Substantively identical to S 318, filed 3/20/17.

Amends GS 115C-84.2 to provide flexibility in setting the opening and closing dates for low-performing schools. Requires a local board of education to determine the opening and closing dates for any  specific school in the local school administrative unit identified as a low-performing school in the previous school year. Requires the local school board to thereafter determine the dates for opening and closing regardless of whether the school is identified as low performing in subsequent school years if the school receives a school performance grade of D or F. Provides that if in three subsequent, consecutive years, the school is not identified as low-performing and receives a grade of C or higher, the local board of education must determine the opening and closing dates for that school in the following year under the current statutory provisions. Requires the local board of education to determine the opening and closing dates for all schools in a local school administrative unit that was identified as low-performing in the previous school year. Provides that if in three subsequent, consecutive years, the local school administrative unit is not identified as low-performing, the local board of education must determine the opening and closing dates for that school in the following year under the current statutory provisions. 

Requires the Department of Public Instruction to study whether the modified calendar has an effect on student performance, including reviewing specified types of information. Requires DPI to compare low-performing schools following the traditional calendar to low-performing schools following the modified calendar and requires DPI to report the results annually to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by March 15, beginning in 2019.

Amends GS 115C-105.27 by adding that if a local board of education adopts a modified calendar, the school improvement team for each school operating under the modified calendar must include five specified pieces of  information in its school improvement plan, including an outline of the goals to be achieved by operating under a modified calendar, a description of the calendar, and a description of how the school will measure student and parent satisfaction with the modified calendar to determine how it is affecting families.

Applies beginning with the 2017-18 school year.

Identical to H 412, filed 3/20/17.

Enacts new GS 132-1.3A to categorize the following as public records (as defined in GS 132-1): all documents, papers, letters, photographs, films, sound recordings, magnetic or other tapes, electronic data‑processing records, artifacts, or other documentary material in the possession of UNC or any of its constituent institutions related to membership in or communication with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), the Atlantic Coast Conference, or any other athletic conference in any division of the NCAA, or any other collegiate sports association or organization.

Part I. Personal Income Tax Changes

Amends GS 105-153.7(a) to reduce the personal income tax rate imposed for each taxable year from 5.499% to 5.35% of the taxpayer's North Carolina taxable income. Amends GS 105-153.5, increasing the standard deduction a taxpayer may deduct from adjusted gross income based on the taxpayer's filing status, providing (1) married, filing jointly/surviving spouse a standard deduction of $20,000 (currently, $17,500); (2) head of household a standard deduction of $15,000 (currently, $14,000); (3) single a standard deduction of $10,000 (currently, $8,750); and (4) married, filing separately a standard deduction of $10,000 (currently, $8,750). Deletes provisions concerning cap amounts for mortgage interest and real estate tax deduction, instead providing (1) married, filing jointly/surviving spouse a cap amount of $22,000 (currently, $20,000); (2) head of household a cap amount of $16,500; (3) single a cap amount of $11,000; and (4) married, filing separately a cap amount of $11,000.

Repeals GS 105-153.10 (Tax credit for children effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2014), providing for credit amounts up to $125. Instead adds new subsection (a1) to GS 105-153.7, providing for an expanded child deduction amount for a taxpayer who is allowed a federal child tax credit for the taxable year for each dependent child for whom the taxpayer is allowed the federal tax credit. Details the specific child deduction amounts based on the taxpayer's filing status and adjusted gross income, with deduction amounts ranging from $0 up to $2,500.

Effective January 1, 2018.

Part II. Business Tax Changes

Amends GS 105-130.3 to reduce the income tax rate for C Corporations in the state from 3% to 2.75% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018, and to 2.5% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019.

Amends GS 105-122 to clarify that the annual franchise or privilege tax imposed on a corporation doing business in the state is for the privilege of doing business in the state and for the continuance of articles of incorporation or domestication of each corporation in this state. Makes organizational change to separate existing provisions concerning the corporate tax base and tax rate, both currently in subsection (d). Places provisions concerning the corporate tax base in subsection (d). Provides that a corporation's tax base is the greater of (1) the proportion of its net worth, (2) 55% of its appraised value as determined for ad valorem taxation of all the real estate and tangible personal property in the state, or (3) its total actual investment in tangible property in the state. Makes further organizational and technical changes to subsection (d). Adds new subsection (d2) providing for the corporate tax rate. Sets the tax rate for a C corporation at $1.50 per $1,000 of the corporation's tax base as determined under subsection (d) (currently, the corporate tax rate provisions do not differentiate between C Corporations and S Corporations). Sets the tax rate for an S Corporation at $200 for the first $1 million of the corporation's tax base as determined by subsection (d), and $1.50 per $1,000 of its tax base that exceeds $1 million. Prohibits the tax imposed to be less than $200. Effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2019, and is applicable to the calculation of franchise tax reported on the 2018 and later corporate income tax returns.

