A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to prohibit lobbyists from serving on the board of governors of the university of north carolina.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 117‑7(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	No member of the General Assembly, lobbyist, or officer or employee of the State, The University of North Carolina, or any constituent institution may be a member of the Board of Governors. No spouse of a member of the General Assembly, of a lobbyist, or of an officer or employee of The University of North Carolina, or of any constituent institution may be a member of the Board of Governors. Any member of the Board of Governors who is elected or appointed to the General Assembly, who becomes a lobbyist, or who becomes an officer or employee of the State or of any constituent institution or whose spouse is elected or appointed to the General Assembly, becomes a lobbyist, or becomes an officer or employee of The University of North Carolina or of any constituent institution shall be deemed thereupon to resign from his membership on the Board of Governors. For the purposes of this subsection, "lobbyist" has the same meaning as in G.S. 120C‑100(a)(10)."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.