AN ACT to appropriately recognize the national guard and to create uniformity in the spelling of the term "national guard" wherever it appears in the general statutes by capitalizing it, as recommended by the joint study committee on military and veterans' affairs AND TO AUTHORIZE A general statutes commission STUDY ON references to the names of military organizations in the general statutes.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  The Revisor of Statutes shall modify the term "national guard" wherever it appears in the General Statutes so that both the word "National" and the word "Guard" are capitalized.
SECTION 2.  The General Statutes Commission shall study and recommend to the 2010 Regular Session of the 2009 General Assembly ways to ensure that the General Statutes properly and uniformly refer to federal or state military organizations.  These may include a single term that will include all organizations that compose the reserve components of the armed forces.  The recommendations may include a process to be authorized by the General Assembly whereby changes that do not change the law can be made administratively by the Attorney General.
SECTION 3.  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