AN ACT authorizing a housing authority to collect unpaid delinquent debt by setting off the debt against a state income tax refund due a tenant or former tenant of the housing authority.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 105A‑2(6) reads as rewritten:
"(6)	Local agency. – Any of the following:
a.	A county, to the extent it is not considered a State agency.
b.	A municipality.
c.	A water and sewer authority created under Article 1 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes.
d.	A regional joint agency created by interlocal agreement under Article 20 of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes between two or more counties, cities, or both.
e.	A public health authority created under Part 1B of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes or other authorizing legislation.
f.	A metropolitan sewerage district created under Article 5 of Chapter 162A of the General Statutes.
g.	A sanitary district created under Part 2 of Article 2 of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes.
h.	A housing authority created under Chapter 157 of the General Statutes, provided that the debt owed to a housing authority has been reduced to a final judgment in favor of the housing authority."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2011.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 2011.

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		 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

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		 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011