GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2011-208

HOUSE BILL 263

AN ACT to allow certain retired members of the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the local governmental employees' retirement system who remarried prior to the effective date of a technical correction to the retirement laws to nominate their new spouses to receive the survivor benefits in accordance with that technical correction.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System (i) who designated a spouse as survivor under Option 5 as set forth in G.S. 135-5(g) or G.S. 128-27(g), (ii) whose designated spouse predeceased him or her, and (iii) who remarried prior to the enactment of S.L. 2010-72 may nominate the new spouse to receive the survivor retirement benefits in accordance with G.S. 135-5(g) or G.S. 128-27(g), provided that nomination is made within 90 days of the effective date of this act.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15^th day of June, 2011.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

Approved 12:00 p.m. this 23^rd day of June, 2011