Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.

Amends GS 143B-293.2 to provide that membership on the Mining and Energy Commission may be held concurrently with other elective or appointive offices in addition to the maximum number of offices permitted to be held by one person under GS 128-1.1.

Makes a clarifying change directing the Revisor of Statutes to make the conforming statutory changes necessary to reflect the renaming of theEnergy Jobs Act and the Energy Jobs Council (was, make the changes necessary to reflect the transfers under the section).

Directs that all the rules required to be adopted by the Mining and Energy Commission, the Environmental Management Commission, and the Commission for Public Health for the management of oil and gas exploration and development activities in the state be adopted no later than October 1, 2014. Specifies that this deadline includes regulatory programs for the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Provides that although the Mining and Energy Commission (Commission)and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)are authorized to issue permits for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing treatments for oil and gas and development activities, neither DENR nor the Commission is required to issue such permits until all the rules required to be adopted under Section 2.(m) of SL 2012-143 have become effective.

Amends GS 143-214.2(b) to provide that the prohibition against the discharge of any wastes to the subsurface or groundwaters of the state through the use of wells does not prohibit injecting water produced from subsurface geologic formations during the extraction of natural gas, condensate, or oil.

Amends GS 105-187.73 to clarify that marketing costs incurred by the producer to get the gas from the mouth of the well to the market includes costs for delivering the gas to the first purchaser (was, purchaser).

Amends GS 115C-301 to direct the State Board of Education to allot additional teachers toK-12 schools that meet at least one of the following criteria for geographic isolation: (1) located in a school administrative unit (LEA)in which average daily membership is less than 1.5 per square mile or (2) located in an LEA for a county with more than 150,000 acres of federally owned National Forest managed by the U.S. Forest Service under GS 104-5. Directs the SBE to allot teachers to geographically isolated schools on the basis of one classroom teacher per grade level and to allot teachers to the rest of the LEA using the regular teacher allotment formula. Effective July 1, 2013.

Amends the School Health Education Program, GS 115C-81(e1)(1), to add a requirement for information about the preventable causes of preterm birth, including induced abortion as a cause of preterm birth in subsequent pregnancies. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, to provide the Department of Public Instruction with sample educational materials, as noted above, within 60 days of the effective date of the bill, and annually thereafter. Applies beginning with the 2013-14 school year.