Part III. Market-Based Sourcing

Establishes that market-based sourcing will be used for multistate income tax apportionment. Amends GS 105-130.4, Allocation and apportionment of income for corporations, by eliminating subsubsections (l)(2) and (l)(3), leaving only the sales factor (was, (l)(1)) under subsection (l). Establishes that recipients are in this state if the taxpayer’s market for the receipts is in this state, and if the market for a receipt cannot be determined, the state or states of assignment are to be reasonably approximated. Provides that when a taxpayer cannot ascertain the state to which the receipts are to be assigned using reasonable approximation, then the receipts must be excluded from the denominator of the sales factor. Provides six criteria, GS 105-130.4(l)(1) through (6), to determine if a taxpayer’s market for receipts is in this state. Adds and defines the term banks. 

Enacts new GS 105-130.4A, Market based sourcing for banks. Establishes GS 105-130.4A(a), which provides definitions that apply to the new statute. Creates a general rule that states the receipts factor of a bank is a fraction, with the numerator being the total receipts of the taxpayer in this state during the income year and the denominator being the total receipts of the taxpayer everywhere during the income year, and lists five receipts that are excluded from both the numerator and denominator of the receipts factor. Sets out provisions for calculations concerning: (1) receipts from the sale, lease, or rental of real property; (2) receipts from the sale, lease, or rental of tangible personal property; (3) interest, fees, and penalties from loans secured by real property; (4) interest, fees, and penalties from loans not secured by real property; (5) net gains from the sale of loans; (6) receipts from interest, fees, and penalties from card holders; (7) receipts from ATM fees; (8) net gains from the sale of credit card receivables; and (9) miscellaneous receipts.

The above provisions are effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018.

Directs the Codifer of Rules to enter into the Administrative Code the rules adopted by the Department of Revenue as directed by Section 38.4 of SL 2016-94 regarding the implementation and administration of market-based sourcing principles as set out in the act, which were approved by the Rules Review Commission at its meeting on February 16, 2017.

Requires the Utilities Commission (Commission) to adjust the rates for public utilities, excluding water public utilities with less than $200,000 in annual operating revenues, for the tax changes in Part I (intends Section 3.1) of this act, as directed by Section 38.4(d) of SL 2016-94. Requires each utility to calculate the cumulative net effect of the tax changes and file the calculations with proposed rate changes to reflect the net prospective tax changes in utility customer rates within 60 days of the enactment of this act. Requires any adjustments that are required to existing tax assets or liabilities to be reflected in the utility's books and records by the tax changes are to be deferred and reflected in customer rates in either the utility's next rate case or earlier if deemed appropriate by the Commission.

Amends GS 20-7 (Issuance and renewal of drivers licenses) to direct the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to develop an electronic designation in the DMV database for driver's licenses that can be granted to state residents with a mental illness, developmental disability, or co-occurring mental illness and developmental disability upon request. Directs the DMV to consult with the Department of Public Safety and the State Highway Patrol in developing the electronic designation. Requires an applicant requesting an electronic designation under this new subsection to come to the DMV for registration. Provides for a standard transaction fee to be set by the DMV for this service. Defines mental illness and developmental disability as the terms are defined in GS 122C-3. Clarifies that the new subsection does not authorize the issuance of a driver's license to a person ineligible under GS 20-9.

Makes technical change to a statutory reference in GS 20-63 (Registration plates furnished by the DMV) to refer to special plates authorized by GS 20-79.4 (Special registration plates) instead of GS 20-79.7 (Fees for special registration plates) concerning the qualifications for the issuance of those special plates. Further, adds new subsection (c1) to GS 20-63 providing substantively identical provisions as those added in GS 20-7 by this act to establish a mental illness and developmental disability designation for registration plates. 

