GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2019

SESSION LAW 2020-71

SENATE BILL 217

AN ACT to prevent certain payments to precinct officials working in the 2020 general election from reducing unemployment insurance benefits.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Payments received by precinct officials and assistants under G.S. 163‑46 for work performed during the period from September 1, 2020, until November 5, 2020, do not affect the computation of the individual's partial weekly benefit under G.S. 96‑14.2(b).

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25^th day of June, 2020.

                                                                    s/  Philip E. Berger

                                                                         President Pro Tempore of the Senate

                                                                    s/  David R. Lewis

                                                                         Presiding Officer of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Roy Cooper

                                                                         Governor

Approved 5:27 p.m. this 1^st day of July, 2020