GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

SESSION LAW 2007-169

SENATE BILL 487

AN ACT to extend the reporting deadline for the state and local fiscal modernization study commission, and to TEMPORARILY provide for the membership of the board of awards.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 47.5 of S.L. 2006-248 reads as rewritten:

"SECTION 47.5. The Commission shall report its finding and recommendation  findings and recommendations to the 2007 Regular Session of the General Assembly no later than May 1, 2007. May 1, 2008. The Commission may make one or more interim reports. The Commission shall terminate upon the filing of its final report."

SECTION 2.  Notwithstanding G.S. 143-52.1 and S.L. 2006-203, through December 31, 2008, the members of the Advisory Budget Commission in office on June 30, 2007, shall continue to be eligible for appointment to the Board of Awards, and vacancies may be filled by the appointing authority. Through December 31, 2008, the Secretary of Administration shall appoint the Board of Awards from among those eligible.

SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 27^th day of June, 2007.

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

Approved 11:12 a.m. this 4^th day of July, 2007