GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1991

 

 

CHAPTER 1037

SENATE BILL 1277

 

AN ACT TO LIMIT THE IMMUNITY HELD BY MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 120-9 reads as rewritten:

"§ 120-9.  Freedom of speech; protection from arrest.

The members shall have freedom of speech and debate in the General Assembly, and shall not be liable to impeachment or question, in any court or place out of the General Assembly, for words therein spoken; . and shall be protected, except in cases of crime, from all arrest and imprisonment, or attachment of property, during the time of their going to, coming from, or attending the General Assembly."

Sec. 2.  This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of July, 1992.

 

Henson P. Barnes

President Pro Tempore of the Senate

 

Daniel Blue, Jr.

Speaker of the House of Representatives