NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1969 SESSION

CHAPTER 32

SENATE BILL 55

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 120 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES SO AS TO ESTABLISH THE LEGISLATIVE INTERN PROGRAM COUNCIL, AND TO ENABLE SUCH COUNCIL TO PROMULGATE AND ADOPT A PLAN FOR LEGISLATIVE INTERNS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

Section 1.  Chapter 120 of the General Statutes of North Carolina is hereby amended by adding after the present Article 10 thereof a new Article to be designated as Article 11 and reading as follows:

"Article 11

"Legislative Intern Program Council

"Section 120-56.  Legislative Intern Program Council Created. There is hereby created the Legislative Intern Program Council which shall consist of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Department of Politics at North Carolina State University. Such Council shall establish a program for legislative interns for both Houses of the General Assembly.

"Section 120-57.  Legislative Intern Program Council to Promulgate a Plan for the Use of Legislative Interns. The Legislative Intern Program Council is hereby empowered and is directed to promulgate for each Session of the General Assembly a plan providing for the selection, tenure, duties and compensation of legislative interns. Such plan shall become effective when it has been adopted by the Legislative Intern Program Council."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of March, 1969.