A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to make the legislative intern program available to students enrolled in community colleges that offer college transfer programs as well as to students enrolled in four year colleges and universities.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 120‑57 reads as rewritten:
"§ 120‑57.  Legislative Intern Program Council to promulgate a plan for the use of legislative interns.
(a)	For purposes of this section the term "institutions of higher education" means four year colleges and universities and community colleges that offer college transfer programs.(b)	The Legislative Intern Program Council is hereby empowered and is directed to promulgate for each session of the General Assembly a plan providing for the selection, tenure, duties and compensation of legislative interns. Interns shall be selected from institutions of higher education  within North Carolina, including but not limited to all units of the university system and community college system. The selection shall be based upon guidelines set forth by the Legislative Intern Program Council; these guidelines shall permit the proper consideration of each applicant."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.