GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
SESSION LAW 2013-339
SENATE BILL 223
AN ACT to allow area boards to offer APPLICANTS FOR THE POSITION OF area director severance benefits and relocation expenses AS AN INCENTIVE FOR ACCEPTING an offer of employment.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 122C‑121(a2) reads as rewritten:
"(a2) The area board
shall not provide the director with any benefits that are not also provided by
the area board to all permanent employees of the area program.program,
except that the area board may, in its discretion, offer severance benefits, relocation
expenses, or both, to an applicant for the position of director as an incentive
for the applicant to accept an offer of employment. The director shall be
reimbursed only for allowable employment‑related expenses at the same
rate and in the same manner as other employees of the area program."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of July, 2013.
s/ Daniel J. Forest
President of the Senate
s/ Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Pat McCrory
Governor
Approved 4:28 p.m. this 23rd day of July, 2013