GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1997

S	1 

SENATE BILL 303

Short Title:  Set Industrial Commissioner Pay.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Rand; Carrington, Cooper, Dalton, Dannelly, Forrester, Gulley, Hartsell, Horton, Kerr, Kinnaird, Lee, Martin of Guilford, McDaniel, Miller, Odom, Perdue, Phillips, Soles, Warren, Wellons, and Winner.

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Referred to:  Appropriations.

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March 5, 1997

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT SETTING THE SALARIES OF INDUSTRIAL COMMISSIONERS AT THE SAME RATE AS THE SALARIES ESTABLISHED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 97-78(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The salary of each commissioner shall be the same as that fixed from time to time for district attorneys except that the commissioner designated as chair shall receive one thousand five hundred dollars ($1,500) additional per annum."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce the sum of eight hundred eight thousand three hundred sixty-two dollars ($808,362) for the 1997-98 fiscal year and the sum of eight hundred eight thousand three hundred sixty-two dollars ($808,362) for the 1998-99 fiscal year to fund the salaries set for members of the Industrial Commission as provided by Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.