A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the legislative research commission to study local elected officials' duty to vote and mechanisms of ensuring voting, including removal from office.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Legislative Research Commission may study the duties of local elected officials, including the duty to vote on matters before the public body. The study may include the following:
(1)	The duties of local elected officials.
(2)	The current laws, practices, and procedures regarding local elected boards' procedural operations and voting requirements.
(3)	Whether local elected officials should be required to vote on all matters before the body of which they are a member and, if so, what is the proper mechanism to ensure that vote.
(4)	The ability to remove an elected official from office.
(5)	Other issues relevant to the elected officials and their duties of office.
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.