Conference report makes the following changes to the 3rd edition.
Adds the following content.
Deems students enrolled in classroom driver education between January 2020 and March 16, 2020, in a public school or a licensed commercial driver training school to have completed all driver education classroom instruction requirements if the student completed at least 15 hours of classroom instruction before March 16, 2020. Permits giving students who have not completed at least 15 hours of classroom instruction the opportunity to take and pass the proficiency exam developed by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI), as provided in specified State Board of Education policy, to waive the classroom instruction requirement. Requires students enrolled in driver education in the spring 2020 semester to complete at least six hours of behind-the-wheel instruction before being issued a completion certificate. Authorizes public schools to resume driver education programs consistent with DPI guidance. Effective on the date the act becomes law.
Makes conforming changes to the act's titles and organization.
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| Intro. by Presnell. | UNCODIFIED |
House amendment makes the following changes to the 3rd edition.
Part II
Modifies the following additional appropriations. Previously, appropriated $4.8 million in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) for the 2020-21 school year to be allocated to the Southern Regional Area Health Education Center (Center) to be used for residencies in the Center service areas and for facility and structural improvements associated with current residency programs. Now, directs the State Controller to transfer $4.8 million from the Coronavirus Relief Reserve to the Coronavirus Relief Fund (both established in SL 2020-4, 2020 Coronavirus Recovery Act), and appropriates the funds on a nonrecurring basis to the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to be allocated to the BOG for 2020-21 for residencies in the Center service areas and for COVID-19 related response activities. Makes the general provisions of Part I of SL 2020-4 applicable to the funds and requires OSBM to include the funds in the report required under Section 1.7 of SL 2020-4.
House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.
Deletes the content of the following previous Parts of the act: Part I (NC Promise Tuition Plan/Future Funds; proposed future appropriations); Part V (Funds for UNC-Asheville Woods Residence Hall; proposed 2020-21 appropriations); Part VII (Umstead Act Exemption/NC A&T State University; proposed changes to GS 66-58); Part VIII (NC School of Science and Mathematics Tuition Grants; proposed enactment of GS 116-209.90 and accompanying appropriations); and Part X (College Advising Corps/College Advisers in the Public Schools; proposed uncodified language and future appropriations). Makes conforming changes to the proposed repeals of HB 966 (Appropriations Act of 2019) sections. Makes conforming organizational changes to the act.
Part VI
Provides for the proposed changes to GS 143C-8-13, regarding UNC capital projects, to become effective July 1, 2020 (previously effective on the date the act becomes law).
Part VIII
No longer includes UNC police telecommunicator positions in those set out in proposed GS 126-5(c16) to be exempt from the Human Resources Act, except as provided.
Changes the act's titles.
Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.
Adds the following provisions.
Makes the general provisions of Part I of SL 2020-4 (2020 COVID-19 Recovery Act) applicable to the funds transferred and appropriated to the Division of Employment Security (DES) by the act, and requires the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to include the funds in the report required under Section 1.7 of SL 2020-4. Requires DES to provide necessary information to OSBM for its reporting.
Establishes that payments received by precinct officials and assistants for work performed during the period from September 1, 2020, and November 5, 2020, do not affect the computation of the individual's partial unemployment weekly benefit under state law.
Changes the act's long title.
| Intro. by Howard, Wray, Saine. | APPROP, UNCODIFIED |
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Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.
Changes the act's long title and adds several whereas clauses.
Makes the following changes to proposed GS 131E-79.3. Changes the proposed title from "Visitation rights of hospital patients" to "Patient visitation rights during a disaster declaration or public health emergency." Now requires licensed hospitals to ensure the opportunity for at least one visitor to visit a patient admitted to a facility during a period in which a disaster, emergency, or public health emergency has been declared.
Modifies proposed language to provide for a minor who is admitted to a licensed hospital the opportunity to have at least one parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis the opportunity to visit and be present while the minor is receiving hospital care (previously, established the right for any minor admitted to a licensed hospital to designate a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis to have the unrestricted privilege of being present while the minor patient is receiving hospital care). Adds that custody orders or written child custody agreements control, if applicable. Subjects visitors to normal visitation policies. Requires visitors to have access to a waiting area when the visitor cannot be in the room with the patient.
Requires one immediate family member, as defined, or designated health care agent to have the opportunity to visit an adult admitted to a licensed facility, subject to normal visitation policies (previously, established the right for every adult admitted to a licensed hospital to designate a spouse or health care agent to have the unrestricted privilege of being present while the adult is receiving hospital care). Requires visitors to have access to a waiting area when the visitor cannot be in the room with the patient. Permits patients with capacity to designate the one visitor.
Adds authority for licensed hospitals to require visitors to submit to health screenings, and restrict visitors who do not pass the screening or who test positive for an infectious disease. Further, authorizes hospitals to require visitors to adhere to infection control procedures.
Makes clarifying and conforming changes.
Senate committee substitute deletes the content of the 1st edition and now provides the following.
