Part I.

Enacts new GS 115C-112.10 prohibiting a nonpublic school that accepts eligible students receiving special education scholarships for children with disabilities from discriminating with respect to color, disability, national origin, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

Enacts new GS 115C-112.11 to require nonpublic schools that accept eligible students receiving special education scholarships for children with disabilities to report the results of all tests required under Article 39 to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and requires DPI to publish the information on its website.

Part II.

Amends GS 115C-218.45 to expand the basis on which charter schools may not limit admission to also include sexual orientation. Also prohibits a charter school whose mission is single-sex education from limiting admission on the basis of gender identity (was, on the basis of sex). 

Amends GS 115C-218.55 to expand the basis on which charter schools may not discriminate against students to also include discrimination on the basis of gender identity or sexual orientation.

Part III.

Amends GS 115C-562.5, concerning the obligations of a nonpublic school that accepts eligible students receiving scholarship grants, to prohibit discrimination with respect to color, disability, national origin, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. 

Enacts new GS 115C-562.8 to require a nonpublic school that accepts eligible students receiving scholarship grants to report the results of all tests required under Article 39 to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and requires DPI to publish the information on its website.

Part IV.

Effective when the act becomes law and applies beginning with the 2017-18 school year.