GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

1983 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1049

HOUSE BILL 1736

 

AN ACT TO MODIFY THE COVERAGE UNDER THE GROUP LIFE INSURANCE PLANS FOR MEMBERS OF THE TEACHERS' AND STATE EMPLOYEES', LOCAL GOVERNMENTAL EMPLOYEES' AND LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEMS SO AS TO CAUSE INSURANCE PROCEEDS TO BE PAYABLE ON ACCOUNT OF THE DEATH OF ANY MEMBER WITHIN SIX MONTHS AFTER LEAVING PAY STATUS FOR ANY REASON, AT NO COST TO THE RETIREMENT SYSTEMS OR STATE.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 128-27(l)(2), G.S. 135-5(l)(2) and G.S. 143-166.02(2) are each rewritten to read:

"(2)      The greatest compensation on which contributions were made by the member during a 12-month period of service within the 24-month period of service ending on the last day of the month preceding the month in which his last day of actual service occurs;".

Sec. 2.  G.S. 128-27(l)(3), G.S. 135-5(l)(3), G.S. 135- 5(l)(4) and G.S. 143-166.02(3) are repealed.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 128-27(l), G.S. 135-5(l) and G.S. 143- 166.02 are each amended in the first paragraph of each by deleting the last sentence which reads:  "For the purpose of this Plan, a member shall be deemed to be in service at the date of his death if his last day of actual service occurred not more than 90 days before the date of his death or if his last day of actual service occurred not more than 366 days before the date of his death if such member during said one-year period had applied for and was entitled to receive a disability retirement allowance under the System, provided said disability retirement allowance had not been discontinued or revoked during said one-year period." and by substituting a sentence to read:

"For the purpose of the Plan, a member shall be deemed to be in service at the date of his death if his death occurs within 180 days from the last day of his actual service."

Sec. 4.  No inchoate or pending right of any beneficiary in receipt of a disability retirement allowance from the Teachers' and State Employees', Local Governmental Employees', or Law Enforcement Officers' Retirement Systems, on the date of ratification of this act shall be diminished.

Sec. 5.  This act is effective January 1, 1984.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 2nd day of July, 1984.