During the 2013 Session, the N.C. General Assembly ratified the following bills affecting N.C. Gen. Stat. Chapter 97 and other statutes governing workers’ compensation claims and tort claims against the state.
House Bill
153—Session Law 2013-193 (An Act to Prohibit a Person Who Has Been Convicted of a Felony Related to Employment or Holding Office from Receiving Retirement Benefits from the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System, the Legislative Retirement System, the Optional Retirement Program for the University of North Carolina, the Optional Retirement Program for State-Funded Community Colleges, the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan for State Law-Enforcement Officers, and the Supplemental Retirement Income Plan For Local Governmental Law-Enforcement Officers)—Ratified
June 28, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on July 17, 2013.
House Bill
237—Session Law 2013-135 (An
Act Providing that the North Carolina Rate Bureau Share with The North Carolina
Industrial Commission Information on the Status of Workers' Compensation
Insurance Coverage on Employers in This State and Making Clarifying, Conforming,
and Other Changes Relating to the Workers' Compensation Laws of North Carolina)—Ratified
June 21, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on July 1, 2013.
House Bill
778—Session Law 2013-7 (An Act
to Amend Laws
Relating to the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission and the Preservation
of Biological Evidence)—Ratified
May 30, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on June 7, 2013.
House Bill
843—Session Law 2013-12 (An Act
to Modernize the
North Carolina Emergency Management Act and Related Statutes)—Ratified
June 7, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on June 11, 2013.
Senate Bill 174—Session Law 2013-294 (An Act to Disapprove Certain Rules Adopted by the North Carolina
Industrial Commission, to Provide Specific Directions to the Industrial Commission to Replace the Rules, and to Amend Certain
Provisions of the Workers' Compensation Law)—Ratified
July 3, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on
July 12, 2013.
Senate Bill
804—Session Law 2013-130 (An Act to
Make Technical and
Conforming Changes to Statutes Affecting the State Retirement Systems)—Ratified
June 26, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on June 29, 2013.
Senate Bill
824—Session Law 2013-43 (An Act to
Require the
Secretary of Revenue's Interpretation of the Law Concerning the Secretary's
Authority to Adjust Net Income or Require a Combined Return Be Made Through Rule
Making and to Provide an Expedited Process for Rule Making on This Issue)—Ratified
June 14, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on June 20, 2013.
Senate Bill
881—Session Law 2013-83 (An Act to
Make Technical
and Other Changes to the General Statutes Regarding the Department of Public
Safety; and to Transfer the Warehouse Formerly Operated by the Law Enforcement
Support Services Division and Its Contents from the Department of Justice to the
Department of Public Safety and to Assign the Responsibilities for the Storage
and Management of Evidence Housed in the Warehouse to the Department of Public
Safety, as Recommended by the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice
and Public Safety)—Ratified
June 21, 2013. Signed by Governor Pat McCrory on June 26, 2013
North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Law:
All the excerpts from the North Carolina General
Statutes that pertain to the North Carolina
Industrial Commission and its activities.