GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

 

 

SESSION LAW 2007-201

SENATE BILL 167

 

 

AN ACT to make the legislative intern program available to students enrolled in community colleges that offer college transfer programs as well as to students enrolled in four year colleges and universities.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 120-57 reads as rewritten:

"§ 120-57.  Legislative Intern Program Council to promulgate a plan for the use of legislative interns.

(a)       For purposes of this section the term "institutions of higher education" means four year colleges and universities and community colleges that offer college transfer programs.

(b)       The Legislative Intern Program Council is hereby empowered and is directed to promulgate for each session of the General Assembly a plan providing for the selection, tenure, duties and compensation of legislative interns. Interns shall be selected from institutions of higher education (four-year colleges and universities) within North Carolina, including but not limited to all units of the university system.system and community college system. The selection shall be based upon guidelines set forth by the Legislative Intern Program Council; these guidelines shall permit the proper consideration of each applicant."

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

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of June, 2007.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 12:34 p.m. this 8th day of July, 2007