2005 North Carolina Code - General Statutes § 120-132. Testimony by legislative employees.

§ 120‑132.  Testimony by legislative employees.

No present or former legislative employees may be required to disclose any information that the individual, 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 General Assembly or a legislative commission;

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

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

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