GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2007

 

 

SESSION LAW 2007-464

HOUSE BILL 1471

 

 

AN ACT to Allow existing charter schools to elect to participate in the Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan; AND TO ALLOW AN EXISTING CHARTER SCHOOL TO PARTICIPATE IN THE teachers' and state employees' retirement system and the north carolina teachers' and state employees' comprehensive major medical plan.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  Notwithstanding the time limitations contained in G.S. 135-5.3 and G.S. 135-40.3A, the Board of Directors of Orange Charter School, a charter school located in Hillsborough, may elect to become a participating employer in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System in accordance with Article 1 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes and may also elect to become a participating employing unit in the North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes. Notwithstanding the time limitations contained in G.S. 135-40.3A, the Board of Directors of Bethany Community Middle School, a charter school in Rockingham County, may elect to become a participating employing unit in the North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes.  Notwithstanding the time limitations contained in G.S. 135-40.3A, the board of directors of Tiller School, a charter school, may elect to become a participating employing unit in the North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan in accordance with Article 3 of Chapter 135 of the General Statutes.  The election authorized by this section shall be made no later than 30 days after the effective date of this act and shall be made in accordance with all other requirements of G.S. 135-40.3A and, as applicable, with G.S. 135-5.3.


SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 26th day of July, 2007.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Joe Hackney

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 9:02 p.m. this 28th day of August, 2007