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