North Carolina § 143-345 - 20. Definitions.

§ 143-345. 20. Definitions.

The following definitions apply in this Article: Baseline reversion. - The two-year historical average of reversions by a State department, agency, or institution. NC-Thinks. - The State Employee Suggestion Program. Repealed by Session Laws 2001-424, s. 7.2(b), effective July 1, 2001. Participating agency. - Any State department, agency, or institution, or any local school administrative unit that employs State employees eligible to participate in NC-Thinks. The term includes the North Carolina Community Colleges System, The University of North Carolina and its constituent institutions, and charter schools. The term does not include federal or local government agencies. Recodified as G.S. 143-345.20(1a). State employee. - Any of the following: A person who is a contributing member of the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System of North Carolina, the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System of North Carolina, or the Optional Program. A person who receives wages from the State as a part-time or temporary worker, but is not otherwise a contributing member of one of the retirement programs listed in sub-subdivision a. of this subdivision. History (1997-513, s. 2; 2001-424, s. 7.2(b); 2010-97, s. 11.) Editor's Note. - The number of this section was assigned by the Revisor of Statutes, the number in Session Laws 1997-513, s. 2 having been 143-345.10. Session Laws 1997-513, s. 4 states that this act shall not be construed to obligate the General Assembly to make any appropriation to implement the provisions of this act. Each State agency to which this act applies shall implement the provisions of this act from funds otherwise appropriated to that State agency. Subdivision (1a) was originally enacted as subdivision (2b) by Session Laws 2010-97, s. 11. It has been renumbered as subdivision (1a) to maintain alphabetical order at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2010-97, s. 11, effective July 20, 2010, in the first sentence of subdivision (2a), substituted "NC-Thinks" for "the State Employee Incentive Bonus Program"; and rewrote subdivision (2b), which formerly read: "SEIBP. - Acronym for the State Employee Incentive Bonus Program."