NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1973 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1117

SENATE BILL 1228

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND G.S. 143B-179 TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COUNCIL ON DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 143B-179 is hereby amended by rewriting the first paragraph thereof to read as follows:

"§ 143B-179.  Council on Developmental Disabilities-members; selection; quorum; compensation. — The Council on Developmental Disabilities of the Department of Human Resources shall consist of 30 members appointed by the Governor. The composition of the council shall be as follows:

(1)        14 members from the General Assembly and State government agencies as follows: two persons who are members of the Senate, two persons who are members of the House of Representatives, one representative of the Department of Public Education, one representative of the Department of Social Rehabilitation and Control, one representative of the Department of Administration, and seven representatives of the Department of Human Resources to include representatives from the areas of health services, mental health services, vocational rehabilitation services, Governor's Coordinating Council on Aging, services for the blind, social services and institutional services;

(2)        10 members designated as consumers of services or representatives of consumers of services for the developmentally handicapped, of which at least three members shall be designated as representatives of advocate organizations as follows: one member from the North Carolina Association for Retarded Children, one member from the United Cerebral Palsy of North Carolina, and one member from the North Carolina Chapter of the Epilepsy Foundation of America; and

(3)        six members at large, who by their interests and efforts have helped provide or may help provide improved services for those who are developmentally disabled, three of whom shall initially be appointed for a term of two years."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 3rd day of April, 1974.