House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Amends the definitions used in the North Carolina Farmland and Military Protection Act (new Article 3 to GS Chapter 64) as follows. Adds new defined term military installation, meaning Fort Bragg, Pope Army Airfield, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, New River Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station, Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, the United States Coast Guard Air Station at Elizabeth City, Naval Support Activity Northwest, Air Route Surveillance Radar (ARSR-4) at Fort Fisher, and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, in its own right and as the responsible entity for the Dare County Bombing Range, and any facility located within the State that is subject to the installations' oversight and control. Makes technical and conforming change to GS 64-53 (bar on adversarial foreign governments acquiring agricultural land) to account for newly defined military installation.

Changes definition of agricultural land to have it also include aquaculture, as defined in GS 106-758 (in addition to already included cultivation of soil or production and harvesting of crops, including but not limited to fruits, vegetables, sod, flowers and ornamental plants; the planting and production of trees and timber; and dairying and the raising, management, care, and training of certain livestock for individual and public use, consumption, and marketing—i.e., the definitions of agriculture set forth in GS 106-581.1(1)-(3)). Specifies that agricultural land does not include land situated in this State leased for agricultural research and development purposes or other activities for the purpose of producing inputs and/or products for farmers or other end-users, provided that the acreage leased by the lessee does not exceed 250 acres in the aggregate.