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

Amends the definition provided for private protection services in GS 74C-3 to exclude an employee of a security department of a private business or other employees whose primary duty involves loss prevention or that conduct investigations (was, an employee of a private business that conducts investigations) on matters internal to the business affairs of the business or related to the location, disposition, or recovery of lost or stolen property. Further limits this to instances where the lost or stolen property is reasonably believed to be owned by the business. 

Amends GS 14-100 (Obtaining property by false pretenses), that in a prosecution for violation of the statute, the State is not required to establish and it is no defense that some of the acts constituting the crime did not occur in this state or within one city, county, or local jurisdiction. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of the act are not abated by the act and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions. 

Makes conforming changes to the long title.