Directs the Department of Administration to transfer $8.5 million in nonrecurring funds for 2020-21 from the cash balance of the E-Commerce Reserve, and the Department of Revenue to transfer $3,991,578 in nonrecurring funds for 2020-21 from the cash balance of Revenue: Project Collect Tax, to the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) by August 15, 2020. Appropriates the transferred funds to the BOG for the Building Reserve. Additionally, appropriates $118,289 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the BOG for 2020-21 for the Building Reserve. Requires allocation of the appropriated funds in specified amounts to specified building projects at seven institutions: NC State University, UNC at Asheville, UNC at Greensboro, UNC at Pembroke, UNC at Wilmington, UNC School of the Arts, and Winston-Salem State University. Note, the 1st edition of the act included allocations for projects at East Carolina University, the NC School of Science and Math, and Western Carolina University.
Reenacts and incorporates by reference the State Budget Act, GS Chapter 143C.
Provides for the continued validity of 2019 legislation appropriating funds to entities covered by the act, unless expressly repealed or amended.
Effective July 1, 2020.
| Intro. by Brown, Harrington, B. Jackson. | APPROP |
House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.
Adds a statement on the content of the stated legislative findings.
Adds the following content.
Appropriates $1.88 million in nonrecurring funds from the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund to the State Public School Fund for 2020-21. Makes a coordinating reduction in the appropriation to the State Public School Fund from the General Fund for 2020-21; requires the Office of State Budget and Management to make the reduction by August 15, 2020.
Appropriates $1.88 million in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund, as adjusted, to the Department of Public Instruction for 2020-21 to be allocated to local school administrative units as specified in Section 7.22, SL 2017-57 (2017 Appropriations Act), as supplemental funding, based on development tiers and ranging from $180,000 to $275,000, for the eight identified cooperative innovative high schools for the 2020-21 school year.
Beginning with the 2019-20 school year, allows Halifax Early College High School and Stanly STEM Early College High School, and beginning with the 2020-21 school year, allows Gaston Early College of Medical Sciences High School, to operate as approved cooperative innovative high schools, subject to specified evaluation requirements under state law.
Reenacts and incorporates by reference the State Budget Act, GS Chapter 143C.
Provides for the continued validity of 2019 legislation appropriating funds to entities covered by the act, unless expressly repealed or amended.
Maintains the act's effective date of July 1, 2020. Changes the act's titles and makes conforming changes.
| Intro. by Brown, Harrington, B. Jackson. | APPROP |
Senate committee substitute deletes the content of the 1st edition and now provides the following.
Directs the Department of Commerce to transfer $12,718,578 in nonrecurring funds from the Job Development Investment Grant Special Revenue Fund to the UNC Board of Governors (BOG) for 2020-21 by August 15, 2020. Appropriates the transferred funds to the BOG to fund enrollment growth at UNC for 2020-21. Additionally, appropriates $16,673,653 in nonrecurring funds from the General Fund to the BOG for 2020-21 for the same purpose. Deems departmental receipts appropriated for 2020-21 up to amounts needed to implement the act for 2020-21.
Reenacts the provisions of the State Budget Act, GS Chapter 143C, and incorporates them into this act by reference.
Provides that except where expressly repealed or amended by this act, the provisions of any other legislation enacted during the 2019 Regular Session expressly appropriating funds to an agency, a department, or an institution covered under this act, remain in effect.
Effective July 1, 2020.
| Intro. by Brown, Harrington, B. Jackson. | APPROP |
Senate committee substitute deletes the content of the 1st edition and instead provides the following.
Section 1
States the purpose of the act regarding the use of funds from the Coronavirus Relief Fund to help NC businesses during and business investments after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Section 2
Directs the State Controller to transfer $200 million from the Coronavirus Relief Reserve to the Coronavirus Relief Fund (both established in SL 2020-4). Appropriates the transferred funds to the General Fund for 2020-21 to implement the act, subject to federal CARES Act requirements and specified US Treasury guidance, for job retention, recruitment, and repatriation.
Section 3
Establishes the COVID-19 Job Retention Program (program), administered by the Economic Investment Committee (Committee), to provide one-time grants of up to $500,000 to a business that retained jobs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic and meets program requirements. Limits program eligibility to businesses that: (1) employ at least 90% of the number of full-time or equivalent employees during the COVID-19 period in NC as it employed for the pay period ending on or about February 28, 2020; (2) have sales for the COVID-19 period that are at least 10% below its sales during the same period in the preceding calendar year; and (3) did not participate in the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) or the Mainstreet Loan Program. Provides nine defined terms. Defines a business to mean an entity subject to income tax, and defines the COVID-19 period to mean the period beginning March 1, 2020, and ending May 31, 2020. Provides for grants awards to be up to two months of the business's average monthly payroll costs, as defined, from the last year plus an additional 25%. Provides for the grants to be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis upon application to the Committee.
Additionally appropriates $50 million from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce to be used for the program. Directs funds unexpended on December 30, 2020, to be transferred to the COVID-19 Increased Investment in North Carolina Program (investment program), established by the act, for investment program grants.
