NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 870

HOUSE BILL 1184

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE ANNUAL INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF STATE EMPLOYEES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new Article 2 to read:

"ARTICLE 2.

"Limit on Number of State Employees.

"§ 143-35. Limit on number of State employees. - The total number of State employees shall not be increased in any fiscal year by a greater percentage than the percentage rate of population growth for the State of North Carolina. The percentage rate of population growth shall be computed by the Department of Administration by averaging the rate of population growth in each of the preceding 10 fiscal years as stated in the annual estimates of population in North Carolina made by the United States Census Bureau. For purposes of this section, the term 'State employee' shall include each person paid wholly or partially from funds appropriated by the General Assembly and each person employed by a department, institution or other agency of the State, regardless of the source of funding for the position.

'State Employees' as used in this bill shall not include any person employed by any group, association, society or other organization which receives less than fifty percent (50%) of the funds from the State of North Carolina."

Sec. 2. This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of July, 1981.