GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1997 SESSION

SESSION LAW 1997-509
SENATE BILL 488

AN ACT TO AMEND THE PROCESS OF SELECTING THE CHAIR OF THE VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION ADVISORY COUNCIL TO CONFORM WITH FEDERAL LAW AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE CHAIR'S TERM SHALL NOT EXCEED THREE YEARS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 143-548(c) reads as rewritten:
"(c)	The Council shall elect one of the voting members of the Council as Chair of the Council.  The Chair's term shall not exceed a single three-year term."
Section 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1997.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of August, 1997.
s/	Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate

s/	Harold J. Brubaker
Speaker of the House of Representatives

s/	James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor

Approved 10:23 a.m. this 17th day of September, 1997