The North Carolina General Assembly adjourned on
July 18, 2008. The next Session of the North
Carolina General Assembly will convene at 12 noon on
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 and is expected to
continue through late July, 2009 or later.
Weekly
Legislative Reports are prepared each week
that the North Carolina General Assembly is in
Session. The reports detail legislation that is of
special interest to Sheriffs, Sheriffs’ Office
personnel, and other law enforcement officers
and criminal justice professionals in our state.
An annual
Final Legislative Report is published after
the General Assembly adjourns each year and
includes summaries of: (1) relevant bills enacted into law during
that Session; (2) relevant provisions of that year's State
Budget Bill; and (3) important legislationthat was not enacted into law during that Session.
For more
details about legislative bills summarized in the
Reports, please review the actuallegislation. Copies of any of the legislation
introduced or considered by the GeneralAssembly are available on the General Assembly’s
world wide website:
www.ncleg.net. Youmay also receive one copy of as many bills as you are
interested in, free of charge, by calling theGeneral Assembly’s Printed Bills Office at
919-733-5648. They will need to know if it is aHouse Bill or Senate Bill and the bill number. (For
example, Senate Bill 8.)
2008
07-04-08