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

Adds "lease expenses" to the list of allowable usesof the annual allocation by the Community Colleges System Office to Forsyth Tech for the operating costs of its various programs.

House amendment to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. Deletes proposed changes to GS 153A-216, which required local confinement facilities to comply with the provisions of the federal Prison Rape Elimination Act. Makes a conforming change to the act's long title.

House amendment makes the following changes to the 1st edition.

Amends GS 20-13.2(c1), making clarifying and organizational changes. Provides that if the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) restores a permit or license that was revoked due to ineligibility for a driving eligibility certificate under GS 20-11(n)(1) (was, if the DMV restored a permit or license pursuant to this subsection), any record of revocation or suspension will be expunged by the DMV from the person's driving record. The DMV will not expunge a suspension or revocation record if a person has had a prior expunction from the person's driving record for any reason.

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

Directs theDivision of Motor Vehicles (DMV)to contract with a qualified vendor or vendors (was, a single vendor only)to implementa statewide electronic lien system. Makes conforming changes to reflect that the DMV may contract with a vendor or vendors. Amends the minimum standards the DMV is to set when contracting with a qualified vendor or vendors to require the DMV to issue a competitive request for proposal (RFP) to evaluate the qualifications of any vendor or vendors responsible for the ongoing support of the state electronic lien system. Permits the DMV to receive input from parties that do not respond to an RFP to establish and operate an electronic lien system.

Permits the qualified vendor or vendors to charge participating lienholders and their agents a per-transaction fee, consistent with market pricing, in an amount not more than $3.50 (was, $8.00). Permits participating lienholders and their agents to charge the borrower of a motor vehicle loan or the lessee of an automotive lease an amount that is equal to the transaction fee, plus a feethat does not exceed $4.00 for each electronic transaction where a lien is notated.

Requires a qualified vendor to have experience in directly providing electronic solutions to state motor vehicle departments or agencies (was, providingelectronic lien services to both lienholders and state motor vehicle departments or agencies). However, provides that a qualified vendor may also serve as a service provider to lienholders if all of the specified conditions are met.

Makes organizational and conforming changes.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Deletes the proposed changes to GS 116-143.3(b) and instead adds new (b3) to provide that if the amount of the out-of-state tuition rate for a community college exceeds the amount of tuition assistance available from the federal government for active duty members of the Armed Forces, the amount by which the tuition rate exceeds the amount of the assistance is waived provided that the four specified conditions are met. Provides that the amount of the tuition charged to an active duty member of the Armed Forces eligible to receive the waiver must not be lower than the in-state tuition rate.

House amendment makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.

Provides that, notwithstanding GS 14-45.1, no person will perform or attempt to perform an abortion on a woman in North Carolina with knowledge, or an objective reason to know, that a significant factor in seeking the abortion is related to the sex of the unborn child (previously, stated that no person will knowingly or recklessly perform or attempt to perform...).  Establishes that this section will not be construed as creating an affirmative duty for a physician to inquire if the sex of the unborn child is a significant factor in seeking the abortion.

Amends GS 90-21.122, Civil remedies, deleting the "knowingly or recklessly" standard for would-be violators from subsections (a), (b), and (c).  Limits the class of people who can seek injunctive relief against violators of a provision of this Article to include a parent of the woman who received an abortion or attempted abortion in violation of this Article if the woman was a minor at the time the abortion was performed or attempted (was, parent for any woman).

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Deletes provisions concerning the pilot program and provides the following. Allows the Department of Transportation (DOT) to create a statewide pilot program for cost-sharing with private developers for transportation improvements in circumstances where the nature of the developer-constructed facilities are atypical in size, scope, or complexity. Requires the creation of Cost Sharing Project Boundary Delineation that identifies the properties captured in the pilot program that would be affected by the developer-constructed facilities. Allows for the creation of an allocation formula that allows for the initial developer to be reimbursed as secondary developers impact the system. Limits reimbursements to payments from a developer constructing transportation improvements at the time of driveway permit approval. Provides that nothing in the statute obligates DOT to custodial responsibility for managing or distributing monies in the application of the program. Retains the reporting requirement and effective date from the 1st edition.

House amendments to the 2nd edition make the following changes.

Amendment #3 amends Section 12 of the act to add that as funds are available, in addition to the children defined as at risk, the prekindergarten program may also serve a child whose family's gross income is at or below 130% of the federal poverty guidelines.

Amendment #4 provides that beginning July 1, 2014 (was, July 1, 2013), local partnerships must serve as the sole contract administrators of the NC Pre-K program. Makes the act effective July 1, 2014 (was, July 1, 2013).

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

Amends GS 115C-12(9)c1 to clarify that the measures of participation in Advance Placement courses and the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme are to be included on the annual "report card" for high schools.

Makes technical and clarifying changes to new GS 115C-83.4A. Deletes subsection (f) of this section, which required the State Board of Education (SBE)to ensure that professional development was made available to teachers of advanced courses. Directs the SBE to seek a partner (was, partners) such as the College Board and renames the Partnership as the North Carolina Advanced Placement Partnership (was, North Carolina Advanced Course Partnership). Replaces references to "advanced courses" in subsection (f), which directs the partner selected by the SBE to provide professional development and other support for teachers of AdvancedPlacement courses, with "Advanced Placement courses." Adds requirement that the selected partner provide for frequent visits to schools designated as low-performing by the SBE that are targeted by the Partnership.

Amends GS 115C-174.18 to require that every student in grades eight through ten who has taken or is in the final month of Algebra I have an opportunity to take either the Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test (PSAT/NMSQT) or the ACT Testat the discretion of the local school administrative unit (LEA) and at no cost to the student (was, opportunity to take the PSAT/NMSQT at state expense). Restricts the maximum amount of state funds to be used for this purpose to be the costs of the PSAT/NMSQT.

Provides that it is the intent of the General Assembly to appropriate funds to implement this act (was, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI)specified amounts to implement the provisions of this act). Designates $1.5 million to be used by the NC Advanced Placement Partnership (Partnership) to carry out its responsibilities under this act (was, designated $1.5 million tobe used bythe Partnership for professional development for teachers of advanced courses).

Requires that the SBE's annual report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee include the Partnership's report to DPI on the Partnership's implementation of its responsibilities under this act and the SBE's assessment of that report.

Makes additional conforming changes.

Declares that nothing in this act is to require the General Assembly to appropriate funds to implement it. Changes the effective date of this act to only become effective if the General Assembly appropriates funds in the amounts as set out in Section 4 of this act for the 2013-15 fiscal biennium.Provides that if the funds are appropriated, the act becomes effective July 1, 2013, and applies beginning with the 2013-14 school year.

As title indicates.