Adds new Article 18, The North Carolina Benefit Corporation Act (Benefit Corporation Act), to GS Chapter 55. Provides that new Article 18 applies to all benefit corporations and defines benefit corporations to mean a domestic corporation that elects to become subject to the Benefit Corporation Act and that has not terminated its status as a benefit corporation under proposed GS 55-18-22 (termination of benefit corporation status). Provides additional details regarding the application and effect of the Benefit Corporation Act.

Provides definitions for the terms used in the Benefit Corporation Act. Defines general public benefit to mean the material positive impact on society and environment, as measured from a third-party standard, arising from the business and operations of a benefit corporation. Defines specific public benefit purpose to mean a corporate purpose conferring any particular benefit on society or the environment. Requires that the formation of a benefit corporation adhere to the provisions of the other Articles in GS Chapter 55 but that the articles of incorporation for the benefit corporation must state that it is a benefit corporation. Provides that a benefit corporation is not entitled to claim an exemption from any property tax imposed under Subchapter II of GS Chapter 105.

Requires heightened voting requirements for some actions and changes within a benefit corporation that are in addition to provisions of other Articles in GS Chapter 55. Provides process for a domestic corporation to elect to become a benefit corporation under proposed Article 18. Includes process for termination of benefit corporation status. Directs that the purpose of a benefit corporation must be to create general public benefit and that this purpose is in addition to any lawful business purpose.

Includes accountability provisions setting standards of conduct for directors of a benefit corporation. Requires that the board of directors of a benefit corporation designate by resolution one director who is an independent person to be the benefit director. Delineates the powers, duties, rights, and immunities specific to the Benefit Director. Allows for the designation of a benefit officer and provides for the officer's duties. Provides that the benefit director may serve as the benefits officer at the same time as serving as the benefit director.

Limits enforcement of the duties of directors under the Benefit Corporation Act to only in a benefit enforcement proceeding. Provides guidelines for commencing or maintaining a benefit enforcement proceeding.

Requires that a benefit corporation prepare an annual benefit report to be sent to each shareholder. Additionally requires the benefit corporation to post its annual benefit report on the public portion of its website for a period of five years; however, permits redaction of information regarding compensation paid to directors and any financial or proprietary information included in the benefit report.

Makes a conforming change to GS 55-13-02(a), which concerns shareholders' dissenting rights.

Effective October 1, 2015.

Amends GS 90-2(b) concerning the NC Medical Board (Board), providing that no member can serve more than two complete consecutive three-year terms in a lifetime (previously did not limit it to a lifetime). Amends GS 90-3(b) adding language that provides that you cannot have served more than 72 months as a member of the Board as criteria for serving on the Board. Amends GS 90-3(c), making technical changes.

Adds new subsections to GS 90-3, concerning the Review Panel recommending certain Board members, providing that the Board can provide the Review Panel with confidential and nonpublic licensing and investigative information it possesses. Provides that the information the Review Panel receives or gathers is not a public record but rather is privileged, confidential, and not subject to discovery or other legal means of compulsory release. Requires the Review Panel to publish specified information concerning the nominees to the Board. Establishes that the Review Panel is a public body within the meaning of GS Chapter 143, Article 33C, authorized to conduct business as specified.

Amends GS 90-5.2 concerning the collecting and publishing of data collected by the Board, making technical and clarifying changes. 

Amends GS 90-8.1, concerning the rules for licensure, providing that the Board cannot deny an application for licensure based solely on the applicant's failure to become board-certified. Makes technical changes. 

Amends GS 90-13.1(a), changing the application fee to be licensed to practice medicine and surgery in North Carolina to $400 (was, $350).

Amends GS 90-13.3, concerning specified registration fees, requiring all individuals licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina to register with the Board and pay a $250 registration fee (was, $175). Provides that those that have a retired limited volunteer license, pursuant to GS 90-12.1B, are not required to pay an annual registration fee (previously, were required to pay a $25 fee). Deletes language which provided that inactive physicians in North Carolina could direct the Board to place their licenses on inactive status. Makes technical and conforming changes. 

Amends GS 90-14(n) concerning disciplinary proceedings, making technical and clarifying changes, deleting language which only allowed service of process to both the licensee and counsel if the licensee retained counsel before the Board made a nonpublic determination to initiate disciplinary proceedings. 

