GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
HOUSE BILL 263
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to allow certain retired members of the teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the local governmental employees' retirement system who remarried prior to the effective date of a technical correction to the retirement laws to nominate their new spouses to receive the survivor benefits in accordance with that technical correction.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a retired member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System or the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System (i) who designated a spouse as survivor under Option 5 as set forth in G.S. 135-5(g) or G.S. 128-27(g), (ii) whose designated spouse predeceased him or her, and (iii) who remarried prior to the enactment of S.L. 2010-72 may nominate the new spouse to receive the survivor retirement benefits in accordance with G.S. 135-5(g) or G.S. 128-27(g), provided that nomination is made within 90 days of the effective date of this act.
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 15th day of June, 2011.
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Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011