GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2005

SESSION LAW 2006-77

HOUSE BILL 1974

AN ACT to authorize the reemployment of certain retired community college employees who were provided incorrect information about the waiting period for reemployment.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System who was employed by a community college, who filed for retirement before August 31, 2005, for an effective retirement date of November 1, 2005, and who was provided with incorrect information about the period of time a retired member must wait before returning to employment in order to continue receiving retirement benefits, may be reemployed by the State under the reemployment law that existed at the time the member filed for retirement.

SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30^th day of June, 2006.

                                                        s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                         President of the Senate

                                                        s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                         Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives

                                                        s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                         Governor

Approved 3:03 p.m. this 10^th day of July, 2006