GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1995 SESSION

CHAPTER 229
SENATE BILL 755

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE DESIGNATED LEGISLATIVE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYEE HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL BENEFITS AND THEIR TERMS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 135-38 reads as rewritten:
"§ 135-38.  Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits.
(a)	The Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits shall consist of 12 members as follows:
(1)	The President Pro Tempore of the Senate or a designee thereof;
					(2a)	The Speaker of the House of Representatives or a designee thereof;
(3a)	Five members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; and
(4a)	Five members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker.
(b)	The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, or their designees, shall remain on the Committee for the duration of their terms in those offices.  Terms of the other Committee members are for two years and begin on January 15 of each odd-numbered year, except the terms of the initial members, which begin on appointment and expire January 14, 1997.  Members may complete a term of service on the Committee even if they do not seek reelection or are not reelected to the General Assembly, but resignation or removal from service in the General Assembly constitutes resignation or removal from service on the Committee.  Members shall serve until their successors are appointed.
(c)	The Committee shall review programs of hospital, medical and related care provided by Part 3 of this Article as recommended by the Executive Administrator and Board of Trustees of the Plan.  The Executive Administrator and the Board of Trustees shall provide the Committee with any information or assistance requested by the Committee in performing its duties under this Article.
(d)	The time members spend on Committee business shall be considered official legislative business for purposes of G.S. 120-3."
Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification and applies to appointments made on or after that date.  The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint the members of the Committee on Employee Hospital and Medical Benefits as soon as practicable after ratification of this act.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 13th day of June, 1995.

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Dennis A. Wicker
President of the Senate

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Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives