§ 120-132. Testimony by legislative employees. - North Carolina Statutes

§120‑132.  Testimony by legislative employees.

No present or formerlegislative employees may be required to disclose any information that theindividual, while employed or retained by the State, may have acquired:

(1)        In a standing,select, or conference committee or subcommittee of either house of the GeneralAssembly or a legislative commission;

(2)        On the floor ofeither house of the General Assembly, or in any office of a legislator;

(3)        As a result ofcommunications that are confidential under G.S. 120‑130 and G.S. 120‑131.

Notwithstanding the provisionsof the preceding sentence, the presiding judge of a court of competentjurisdiction may compel that disclosure, if in his opinion, the same isnecessary to a proper administration of justice. (1983, c. 900, s. 1; 1983(Reg. Sess., 1984), c. 1038, s. 5.)