A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modify the membership of the supplemental retirement board of trustees.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 135‑96 reads as rewritten:
"§ 135‑96.  Supplemental Retirement Board of Trustees.
(a)	The Supplemental Retirement Board of Trustees is established to administer the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan established under the provisions of this Article and the North Carolina Public Employee Deferred Compensation Plan established under G.S. 143B‑426.24.
(b)	The Board consists of nine voting members, as follows:
(1)	Six persons appointed by the Governor who have experience in finance and investments, one of whom shall be a State  employee and one of whom shall be a retired governmental employee;
(2)	One person appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
(3)	One person appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; and
(4)	The State Treasurer, ex officio, who shall be the Chair.
(c)	The initial appointments by the General Assembly and two of the Governor's initial appointments shall be for one‑year terms. The remainder of the initial appointments shall be for two‑year terms. At the expiration of these initial terms, appointments shall be for two years and shall be made by the appointing authorities designated in subsection (b) of this section. A member shall continue to serve until the member's successor is duly appointed, but a holdover under this provision does not affect the expiration date of the succeeding term. No member of the Board may serve more than three consecutive two‑year terms.
(d)	Other than ex officio members, members appointed by the Governor shall serve at the Governor's pleasure. An ex officio member may designate in writing, filed with the Board, any employee of the member's department to act at any meeting of the Board from which the member is absent, to the same extent that the member could act if present in person at such meeting."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.