A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to authorize the legislative research commission to study all governmental immunity doctrines available to state and local governments.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Legislative Research Commission may study the subject of governmental immunity.  As part of this study, the Legislative Research Commission may review all governmental immunity doctrines available to State and local governments, including sovereign immunity, public official immunity, and public officer immunity and shall consider whether these doctrines are being appropriately and consistently applied and whether these doctrines should continue in effect, be modified, or be abrogated.
SECTION 2.  The Legislative Research Commission shall submit a final report of the results of this study, including any legislative recommendations, to the 2008 General Assembly.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.