A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow unused sick leave under the local governmental employees' retirement system to be applied as eligible service in the sheriffs' supplemental pension fund.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 143‑166.84 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(c)	For purposes of this Article, the term "eligible service as sheriff" means membership service rendered since the person became sheriff, and if the person has sick leave standing to his or her credit accrued as a member of the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System and elects to have all of that sick leave applied to service under this Article instead of service in that System, one month of credit for each 20 days or portion thereof, but not less than one hour, and subject to all the requirements and restrictions of G.S. 128‑26(e)."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2015.