Section 4
Establishes the increased investment program, administered by the Committee, to provide grants to businesses that increase its investment in the State to help the State economy recover from the economic losses sustained during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Defines eligibility to include businesses that increase its actual investment in tangible property in the State from the previous taxable year, as specified. Defines a business to mean a corporation subject to franchise tax. Provides for grant amounts to equal five times the increased investment amount multiplied by 15%, payable to businesses in five equal installments over a five-year period. Provides for the grants to be awarded on a first-come, first-served basis upon application to the Committee. Conditions the grant award on the business's commitment to maintain operations in NC for the term of the grant with Committee authority to recapture awarded funds in the event of noncompliance.
Appropriates $50 million from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce to be used for the investment program. Directs funds unexpended on December 30, 2022, to be transferred to the COVID-19 Local Government New Infrastructure Program (local government program), established by the act.
Section 5
Establishes the local government new infrastructure program, administered consistent with the One North Carolina Fund provisions set out in Part 2H, Article 10 of GS Chapter 143B, to expedite recovery from economic loss during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Explicitly states that no local matching is required for awards under the local government program. Restricts awards to availability of funds provided in the section.
Appropriates $100 million from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce. Allows up to $6 million to be allocated to one or more of the State's eight prosperity zones upon recommendation of the Committee, with no prosperity zone receiving more than $750,000 and restricts the use of funds for State match purposes. Allocates the remainder of the funds for the local government program.
Directs the Department of Commerce to notify the Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses as soon as practicable about the three programs created by the act, and directs the Office to identify and inform minority owned businesses that may be eligible for program grants.
Directs the Committee to report to the specified NCGA committee by January 1, 2021, on program awards, including the total number, of awards and amounts, and the percentage of grants awarded to historically underutilized businesses.
Changes the act's titles.
| Intro. by Newton, Hise, Tillman. | APPROP |
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AN ACT TO ALLOW GRADUATING SENIORS IN UNION COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS TO RECEIVE NUMERIC GRADES ON TRANSCRIPTS. SL 2020-13. Enacted June 11, 2020. Effective June 11, 2020.
| Intro. by Arp, Horn, Brody. | Union |
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Actions on Bills: 2020-06-11
H 158: COVID-19 NEW DRIVER RESPONSE. (NEW)
H 307: MOD. UTILITY VEHICLE CLASSIFICATION. (NEW)
H 472: NCSU/ NC A&T MATCHING FUNDS/UMSTEAD ACT. (NEW)
H 511: NORTH CAROLINA FIRST STEP ACT. (NEW)
H 612: DSS REVIEW OF PROCEDURES/CRIMINAL HISTORY/OAH. (NEW)
H 679: RULES OF CIV PROCEDURE/E-FILING AND SERVICE. (NEW)
H 1048: CPS INTAKE SCREENING/PED RECOMMENDATIONS.
H 1053: PED/MILITARY OL & AUDIOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPCT. (NEW)
H 1064: GSC CLARIFYING BINGO LICENSE STATUTE.
H 1070: EMERGENCY GRANTS FOR CERTAIN MILK PRODUCERS. (NEW)
H 1071: FUNDS TO DPI FOR ADM GROWTH. (NEW)
H 1072: GSC TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS 2020.
H 1080: REVENUE LAWS RECOMMENDATIONS.
H 1087: WATER/WASTEWATER PUBLIC ENTERPRISE REFORM. (NEW)
H 1096: UNC OMNIBUS CHANGES/UNC LAB SCHOOL FUNDS. (NEW)
H 1136: FUNDS FOR NCSSM-MORGANTON CAMPUS.
H 1163: GUILFORD FUNDS/CABARRUS LAND/BRUNSW SHELLFISH. (NEW)
H 1169: BIPARTISAN ELECTIONS ACT OF 2020. (NEW)
H 1208: FUNDING FOR WORKFORCE HOUSING LOAN PROGRAM.
H 1218: SALARY RELATED CONTRIBS./DEBT SERVICE FUNDS. (NEW)
H 1229: UI PROGRAM INTEGRITY/TEMP. ABAWD TIME WAIVERS.
S 379: RETIREE AMENDMENTS.
S 408: COLA FOR TSERS & CJRS. (NEW)
S 419: TECHNICAL AND OTHER CHANGES. (NEW)
S 562: THE SECOND CHANCE ACT.
S 710: STRENGTHENING DWI LAWS.
S 719: RETIREMENT TECH./PROTECT./& OTHER CHANGES. (NEW)
S 720: GSC CONFORMING AMENDS./2019 LAND-USE CHANGES.
S 729: GSC MODERNIZE PARTITION LAWS.
S 730: THE NO PATIENT LEFT ALONE ACT.
S 750: CAPITAL PROJECTS-ELIZABETH CITY STATE UNIV. (NEW)
Actions on Bills: 2020-06-11
H 1055: CITY OF JACKSONVILLE/DEANNEXATION.
H 1156: CASWELL CTY/REFERENDUM ON COUNTYWIDE ZONING.
H 1157: ABOLISH CORONER IN VARIOUS COUNTIES. (NEW)
H 1199: GRADUATING SR. NUMERIC GRADE. (NEW)
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