Amends GS 17C-6 (concerning the powers of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission) and GS 17E-4 (concerning the powers of the North Carolina Sheriffs' Education and Training Standards Commission) to require the commissions to add crisis intervention training to the minimum educational and training standards that the commissions must establish for qualification for entry level employment and retention as a criminal justice officer or officer in temporary or probationary status or in a permanent position, as well as for in-service training for criminal justice officers and justice officers. Makes technical changes. Amends GS 17C-2 to define crisis intervention training to mean training for criminal justice officers on how to interact with a person the officer knows or reasonably should know has a mental illness, developmental disability, or co-occurring mental illness and developmental disability. Details four elements that crisis intervention training must include, including conflict resolution and de-escalation techniques for potentially dangerous situations involving a person who has a mental illness, developmental disability, or co-occurring mental illness and developmental disability. 

Effective October 1, 2017.

Includes several whereas clauses.

Enacts new Article 6G, Divestment from Companies Boycotting Israel, in GS Chapter 147, providing as follows. Requires the State Treasurer, no more than 30 days after October 1, 2017, to adopt a policy prohibiting the North Carolina Retirement Systems or the Department of State Treasurer from directly investing in any company engaged in a boycott of Israel. Defines boycott Israel or boycott of Israel as engaging in refusals to deal, terminating business activities, or taking actions that are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm, or otherwise limit commercial relations specifically with Israel, or persons or entities doing business in Israel or in Israeli‑controlled territories; the term excludes decisions made for ordinary business purposes. Sets out the following minimum requirements for the policy: (1) requires the State Treasurer, within 120 days of adoption of the policy, to develop and make publicly available a list of companies determined to be engaged in a boycott of Israel; (2) requires the State Treasurer to identify any restricted companies in which the North Carolina Retirement Systems own direct holdings and indirect holdings; (3) requires the State Treasurer to annually review the list of restricted companies; (4 ) prohibits the North Carolina Retirement Systems and the State Treasurer from making direct investments in a restricted company; (5) requires the North Carolina Retirement Systems and the State Treasurer to sell, redeem, divest, or withdraw all direct holdings of restricted companies and instruct all investment advisors to sell, redeem, divest, or withdraw all direct holdings of restricted companies within 90 days after a company is placed on the State Treasurer's list of restricted companies; and (6) provides that the prohibitions under subdivision (3) do not apply to the North Carolina Retirement Systems' or the State Treasurer's indirect holdings or private market funds. Exempts the North Carolina Retirement Systems and the State Treasurer from any conflicting statutory or common law obligations.

Makes a restricted company ineligible to contract with the State or any political subdivision of the State. Voids any contract entered into with a company identified as a restricted company at the time of contract. Requires the State agency to review the information and offer the company an opportunity to respond upon receiving information that the company was not identified as restricted at the time of contract but has later been identified as a restricted company. Allows the State agency to take appropriate action provided by law, rule, or contract if the company fails to demonstrate that the company should not have been identified as a restricted company within 90 days after notification by the State agency. Specifies that contracts in existence on October 1, 2017, with restricted companies are allowed to expire in accordance with the terms of the contract. 

Requires the State Treasurer to annually report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations by March 1 on information regarding investments sold, redeemed, divested, or withdrawn in compliance with the Article.

Effective October 1, 2017.

Effective when the act becomes law, authorizes the State Treasurer to retain the services of consultants, professional individuals, analysts, data collection firms, or other persons possessing specialized skills or knowledge necessary for the proper implementation and administration of the requirements of this act.

Contains whereas clauses.

Establishes a statewide moratorium on consideration of applications for and on the issuance of permits for wind energy facilities and expansions, to allow the General Assembly time to study the extent and scope of military operations in the State and the impact of future wind energy facilities on military operations. Directs the Department of Environmental Quality and the Coastal Resources Commission to not consider applications for wind energy facilities from January 1, 2017, to December 31, 2020. Does not prohibit consideration of application or issuance of permit for wind energy facilities or expansions for facilities that have received a written "Determination of No Hazard to Air Navigation" by the Federal Aviation Administration on or before May 17, 2013, or if the applicant can show that a completed application was submitted on or before January 1, 2017.

Directs the General Assembly's funds to complete a study of the extent and scope of military operations in the state to create maps and other data and documentation to communicate the temporal and spatial use of land-, air-, and water-based military operations by June 30, 2019. Directs the Legislative Services Officer to issue a request for proposals related to the study by December 31, 2017, and to award contracts by June 30, 2018. Instructs the selected contractors to consult with specified military personnel.