Enacts new GS 90-14.2(c) concerning discovery in disciplinary hearings, providing that the parties can engage in discovery once charges have been issued. Further provides that the Board must provide the respondent or counsel all the exculpatory evidence in its possession except for information subject to attorney-client privilege; information that would identify an anonymous complainant; and information related to advisory opinions, recommendations, or deliberations by the Board or associated staff.

Amends GS 90-14.13(a1)(1) deleting language which provided an exception to the prohibition on hospitals reporting the suspension or limitation of a physician's privileges for failure to timely complete medical records.

Recodifies GS 90-21.22A (Medical review and quality assurance committees)  as GS 90-21.22B.

Renames GS Chapter 90, Article 1D, as Health Program for Medical Professionals (was, Peer Review).

Enacts new GS 90-21.22A, Health Program for Medical Professionals, providing that the Board is authorized to enter into agreements with the NC Medical Society, the NC Academy of Physician Assistants, and the NC Physicians Health Program in order to identify, review, and evaluate the ability of licensees of the Board referred to the NC Physicians Health Program to function in their professional capacity, as well as to coordinate regimens for treatment and rehabilitation. Sets out guidelines for the agreement requiring the agreement to include procedures for the Board to refer licensees to the NC Physicians Health Program as well as the maintenance of confidential nonpublic information. Sets out criteria that if met the NC Physicians Health Program is required to immediately report to the Board detailed information about certain licensees, including that such licensees refuse to submit to an assessment as ordered by the Board or they are still unsafe to practice medicine after treatment. 

Sets out provisions governing the confidentiality of any information received or created by the NC Physicians Health Program, maintaining that such records are privileged, confidential, and not subject to the specified methods of legal compulsion. Sets out provisions concerning the licensee's ability to receive copies of written assessments. Provides for civil protection for activities conducted in good faith. Authorizes the Board to adopt or amend rules as necessary to enforce the above provisions. 

Repeals GS 90-16(d) (concerning the access of specified information to a licensee) and GS 90-21.22 (Peer review agreements). 

Effective October 1, 2015.

Enacts a new Article 2F, Identification and Sale of Unused Property, in GS Chapter 136. Includes definitions for terms as they apply in this Article.

Directs the Department of Transportation (DOT) to continuously identify unused real property and classify the property as either (1) Class A--property with suitable size and road access to allow commercial or residential development of one or more stand-alone projects without the acquisition of additional real property and the property's size and shape allows for compliance with applicable or proposed zoning and development requirements, (2) Class B--property that doesn't meet the qualifications of Class A but enhances the value of the adjacent land when joined with that land, or (3) Class C--property that doesn't meet the definition of Class A or Class B.

Directs the DOT to attempt to promptly sell all unused property under the provisions of new Article 2F. Provides sales strategies and bid guidelines based on each class of property. Provides for the auction of unsold unused property remaining unsold after one year.

Directs the DOT to examine real property that is unused at the completion of a project and determine if it may be sold or determine the reasons that the property cannot be sold. Requires the DOT to document the reason that a property cannot be sold and review the determination at least every 10 years. Also requires that the DOT review at least every 5 years a determination that a property cannot be sold because it is unknown as to whether the property is needed for future transportation purposes.

Provides that if the Governor and Council of state disapprove property sales with an appraised value of at least $25,000 within 30 days of being notified about the proposed sale, then sale will not be completed. Requires the DOT to notify the Governor and Council of State of the proposed sale of any land under this Article with an appraised value of at least $25,000. However, approval of a sale under this Article from the Governor and Council of State is not required.

Directs the DOT to conduct the same review of projects completed before the effective date for this act that is required by proposed Article 2F. Requires the DOT to report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations on the classification and sale of properties under proposed Article 2F of GS Chapter 136 no later than January 1, 2016. Provides guidelines as to what the report should minimally contain.

Makes conforming changes to GS 136-19.  Directs the DOT to treat the Rodney Orr Bypass surplus right-of-way property as unused property and sell it in accordance with the provisions of Article 2F, GS Chapter 136, as enacted by Section 1 of this act.

Effective October 1, 2015.

Adds new Article 7, Dangerous Wild Animals, to GS Chapter 19A.

