AN ACT to restore a balance to the law on unemployment compensation for substitute teachers as recommended by the Joint legislative education Oversight Committee.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 96‑8(10) is amended by adding a new sub‑subdivision to read:
"f.	No substitute teacher or other substitute school personnel shall be considered unemployed for days or weeks when not called to work unless the individual is or was employed as a full‑time substitute during the period of time for which the individual is requesting benefits. For the purposes of this subsection, full‑time substitute is defined as a substitute employee who works more than 30 hours a week on a continual basis for a period of six months or more."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 96‑8(6)k.21. is repealed.
SECTION 3.  G.S. 96‑8(6)k.22. is repealed.
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of June, 2010.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 10:53 a.m. this 8th day of July, 2010