Senate amendments to the 2nd edition make the following changes.   

Part V. General Provisions

Section 5.12 Increase Penalty for Participating in Pyramid Disruption Plan

Amendment #14 adds a section amending GS 14-291.2 to make it a Class 1 misdemeanor (was, Class 2 misdemeanor) to participate in or otherwise promote a pyramid distribution plan. Makes additional technical changes. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2025. 

Section 5.18 Conforming Change to Financial Transaction Card Crime Act

Amendment #38 adds a section amending GS 14-113.7A specifying that the Article 19A (Obtaining Property or Services by False or Fraudulent Use of Credit Device or Other Means) does not apply to a financial transaction card. 

Section 5.19 Repeal Obsolete Article

Amendment #18 adds a new section repealing Article 15A (Investigation of Offenses Involving Abandonment and Nonsupport of Children) of GS Chapter 15.

Section 5.22 Make Language Gender-Neutral Throughout Geologists Licensing Act

Amendment #23 adds a new section amending the following statutes to make language gender neutral and make additional clarifying and technical changes: GS 89E-3, GS 89E-4, GS 89E-6, GS 89E-7, GS 89E-8, GS 89E-9 (also removes outdated language), GS 89E-11, GS 89E-13, GS 89E-14, GS 89E-18 (also removes outdated language), GS 89E-19, GS 89E-22, and GS 89E-24. 

Section 5.24 Repeal Obsolete Article

Amendment #40 adds a new section repealing Article 3 (Control over Child‑Caring Facilities) of GS Chapter 110. 

Section 5.25 Making Language Gender-Neutral in Child Support Statute

Amendment #25 adds a new section amending GS 110-130 to make language gender neutral, and to make clarifying and technical changes.

Section 5.29 Repeal Duplicative Statute

Amendment #20 adds a new section that repeals GS 121-42 (setting out the name of the Article).  

Section 5.34 Delete Obsolete References to the Noncommercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund

Amendment #49 adds a section making the following changes.

Repeals: GS 143-215.94A(5) (defining Loan Fund); GS 143-215.94B(b)(6) (allowed expenses under the Storage Tank Cleanup Fund-reimbursement to the State for damages or other costs), GS 143-215.94B(b)(12) (allowed expenses under the Storage Tank Cleanup Fund-compensation to third parties for bodily injury and property damage in excess of $100,000); GS 143-215.94F (limited amnesty for certain underground storage tanks operated prior to October 1, 1989); and GS 143-215.94P (groundwater protection loan fund).

Makes technical, organizational changes to the definitions contained in GS 143-215.94A(2)(2a) and (7). Removes requirement that pipeline facility regulated by certain State laws be intrastate facilities to qualify under the pipeline facility exception to commercial underground storage tank definition. Removes the listed exceptions from the definition of noncommercial underground storage tank. Now limits the definition to the following storage tanks: (1) farm or residential underground storage tank of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing motor fuel for noncommercial purposes; (2) underground storage tank of 1,100 gallons or less capacity used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored; and (3) underground storage tank of more than 1,100 gallon capacity used for storing heating oil for consumptive use on the premises where stored by four or fewer households.

Makes technical changes and conforming changes to account for repeal of commercial underground storage tank cleanup fund to GS 143-215.94E (concerning owner/operator rights under the Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund).

Makes conforming changes to account for repeal of noncommercial underground storage tank cleanup fund to GS 143-215.94G (authority of Department of Environmental Quality [DEQ]), GS 143-215.94V (standards for petroleum underground storage tank cleanups) as amended by Section 23(1) of the act, and GS 143B-426.40A(l) (assignment of claims against the State). 

Section 5.35 Update Obsolete Reference and Other Conforming Changes in Administrative Law

Amendment #49 makes the following changes.

Recodifies the last sentence of GS 150B-37(c) under GS 150B-34 and requires the Office of Administrative Hearings to forward a written copy of an administrative law judge's final decision or order (was, final decision) to the parties. Makes additional clarifying and technical changes.

Amends GS 90A-30, concerning penalties for violations of GS 90A-29, and GS 104E-24, concerning administrative penalties, by updating statutory cross-references and making additional clarifying, conforming, and technical changes.

