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

Amends GS 110-136.3(a)(4a), providing that a non-IV-D child support order that contains an income withholding requirement and a IV-D child support order must require the NC Child Support Enforcement agency to provide, or to allow the obligor to obtain through the NC Child Support Centralized database, the current residence and mailing address of the custodial party, or the current residence and mailing address of the child, if the addresses are different. A form provided by the Administrative Office of the Courts will be supplied by the clerk of court to enable the obligor to proceed pro se pursuant to this subsection.

Establishes that there is no requirement that the court authorize the obligor to have access to the current residence and mailing address of the custodial party if the court has determined that providing the address to the obligor is inappropriate because of threats constituting domestic violence (previously, only provided a notice and not address).

Adds additional situations where the requirement to give access to the residence or address to the obligor is not required, including that the child is in foster care, protective custody, or a court-ordered placement, or disclosure of the address is otherwise prohibited by state or federal law.

Identical to S 304, filed 3/13/13.

Updates language in Article 86 of GS Chapter 58 to make the provisions gender neutral; for example, replaces "firemen" with "firefighters." Also makes provisions regarding firefighters gender neutral in GS 25-9-406(i), GS 25-9-408(f), GS 147-69.2, GS 147-69.7(a), and GS 147-69.8.

Enacts new GS 58-86-2 to add a definitions section to Article 86 for words and phrases as used in this Article.

Deletes GS 58-86-5 to eliminate the six-member Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Firemen's and Rescue Squad Workers. Enacts GS 58-86-6 to create the Firefighters' and Rescue Squad Workers' Pension Fund Advisory Panel (the advisory panel).

Provides that the advisory panel is to have seven members: (1) the director of the Retirement Systems Division of the North Carolina Department of State Treasurer, serving as chair; (2) a designee of the State Insurance Commissioner; and (3) five members appointed by the Board of Trustees of the Local Governmental Employees Retirement System (Board) that meet specified requirements. Allows members of the advisory panel to succeed themselves if they are reappointed by the Board.

Allows the persons who are serving on the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina Firemen's and Rescue Squad Workers on June 30, 2013, to serve as members of the advisory panel created in this act until their current terms expire.

Directs the Board to administer the Pension Fund. Amends GS 58-86-15, deleting the office of the Director of the North Carolina Firemen's and Rescue Squad Workers' Pension Fund.

Requires the advisory panel to meet at least once a year at the call of the chair. Provides that the advisory panel does not have any administrative authority, but requires the advisory panel to submit an annual report to the Board on the status and needs of the pension fund.

Amends GS 58-86-25 to delete the definition for eligible firemen (now moved to the  definitions section in new GS 58-86-2 and titled eligible firefighters). Requires eligible firefighters to attend 36 hours of training in each calendar year. Directs each eligible fire department (was, department) to annually report the names of the firefighters who meet the eligibility requirements under this Article to its respective governing body. Prohibits an eligible firefighter from also qualifying as an eligible rescue squad worker in order to receive double benefits under Article 86 of GS Chapter 58. Amends GS 58-86-30 to make the same changes as above applicable to an eligible rescue squad worker, including the prohibition against receiving double benefits.

Amends GS 58-86-35 (firefighters) and GS 58-86-40 (rescue squad workers) to require that firefighters and rescue squad workers who are members of the fund make each monthly payment to the fund no later than March 31 following the end of the year in which the month occurred (was, 90 days after the end of the calendar year in which the month occurred). Provides that the pension fund does not award fully credited service based on payments after March 31, subsequent to the end of the calendar year in which the month occurred unless the payment is a lump sum payment as provided in GS 58-86-45(a1).

Amends GS 58-86-45, deleting outdated provisions regarding retroactive membership in the pension fund. Applies provision regarding a lump sum payment for service "otherwise not creditable" to all purchases of service credit for months for which timely payments were not previously made under GS 58-86-35 or GS 58-86-40.

Deletes provision that prohibited a member from receiving a pension until the member's official duties as a fireman or rescue squad worker, for which the member received compensation, had been terminated and the member had retired. Amends subdivision (4) of GS 58-86-60 to permit any member to withdraw from the fund, upon proper application, and receive a lump sum payment (was, made a distinction based on five or more years of contributing service and less than five years of contributing service). Provides that a member may not purchase time under GS 58-86-45 for which the member has received a refund.

Deletes GS 58-86-91, which allowed periodic deductions from a member's retirement benefits to be paid to an employees' or retirees' association meeting certain criteria.

Enacts new GS 58-86-95 to provide that members who resign as eligible firefighters or eligible rescue squad workers have  the option of withdrawing from the fund and seeking a refund under GS 58-86-60 or taking a leave of absence under this section, or the member will be considered inactive. Requires any member not on active military service to provide written notice to the office of the director that the member is taking a leave of absence. Requires members on active military service to provide notice to the director before beginning active service and again upon returning from active duty. Provides additional criteria regarding leaves of absence and inactive membership.

Enacts new GS 58-86-100, effective December 1, 2013, to provide for the forfeiture of retirement benefits, except for a return of member contributions, for members convicted of certain felonies that would bring disrepute on a fire department or rescue squad. Applies to convictions under federal or state law meeting the specifications as detailed in this section. Provides for a member or former member to seek a reversal of a benefits forfeiture if the member subsequently receives a pardon, or the conviction is vacated or set aside for any reason, by presenting sufficient evidence to the State Treasurer.

