A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide the north carolina general assembly special police with statewide law enforcement jurisdiction.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 120‑32.2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 120‑32.2.  General Assembly Special Police.
(a)	All sworn members of the General Assembly Special Police employed by the Legislative Services Office are special police officers, and have all the powers of policemen of cities, within any of the following areas of jurisdiction, while on official duty:
(1)	Within those areas of the City of Raleigh and of the unincorporated parts of Wake County surrounded by the innermost right‑of‑way of Interstate 440.
(2)	 Throughout the State:
a.	While accompanying a member of the General Assembly who is conducting, or traveling to or from, his or her official duties.
b.	While preparing for, or providing security to, a session of either or both houses of the General Assembly, or official events directly related to that session.
c.	While performing advance work for continuity of government planning and performing advance work and providing security for the protection of legislative members, staff, and the public for any meeting of a study, standing, select, or joint select committee, a caucus, or any committee or commission meeting of the General Assembly, or any state, regional, or national meetings of legislative bodies or organizations representing legislative bodies, and while accompanying a member of the General Assembly to or from any event listed in this subdivision.
d.	While conducting a criminal investigation of a threat of physical violence against the General Assembly, a member or staff of the General Assembly, or their immediate family.
e.	While accompanying a member of the General Assembly for the purpose of providing executive protection in response to a threat of physical violence.
f.	While serving a subpoena issued by the General Assembly or any committee of the General Assembly authorized to issue a subpoena under the provisions of Chapter 120 of the General Statutes.
"(b)	General Assembly Special Police officers may arrest persons outside the areas described in subsection (a) of this section when the person arrested has committed a criminal offense within any of the areas, for which the officer could have arrested the person within that area, and the arrest is made during such person's immediate and continuous flight from that area.
(c)	The General Assembly Special Police officers have the exclusive authority and responsibility for enforcing the parking rules of the Legislative Services Commission."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 120‑19.2(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	Any witness shall have five days' notice of hearing, unless waived by the witness, and subpoenas may be served by a member of the General Assembly Special Police, the State Bureau of Investigation, the State Highway Patrol, or within their respective jurisdiction by any sheriff or deputy, or any municipal police officer or other law‑enforcement officer. Members of the General Assembly Special Police may serve subpoenas issued under this Chapter anywhere in the State. In addition, a subpoena may be served in the manner provided for service of subpoenas under the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure."
SECTION 3.  G.S. 120‑32.1(b) reads as rewritten:
(b)	The Legislative Services Officer shall have posted the rules adopted by the Legislative Services Commission under the authority of this section in a conspicuous place in the State Legislative Building and the Legislative Office Building. The Legislative Services Officer shall have filed a copy of the rules, certified by the chairman of the Legislative Services Commission, in the office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Wake County. When so posted and filed, these rules shall constitute notice to all persons of the existence and text of the rules. Any person, whether on his own behalf or for another, or acting as an agent or representative of any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association, who knowingly violates any of the rules adopted, posted and filed under the authority of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or association who combines, confederates, conspires, aids, abets, solicits, urges, instigates, counsels, advises, encourages or procures another or others to knowingly violate any of the rules adopted, posted and filed under the authority of this section is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. The President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may waive in writing the application of any rule adopted by the Legislative Services Commission to either or both of the House and Senate Sergeants‑at‑Arms of the General Assembly, and such a jointly‑executed waiver shall be a defense against any prosecution for violation of such rule. Such a waiver shall extend no longer than the expiration of their then current term of office.  A copy of such waiver shall be delivered to the Chief of the General Assembly Special Police."
SECTION 4.  This act is effective when it becomes law.