AN ACT to end department of administration supervision of employees of counties, cities, and towns that are ENGAGED in veterans service.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 165‑6(8) reads as rewritten:
"(8)	It shall be the duty of the Department to train, assist, and provide guidance to the employees of any county, city, town, or Indian tribe who are engaged in veterans service. Authority is hereby granted the governing body of any county, city or town to appropriate such amounts as it may deem necessary to provide a veterans service program and the expenditure of such funds is hereby declared to be for a public purpose; such program shall be operated in affiliation with this Department as set forth above and in compliance with Department policies and procedures."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 7th day of July, 2009.

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		 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

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		 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2009