Appropriates $50,000 for 2016-17 from the General Assembly's funds for the purpose of funding the study described above, to be used through the 2017-18 fiscal year or until the money is spent, whichever is first.

Amends GS 20-154(a) to always require a driver to use a turn signal before starting, stopping, or turning from a direct line (currently only required when another vehicle may be affected by such movement). Makes organizational changes.

Effective December 1, 2017.

Contains whereas clauses.

Creates a twelve-member Legislative Commission on the Fair Treatment of College Student-Athletes (Commission), consisting of six members of the Senate appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and six members of the House appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives, with representation in proportion to the party makeup of each chamber. The Lieutenant Governor is an ex officio voting member, and the chair of the Commission. States the Commission's purpose as examining the needs and concerns of college students participating in athletics on behalf of the UNC constituent institutions and to propose appropriate legislation. Directs the Commission to study issues related to the provision of health insurance, injuries, unionization, and profit-sharing for student athletes, including twelve specified topics. Authorizes the Commission to exercise all powers under GS 120-19 and GS 120-19.1 through GS 120-19.4. Provides for the meeting space, support staff, and subsistence and travel expenses of the commission.

Directs the Commission to file an interim report of its results by December 1, 2017, and a final report by April 1, 2018, including any proposed legislation, to the members of the General Assembly by filing copies with the offices of the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Legislative Library. The Commission terminates upon the convening of the 2019 General Assembly or upon the filing of its final report, whichever occurs first.

Effective July 1, 2017.

Amends GS 20-4.01 to revise the definition ofoperator to include persons who cause fully autonomous vehicles to move or travel with the automated driving system engaged.

Amends GS 20-8 to exempt fully autonomous vehicles with the automatic driving system engaged and their operators from GS Chapter 20, Article 2 (Uniform Driver's License Act).

Amends GS 20-49 to provide that fully autonomous vehicles with an engaged automated driving system satisfy the requirement to exhibit a registration card if the card is in the vehicle, or available online, and readily available to be inspected by an officer or inspector. Makes conforming changes to GS 20-57.

Amends GS 20-57 to require a registration card for a fully autonomous vehicle to contain information required under new GS 20-400(a)(5).

Amends GS 20-135.2A to exempt fully autonomous vehicles with an automated driving system engaged from seat belt requirements.

Amends GS 20-135.2B and GS 20-137.1 to make the parent or guardian of a child responsible for compliance with the prohibition on transporting children under the age of 16 in the bed or cargo area of a fully autonomous vehicle with an automatic driving system engaged, and the requirement that a passenger less than 16 years old be properly secured with a child restraint system or seat belt. Exempts the parents or legal guardians of passengers who do not comply with the seat belt requirement from the penalty of two driver's license points.

Amends GS 20-163 to exempt fully autonomous vehicles with an automatic driving system engaged from the prohibition on unattended motor vehicles with an engine running.

Amends GS 20-166 and GS 20-166.1 to provide that fully autonomous vehicles with an automatic driving system engaged are considered compliant with the requirements to stop in the event of a crash if the vehicle remains on the scene of the crash, and the vehicle or the person responsible for the vehicle promptly contacts a law enforcement agency and communicates the required information. Holds the owner of the vehicle responsible for violations of this requirement.

Enacts new GS Chapter 20, Article 17 (Regulation of Fully Autonomous Vehicles). New GS 20-399 defines five terms, includingfully autonomous vehicle andautomated driving system. New GS 20-400 creates five requirements for the operation of a fully autonomous vehicle with an automated driving system engaged without a human driver present in the vehicle, including being covered by a motor vehicle liability policy. Provides that no local government may enact a law or ordinance regulating fully autonomous vehicles and their operation.

Makes technical and conforming changes.

Effective December 1, 2017.

Identical to H 351, filed 3/14/17.

Enacts new GS 62-133.1A (Fair value determination of government-owned water and wastewater systems). Authorizes water and wastewater public utilities to elect to establish rate base by using the fair value of the utility property instead of original cost when acquiring an existing water or wastewater system owned by a municipality or county or an authority or district. Establishes criteria for the determination of the fair value, including evaluation and assessment by two separate appraisals, and a licensed engineer jointly retained by the acquiring and selling utilities to conduct an assessment. Establishes procedure for application to the Commission for a determination of the rate base value of the system to be acquired, including requirements for submission of specified information. Directs the Commission to issue its final order approving or denying an application that meets the requirements within four months of the date on which the application was filed. An order approving an application must determine the rate base value of the acquired property for rate-making purposes. Clarifies that the Commission retains its authority to set rates for the acquired system in future rate cases.

