Key Votes
HB 947 - Authorizes Compensation for Eugenics Patients - Key Vote
North Carolina Key Votes
Paul Stam, Jr. voted Yea (Passage) on this legislation.
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Stages
Family
- H Amdt 2 - Limits Compensation for Eugenics Patients
- HB 947 - Authorizes Compensation for Eugenics Patients
Issues
Stage Details
Legislation - Referred to Committee (Senate) - June 6, 2012
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (86-31) - June 5, 2012 (Key vote)
Title: Authorizes Compensation for Eugenics Patients
Vote to pass a bill that authorizes compensation for eugenics patients.
- Establishes the Eugenics Sterilization Compensation Fund in the Office of the State Treasurer (Sec. 5).
- Transfers $10 million from the Office of the State Treasurer to the Eugenics Sterilization Compensation Fund (Sec. 7).
- Requires the Eugenics Sterilization Compensation Fund to compensate each individual who was lawfully sterilized under the authority of the Eugenics Board of North Carolina with a lump-sum payment of $50,000 (Secs. 1 & 5).
- Requires a claim for compensation to be submitted by December 31, 2015 (Sec. 1).
- Requires the North Carolina Industrial Commission to establish rules for determining eligibility for compensation (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits the State from appealing decisions made by the North Carolina Industrial Commission that award compensation to eugenics patients (Sec. 1).
- Exempts any compensation required by this bill from income taxes (Sec. 1).
- Prohibits any compensation required by this bill from being considered income or assets when determining eligibility for public assistance programs (Sec. 3).
Legislation - Introduced (House) - May 16, 2012
Title: Authorizes Compensation for Eugenics Patients
Sponsors
- Earline W. Parmon (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Paul B. 'Skip' Stam Jr. (NC - R)
- Thom Tillis (NC - R)
- Larry W. Womble (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Alma S. Adams (NC - D)
- Martha Bedell Alexander (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kelly M. Alexander Jr. (NC - D)
- Larry M. Bell Sr. (NC - D)
- Alice L. Bordsen (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Kenneth Marcus Brandon (NC - D)
- Angela R. Bryant (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Christopher S. 'Chris' Carney (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- William 'Bill' Cook (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Joseph Nelson Dollar (NC - R)
- Beverly Miller Earle (NC - D)
- John Faircloth (NC - R)
- Bill Faison (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Susan C. Fisher (NC - D)
- Elmer Floyd (NC - D)
- Dale R. Folwell (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Rosa U. Gill (NC - D)
- Rick Glazier (NC - D)
- Kenneth Leigh 'Ken' Goodman (NC - D)
- Charles Graham (NC - D)
- Joe Hackney (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert Phillip 'Phil' Haire (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Susi H. Hamilton (NC - D)
- Mary Price 'Pricey' Harrison (NC - D)
- Patricia B. 'Pat' Hurley (NC - R)
- Frank Iler (NC - R)
- Dan W. Ingle (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Verla Clemens Insko (NC - D)
- Darren G. Jackson (NC - D)
- Margaret M. 'Maggie' Jeffus (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jonathan Christian Jordan (NC - R)
- Patricia R. 'Patsy' Keever (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marvin Willis Lucas Jr. (NC - D)
- Paul Luebke (NC - D)
- Grier Martin (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- William C. 'Bill' McGee (NC - R) (Out Of Office)
- Frank McGuirt (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Marian Nelson McLawhorn (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Henry M. 'Mickey' Michaux Jr. (NC - D)
- Annie Ward Mobley (NC - D)
- Diane Parfitt (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Garland E. Pierce (NC - D)
- Deborah K. Ross (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Joe P. Tolson (NC - D)
- William L. Wainwright (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edith Doughtie Warren (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jennifer Weiss (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- W. A. 'Winkie' Wilkins (NC - D)
- Michael H. Wray (NC - D)
