GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1993 SESSION
CHAPTER 551
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1. G.S. 143B-216.32(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) The Council for the
Deaf and the Hard of Hearing shall consist of 15 23 members.
Fifteen members shall be appointed by the Governor. Three members
appointed by the Governor shall be persons who are deaf and three members shall
be persons who are hard of hearing. One appointment shall be an educator
who trains deaf education teachers and one appointment shall be an audiologist
licensed under Article 22 of Chapter 90 of the General Statutes. Three
appointments shall be parents of deaf or hard of hearing children including one
parent of a student in a residential school; one parent of a student in a
preschool satellite program; and one parent of a student in a mainstream
education program, with each parent coming from a different region of the three
North Carolina schools for the deaf regions. One member appointed by the
Governor shall be recommended by the President of the North Carolina
Association of the Deaf; one member shall be recommended by the President of
the North Carolina Pediatric Society; one member shall be recommended by the
President of the North Carolina Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf; and one
member shall be nominated by the Superintendent of Public Instruction. One
member shall be appointed from the House of Representatives by the Speaker of
the House of Representatives and one member shall be appointed from the Senate
by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate. The Secretary of Human
Resources shall appoint six members as follows: one from the Division of
Vocational Rehabilitation, one from the Division of Aging, one from the
Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse
Services, one from the Division of Social Services, one from a North Carolina
Chapter of SHHH (Self Help for the Hard of Hearing), and one from SPEAK
(Statewide Parents' Education and Advocacy for Kids)."
Sec. 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 1993, and applies to appointments made on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of July, 1993.
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Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
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Daniel Blue, Jr.
Speaker of the House of Representatives