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

Deletes the whereas clauses at the beginning of the act. Makes clarifying changes to the information LME/MCOs must submit. Amends the date by which the Department of Health and Human Services (Department) must report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services on encounter data submission requirements for local management entity/managed care organizations (LME/MCOs) from October 31, 2015, to February 1, 2016. 

Adds new sections adding language to GS 122C-115.3 governing the Secretary (Secretary) of Health and Human Services's approval of a county's withdrawal from an area authority on mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse services operating under a 1915(b)/(c) Medicaid Waiver. The new language requires the Secretary to adopt rules creating a process for withdrawal, as required by GS 122C-112.1(38) and SL 2012-151, and prohibits the Secretary from approving a county's withdrawal until these rules are established. 

Amends GS 122C-118.1, pertaining to the structure of boards of the area authorities. The amendment allows the boards of county commissioners within certain large multicounty areas to appoint members of the area board through a process other than as required by this section if at least two thirds of the counties (was, each county) adopts a resolution to that effect. Allows the Secretary to approve an appointment process that delegates appointment authority to intermediary bodies. Adjusts the board membership requirement for hospital administrators who serve as nonvoting members who participate only in board activities that are open to the public. The amendment puts these limits on the membership of a hospital administrator only if the hospital receives reimbursement from the LME/MCO. 

Amends GS 122C-121 (director of an area board) and GS 122C-154 (personnel) to require approval of certain salary adjustments by the Director of the Office of State Human Resources (Director) and by the Secretary (was, just the Director). Amends the statute on personnel to require an area board to submit documentation of comparable salaries in comparable operations within the region to the Director before approving a salary adjustment that is above the normal allowable salary. 

Adds two new subsections to GS 122C-121 to require appointment of an area director based on the recommendation of a search committee with specified membership and requiring 30 days' prior written notice to the Secretary before an area director may be terminated. 

Includes three new uncodified sections, as follows.

The first uncodified section maintains and extends the pilot program of the Department's Division of Health Service Regulation to study the use of electronic supervision devices as an alternative means of supervision during sleep hours at facilities for children and adolescents who have a primary diagnosis of mental illness or emotional disturbance.

The second section requires the Department's Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services to distribute one-twelfth of each LME/MCO's allocation each month by the last working day of the month.

The third uncodified section requires the Department to develop a plan for extending Community Guide services to individuals on the Medicaid Innovations Waiver waiting list and requires the Department to report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services on the plan by March 15, 2016.  

Makes technical changes. 

Changes the act's short and long titles. 

House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 6th edition. 

Deletes amendments to GS 106-2.3, which established policy supporting sustainable agriculture. 

Adjusts the amendment to GS 20-118(c)(12) to expand an exception to road weight limitations for agriculture, dairy, and crop products to include products traveling from a holding facility (was, from a farm only) and those traveling to a feed mill (was, to a processing plant or market only). 

Amends proposed GS 121-39A to remove the word "substantial" from its title and body and to make other changes, as follows. Includes new subsection (a) stating that easements secured by the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund or any secured with federal funds where at least one party to the agreement is a public body of the State may not be modified or terminated for the purposes of economic development. Changes the conditions for modification or termination of a conservation agreement where at least one party to the agreement is a public body of the State to require a conservation benefit analysis and to allow modification or termination only if the analysis concludes that it results in a greater benefit to conservation. Requires the analysis to be reported to the Council of State before the Council votes on the final decision to modify the agreement.

Removes proposed GS 106-549.97, which relates to the transfer of the captive cervid program to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Adjusts the amendments to GS 113-272.6 and removes the authority of the Wildlife Resources Commission (Commission) to regulate importation of cervids and prohibits importation altogether. Removes references to hunt facilities as defined by USDA Standards and a definition of non-farmed cervid. Makes the sale of antlers, antler velvet, or hides from captive cervids by the Wildlife Resources Commission permissive instead of required. Retains the authority of the Commission to adopt rules for fencing, tagging, record keeping, and inspection of captive cervid facilities and to issue captivity permits. No longer deletes GS 106-549.98 concerning the inspection fees for facilities that perform slaughtering, rendering or similar services.

Deletes amendments to GS 62-133.8(e), which governs out-of-state swine waste. 

Moves an amendment to GS 143-215.94B (concerning the Commercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund) from GS 143-215.94D (concerning the Noncommercial Leaking Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund) pertaining to claims for third-party damage from noncommercial underground storage tanks.

Removes sections that established a Renewable Energy Economic Development Study Committee. 

Includes a new section to allow alternative forms of documentation for participation in certain agricultural cost-share programs. Amends GS 106-850(b)(10) and GS 139-60(c1) to replace documentation requirements with a requirement that the applicant meets the definition of a bona fide farm in GS 153A-340(b)(2). 

Makes technical changes.