GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

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HOUSE BILL 1593

Short Title:     State Health Plan/Change to Calendar Year.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Folwell, Coleman, Samuelson, Avila (Primary Sponsors);  Brown, Dollar, Harrison, Hurley, and Underhill.
Referred to:	Appropriations.

April 19, 2007

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT TO CHANGE THE PLAN YEAR OF THE Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan FROM A FISCAL YEAR TO A CALENDAR YEAR.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a)  Effective January 1, 2009, G.S. 135‑40.1(7b) is repealed.

SECTION 1.(b)  Effective January 1, 2009, G.S. 135‑40.1 is amended by adding the following new subdivision in alphabetical order to read:

"(1c) Calendar year. – The period beginning on January 1 and ending on December 31 of the same year."

SECTION 1.(c)  Effective January 1, 2009, the Revisor of Statutes shall delete the term "fiscal year" wherever it appears in Parts 1 through 3 of Article 3 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes and substitute the term "calendar year."

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