Definesdangerous wild animal to mean: (1) red wolves and gray wolves; (2) all species of felids, excluding domestic cats but including hybrids of lions, tigers, leopards, clouded leopards, snow leopards, jaguars, cheetahs, and mountain lions; (3) all species of hyena and aardwolf; (4) all species of bears; and (5) all species of primates, excluding humans. Also defines the following terms as they apply in this Article: (1) animal control authority, (2) circus, (3) law enforcement officer, (4) person, and (5) wildlife sanctuary.

Enacts new GS 19A-72, Prohibited Activities. Subsection (a) provides that regardless of any other provision of law, unless exempt under this Article, it is unlawful for any person to possess, sell, transfer, or breed a dangerous wild animal. Subsection (b) provides that regardless of any other provision of law, it is unlawful for any person to allow any member of the public to come into direct physical contact with a dangerous wild animal regardless of the age of the animal.

Enacts GS 19A-73, Exemptions. Provides that the prohibitions against any person possessing, selling, transferring, or breeding a dangerous wild animal do not apply to the following: (1) institutions accredited or certified by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA); (2) research facilities as defined in the federal Animal Welfare Act; (3) wildlife sanctuaries, as defined in GS 19A-71(6); (4) incorporated nonprofit animal protection organizations; (5) veterinary hospitals, clinics, and veterinarians; (6) law enforcement officers; (7) circuses, as defined in GS 19A-71(2); and (8) a person temporarily transporting a legally owned dangerous wild animal and meeting specified requirements and limitations.

Declares that the prohibitions in GS 19A-72(a), which declare it unlawful for any person to possess, sell, transfer, or breed a dangerous wild animal, do not apply to persons who lawfully possessed a dangerous wild animal before June 1, 2015, provided that the person meets certain specified criteria that include maintaining veterinary records, acquisition papers, or other documents that establish that the person lawfully possessed the animal before June 1, 2015. Also requires the lawfulowner to pay a registration fee to the local animal control authority by September 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, and to provide proof of liability insurance of not less than $250,000 with a deductible of not more than $250,000 for each occurrence of property damage, bodily injury, or death caused by any dangerous wild animal possessed by the person. Provides additional specifications and requirements related to the possession, sale, transfer, and breeding of a dangerous wild animal.

Enacts GS 19A-75 to provide criteria for the transport and containment of a dangerous wild animal. Declares that it is unlawful for a person to knowingly release a dangerous wild animal into the wild.

Enacts GS 19A-76 to provide that the provisions of this Article are to be enforced by any state law enforcement officer, or by any other law enforcement officer or animal control authority in whose jurisdiction a violation occurs. Provides that this Article is not to be construed as prohibiting a city or county from passing or enforcing a law that places additional restrictions or requirements on the possession, sale, transfer, or breeding of dangerous wild animals. Specifies how animals may be seized under the provisions of this Article.Provides for the placement of animals with AZA or other such facilities and also allows for humanely euthanizing a dangerous wild animal in compliance with state and federal law if after reasonable efforts no AZA or wildlife sanctuary is willing and able to provide long-term care for the animal.

Makes each violation of this Article a Class 2 misdemeanor and imposes a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for a violation of this Article. Provides that each animal possessed, sold, transferred, or bred constitutes a separate offense under this Article. Makes an act or omission by a dangerous wild animal owner or custodian in the care, control, or containment of that animal that results in the animal running loose or causing property damage is liable for a Class A1 misdemeanor. Provides that if the act or omission results in seriously bodily injury to any person, the owner of the animal will be held strictly liable and the offense is a Class I felony. Provides that any person who lives in the county where a dangerous wild animal is kept may bring a civil action against the owner or custodian of the animal to enjoin a violation of this Article.

Declares that if any part of this Article is deemed unconstitutional or unenforceable, it does not affect the constitutionality or enforceability of any other part.

Effective December 1, 2015, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

Amends GS 127C-2 to add two members to the North Carolina Military Affairs Commission. Requires the two additional members to be appointed by the Governor and be state residents with a long-term connection to the state who are current or retired members of the (1) North Carolina National Guard involved in a military affairs organization or in military issues through civil, commercial, or governmental relationships and (2) Reserve Component of the Air Force, Army, Navy, or Marines who are involved in a military affairs organization or in military issues through civil, commercial, or governmental relationships.

Amends GS 14-34.6 to make it a Class I felony to assault hospital personnel (was, emergency department personnel) who are discharging or attempting to discharge their official duties. Increases the penalty under specified circumstances. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2015.