Makes conforming changes to GS 62-133.

Appropriates $200,000 in recurring funds for 2017-18 from the General Fund to the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for operating support for the NC Forest Service's Linville River Tree Nursery. If the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services permanently closes the nursery, the funds revert to the General Fund.

Effective July 1, 2017.

Makes the following changes to Article 50 of GS Chapter 1 (General Provisions as to Legal Advertising). 

Amends GS 1-595 (advertisement of public sales) providing that when a statute or written instrument stipulates that an advertisement of a sale must be made for any certain number of weeks, publication on the county website in accordance with GS 1-602 (enacted by this act) for the number of weeks indicated is sufficient for compliance.

Amends GS 1-596 (charges for legal advertising), providing that when a notice is required by statute to be published by a unit of government more than once and is paid for by the unit of government and the cost of publication is not paid in advance by or allowed to be recouped from private parties, the unit of government cannot be charged for the second and successive publications of that notice at a rate greater than 85% of the rate charged for the first publication in the series. 

Amends GS 1-597 (regulations for newspaper publication of legal notices, advertisements, etc.), deleting the existing regulations and instead setting forth four requirements that a newspaper must meet for a required publication, legal notice, or advertisement to have full force and effect. Requires (1) the newspaper to have content that appeals to the public generally; (2) the newspaper to have more than a de minimis number of actual paid subscribers in the county or political subdivision where the publication, advertisement, or notice is required to be published; (3) the newspaper's paid subscriber distribution to not be entirely limited geographically to one community, or section, of the county or political subdivision where the publication, advertisement, or notice is required to be published; and (4) the newspaper to be available to anyone in the county or political subdivision where the publication, advertisement, or notice is required to be published who wishes to subscribe to it. Requires the newspaper to place each notice on the newspaper's website on the same day that the notice appears in the newspaper at no additional cost if the newspaper maintains a website displaying the contents of the newspaper. Requires a hyperlink to legal notices to be provided on the front page of the newspaper's website to provide access to the legal notices without charge. Requires the size and placement of legal notices on the website to comply with requirements for a printed legal notice. Requires the webpage containing legal notices to present the legal notices as the dominant subject matter of those pages. Also requires the newspaper's website to contain a search function for searching legal notices. Requires the newspaper to, without charge, provide email notification of legal notices printed and added to the website upon a person's request. Requires notification for the email registry to be available on the front page of the legal notices section of the newspaper's webpage. Clarifies that for any legal notice required to be published more than once, email notification required by this statute only applies to the first publication in the series of that notice. Establishes that any error in the placement of a governmental legal notice on a newspaper's website is considered harmless error and the requirement of proper legal notice is to be deemed met if the governmental entity placing the notice also places the notice on its own website under an ordinance adopted in accordance with GS 153A-52.2 (enacted by this act).

Makes clarifying change to the caption of GS 1-598 to now describe the statute as Sworn statement prima facie evidence of qualifications; affidavit of publication by a newspaper (currently, does not clarify publication by a newspaper). Makes organizational changes.

Enacts GS 1-602, Publication via county-maintained website, providing that in lieu of publishing in a newspaper, publication of any notice permitted or required by law to be published in a newspaper can be accomplished by contracting with a county that has adopted an ordinance under GS 153A-458 (enacted by this act) to publish the notice on the county-maintained website. Details publication fees the county may charge ranging from $0 to $450, and the distribution of fees collected, with 10% of fees collected to be used for county administrative costs, 40% to the county general fund, and 50% to the local board of education for payment of local supplements for teachers as defined by GS 115C-325.1(6). Provides for a county employee's sworn written statement to be prima facie evidence that the county placed the notice, paper, document or legal advertisement on its website for the stated period of time, and deems the sworn statement a record of the court and prima facie evidence that the county made the publication on its website for the stated period of time when filed and certified by the clerk of superior court. Clarifies that the statute does not require a county to adopt an ordinance under GS 153A-458 and publish notices on a county-maintained website. 

