House committee substitute makes the following changes to 1st edition.
Deletes all provisions in the previous edition and replaces them with AN ACT TO EXTEND THE SUNSET ON THE LAW ESTABLISHING THE NORTH CAROLINA SUSTAINABLE LOCAL FOOD ADVISORY COUNCIL. Extends the sunset on the law creating the NC Sustainable Local Food Advisory Council from July 31, 2012, to July 31, 2015. Modifies one appointment to the Council. Amends GS 106-832 to remove the Council’s authority to consider program and policy issues, other than the listed issues, that the Council considers pertinent.

House committee substitute makes the following changes to 2nd edition.
Except as otherwise indicated, the following provisions are effective December 1, 2012 and apply to offenses committed on or after that date.
Amends GS 14-453(7c) to expand the definition of profile to include a web site user’s personal page or a section of a page containing significant, unique, or identifying information about a web site user.
Amends GS 14-458.1(a) to clarify the role of intent in the offense of cyber-bullying. Except as otherwise made unlawful in Article 60 (computer related crime) of GS Chapter 14, makes it unlawful to: (1) make a true or false statement intending to immediately provoke and that is likely to provoke a third party to stalk or harass a minor; (2) sign up a minor for a pornographic Internet site with the intent to torment or intimidate the minor; or (3) sign up a minor for any electronic mailing lists or instant messaging service with authorization from the minor or the minor’s parent or guardian, with the intent to intimidate or torment the minor. Amends new GS 14-458.2 to make parallel changes clarifying the role of intent in the offense of cyber-bullying by students of school employees.
Amends proposed GS 14-458.2 to expand the definition of school employee to apply to employees, independent contractors, or the employees of independent contractors of a regional school created under GS 115C-238.62. Amends the definition for student to include persons enrolled at charter schools, public schools, and regional schools as well as persons who have been suspended or expelled from any of these schools within the last year.
Provides that when a complaint is received under Article 17 (Screening of Delinquency and Undisciplined Complaints) of GS Chapter 7B based on a student’s violation of proposed GS 14-458.2, the student may enter into a diversion contract (referral to one of a specified list of resources) under GS 7B-1706 upon a finding of legal sufficiency under that statute.
Amends GS 15A-301 to delete provision requiring written approval of the district attorney prior to the issuance of an arrest warrant or criminal summons for a school employee for an offense that occurred while the employee was discharging the employee’s duties of employment. Provides that no warrant for arrest or criminal summons may be issued for a school employee for a misdemeanor offense that occurred while the employee was discharging his or her duties other than by a magistrate who has been appointed by the chief district court judge to hear such matters. Effective on or after the date that a magistrate is appointed by the chief district judge to perform the function set out in this section.
Recodifies proposed GS 115C-532.1 (Probation officer visits at school; limitations) as GS 115C-46.2 under Article 5 of GS Chapter 115C. Modifies language in proposed GS 14-33.3 and moves it to GS 14-33(c1).
Amends GS 115C-288(g) to delete provision that a principal is not required to report to law enforcement acts in addition to those required to be reported by law. Deletes provision that subjects a principal who willfully fails to make a report to law enforcement under this subsection subject to demotion or dismissal. Prohibits anything in this subsection from being interpreted to interfere with the due process rights of school employees or the privacy rights of students.
Enacts new GS 15A-1331B to provide that a prayer for judgment that is continued for more than 12 months is an improper disposition of a Class B1, B2, C, D, or E felony.
Enacts new GS 115C-289.1 to provide that a school employee’s supervisor has a duty to report intimidation of a school employee when the supervisor has actual notice that the school employee has been a victim of an assault by a student resulting in physical injury. Provides that the term supervisor as used in this subsection does not include the principal or superintendent. Also prohibits intimidation of a school employee by a principal, superintendent, or supervisor. Amends proposed GS 115C-366.4 to provide that a superintendent may modify, in writing, the required transfer of an individual student on a case-by-case basis. Amends GS 115C-390.3 to require local boards of education to adopt guidelines for an employee’s response if the employee has personal knowledge or actual notice of an altercation between students. Effective with the beginning of the 2012-13 school year.
Makes technical and organizational changes.