Amends GS 14-269 to allow district attorneys, assistant district attorneys, and investigators employed by the office of a district attorney to carry a concealed weapon in the courtroom. Also adds that a person employed by the Department of Public Safety who is designated in writing by the Secretary of the Department of Public Safety and has a concealed handgun permit is exempt from the prohibition on carrying concealed handguns. Makes conforming changes to GS 14-415.27. Applies to offenses committed on or after July 1, 2015.

Amends GS 14-269.2, which prohibits weapons on campus or other educational property, to add that the statute does not apply when a person with a concealed handgun permit, or who is exempt from obtaining a permit: (1) has a handgun concealed on the person and the person remains in the locked vehicle and only unlocks the vehicle to allow the entrance or exit of another person or (2) is within a locked vehicle and removes the handgun from concealment only for the amount of time reasonably necessary to move the handgun from concealment on the person to a closed compartment or container within the vehicle or move the handgun from within a closed compartment or container within the vehicle to concealment on the person. Applies to offenses committed on or after July 1, 2015.

Amends GS 14-269.2 to add that it is an affirmative defense to prosecution for possessing or carrying, whether openly or concealed, any gun, rifle, pistol, or other firearm of any kind on educational property or to a curricular or extracurricular activity sponsored by a school, that the person was authorized to have a concealed handgun in a locked vehicle under the statute and removed the handgun from the vehicle only in response to a threatening situation in which deadly force was justified. Applies to offenses committed on or after July 1, 2015.

Amends GS 14-269.3, prohibiting carrying weapons into assemblies and establishments where alcoholic beverages are sold and consumed, to add that the statute does not apply to a person carrying a handgun on the premises of the State Fairgrounds during the State Fair if the person has a valid concealed handgun permit, or is exempt from obtaining a permit, provided the person does not ride or enter any amusement device.

Repeals GS 14-402, GS 14-403, GS 14-404, GS 14-405, and GS 14-407.1, thereby eliminating pistol permits. Makes conforming changes to GS 14-315. Applies to offenses committed on or after October 1, 2019.

Enacts new GS 14-409.41 to provide that when a chief law enforcement officer's certification is required by federal law or regulation for the transfer or making of a firearm, the chief law enforcement officer must, within 15 days of receipt of a request for certification, provide the certification if the applicant is not prohibited from receiving or possessing the firearm and is not the subject of a proceeding that could result in the applicant being prohibited from receiving or possessing the firearm. Requires written notification of any certification denial. Allows an applicant whose request for certification is denied to appeal the decision to the district court of the district in which the request for certification was made. Provides chief law enforcement officers and their employees who act in good faith with immunity from liability arising from any act or omission in making a certification. Effective July 1, 2015.

Enacts new GS 14-409.42. Prohibits a business, commercial enterprise, or employer from establishing, maintaining, or enforcing a policy or rule that prohibits or has the effect of prohibiting a person from transporting or storing any firearm or ammunition when the person has a valid concealed handgun permit, or is exempt from obtaining a permit, is otherwise in compliance with all other applicable laws and regulations, and the firearm or ammunition is in a closed compartment or container within the person's locked vehicle or in a locked container securely affixed to the person's vehicle. Provides a definition of motor vehicle to include any automobile, truck, minivan, sports utility vehicle, motorcycle, motor scooter, and any other vehicle required to be registered under GS Chapter 20. Provides that this prohibition does not apply to vehicles owned or leased by an employer and where transport or storage of a firearm is prohibited by state or federal law or regulation. Provides that a person who is injured or the survivors of a person killed as a violation of this section's prohibition on restricting the transportation or storage of a firearm and ammunition in a locked vehicle in a manner otherwise in compliance with state law may bring a civil action in the appropriate court against the employer, commercial enterprise, or business who committed or caused such a violation. Additionally provides for the right to bring a civil action to enjoin any employer, commercial enterprise, or business from violating this section. Provides remedies for an employee who is discharged in violation of a policy or rule controlling firearms that is prohibited by this section. Gives a business, commercial enterprise, employer, or property owner that allows persons to transport or store any firearm or ammunition under the statute complete immunity and prohibits these entities from being held liable in any civil action for damages, injuries, or death resulting from or arising out of another person's actions involving a firearm or ammunition transported or stored in accordance with the statute. Effective July 1, 2015.

Amends GS 14-409.46, sport shooting range protection, to no longer require the shooting range to be in existence at least three years before Article 53C became effective in order to be eligible for the protections under the statute. Amends GS 14-409.47 to provide that Article 53C, Sport Shooting Range Protection Act of 1997, does not prohibit a local government from regulating the location and construction of a sport shooting range after September 1, 1997 (was, after the effective date of the Article). Effective July 1, 2015, but does not apply to pending litigation.

Amends GS 14-415.4, Restoration of firearms rights, by amending the definition of the term firearm rights as it applies in the statute, to no longer exclude weapons defined in GS 14-409(a) (defining machine gun or submachine gun). Applies to restorations granted before, on, or after the date that the act becomes law. 

Amends GS 14-415.12 to require a sheriff to deny a concealed handgun permit to a person prohibited from possessing a firearm as a result of a conviction of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence. Also no longer requires the denial of a permit for a person committing a violation involving fireworks, and limits the prohibition on issuing a permit to a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor under former GS 14-277.3 to those convictions that are within three years before the application date. Applies to permit applications submitted on or after July 1, 2015.

Enacts new GS 14-415.28, setting out requirements that must be met by signs prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun on any premises, including the location and content of the signs. Makes conforming changes. Effective July 1, 2015.

Amends GS 113-291.1 to allow hunting with short-barreled rifles. Applies to offenses committed on or after July 1, 2015. 

As title indicates.

Amends GS 15A-284.52 as follows. Amends the definition of eyewitness to include a law enforcement officer whose identification by sight of another person may be relevant in a criminal proceeding. Adds and defines the terms show-up and show-up administrator.

Adds to the procedures for lineups that law enforcement must, before the lineup and as soon as possible after the crime, get a complete description of the perpetrator from the eyewitness in the eyewitness's own words. Specifies information that must be included in the statement. 

Adds a provision setting out eight requirements that must be met when the state, a county, or other local law enforcement officers conduct a show-up, including that a show‑up only be conducted when a suspect matching the description of the perpetrator is located in close proximity in time and place to the crime and only if there are exigent circumstances that require the immediate display of a suspect to an eyewitness; that the show‑up be performed using a live suspect and not conducted with a photograph; that before the show‑up, and as soon as possible after the crime, law enforcement obtain a complete description of the perpetrator from the eyewitness, in the eyewitness's own words that includes specified information; and that investigators photograph a suspect at the time and place of the show‑up to preserve a record of the appearance of the suspect at the time of the show‑up procedure.

Applies to eyewitness identifications and show-ups conducted on or after August 1, 2015.

Requires the Department of Public Instruction to establish and administer the Transforming Poverty Schools Pilot Program focusing on high‑poverty schools and designed to create centers that provide a full-service system of support to students and school communities. Specifies where the centers may be located and when they may operate. Requires a school to meet the following requirements to be eligible to participate in the pilot: (1) it received an overall school performance grade of F for the 2013‑14 school year, (2) over 85% of its students qualified for free or reduced‑price lunches for the 2013‑14 school year, (3) the school and the local school administrative unit are committed to providing their employees and other resources to the pilot program, and (4) local government resources are committed to participate in the pilot program. Requires a report on the implementation of the pilot to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by January 1, 2017. 

Enacts GS 148-10.5 to direct the Division of Adult Correction to facilitate successful reentry and improve judicial efficiency by doing the following: (1) establishing a policy that requires checking the Electronic Repository created under GS 15A-301.1, both at intake and release, for each inmate in order to identify all outstanding warrants on the inmate and (2) developing and implementing a plan, in consultation with district attorneys' offices, to resolve inmates' outstanding warrants while the inmates are in custody, whenever feasible. Requires that in the course of resolving an outstanding warrant while a defendant is in custody that the inmate must be notified of his or her right to counsel if such a right exists.

Makes a conforming change to GS 15A-301.1(a), which created the Electronic Repository.

Effective October 1, 2015.

