RALEIGH, N.C.  — University of North Carolina system workers and state employees couldn’t keep receiving their current salary once they leave their position in a provision approved by the House’s budget-writing committee.

The amendment approved Tuesday night to the budget bill comes after N.C. State University Chancellor James Oblinger and Provost Larry Nielsen resigned recently. The administrators are slated to receive their same salaries for the next six months.

The measure would prevent ex-workers from receiving the same salary for their positions through mid-2011. The provision could apply retroactively but not when a payment is part of a signed contract.

Republicans offered the amendment after the N.C. State administrators resigned due to the flap over the hiring of Mary Easley.