NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1977 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 1249

SENATE BILL 969

 

 

AN ACT TO INCREASE THE SALARY AND EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF THE GOVERNOR AND MEMBERS OF THE 1979 GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-3 is amended to read as follows:

"The Speaker of the House shall be paid an annual salary of twelve thousand dollars ($12,000), payable monthly, and an expense allowance of three hundred dollars ($300.00) per month. The President pro tempore of the Senate, the Speaker pro tempore of the House, the minority leader in the House, and the minority leader in the Senate shall each be paid an annual salary of seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500), payable monthly, and an expense allowance of two hundred dollars ($200.00) per month. Every other member of the General Assembly shall be paid an annual salary of six thousand dollars ($6,000), payable monthly, and an expense allowance of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per month. The salary and expense allowances provided in this section are in addition to any per diem compensation and any subsistance and travel allowance authorized by any other law with respect to any regular or extra session of the General Assembly, and service on any State board, agency, commission, standing committee and study commission."

Sec. 2.  Subsections (b) and (c) of G.S. 120-3 are repealed.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 120-3.1(a)(3) as it appears in the 1977 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes is amended by striking out of line 1 the words and figures "thirty-five dollars ($35.00)" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "forty-four dollars ($44.00)".

Sec. 4.  G.S. 120-3.1(a)(4) as it appears in the 1977 Cumulative Supplement to Volume 3B of the General Statutes is amended by striking out of line 1 the words and figures "thirty-five dollars ($35.00)" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "forty-four dollars ($44.00)".

Sec. 5.  G.S. 147-11 as it appears in the 1978 Replacement Volume 3C of the General Statutes is amended by striking out of line 3 the words and figures "forty-five thousand dollars ($45,000)" and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures "forty-seven thousand seven hundred dollars ($47,700)".

Sec. 6.  Funds for the salary increase for legislators and the Governor in this act shall come from the amount appropriated for the six percent (6%) salary increase for State employees subject to the State Personnel Act as appropriated in Chapter 1136, 1977 Session Laws, Second Session 1979.

Sec. 7.  Sections 1 through 4 of this act shall become effective with the convening of the regular session of the 1979 General Assembly. Sections 5 through 7 of this act shall become effective July 1, 1978.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 16th day of June, 1978.