GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
1983 SESSION

CHAPTER 499 
HOUSE BILL 156 

AN ACT TO RESTORE LANGUAGE REQUIRING LICENSING BOARDS AND ASSOCIATIONS TO PAY FOR HEALTH INSURANCE BENEFITS. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 135-40.2 is amended by adding a new subsection to read: 
"(f)	For the support of the benefits made available to any member vested at the time of retirement, their spouses or surviving spouses, and the surviving spouses of employees who are receiving a survivor's alternate benefit under G.S. 135-5(m) of those associations listed in G.S. 135-27(a), licensing and examining boards under G.S. 135-1.1, the North Carolina Art Society, Inc., and the North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc., each association, organization or board shall pay to the Plan the full cost of providing these benefits under this section as determined by the Board of Trustees of the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan. In addition, each association, organization or board shall pay to the Plan an amount equal to the cost of the benefits provided under this section to presently retired members of each association, organization or board since such benefits became available at no cost to the retired member." 
Sec. 2.  This act shall be effective from and after June 23, 1982. 
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 13th day of June, 1983.