GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001

SESSION LAW 2001-202
HOUSE BILL 429

AN ACT TO clarify the applicability of senate bill 25. 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 148‑37.2, as rewritten by S.L. 2001‑84, is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(i)	The private for-profit or nonprofit firms authorized to respond to requests for proposal authorized by this section, or entitled to be a Selected Contractor pursuant to any response to such proposal, need not be a licensed general contractor within the meaning of G.S. 87-1 so that providing a response to such request for proposal or entering a Construction Contract Agreement or Purchase Agreement shall not be deemed general contracting within the meaning of G.S. 87-1; provided that this subsection shall not be deemed to remove the actual construction of any prison facility from the provisions of G.S. 87-1."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective May 17, 2001.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 14th day of June, 2001.

	s/	 Frank W. Ballance, Jr.
		 Deputy President Pro Tempore of the Senate

	s/	 James B. Black
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Michael F. Easley
	 Governor

Approved 2:31 p.m. this 14th day of June, 2001