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

Amends GS 115C-301.1 to require that all full-time assigned classroom teachers have a duty-free instructional planning time and duty-free lunch time during regular student contact hours (was, daily duty-free instructional time). Provides that every teacher is to have duty-free lunch time in accordance with GS 115C-105.27 (regarding the development of school improvement plans), which requires that strategies for improving student performance must include a duty-free lunch period for every teacher on a daily basis or as otherwise approved by the school improvement team.

Requires the school improvement plan to provide a duty-free lunch on a daily basis or a plan with the goal of providing at least seventy-five minutes per week.

Makes technical changes to punctuation.