A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing the legislative research commission to study the commercial dissemination of unsolicited and unwanted electronic messages and appropriating funds for that purpose.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Legislative Research Commission shall study the commercial dissemination of pornography to or from this State via the Internet and the problem of unsolicited bulk electronic mail of a pornographic or obscene nature.
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the General Assembly the sum of twenty‑five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the 2002‑2003 fiscal year to implement this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2002.