A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that funds budgeted for salaries and wages shall be expended only for those items.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 143‑23(a2) reads as rewritten:
"(a2)	Funds appropriated for salaries and wages are also subject to the limitation that they may only be used 
	for salaries and wages or for employer's social security, retirement, and hospitalization payments.
		
Lapsed salary funds shall not be used for new permanent employee positions or to raise the salary of existing employees."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2006.