Amends GS 108A-70.9A to require the Office of Administrative Hearings, instead of the administrative law judge, to forward a written copy of the judge’s decision to the Department and the recipient in accordance with GS 150B-34; makes conforming changes. Makes conforming changes to GS 108A-70.9B and GS 108D-16.

Amends GS 122C-24, concerning adverse action on a license, by removing the provision concerning sharing the decision when an appeal is filed concerning the denial, suspension, amendment, or revocation of a license. Amends GS 122C-24.1, GS 131D-34, and GS 131E-129, concerning penalties, by making conforming and clarifying changes. Amends GS 143-215.94G by making clarifying and technical changes and removing unnecessary language.

Section 5.36 Repeal Obsolete Article

Amendment #51 adds a new section that repeals Article 29A (Governor's Council on Employment of the Handicapped) of GS Chapter 143.

Part VI. Community College System

Section 6.10 No Financial Benefit for CC Students Convicted of Assaulting Officers or Employees of the State

Amendment #32 adds a new section amending GS 115D-3 requiring the State Board of Community Colleges to adopt a policy prohibiting the Community Colleges System Office and community colleges from providing a State-funded scholarship or grant to any student convicted of assaulting an officer or employee of the State or any political subdivision of the State, while enrolled as a student. Makes the prohibition begin with the semester or academic term following the conviction. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2025. 

Part VIII. The University of North Carolina System

Section 8.27 No Financial Benefit for UNC Students Convicted of Assaulting Officers or Employees of the State

Amendment #32 adds a new section amending GS 116-11 requiring the UNC Board of Governors to adopt a policy prohibiting UNC and its constituent institutions from providing a State-funded scholarship or grant to any student convicted of assaulting an officer or employee of the State or any political subdivision of the State, while enrolled as a student. Makes the prohibition begin with the semester or academic term following the conviction. 

Enacts new GS 116-143.2A disqualifying a person enrolled at an institution of higher education from receiving in-State tuition if they have been convicted of assaulting an officer or employee of the State or its political subdivision while enrolled. Makes the disqualification begin with the semester or academic term following the conviction. 

Enacts new GS 116-209.19B requiring the Authority to adopt a rule prohibiting a student from receiving a State-funded scholarship or grant if the student has been convicted of assaulting an officer or employee of the State or its political subdivision while enrolled. Makes the disqualification begin with the semester or academic term following the conviction. 

Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2025. 

Part XVI. Administrative Office of the Courts.

Section 16.2 Split of District Court District 43

Amendment #6 amends GS 7A-133 decreasing the number of district court judges in District 43A by one to three and increases the number in District 43B from three to four.

Section 16.4 Additional Assistant District Attorneys in Various Counties

Amendment #3

Increases the number of full-time assistant district attorneys in Wake County from 44 to 49 and from 40 to 41 in Guilford County in GS 7A-60(a1).

Directs, notwithstanding any provision of the act to the contrary, that the funds appropriated in the act to the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) under Budget Code 100072 funding new assistant district attorney positions to be increased by $974,106 in recurring funds beginning in 2025-26 and $22,512 in nonrecurring funds for the 2025-26 year. Decreases the recurring and non-recurring funds appropriations to the Future Building Reserve under Budget Code 19050 by those same amounts.

Part XIX. Public Safety

Section 19.2 Study Increasing Energy Efficiencies

Amendment #16 corrects a reference to the Department of Adult Correction.

Part XXI. State High Patrol

Amendment #8 corrects the title of the Part to State Highway Patrol.

Part XXVI. Budget And Management - Special Appropriations

Section 27.3 State Controller Operating Budget & Staff Savings 

Amendment #12 adds a new section prohibiting the BEST Shared Services in the Office of the State Controller from being reduced by $530,000 in recurring funds for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 fiscal year, and requiring instead that the State Controller reduce funds in any division or program funded in the Office's General Fund budget code equal to $530,000 in recurring funds for the 2025-26 and 2026-27 fiscal year. Makes conforming changes. 

Part XLIV. Finance.

Section 44.1 Personal Income Tax Reduction

Amendment #2

Amends GS 105-153.7, as amended (individual income tax reductions), to specify that in no instance may the tax rate authorized under GS 105-153.7 be lower than 1.99%.