VARIOUS LOCAL ELECTIONS. (NEW)

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 58 (Local) Filed Tuesday, February 4, 2025
AN ACT TO LIMIT THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S PARTICIPATION IN LITIGATION THAT WOULD RESULT IN THE INVALIDATION OF ANY EXECUTIVE ORDER ISSUED BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AND TO REQUIRE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO SUBMIT A REPORT REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF G.S. 14-277 AND TO REQUIRE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO SUBMIT A REPORT REGARDING VIOLATIONS OF G.S. 14-277.
Intro. by Winslow.
Status: Engrossed (Senate action) (Mar 20 2025)

SOG comments (2):

Long title change

Submitted by jhenders@sog.unc.edu on

Committee substitute to the 2nd edition changed the long title. Previous long title was AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TERMS OF THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE TOWN OF KITTRELL FROM TWO TO FOUR YEARS.

long title change

Submitted by ddecamillis@sog... on

Senate amendments to the 3rd edition changed the long title. Previous title was AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TERMS OF THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE TOWN OF KITTRELL FROM TWO TO FOUR YEARS; TO PROVIDE THAT THE ASHEBORO CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION SHALL CONSIST OF SEVEN MEMBERS ELECTED ON A PARTISAN BASIS IN EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS TO SERVE FOUR-YEAR STAGGERED TERMS; TO ESTABLISH RESIDENCY DISTRICTS FOR THE ANSON COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS; AND TO PROVIDE THAT VACANCIES ON THE CASWELL COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ARE FILLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH G.S. 153A-27.1.

Bill History:

H 58

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill H 58 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Mar 20 2025 - View Summary

    Senate amendments to the 3rd edition make the following changes.

    Amendment #1 changes the effective date of the addition of Caswell County to GS 153A-27.1 (vacancies on board of commissioners in certain counties), so that it applies to vacancies filled on or after March 3, 2025. Requires vacancies occurring on the Caswell County Board of Commission on or after March 3, 2025, to be filled according to GS 153A-27.1.

    Amendment #2 adds the following content and makes conforming changes to the act's long title. Amends SL 1963-707, as amended, as follows. Removes the name of the consolidated board of education which was the Laurinburg Scotland County Board of Education. Provides that the public school system of Scotland County is the Scotland County School System and the system’s board of education’s name is the Scotland County Board of Education (Board). Requires, for fiscal year 2025-26, the Board to submit a budget request for operational and capital funding in amounts that would provide an appropriate education to all students in Scotland County during that fiscal year to the Scotland County Board of Commissioners (BOC), at the same time the other school budgets are filed. Directs the BOC to consider the educational goals and policies of the State and the local Board, the Board’s budgetary request, the Board’s financial resources, and the Board’s and the BOC’s fiscal policies in evaluating the request. Based on this evaluation, directs the BOC to determine, in its discretion, the amount of county revenues, including any voted supplemental tax revenues, to be appropriated to the Board’s local current expense fund and capital outlay fund for fiscal year 2025-2026. Prevents the Board or the BOC from initiating a dispute resolution process or filing any legal action challenging the determination of funds to be appropriated by the BOC to the local current expense fund and capital outlay fund for fiscal year 2025-26. Requires, that beginning with fiscal year 2026-27 and each year thereafter, the preparation, submission, and approval of a budget for the Board to be in accordance with Article 31 of GS Chapter 115C. Deletes provisions concerning the filing of a supplemental tax budget. Removes provisions setting formula for the base amount of educational funding as well as provisions to allow the Board and the Commissioners to deviate from that formula in extraordinary economic circumstances upon approval of both entities. Makes conforming changes to account for updated name. Makes organizational changes. Makes technical change to update reference to GS Chapter 115C (governing public secondary schools). Removes outdated language.

    Education, Elementary and Secondary Education, Government, Elections
    UNCODIFIED, Anson, Caswell, Randolph, Scotland, Vance
  • Bill H 58 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Mar 18 2025 - View Summary

    Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition adds the following content and makes conforming changes to the act’s titles.

    Section 2

    Requires two members of the Asheboro City Board of Education to be elected in 2025 on a nonpartisan plurality basis with the results determined according to GS 163-292 (determination of election results in cities using the plurality method) to serve a one-year term.

