GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

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HOUSE BILL 723

Short Title:  Labor Department to Commerce.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representative Baker.

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Referred to:  State Government.

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March 30, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO RENAME THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AS THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, AND TO TRANSFER MOST FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR, AND TO DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE TO ELIMINATE FIFTY PERCENT OF POSITIONS IN THE OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF LABOR UPON TRANSFER.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  (a)	The Department of Commerce is renamed the Department of Commerce and Labor.
(b)	The Revisor of Statutes shall change any references in the General Statutes to the "Department of Commerce" to the "Department of Commerce and Labor".  The Revisor of Statutes shall change any references to the "Secretary of Commerce" or the "Secretary of the Department of Commerce" to the "Secretary of Commerce and Labor" or the "Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Labor" respectively.
(c)	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 Labor to the Department of Commerce and Labor, except that the position of the Commissioner of Labor and one clerical assistant are not transferred.  The Commissioner of Labor shall have the powers and duties provided by G.S. 143A-68.
(d)	The Revisor of Statutes shall change any references in the General Statutes to the "Department of Labor" to the "Department of Commerce and Labor".  The Revisor of Statutes shall change any references to the "Commissioner of Labor" to the "Secretary of Commerce and Labor".  This subsection does not apply to G.S. 147-11.1.
Sec. 2.  The Secretary of Commerce shall develop a plan for the elimination of fifty percent (50%) of the positions within the office of the Commissioner of Labor and shall implement that plan upon transfer of most functions of the Department of Labor to the Department of Commerce and Labor as pursuant to Section 1 of this act.
Sec. 3.  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
Secretary of Administration 	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	23-29
State Budget Officer                            	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 Secretary of the Department of
  Commerce and 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. 4.  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
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	1	1 
Insurance, Department of	5	1
Administration, Department of	1	1
Budget Bureau	2	1
Controller	1	0
Property Control	1	0
Purchase and Contract	2	0
Policy and Development	1	0
Veterans Affairs Commission	1	0 
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	4	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. 5.  Section 2 of this act is effective upon ratification.  The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 1995.