A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to revise the law providing for creditable service in the teachers' and state employees' retirement system for members who served in the armed forces of the united states.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 135‑4(g) reads as rewritten:
"(g)	Teachers and other State employees who served in the armed forces of the United States and who, after being honorably discharged, returned to the service of the State within a period of two years from date of discharge shall be credited with prior service for such period of service in the armed forces of the United  States, for the maximum period that they are entitled to reemployment under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994, 38 U.S.C. §4301 et seq. or other federal law, and the salary or compensation of such a teacher or State employee during that period of service is deemed to be that salary or compensation the employee would have received but for the period of service had the employee remained continuously employed, if the determination of that salary or compensation is reasonably certain. If the determination of the salary or compensation is not reasonably certain, then it is deemed to be that employee's average rate of compensation during the 12‑month period immediately preceding the period of service."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.