Enacts GS 153A-52.2, Electronic notice for notices required to be published by the board, authorizing a governing board of a county to adopt an ordinance providing that any notice the board is required by law to publish or advertise, whether under GS 1-597 or GS Chapter 143, Article 8, or any other general law or local act, can by published electronically, as provided, in lieu of or in addition to the required publication or advertisement. Defines governing board to mean the body elected or appointed as the board of county commissioners, city council, or county board of elections. Clarifies that the county ordinance can cover all notices required to be published or advertised or a clearly identified category of notices. Requires the governing board to publish specific instruction regarding how to access notices published electronically under the adopted ordinance at least once a month for 12 months in a newspaper having general circulation for that jurisdiction, as provided in GS 1-597 as amended by this act. Details five requirements of any notice published under an ordinance adopted pursuant to this statute, including the requirement that notices and links to all notices on the website must be maintained on the website for at least one year after publication and must be searchable. Establishes that ordinances adopted under the statute cannot supersede any general law or local act that requires notice by mail to certain persons or classes of persons, or the posting of signs on certain property. Sets out that the ordinance adopted by the governing board can control notice given by any board appointed by the governing board, including the planning board, board of social services, and board of health. 

Makes conforming changes to GS 160A-1(7), GS 153A-1(6), and GS 159-1(b)(5) to include electronic notice to the defined term publish where an ordinance has been adopted by that governing board. Makes organizational and technical changes. 

Makes conforming change to amend GS 163-33 (powers and duties of county board of elections) to authorize the county board to adopt a policy in accordance with GS 153A-52.2 to provide for notices, advertisements, and publications to be given electronically. 

Enacts GS 153A-458, authorizing the board of county commissioners to adopt an ordinance establishing the county website as a central location for publishing or advertising legal notices in accordance with GS 1-602, so long as three qualifications are met: (1) the county maintains its own website, with sufficient staff to maintain that website, (2) the county has sufficient staff to complete affidavits as needed for all legal notices as stated in GS 1-602(d), and (3) the county collects and remits fees as provided in GS 1-602(b) and (c).

Clarifies that the validation of any publication or notice pursuant to a previous enactment of GS 1-597 remains in effect and is not affected by any modifications of that statute enacted by this act.

Effective October 1, 2017, and applies to notices required to be published on or after that date, but does not apply to notices permitted to be pushed on a governmental website in lieu of newspaper publication pursuant to an ordinance enacted before that date.

Identical to H 370, filed 3/15/17.

Enacts new GS 15A-1344(d3). Provides that an offender on probation supervision under the Interstate Compact for Adult Offender Supervision (Compact), who has violated probation terms, may be sanctioned with confinement of a length determined in the statute by the offender's underlying conviction, or any other condition listed in GS 15A-1343.

Amends GS 148-65.8. Amends the caption to read "Interstate parole and probation hearing procedures for retaking by the sending state." Deletes references to reincarceration.

Enacts new GS 15A-1343.2(g1) (Supervision Under Compact). Provides that offenders supervised under the Compact may be required by the Section of Community Corrections of the Division of Adult Correction of the Department of Public Safety (Section) to do any of nine things, including community service and house arrest with electronic monitoring. Authorizes the Section to reduce any of the requirements it imposes. Requires the offender to have failed to comply with one or more of the supervision conditions, or to be high risk, except that being high risk does not authorize the Section to require the offender to submit to a period of confinement in a local confinement facility as described in Subdivision (5).

Enacts new GS 14-208.40B(d) to direct a court to consider whether an offender, transferred to North Carolina under the Compact, whose crime is a reportable conviction under GS 14-208.6(4), but whose sentencing court in a different state did not consider or order satellite-based monitoring, to consider whether the offender's conviction requires satellite-based monitoring. Specifies the procedure for that determination.

Effective December 1, 2017, and applies to offenders placed on probation on or after that date.

Amends GS 90-89 to add a specified opiate,10 Fentanyl derivatives, six hallucinogenic substances, two systemic depressants, and synthetic Cannabinoids, including 16 examples, to the list of Schedule I controlled substances, and to make technical changes.

Amends GS 90-90 to add any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of hydrocodone to the list of Schedule II controlled substances.

Amends GS 90-91 to add one narcotic and four anabolic steroids to the list of Schedule III controlled substances. Removes specified amounts of dihydrocodeinone.

Amends GS 90-92 to add four depressants to the list of Schedule IV controlled substances, and to make a conforming change.

Amends GS 90-93 to add to Schedule V controlled substances any material, compound, mixture, or preparation containing any quantity of two listed substances, having a stimulant effect on the central nervous system, unless specifically exempted or excluded or listed in another schedule.

Amends GS 90-94 to make a conforming change.

Effective December 1, 2017.