NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1113

HOUSE BILL 985

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE TEXTBOOK COMMISSION.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 115-206.3, as the same now appears in the 1975 Replacement Volume 3A of the General Statutes, is hereby rewritten to read as follows:

"§ 115-206.3.  Appointment of Textbook Commission. Shortly after assuming office, the Governor shall appoint a Textbook Commission of 14 members who shall hold office for four years, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. The members of the commission shall be appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the State Superintendent. Six of these members shall be teachers or principals in the elementary grades; five shall be teachers or principals in the high school grades; and one shall be a superintendent of a county or city school administrative unit. One of these members shall be the parent of an elementary student, grades K-6, at the time of appointment and the other shall be the parent of a high school student, grades 7-12, at the time of appointment. The Governor shall fill all vacancies by appointment for the unexpired term. The commission shall elect a chairman, subject to the approval of the State Superintendent. The members shall be entitled to compensation for each day spent on the work of the commission as approved by the board and to reimbursement for travel and subsistence expense incurred in the performance of their duties at the rates specified in G.S. 138-5(a). Such compensation shall be paid from funds available to the State Board of Education."

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1977.