AN ACT to allow area boards to offer APPLICANTS FOR THE POSITION OF area director severance benefits and relocation expenses AS AN INCENTIVE FOR ACCEPTING an offer of employment.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 122C‑121(a2) reads as rewritten:
"(a2)	The area board shall not provide the director with any benefits that are not also provided by the area board to all permanent employees of the area program, except that the area board may, in its discretion, offer severance benefits, relocation expenses, or both, to an applicant for the position of director as an incentive for the applicant to accept an offer of employment. The director shall be reimbursed only for allowable employment‑related expenses at the same rate and in the same manner as other employees of the area program."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2013.

	s/	 Daniel J. Forest
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Pat McCrory
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2013