NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1981 SESSION

CHAPTER 757

HOUSE BILL 438

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE MEMBERS OF OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS TO RECEIVE REIMBURSEMENT FOR TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE EXPENSES ON THE SAME BASIS AS STATE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1. G.S. 93B-5(b) is rewritten as follows:

"Board members shall be reimbursed for all necessary travel expenses in an amount not to exceed that authorized under G.S. 138-6(a) for officers and employees of State departments. Actual expenditures of board members in excess of the maximum amounts set forth in G.S. 138-6(a) for travel and subsistence may be reimbursed if the prior approval of the State Director of Budget is obtained and such approved expenditures are within the established and published uniform standards and criteria of the State Director of Budget authorized under G.S. 138-7 for extraordinary charges for hotels, meals, and convention registration for State officers and employees, whenever such charges are the result of required official business of the board."

Sec. 2. G.S. 93B-5(c) is repealed.

Sec. 3. This act is effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 1st day of July, 1981.