FILED SENATE
May 25, 2022
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
S.B. 794
SESSION 2021 PRINCIPAL CLERK
S D
SENATE BILL DRS45529-NDa-184
Short Title: Remove Volunteer Chaplain Ed. Requirements. (Public)
Sponsors: Senator Hise (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to:
1 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
2 AN ACT TO REMOVE MINIMUM EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR
3 COMMUNITY-FUNDED AND VOLUNTEER PRISON CHAPLAINS AND TO
4 APPROPRIATE FUNDS.
5 The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
6 SECTION 1. The Department of Public Safety shall have no written or unwritten
7 policy setting mandatory minimum educational requirements for persons serving as
8 community-funded or volunteer chaplains.
9 SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of
10 Public Safety the sum of seven hundred fifty-five thousand nine hundred four dollars ($755,904)
11 in recurring funds in the 2022-2023 fiscal year to be used to hire 10 full-time clinical chaplain
12 positions.
13 SECTION 3. Section 2 of this act becomes effective July 1, 2022. The remainder of
14 this act is effective when it becomes law.
*DRS45529-NDa-184*