Bill Summaries: H166 (2023-2024 Session)

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  • Summary date: Jun 14 2023 - View summary

    AN ACT TO ALLOW AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENTS TO WEAR CULTURAL OBJECTS AT PUBLIC SCHOOL GRADUATION CEREMONIES. SL 2023-43. Enacted June 14, 2023. Effective June 14, 2023.


  • Summary date: Mar 2 2023 - View summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.

    Restricts the scope of objects of cultural significance under GS 115C-407.40 to only bird feathers and plumes (was, an object of cultural significance including bird feathers and plumes). Amends GS 115C-218.75 (charter schools), GS 115C-238.66 (regional schools), and GS 116-239.8(b) (laboratory schools) to require these entities to comply with GS 115C-407.40. Makes conforming changes to SL 2018-32 to update new title of Article 29D.  Makes organizational change. 


  • Summary date: Feb 21 2023 - View summary

    Renames the title of Article 29D of GS Chapter 115C to Religious Activity and Cultural Expression (currently, titled as Student Prayer and Religious Activity). Enacts new GS 115C-407.40, governing cultural expression at graduation ceremonies, as follows. Requires that any student who is, or is eligible to be, enrolled as a member of a State or federally recognized Native American tribe be permitted to wear objects of cultural significance as part of the student's regalia at any graduation ceremony for a school within a public school unit in which the student is a graduating participant. Specifies that an object of cultural significance includes bird feathers and plumes.