GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-166
HOUSE BILL 331

AN ACT to provide for the appointment of two additional public members of the information resource management commission.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 147‑33.78(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Creation; Membership. – The Information Resource Management Commission is established and shall be located within the Office for organizational, budgetary, and administrative purposes. The Commission consists of the following members:
(1)	Four members of the Council of State, appointed by the Governor.
(2)	The Secretary of State.
(3)	The Secretary of Administration.
(4)	The State Budget Officer.
(5)	Two members of the Governor's cabinet, appointed by the Governor.
(6)	 Two citizens of the State of North Carolina with a background in and familiarity with information systems or telecommunications, appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate in accordance with G.S. 120‑121.
(7)	 Two citizens of the State of North Carolina with a background in and familiarity with information systems or telecommunications, appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives in accordance with G.S. 120‑121.
(8)	The Chair of the Information Technology Management Advisory Council.
(9)	The Chair of the Criminal Justice Information Network Governing Board.
(10)	The State Controller.
(11)	The Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts or the Director's designee.
(12)	The President of The University of North Carolina or the President's designee.
(13)	The President of the Community Colleges System Office or the President's designee.
(14)	The Executive Director of the North Carolina League of Municipalities or the Executive Director's designee, who shall be a nonvoting member.
(15)	The Executive Director of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners or the Executive Director's designee, who shall be a nonvoting member.
(16)	The State Chief Information Officer, who shall be a nonvoting member.
Members of the Commission shall not be employed by or serve on the board of directors or other corporate governing body of any information systems, computer hardware, computer software, or telecommunications vendor of goods and services to the State of North Carolina.
The initial appointed members of the Commission shall be the members appointed to the Information Resource Management Commission who are serving unexpired terms as of July 1, 2000, who shall serve for a period equal to the remainder of their current terms on the Information Resource Management Commission. Upon the expiration of the current terms of the appointed members, their successors shall be appointed for four‑year terms, commencing July 1. Members of the Governor's cabinet shall be disqualified from completing a term of service on the Commission if they are no longer cabinet members. Members of the Council of State shall be disqualified from completing a term of service on the Commission if they are no longer members of the Council of State.
Vacancies in the  four legislative appointments shall be filled as provided in G.S. 120‑122.
The Commission chair shall be elected in the first meeting of each calendar year from among the appointees of the Governor from the Council of State and shall serve a term of one year. The State Chief Information Officer shall be secretary to the Commission.
No member of the Information Resource Management Commission shall vote on an action affecting solely his or her own State agency."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 28th day of May, 2001.

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 8:59 a.m. this 7th day of June, 2001