Establishes the 12-member Legislative Commission to Study the Current Administration of High School Athletics by the North Carolina High School Athletic Association (Commission). Specifies Commission membership with six members appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and six members appointed by the Speaker of the House. Sets out 10 issues to be studied by the Commission, including  the adequacy of the current conference classification system under which schools that have access to athletes from other North Carolina counties and even other states compete with schools whose student athletes must reside in a single school attendance area and whether the classification system should apply a multiplier to the number of students at schools with greater access to athletes to place them in a higher classification and the need to classify schools into up to eight classifications to ensure safety and competitive balance and safety issues for student athletes from a high school with a small student population playing in the same conference as a high school with a large student population because of the limited pool of players. Sets out provisions governing compensation of Commission members and administration of the Commission. Requires the Commission to make a final report to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee and the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services on or before March 1, 2016, at which time the Commission terminates.

As title indicates.

Amends GS 130A-309.82 to allow the proceeds of the tax on new white goods to be used for the management of discarded electronic devices as well as discarded white goods. Allows the funds to be used for the cleanup of illegal white goods disposal sites, removing the restrictions concerning funding of cleanup of sites depending on whether more or less than 50% of the site consisted of white goods. Makes conforming changes. Effective July 1, 2015.

Adds new Article 2B, Families' Economic Security Act, to GS Chapter 95. Prohibits an employer from paying any person in the employer's employ at wage rates less than the rates paid to employees of the opposite sex in the same establishment for the same quantity and quality of the same classification of work. Makes an employer committing a violation liable in the amount of the wages that the employee is deprived because of the violation. Allows a variation in pay rates for male and female employees under specified good-faith circumstances, including when the difference is based on a difference in length of service, ability, or skill, or difference in duties or services performed. Prohibits reducing the pay of any employee in order to bring the employer into compliance and prohibits retaliation against an employee who is seeing redress or participating in an investigation. Specifies the process under which an affected employee may file a complaint with the Department of Labor. Allows an aggrieved employee to recover in a civil action the balance of the wages owed and costs and attorneys' fees. Requires a civil action to be instituted within two years after the date that the alleged violation is discovered.

Enacts new GS 131D-10.7A requiring the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services, under rules adopted by the Social Services Commission, to enforce a policy prohibiting a foster parent from smoking in a private home used to provide licensed foster care to infants. Also requires the policy to prohibit a foster parent from smoking in the presence of an infant in the person's care while they are in a motor vehicle and requires the foster parent to prohibit others from smoking in the presence of an infant. Makes conforming changes to the Social Services Commission's duties in GS 131D-10.5.

Enacts new GS 95-9.2 requiring employers to notify employees of the federal earned income tax credit by March 1 of each year. Specifies ways in which notice may be provided. 

Amends GS 138A-31 as the title indicates.

As title indicates.

Directs the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to issue a special registration plate authorized for the Carolina Panthers with the plate bearing the phrase 'Keep Pounding," the logo of the Carolina Panthers, and the letters "CP." Provides that the DMV is not to develop a plate under this subdivision without a license to use copyrighter or registered words, symbols, trademarks, or designs associated with the plate. Prohibits the DMV from paying a royalty for the licensing associated with the plate. Provides that the plate authorized by this subdivision is not subject to the minimum number of applicant provisions of GS 20-79.3A , nor the expiration of special registration plate authorization of GS 20-79.8.

Establishes a special plate fee for the Carolina Panthers plate of $30 and requires that $10 be credited to the Special registration Plate Account (SRPA) and that $20 be credited to the Collegiate and Cultural Attraction Plate Account (CCAPA).

Amends GS 20-81.12 to direct the DMV to transfer on a quarterly basis one-half of the money in the CCAPA to the Keep Pounding Fund of the Carolinas Healthcare Foundations, Inc. to support cancer research at the Carolinas Medical Center, and to transfer quarterly one-half of the money in the CCAPA to the Carolina Panthers Charities Fund of the Foundation for the Carolinas to create new athletic opportunities for children, support their educational needs, and promote healthy lifestyles for families.

Also amends GS 20-63(b1) to include the Carolina Panthers plate in those that are not required to be 'First in Flight' plates or 'First in Freedom' plates.

Directs the Revisor of Statutes to alphabetize, number and renumber the special registration plates listed in GS 20-79.4(b) to ensure that all of the special registration plates are listed in alphabetical order and numbered accordingly.

Provides that the DMV is not to issue and produce any more special registration plates developed for the Carolina Panters under the authority in GS 20-79.4(b)(185).

Effective July 1, 2015.

Includes various whereas clauses.

Appropriates $2,557,014 for 2015-16 from the General Fund to the Department of Cultural Resources as title indicates.

Effective July 1, 2015.