A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to direct the unc school of government to study an efficient and effective process for the transition of the office of the governor.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  The Dean of the School of Government of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill shall convene a working group to study ways to improve the process of gubernatorial transition in the State. The working group shall include senior policy staff members for the past four North Carolina Governors' administrations. The scope of the study shall include issues related to infrastructure, cabinet agency transition and leadership, the use of memorandums of understanding between the incumbent Governor and candidates for office, disclosure of executive actions taken during the last six to 12 months of the incumbent administration, and if necessary, funding requirements. The working group may use the findings and recommendations of the Kauffman and Leavitt Presidential Transition Improvement Act of 2015 as enacted by the 114th Congress of the United States (Public Law 114‑136).
SECTION 2.  No later than April 15, 2018, the working group shall report its findings and recommendations, including any proposed legislation, to the Majority and the Minority Leaders of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Any proposed legislation recommended by the working group shall be considered a bill implementing the recommendations of a study commission authorized or directed to report to the 2018 Regular Session. The working group shall terminate upon the earlier of the filing of its report or April 15, 2018.
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.