A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the wildlife resourceS commission to limit all term lengths to two years and cap CONSECUTIVE appointments to three.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  G.S. 143‑241, as amended by Section 6.1(b) of S.L. 2023‑136, reads as rewritten:
"§ 143‑241.  Appointment and terms of office of Commission members; filling of vacancies.
The members of the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission shall be appointed as follows:

The Governor shall appoint 10 members of the Commission, one member that resides in each of the nine wildlife districts and one at‑large member.
The Commissioner of Agriculture shall appoint one member of the Commission.

The General Assembly shall appoint 10 members of the Commission to serve two‑year terms, five upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House, and five upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, in accordance with G.S. 120‑121. Of the members appointed upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House and upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, at least one of each shall be a member of the political party to which the largest minority of the members of the General Assembly belongs.
All appointments to the Commission shall be for two‑year terms. No Commission member shall be appointed to serve more than three consecutive terms.
All members appointed by the Governor or by the Commissioner of Agriculture serve at the pleasure of the authority that appointed them and they may be removed by that appointing authority at any time. A successor to the appointing authority may remove a Commission member only for cause as provided in G.S. 143B‑13. Members appointed by the General Assembly serve at the pleasure of that body and may be removed by law at any time. In the event that a Commission member is removed, the member appointed to replace the removed member shall serve only for the unexpired term of the removed member."
SECTION 1.(b)  Notwithstanding G.S. 143‑241, as amended by subsection (a) of this section, the terms of the Commission members serving on the effective date of this act whose terms are set to expire in either 2027 or 2029 shall serve the remainder of their appointment.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective June 30, 2025.