical University	2	1
North Carolina Central University	5	5
Western Carolina University	2	1
Pembroke State University	2	1
Winston-Salem State University	2	1
North Carolina School of the Arts	1	1
Private Institutions
Duke University	6	6
Davidson College	3	2
Wake Forest University	5	5
Lenoir Rhyne College	1	1
Elon College	1	1
Guilford College	1	1
Campbell College	5	5
Wingate College	1	1
Pfeiffer College	1	1
Barber Scotia College	1	1
Atlantic Christian College	1	1
Shaw University	1	1
St. Augustine's College	1	1
J.C. Smith University	1	1
Belmont Abbey College	1	1
Bennett College	1	1
Catawba College	1	1
Gardner-Webb College	1	1
Greensboro College	1	1
High Point College	1	1
Livingstone College	1	1
Mars Hill College	1	1
Meredith College	1	1
Methodist College	1	1
North Carolina Wesleyan College	1	1
Queens College	1	1
Sacred Heart College	1	1
St. Andrews Presbyterian College	1	1
Salem College	1	1
Warren Wilson College	1	1
County and Local Officials
Clerks of the Superior Court	1 ea.	1 ea.
Register of Deeds	1 ea.	1 ea.
Federal, Out-of-State and Foreign
Secretary to the President	1	0
Secretary of State	1	1
Secretary of Defense	1	0
Secretary of Agriculture	1	0
Secretary of the Interior	1	0
Secretary of Labor	1	1
Secretary of Commerce	1	1
Secretary of the Treasury	1	0
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare	1	0
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	1	0
Secretary of Transportation	1	0
Attorney General	1	0
Postmaster General	1	0
Bureau of Census	1	0
Bureau of Public Roads	1	0
Department of Justice	1	0
Department of Internal Revenue	1	0
Veterans' Administration	1	0
Farm Credit Administration	1	0
Securities and Exchange Commission	1	0
Social Security Board	1	0
Environmental Protection Agency	1	0
Library of Congress	8	2
Federal Judges resident in North Carolina	1 ea.	0
Federal District Attorneys resident in
   North Carolina	1 ea.	0
Marshal of the United States Supreme Court	1	0
Federal Clerks of Court resident in North Carolina	1 ea. 0
Supreme Court Library exchange list	1 ea.	0
One copy of the Session Laws shall be furnished the head of any department of State government created in the future.
State agencies, institutions, etc., not found in or covered by this list may, upon written request from their respective department head to the Secretary of State, and upon the discretion of the Secretary of State as to need, be issued copies of the Session Laws on a permanent loan basis with the understanding that should said copies be needed they will be recalled."
Sec. 8.  Section 3 of this act is effective upon ratification.  The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 1995.