A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the 2001 general assembly, regular session 2002, to consider a bill to be entitled an act TO AUTHORIZE THE NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR MISSING PERSONS TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND PRIVATE DONATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILD ALERT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM – NCCAN (AMBER ALERT), TO ESTABLISH CRITERIA TO TRIGGER AN "AMBER ALERT", TO COORDINATE THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS, AND to provide for the use of department of transportation changeable message signs to display information regarding missing children.

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

SECTION 1. The 2001 General Assembly, Regular Session 2002, may consider "A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE NORTH CAROLINA CENTER FOR MISSING PERSONS TO ACCEPT AND EXPEND PRIVATE DONATIONS FOR THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILD ALERT NOTIFICATION SYSTEM – NCCAN (AMBER ALERT), TO ESTABLISH CRITERIA TO TRIGGER AN "AMBER ALERT", TO COORDINATE THE PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHANGEABLE MESSAGE SIGNS TO DISPLAY INFORMATION REGARDING MISSING CHILDREN."
SECTION 2. This resolution is effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of August, 2002.

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		 Marc Basnight
	 President Pro Tempore of the Senate

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		 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives