House committee substitute to the 3rd edition makes the following changes.

Makes technical changes to reflect amendments made to GS 160D-1104(d) by SL 2021-117 and SL 2021-121, concerning local government inspections for compliance with the NC Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings and the NC Building Code. Maintains the substance of the previously proposed changes to the statute, prohibiting a delay in the issuance of a temporary certificate of occupancy in instances when a subsequent inspection is conducted to verify completion or correction of instances of Code noncompliance, and additional violations of the Code noted by the inspector on items that were already approved by the inspections department. Previously proposed language prohibiting charging a fee for the reinspection of those items was codified by SL 2021-121. Makes technical changes. 

Adds the following new content. 

Amends GS 143-143.2, which requires electric wiring of houses or buildings to comply with the State Building Code. Eliminates the explicit inclusion of the National Electric Code and any amendments and supplements thereto as adopted and approved by the State Building Code Council (Council) from the requirements of the State Building Code as referenced in the statute. Makes technical changes.

Requires the Council to implement Sections D107 and D107.2 of the 2018 NC Fire Code and other provisions related to fire apparatus access roads for one- and two-family dwelling residential developments as follows. Directs the Council, Code enforcement officials, and fire code officials to not require that fire apparatus access roads be placed a distance apart equal to not less than one-half of the length of the maximum overall diagonal dimension of the property or area to be served, measured in a straight line between accesses, where conformance is technically infeasible, including instances of road connectivity limitations, real property dimensions or limitations, real property acquisition constraints, or environmental constraints, as determined by the property owner or developer. Requires the Council, Code enforcement officials, and fire code officials, for developments where compliance is technically infeasible, to either not require two fire apparatus access roads or allow for alterations that provide for fire apparatus road remoteness to the maximum extent technically feasible. Requires the Council to adopt amendments consistent with this directive, as specified. 

Effective January 1, 2022, amends GS 160A-344, regarding city authority to assume control of abandoned cemeteries. Adds a new subsection to address cemeteries located outside of any city limits and wholly located within a county. Upon request from a verified descendant, authorizes the county to put the cemetery up for sale to all verified descendants in accordance with the county's excess property sale process within 30 days of the request, subject to three requirements, including that the cemetery area is less than one acre, there is historical significance, and the trustees or owners named in the deed(s) have died or are unknown, or the deeds have been lost or misplaced and no record of title has been found, and the property has been occupied and used for burial purposes for a time sufficient to identify its use as a cemetery property. 

Makes conforming changes to the act's titles. 

House amendment to the 4th edition makes the following changes.

Adds the following new content and makes conforming changes to the act's long title.

Enacts a new subsection to GS 128-27 concerning the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System (LGERS). Entitles beneficiaries to a one-time pension supplement, for beneficiaries on the retirement rolls as of July 1 of the calendar year of the ratio determination against one year earlier as of December 31 of each year after 2020, subject to the Board of Trustees' determination that a permanent increase in benefits will not be paid during the same fiscal year as a one-time pension supplement but the total fund is providing sufficient investment gains to cover the additional actuarial liabilities on account of such one-time pension supplement. Places sole discretionary authority over the sufficiency determination with the Board, based on annual actuarial valuation reports, with consideration of the rate of inflation and the preceding three-year record of the investment gains or losses. Details the per centum calculation of the pension supplement and caps the one-time pension supplement at 4% of the annual retirement allowance. Requires a surviving annuitant of a beneficiary to be provided a one-time pension supplement under this provision, when and if payable, calculated using the same per centum described. Clarifies that the one-time pension supplement is not a permanent increase in benefits. Directs that the payment must be made to the member's estate or legal representative if the beneficiary dies before payment of the one-time pension supplement is made. Specifies that no beneficiary is deemed to have acquired a vested or contractual right or entitlement to any future one-time pension supplement under the provision.

Amends GS 150B-1 to except the Board from the scope of the Administrative Procedure Act with respect to determining the total fund is providing sufficient investment gains to cover the additional actuarial liabilities on account of a one-time pension supplement authorized under new GS 128-27(k1).   

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

Part III.

Adds to new GS 14-190.17B, which requires courts to order restitution for first, second, or third degree sexual exploitation of a minor offenses. Regarding situations in which more than one defendant contributed to the losses of the victim, authorizes the court to make each defendant liable for payment of the full amount of restitution as an alternative to the court's authority to apportion liability among the defendants to reflect the level of contribution of each defendant to the victim's losses.