GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2009

HOUSE BILL 482

RATIFIED BILL

AN ACT RELATING TO THE REINSTATEMENT OF UNUSED SICK LEAVE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C-336 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:

"(d) The State Board of Education shall adopt rules relating to the reinstatement of unused sick leave when an employee who was employed on a 10-month contract at the time of separation returns to employment on a 10-month contract. Under these rules, the maximum period of separation after which unused sick leave is reinstated shall be three calendar months longer for school personnel employed on a 10-month contract than for school personnel employed on a 12-month contract."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 8^th day of June, 2009.

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                                                                         Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

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                                                                         Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

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                                                                         Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2009