House committee substitute makes the following changes to 2nd edition.
Amends GS 15A-534(a) to reinstate execution of an unsecured appearance bond as a possible condition of pretrial release, and makes conforming changes (first edition deleted execution of an unsecured appearance bond as a possible condition of pretrial release). Removes requirement that the secured appearance bond executed in conjunction with a condition requiring electronic monitoring be set at a minimum of $1,000. Makes a conforming change to the title. Makes stylistic changes.
Provides that as one of the criteria required to impose the condition of a pretrial release program, that the judicial official must find as fact that a period of at least 48 hours (was, 72 hours) has elapsed from the date and time of the defendant’s arrest (was, on the defendant’s release order). Prohibits the pretrial release program from contacting or otherwise attempting to gain access to the defendant before the 48-hour (was, 72 hour) period expires.
Makes the entire act effective December 1, 2012 (was, December 1, 2011) including new GS 15A-534.7(d), which prohibits the appropriation of state government funds for the pretrial release program or its activities (was previously effective, July 1, 2011).

House committee substitute makes the following changes to 2nd edition.
NC Mining and Energy Commission. Amends proposed Part 6A in Article 7 of GS Chapter 143B, which creates the NC Mining and Energy Commission (Commission) as follows. Removes the Commission’s power to hear permit appeals and conduct full hearings on decisions made by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) under the Oil and Gas Conservation Act. Makes conforming changes. Increases from 14 to 15 the number of members on the Commission, and makes modifications to the membership, including replacing members in the oil and gas exploration field with local government representatives. Specifies that a member may be reappointed to two consecutive three-year terms (previously allowed indefinite successive terms). Authorizes the chair to create other committees composed of Commission members, including a Committee on Mining, and prohibits a member from hearing or voting on any matter in which the member has an economic interest. Moves the provisions setting out the factors the Commission must consider when evaluating violations to GS 113-410 (penalties) and requires consideration of those factors when determining penalties. Also moves provision permitting the Attorney General to initiate a civil action for nonpayment of civil penalties to GS 113-410. Makes the changes concerning the Commission effective August 1, 2012 (was, October 1, 2012).
Regulatory Program. Adds several defined terms in GS 113-389 and modifies the definitions for hydraulic fracturing fluid and hydraulic fracturing treatment. Enacts new subsection (a3) to GS 113-391 to direct the Environmental Management Commission to adopt rules, after considering the Commission’s recommendations, for stormwater control and the regulation of toxic air emissions related to oil and gas development and drilling (previously granted this authority to the Commission). Makes clarifying and conforming changes to the rules to be adopted by the Commission. Makes clarifying changes to GS 113-415 (concerning conflicting laws). Clarifies that changes pertaining to the regulatory program, authorizing studies, and requiring rule adoption are effective August 1, 2012.
Landowner and Public Protections. Replaces references to private drinking water wells and water supply wells with the term water supplies in the provisions concerning water contamination. Restores provision requiring compensation for any damage to a water supply in use before the developer or operator started activities, which is due to those activities. Adds that the developer or operator must provide, before beginning activities, a bond running to the surface owner that will cover reclamation of the surface owner’s property if the developer or operator is not the surface owner of the property. Provides that a developer or operator must comply with other requirements to remediate contamination. Requires the developer or operator to provide a replacement water supply, as detailed, if a water supply of the surface owner or third parties is contaminated due to the developer’s or operator’s activities. Requires the developer or operator to provide the surface owner, if such person is not the lessor, with specified landowner rights publications. Deletes provision that allowed royalty payments to be reduced by production costs. Adds a requirement that payments must be paid within 60 days of execution of the lease, with interest charged on late payment. Requires any lease with a surface owner to include a notification to lenders and sets out form language. Requires all leases to be subject to a three-day right of withdrawal. Sets out procedure to cancel the lease within this period. Clarifies that landmen manage oil or gas interests (deletes mineral interests).
Modifies a whereas clause related to the report issued by DENR. Makes other clarifying changes. Clarifies that changes authorizing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing and the creation of the Energy Policy Oversight Commission become effective August 1, 2012 (was, October 1, 2012).