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

Amends GS 47-30(l), which provides exemptions from the statute's mapping requirements for the registration of certain plats and subdivisions, to provide that the statute does not apply to the registration of highway right-of-way plans of plats acquired by the North Carolina Turnpike Authority as provided for in GS 136-89.184 (this provision was deleted in the 1st edition). 

Amends the act's effective date provision to make the act effective when it becomes law, removing the provision specifying that the act is applicable to maps filed on or after the date the act becomes law. 

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

Amends proposed GS 105-153.11 concerning establishing a tax credit for donating deer meat. Regarding tax credit eligibility under the proposed statute for a meat processor contracting with a nonprofit to process legally harvested deer for donation to that nonprofit, specifies that the nonprofit organization must be engaged in distributing food to the needy. 

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

Changes the act's long title. 

Deletes all proposed changes in previous Part III, which amended GS 122C-80, GS 131D-10.3A, GS 131D-10.6, and GS 143B-932 to require criminal record checks of employees of child care institutions. 

Deletes the proposed changes to GS 122C-3, which modified the definition of developmental disability and added security recordings and traumatic brain injury to the defined terms. 

Deletes proposed GS 122C-56.1, which provided that a state facility is not required to disclose its security recordings to a client or to the client's next of kin or legally responsible person unless disclosure is required under federal law or compelled by a court.

Makes clarifying changes to Section 5.1(b) (previously, Section 6.3(b)), concerning the terms and appointment of State Consumer and Family Advisory Committee members notwithstanding the proposed changes to GS 122C-171 regarding the same. 

Makes organizational change to the act, placing the repeal of Article 32, GS Chapter 90 (Employee Assistance Professionals) in its own Part.

Adds a new Part, amending GS 48-3-303 to make organizational changes to the preplacement assessment report of a prospective adoptive parent prior to the placement of a minor, moving an individual's date of birth to be included with the individual's physical and mental health rather than with the individual's nationality, race, ethnicity and religious preference. Removes nationality, race, ethnicity, and religious preference from the information in the preplacement assessment report the agency must review and evaluate to determine the individuals's strengths and needs (was, strengths and weaknesses) to be an adoptive parent. 

Adds another new Part, amending GS 7B-309, adding persons providing information or assistance to those granted immunity for reporting and cooperating in a protective services assessment. Specifies that providing information or assistance includes medical evaluations or consultation in connection with a report, investigation, or legal intervention pursuant to a good faith report of child abuse or neglect. Makes clarifying and technical changes. Effective July 1, 2019.

Makes conforming organizational and clarifying changes to the act. 

Amends GS 20-50.4, which prohibits the Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) from registering a vehicle to an owner upon receipt of a report from a child support enforcement agency that sanctions have been imposed for noncompliance pursuant to GS 110-142.2(a)(3) until the DMV receives certification that the payments are no longer considered delinquent. Authorizes licensed dealers to obtain a limited registration plate pursuant to GS 20-79.1A on behalf of a person purchasing a vehicle, notwithstanding the delinquent child support obligations. 

Adds identical authorizations for licensed dealers to obtain a limited registration plate on behalf of a person purchasing a vehicle, notwithstanding obligations owed, to GS 20-54(6), (10), (11), (12), and (13), which prohibit the DMV from issuing vehicle registration or titles, or transfer registration for: (1) vehicles not in compliance with vehicle inspection requirements or unpaid outstanding related penalties; (2) owners with outstanding tolls, fees, or penalties assessed by the NC Turnpike Authority; (3) owners with outstanding fines or penalties resulting from failure to stop for a school bus; (4) owners with outstanding fees or penalties resulting from a lapse in financial responsibility for the operation of the vehicle; and (5) owners with outstanding fees or penalties resulting from violations of vehicle size, weight, construction, and equipment restrictions. 

Amends GS 20-79.1A, concerning criteria for the issuance of a limited registration plate. Adds a new requirement for a dealer to notify the purchaser of any outstanding civil penalties, fees, tolls, and obligations owed before the dealer applies for a title to a motor vehicle and a registration plate for the vehicle. 

Appropriates $7 million for 2019-20 and $7 million for 2020-21 in recurring funds from the General Fund to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services, to be used as title indicates. Effective July 1, 2019.

Appropriates $500,000 for 2019-20 and $500,000 2020-21 from the General Fund to the Friends of John Coltrane Inc. as title indicates. Effective July 1, 2019.

Amends GS 115C-407.7 to no longer require that the Governor's appointee as compact commissioner for the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children be a licensed North Carolina attorney, but retains the requirements that the appointee represent at least one local board of education with a high concentration of military children. 

Amends GS 14-43.13, modifying the offense of sexual servitude to include when a person knowingly or in reckless disregard subjects, maintains, or obtains another for purposes of sexual servitude. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Amends GS 14-205.1, establishing that mistake of age or consent of a minor are not defenses to prosecution for solicitation of prostitution. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Amends GS 14-190.16, increasing the offenses of first degree sexual exploitation of a minor from a Class C felony to a Class B2 felony. Amends GS 14-190.17, increasing the offense of second degree sexual exploitation of a minor from a Class E felony to a Class C felony. Amends GS 14-190.17A, increasing the offense of third-degree sexual exploitation of a minor from a Class H felony to a Class D felony. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Enacts GS 14-208.1, establishing mandatory restitution for victims solicited, patronized, or promoted for prostitution in violation of GS 14-205.1, GS 14-205.2, and GS 14-205.3. Provides for determination of restitution amount in the court order. Further subjects the defendant to property forfeiture for violation of the specified statutes pursuant to GS 14-2.3 (Forfeiture of gain acquired through criminal activity). Enacts GS 14-190.17B, establishing identical mandatory restitution provisions for victims who are minors hired, employed, used, or permitted to do or assist in committing an offense covered in GS 14-190.6 (Employing or permitting minor to assist in offense under Article 26, Offenses against Public Morality and Decency) or minors sexually exploited in violation of GS 14-190.16, GS 14-190.17, and GS 14-190.17A. Further subjects the defendant to property forfeiture for violation of the specified statutes pursuant to GS 14-2.3 (Forfeiture of gain acquired through criminal activity). Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Amends GS 14-43.11, expanding the offense of human trafficking (punishable as a Class C felony, or a Class B2 felony if the victim is a minor) to include when a person knowingly or in reckless disregard of the consequences of the action benefits financially or receives anything of value from the services of another person the person knows is being held in involuntary servitude or sexual servitude. Further amends GS 14-43.13, expanding the offense of sexual servitude (punishable as a Class D felony, or a Class C felony if the victim is a minor) to include when a person knowingly or in reckless disregard of the consequences of the action benefits financially or by receiving anything of value from the services of another person the person knows is being subjected to or maintained in sexual servitude. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Enacts GS 14-208.1, establishing the offense of promoting travel for unlawful sexual conduct, punishable as a Class G felony. Includes when a person sells or offers to sell travel services that the person knows to include travel for the purposes of engaging in conduct that would constitute any of the specified offenses if occurring in the State, including rape and other sex offenses under Article 7B, certain offenses involving the sexual exploitation of a minor or indecent liberties with a minor, or any of the specified prostitution offenses. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Further amends GS 14-43.11, making human trafficking a Class B2 felony if the person believed the victim of the offense was a minor. Similarly, amends GS 14-43.13 further, making sexual servitude a Class C felony if the person believed the victim of the offense was a minor. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Amends GS 7B-3200 regarding expunction of records of juveniles alleged or adjudicated delinquent and undisciplined. Eliminates the 18-month waiting period for a person who is at least 18 years old to petition the court for expunction of all records of adjudication (for an offense which would be a crime other than a Class A, B1, B2, C, D, or E felony) if the person whose participation in the offense was a result of having been a victim of human trafficking under GS 14-43.11, sexual servitude under GS 14-43.13, or the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Requires the petition's affidavit to state that the petitioner was adjudicated delinquent based on an offense the petitioner participated in as a result of having been a victim of human trafficking under GS 14-43.11, sexual servitude under GS 14-43.13, or the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Makes clarifying changes. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Enacts GS 15A-145.9, allowing a person who has been convicted of a nonviolent offense to file a petition in the court of conviction for expunction of the offense from the person's criminal record if the court finds that the person was coerced or deceived into committing the offense as a direct result of having been a trafficking victim. Defines nonviolent offense and trafficking victim. Sets out petition requirements including service. Provides for other considerations the court may look to in rendering a decision, including calling upon a probation officer for verification of the petitioner's conduct during the period since conviction. Provides for the restoration of the petitioner's status after the court makes four findings following a hearing. Sets out the effect of an expunction order entered pursuant to the statute. Requires a person pursuing law enforcement certification under Article 1 of GS Chapter 17C or GS Chapter 17E to disclose all convictions to the certifying Commission regardless of expunction. Requires the court order to include expunction of the conviction from court and law enforcement records, as well as any other applicable State or local government agency records. Further requires an agency to reverse any administrative actions taken against a person whose record is expunged as a result of the charges or conviction expunged. Exempts the Department of Justice for DNA records and samples stored in the State DNA Database and the State DNA Databank. Waives the cost of expunging the records. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.