Amends GS 15A-1340.16(d) to establish as an aggravating factor a defendant who is a firefighter or rescue squad worker and commits an offense that is directly related to service as a firefighter or rescue squad worker. Enacts new subdivision (h) to GS 58-86-95 to provide that a member with less than 20 years of fully credited service in this system as of December 1, 2013, and is convicted of certain offenses committed after December 1, 2013, forfeits all benefits except for a return of member contributions, and is not entitled to any fully credited service accruing after December 1, 2013. Effective December 1, 2013.

Except as otherwise indicated, this act becomes effective July 1, 2013.

Enacts new GS 143C-3-6 to restructure the General Fund budget process as the title indicates. Requires that the General Fund availability is to be calculatedbased on the provisions of proposedsubsections (b), (c), and (d) or subsection (e) of thisproposed statute. Providesthat the term Recommended Continuation Budget refers to the part of the Recommended State Budget (1) prepared by the Governor and (2) balanced using the General Fund availability ascalculated under the aforementioned subsections.

Provides in subsection (b) that in odd-numbered years, for the first yearof the upcoming fiscal biennium,the Governor is to use the amount of total state funds actually received by the General Fund in the prior fiscal year that ended June 30, with the specified changes andadjustments to the availability estimate based on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) or the Gross Domestic Price deflator (GDP), whichever is lower, as the availability estimate for the General Fund.

Provides in subsection (c) the formula and factors to be considered for the calculation of the General Fund availability estimate in odd-numbered years in preparation of the Recommended Continuation Budget for year two of the fiscal biennium.

Provides in subsection (d) that in even-numbered years, in preparing recommended changes to the enacted budget for the second year of the fiscal biennium, theGovernor is to calculate the General Fund availability for the budget year in the same manner as in subsection (b).

Subsection (e) provides that if there is a revenue shortfall in the prior fiscal year ending on June 30, instead of determining the General Fund availability for the Recommended Continuation Budgetunder subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section, General Fund availability is to be determined using a consensus revenue estimate as authorized by new subsection (e1) under GS 143C-3-5.

Prohibits the Governor from adjusting the General Fund availability for reasons as specified in subdivisions (1) and (2) of subsection (f) of this section but permits the Governor to prepare a Recommended Supplemental Budget that includes these factors. Provides that a Recommended Supplemental Budget is a part of the Recommended State Budget as described in GS 143C-3-5(b)(1), as amended by this act. Authorizes the Governor to present the Recommended Supplemental Budget to the General Assembly only after having presented a Recommended Continuation Budget to the General Assembly.

Makes conforming changes to GS 143C-3-5. Also requires that the Budget Support Document must include as continuation requirements the amounts that the Governor proposes to fund for the enrollment increases in public schools, community colleges, and all statutory appropriations (was, statutory appropriations). Provides that the Governor and the General Assembly may request an independent consensus revenue estimate.

Amends GS 143C-5-2 regarding the order of appropriation bills. Requires the General Assembly to enact a Current Operations Appropriations Act that includes a continuation budget in which the General Fund appropriations are not more than the General Fund availability estimate as calculated under new GS 143C-3-6(b), (c), and (d) or (e) before placing any other appropriations bill on the calendar for second reading (was, directed each chamber to pass its version of Current Operations Appropriations Act on third reading and order it sent to the other chamber before placing any other appropriations bill on the calendar for second reading). Provides that this section is to be considered as a rule of procedure in the Senate and the House of Representatives, unless otherwise provided by a rule of either chamber.

Effective when the act becomes law and applies to the 2015-16 fiscal year, the recommended State Budget for the 2015-16 fiscal year, and each subsequent Recommended State Budget and fiscal year.

Replaces GS 47C-3-116 (procedures for liens for assessments by homeowners associations) with new GS 47C-3-116.1, and replaces GS 47F-3-116 (comparable provisions for liens for planned community associations) with new GS 47F-3-116.1. Most significant change in both statutes is inclusion of new subsections concerning foreclosure of lien in like manner as mortgage or deed of trust on real estate under power of sale. Specifies ways in which this procedure is to differ from that provided in Article 2A of GS Chapter 45. Provides for association to appoint trustee to conduct nonjudicial foreclosure proceeding and sale; notice to unit owner of intent to commence nonjudicial foreclosure; dismissal of the foreclosure procedure if debt plus costs, attorneys' fees, and trustee commission is satisfied before upset period expires; authorization for association to bid at foreclosure proceeding; and trustee compensation. Also modifies notice procedures for lien claim, allowing service by first class mail rather than service procedure under Rule 4(j) of the Rules of Civil Procedure. Enacts new GS 47C-3-116.2 and GS 47F-3-116.2, validating nonjudicial foreclosure proceedings commenced by associations before July 1, 2013, and all sales and transfers of property as part of those proceedings, unless action to set aside foreclosure is commenced by July 1, 2013, or within one year of sale, whichever is later. Validation provisions are not applicable to pending litigation. Effective July 1, 2013.