Creates a process to compensate individuals who were sterilized between 1929 and 1975 under the NC eugenics sterilization program. Requires that a verifiable claim for compensation be submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) by June 30, 2014. Requires DHHS to determine eligibility, provide notice by mail to claimants, and adopt procedural rules related to submitted claims. Sets compensation for an eligible claim at $20,000 to be issued by the State Treasurer upon notification of an eligible claim by DHHS. Establishes the Eugenics Sterilization Compensation Fund, on deposit with the State Treasurer, and prohibits any funds from reverting until all verified claims are paid. Allows the State Treasurer to invest funds in the same manner as other state money, subject to oversight by the State Auditor.
Appropriates $18,480,000 for 2011-12 from the General Fund to the State Treasurer to fund the Eugenics Sterilization Compensation Fund. Also appropriates $165,000 for 2011-12 from the General Fund to DHHS to administer the processing of claims. Includes whereas clauses.
Effective July 1, 2011.

Amends GS 115D-58.6 to separate into Deposits and Investments the provision regulating the investment of idle cash by community colleges. Requires that monies be invested to county governments pursuant to GS 159-30(c) (idle fund investment by local governments), or in any form established or managed by an investment advisor who is a member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation and is registered and in good standing with either the Securities and Exchange Commission or the North Carolina Secretary of State, Securities Division. Allows the investment securities listed in GS 159-30(c) to be bought, sold, or traded by community colleges. Makes conforming changes. Effective July 1, 2011.

Repeals GS 14-51.1 (use of deadly force against an intruder) and enacts new Article 62, Justifiable Use of Force, to GS Chapter 14 providing that a person is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to self or another when using defensive force that is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm to another if both of the following apply: (1) the person against whom the force was used was in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or had so entered, a dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle, or had removed or attempted to remove another against that person’s will and (2) the person using the deadly force knew or had reason to believe that such unlawful and forcible entry or removal had occurred.
The presumption does not apply if (1) the person against whom the force was used had a right to be in the dwelling, residence, or vehicle and there is not a protective or no contact order against that person; (2) the person removed or sought to be removed is a child or grandchild or is otherwise under lawful custody or guardianship of the person against whom the defensive force is used; (3) the person using the force is engaged in a forcible felony (as defined in the proposed Article 62) or using the dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle to further a forcible felony; or (4) the person against whom the force is used is a law enforcement officer acting in the lawful performance of the officer’s official duties and who has made known his or her status as a law enforcement officer or the person using force should have known the individual was an officer.
Provides that a person who is attacked while in any other place that the person has a right to be and who is not engaged in an unlawful activity (1) does not have a duty to retreat and (2) has the right to stand his or her ground and meet force with force, including deadly force if the person reasonably believes that it is necessary to do so to prevent death or great bodily harm to that person or another person.
Provides that a person who unlawfully and by force enters or attempts to enter another’s dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle is presumed to be doing so with intent to commit an unlawful act involving force or violence.
Permits the use of force in defense of others. Prohibits the use of deadly force in the defense of others unless the person acting in defense of others reasonably believes that deadly force is necessary to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony.
Provides immunity from criminal prosecution and civil action for a person using justifiable force as defined in proposed Article 62 of GS Chapter 14. States that a person who is justified in the use of force may not be prosecuted criminally or civilly.
Prohibits the use of the defense of justifiable force if the person seeking to use the defense is (1) attempting to commit, committing, or escaping after the commission of a forcible felony or (2) initially provoked the use of force against him or her. Provides exceptions if the person who initially provoked the use of force reasonably believes that he or she is in imminent danger of death or great bodily harm and has exhausted every reasonable means of escape, or the person withdraws in good faith from physical contact with the assailant and clearly indicates that he or she wishes to withdraw and terminate the use of force, but the assailant continues or resumes the use of force.
Provides that the use of justifiable force is a defense to civil actions for damages for personal injury or wrongful death or for injury to property. Provides criteria for establishing this defense. Additionally provides that a losing party in civil actions where a party prevails based on the defense created in proposed Article 62 may lose privileges provided at the correctional facility where the losing party is incarcerated at the discretion of the court. Also provides for awarding attorneys’ fees to the prevailing party.
Provides that a law enforcement officer is not liable in any civil or criminal action arising out of the use of any less-lethal munition in good faith during and within the scope of the officer’s official duties.
Defines terms as used in the proposed new section.
Effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date. Provides that prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date are not abated or affected by this act and the statutes that would be applicable to such offenses were it not for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions.

As title indicates. Directs the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (Committee) by September 1, 2011. Requires the revised process to ensure the following: (1) a simple, nonduplicated count of children and adults who are waiting for federally and state-funded services; (2) a research-based waiting list that accurately reflects the number of individuals waiting for services currently available in the state; and (3) data showing the number of individuals who are potentially eligible to receive services under the CAP-MR/DD waiver.
Directs DHHS to make annual reports to the Committee, beginning September 30, 2012, on the waiting list data collected from each local management entity, including an analysis of service gaps and plans to address those gaps.

Directs the Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services of the Department of Health and Human Services (Division) to report by July 1, 2011, to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (Committee) on the criteria and processes used by the Division to evaluate the fiscal, organizational, and programmatic efficacy of implementing the Critical Access Behavioral Health Agency (CABHA) provider agency model.
Directs the Division to report to the Committee semiannually, beginning October 1, 2011, on the efficacy evaluations.

As title indicates. Requires that the report be submitted by September 1, 2011, and annually thereafter, to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services, the House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Health and Human Services, and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.

Requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (Division), in consultation with the Murdoch Developmental Center, to identify funding sources available to establish a unit for step-down services from the Behaviorally Advanced Residential Treatment Program. Requires the Division to report on its progress by October 1, 2011, and quarterly thereafter until the unit is established, to the Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services.

Appropriates $39,121,644 from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (Division) for the 2011-12 fiscal year to purchase 50 additional local inpatient psychiatric beds or bed days. Provides criteria for the distribution and management of the beds or bed days.
Directs that the funds be held in a statewide reserve at the Division and requires Local Management Entities (LME) to remit claims for payment to the Division. Provides criteria governing the responsibilities of the LMEs and the evaluation of an LME’s management of the beds or bed days for which it is responsible. Prohibits the use of the appropriated funds to supplant other funds that are available or otherwise appropriated for the purchase of psychiatric inpatient services under contract with community hospitals, including beds or bed days being purchased through Hospital Utilization Pilot funds appropriated in SL 2007-323. Requires the Department to submit a report no later than March 1, 2011, to specified legislative committees and subcommittees regarding a uniform system for the beds or bed days purchased (1) with local funds, (2) from existing state appropriations, (3) under the Hospital Utilization Pilot, and (4) purchased using funds appropriated under this act.
Effective July 1, 2011.

As title indicates. Requires the report to be submitted by September 1, 2011, and enumerates four issues to be included in the report.