    Specifies that this section does not affect the term of office of any member elected in 2025 to the Asheboro City Board of Education; requires any vacancy for a member elected in 2025 to be filled by appointment of the remaining members of the Asheboro City Board of Education to serve the remainder of the unexpired term. Requires each member of the Asheboro City Board of Education elected in 2025, or any member appointed to fill a vacancy for a member elected in 2025, to serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.

    Amends Section 2 of SL 1957-35, as amended, by decreasing the membership of the Asheboro City Board of Education from 11 to seven members and requires that they be elected to staggered four-year terms instead of to six-year terms. Requires that they be elected at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year as terms expire, with candidates nominated at the same time and manner as county officers. Requires elections to be held and conducted under the applicable provisions of GS Chapters 115C and 163. Requires any vacancy to be filled in accordance with GS 115C-37.1 (vacancies in offices of county boards elected on partisan basis in certain counties) and makes conforming changes to GS 115C-37.1.

    Repeals the following sections of SL 1957-35, as amended: Section 1 (concerning the composition of the Asheboro City Board of Education), Section 3  (specifying members of the Asheboro City Board of Education and the election of their successors), Section 4 (concerning elections), Section 5 (concerning notice of special elections), Section 6 (concerning the conduction of elections), and Section 7 (concerning terms of office).

    Extends the terms of office for the four members serving on the effective date of this section whose terms of office are set to expire in 2027 by one year, and the terms of office for the three members serving on the effective date of this section whose terms are set to expire in 2029 by one year. Sets out provisions to stagger the terms.

    Requires the Asheboro City Council, between the date of the 2028 general election and the first Monday in December 2028 to appoint a registered voter who resides in the Asheboro City Board of Education School Administrative Unit district to serve on the Asheboro City Board of Education to vote only in the case of a tie; this person’s term expires the first Monday in December 2030.

    Specifies that this does not affect the term of office of any member elected in 2021 or 2023 to the Asheboro City Board of Education and requires any vacancies in those positions to be filled by appointment of the remaining Board members to serve the remainder of the unexpired term. Requires each member of the Asheboro City Board of Education elected in 2021 or 2023, or any member appointed to fill a vacancy for one of those members, to serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.

    Effective the first Monday in December of 2026, and requires elections in 2026 and thereafter to be conducted accordingly.

    Section 3

    Specifies that the Anson County Board of Commissioners consists of seven members elected from seven single-member residency districts with one member elected from each residency district. Requires a person to be a qualified voter and resident of the district in which the candidates seeks to be elected to the Anson County Board of Commissioners. Requires all candidates for election to be voted on by all eligible voters in the county. Provides that members take office and qualify on the first Monday in December of the year of election, and the terms of their predecessors expire at that same time.

    Requires, until revised in accordance with GS 153A-22.1, the residency districts required by this section to be the districts used in the 2022 elections for the Anson County Board of Commissioners. Makes conforming changes to GS 153A-22.1 (redefining residency district boundaries).

    Effective the first Monday in December 2026, and elections in 2026 and thereafter must be conducted accordingly.

    Section 4

    Amends GS 153A-27.1 (vacancies on board of commissioners in certain counties) by adding Caswell County to the scope of the statute.

    Government, Elections
    UNCODIFIED, Anson, Caswell, Randolph, Vance
  • Bill H 58 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Mar 4 2025 - View Summary

    House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Amends Section 3 of the Kittrell Town Charter, SL 1885-136, by removing reference to a constable as a town officers. Gives the commissioners the power to appoint a clerk and finance officer (was, a secretary and treasurer). Removes the provision specifying that the election of the mayor and commissioners to four-year terms begins at the regular municipal election in 2025 and quadrennially thereafter.

    Government, Elections
    UNCODIFIED, Vance
  • Bill H 58 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Feb 4 2025 - View Summary

    Amends Section 3 of the Kittrell Town Charter, SL 1885-136, so that beginning at the regular municipal election in 2025 and quadrennially thereafter, the mayor and the commissioners will be elected for four-year terms.

    Government, Elections
    UNCODIFIED, Vance
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