GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SESSION LAW 2012-1
SENATE BILL 727
AN ACT to eliminate the dues checkoff option for active and retired public school employees.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 143B-426.40A(g) reads as rewritten:
"(g)
Payroll Deduction for Payments to Certain Employees' Associations Allowed. - An
employee of the State or any of its political subdivisions, subdivisions
other than local boards of education, institutions, departments, bureaus,
agencies or commissions, or any of its local boards of education or community
colleges, who is a member of a domiciled employees' association that has at
least 2,000 members, 500 of whom are employees of the State, State or
a political subdivision of the State, or public school employees, State
other than a local board of education, may authorize, in writing, the
periodic deduction each payroll period from the employee's salary or wages a
designated lump sum to be paid to the employees' association. A political
subdivision may also allow periodic deductions for a domiciled employees'
association that does not otherwise meet the minimum membership requirements
set forth in this paragraph.
An employee of any local board
of education who is a member of a domiciled employees' association that has at
least 40,000 members, the majority of whom are public school teachers, may
authorize in writing the periodic deduction each payroll period from the
employee's salary or wages a designated lump sum or sums to be paid for dues
and voluntary contributions for the employees' association.
An authorization under this
subsection shall remain in effect until revoked by the employee. A plan of
payroll deductions pursuant to this subsection for employees of the State and
other association members shall become void if the employees' association
engages in collective bargaining with the State, any political subdivision of
the State, or any local school administrative unit. This subsection does not
apply to county or municipal governments or any local governmental unit,
except for local boards of education.unit."
SECTION 2. G.S. 135-18.8 reads as rewritten:
"§ 135-18.8. Deduction for payments to certain employees' or retirees' associations allowed.
Any beneficiary who is a member of
a domiciled employees' or retirees' association that has at least 2,000
members, the majority of whom are active or retired employees of the State
or public school employees, State may authorize, in writing, the
periodic deduction from the beneficiary's retirement benefits a designated lump
sum to be paid to the employees' or retirees' association. The authorization
shall remain in effect until revoked by the beneficiary. A plan of deductions
pursuant to this section shall become void if the employees' or retirees'
association engages in collective bargaining with the State, any political
subdivision of the State, or any local school administrative unit."
SECTION 3. This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 9th day of June, 2011.
s/ Walter H. Dalton
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
VETO Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Became law notwithstanding the objections of the Governor, 1:12 a.m. this 5th day of January, 2012.
s/ Denise Weeks
House Principal Clerk