Amends GS 15A-1415, allowing defendants convicted of a nonviolent offense as defined in GS 15A-145.9, as enacted, whose participation was a result of having been a victim of human trafficking or sexual servitude, whereby the defendant seeks to have the conviction vacated, to assert a motion for appropriate relief made more than 10 days after entry of judgment. Applies to motions filed on or after December 1, 2019.

Amends GS 15A-1416.1, concerning a motion to vacate a prostitution conviction for a sex trafficking victim, to now have the statute apply to motions to vacate a nonviolent offense conviction for human trafficking victims. Allows the motion to be filed at any time following entry of a verdict or finding of guilty. Applies to motions filed on or after December 1, 2019.

Enacts GS 15B-11(d1), excepting claims or awards of compensation for criminally injurious conduct against a minor in violation of GS 14-43.11, GS 14-43.12, and GS 14-43.13 from subsections (a) through (d) of the statute that mandate or authorize denial of a claim or reduction of an award of compensation if certain grounds apply to the claim or award. Applies to motions filed on or after December 1, 2019.

Directs the Human Trafficking Commission (Commission) to study the services provided by the State to minors who are victims of an offense committed under GS 14-43.11, GS 14-43.12, and GS 14-43.13. Details required components of the study. Directs the Commission to report to the specified NCGA Committee by March 15, 2020.

Clarifies that prosecutions for offenses committed before the act's effective date are not abated or affected by the act, and statutes that would be applicable but for the act remain applicable to those prosecutions.

Amends GS 20-313, which makes the operation of a vehicle without having the financial responsibility required under Article 13 a Class 3 misdemeanor. Now requires the law enforcement officer that charges the owner of the offense to have the vehicle towed and stored at the time of the charge using the law enforcement agency's current rotation system and regulations pertaining to towing and storage. Returns custody of the vehicle to the owner upon: (1) the owner presenting proof of the required financial responsibility covering the vehicle for at least six months to the charging law enforcement agency or prosecuting district attorney and (2) the owner presenting to the person in custody of the vehicle (a) documentation the owner received from the charging law enforcement agency or prosecuting district attorney acknowledging the owner's compliance with the requirements and (b) payment of any towing and storage fees. Provides for notification of any lienholders holding a perfected security interest in the vehicle following its towing and storage and access by any such lienholder to the vehicle. Allows a lienholder to take possession of the vehicle upon payment of any towing and storage fees. Upon failure of the owner to obtain release of the vehicle or a lienholder to recover possession of the vehicle, grants the person in custody of the vehicle that was towed and stored a lien on the vehicle for the amount of the towing and storage costs incurred since the vehicle was towed and stored and authorizes disposal of the vehicle pursuant to Article 1 of GS Chapter 44A. Provides for a petition process for release of a vehicle by an owner claiming there has been no lapse in financial responsibility. Specifies that the statute does not alter or supersede a separate law requiring seizure of the motor vehicle whose violation arises out of the same transaction resulting in the charge of violating this statute.