Amends GS 150B-21.2(a) to require an agency, before adopting a permanent rule, to notify the governing unit of each county that will be impacted and to publish in at least one newspaper having general circulation in each impacted county instructions regarding how to access by internet the notice of text published in the North Carolina Register. Amendments also require an agency, when conducting a public hearing required by GS 150B-21.2(e), to hold a hearing within 60 miles of each county impacted by the proposed rule from which a resident timely submitted a written request for a public hearing.