House committee substitute replaces the content of the 1st edition with the following.
Amends GS 115C-12(9d) to mandate that the State Board of Education (State Board) require a passing grade in a computer science course to graduate from high school. Requires the course to fulfill one credit that is not an English, math, science, or social studies credit. Exempts students enrolling in the State after completion of the eleventh grade from the requirement, and students whose individualized education program states that the student's disability would prevent completion. Applies beginning with the 2024-25 school year.
Requires the State Board to establish the course requirement by reducing required science credits by one.
Enacts GS 115C-81.90, specifically requiring the State Board to include computer science instruction, as defined, in the standard course of study for middle and high school students. Requires public school units to offer an elective introductory course to middle school students beginning in the 2025-26 school year, and a course on using existing technologies and creating new technologies to high school students beginning in the 2024-25 school year, with a passing grade in the latter course satisfying the graduation requirement established in GS 115C-12(9d), as amended. Authorizes units to offer the graduation requirement course to middle school students. Requires the State Board to consult with the Department of Public Instruction to adopt a list of approved courses that fulfill each offering requirement and make the list available on DPI's website. Requires in-person instruction when practicable with remote courses otherwise permitted that meet state law requirements. Applies beginning with the 2024-25 school year.
Directs the State Board to adopt and post the list of approved high school courses by July 1, 2023, and middle school introductory courses by January 1, 2025.
Provides for waiver of the course requirement for the 2024-25 and 2025-26 school years by the unit submitting a signed notification to DPI stating that a course was not available to students, waiving both the requirement to offer the course and the graduation requirement for students entering the ninth grade in the school year in which the notification is submitted. Additionally provides for waiver of the unit's requirement to offer the course for the 2025-26 school year by submitting a signed notification to DPI stating that a course was not available to students.
Amends GS 115C-218.85, GS 115C-238.66, GS 116-239.8, and Section 6 of SL 2018-32, requiring charter schools, regional schools, lab schools, and renewal schools to provide computer science instruction pursuant to new GS 115C-81.90.
Changes the act's long title.
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House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Adds a new subsection to proposed GS 115C-150.12A that governs the boards of trustees for schools for the deaf and blind (boards), authorizing each board to (1) collaborate with other boards or with local boards of education to develop rules, curriculum, or other matters; and (2) enter into memorandums of understanding or joint contracts with other boards or local boards for the purpose of engaging in joint undertakings or purchases.
Amends proposed GS 115C-150.12C, relating to boards' powers and duties, to direct the State Board of Education (State Board) to evaluate the schools for the deaf and blind (schools) in the same manner as other alternative schools pursuant to GS 115C-12(24).
Revises the eligibility criteria schools must use for student admissions under proposed GS 115C-150.13A. More specifically requires evidence of hearing loss or vision loss, respectively for admission to a school for the deaf or school for the blind, and that the student's primary education needs are related to the student's hearing or vision loss which require the specialized support and programs offered by that school (previously, only required evidence of hearing or vision loss). Now also requires students to possess the level of functioning necessary to participate in the education program (previously also included possession of minimum daily living skills), adding new requirements for an assessment that the student does not pose a risk of harm to self or others, can function within the school environment in a healthy and safe manner, and does not pose a risk of substantial disruption to the learning environment at the school.
Qualifies the exception of school for the deaf or blind employees from the State Human Resources Act, proposed in GS 126-5, to now only include employees hired on or after July 1, 2024.
Revises the admissions eligibility criteria the State Board must adopt for the 2023-24 school year to mirror the changes made to the revised school admissions criteria in proposed GS 115C-150.13A, as amended.
Revises the directives for the appointment of initial members of the boards of trustees for the NC School for the Deaf, the Eastern NC School for the Deaf, and the Governor Morehead School for the Blind. Now requires the NCGA and the State Board to appoint members within 60 days after the date the act becomes law (was, by November 1, 2023), and requires members to take office 90 days after the date the act becomes law (was, January 1, 2024). Requires the director of each school to call an initial meeting of each board by 105 days after the date the act becomes law (was, January 15, 2024).
Now requires the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to consult rather than collaborate with personnel and boards of trustees from the NC School for the Deaf, the Eastern NC School for the Deaf, and the Governor Morehead School for the Blind, in developing a transition plan for the schools' administration changes. Adds a new requirement for DPI to make a copy of its interim and final transition reports available to each board of trustees at least two weeks prior to submission to the State Board and specified NCGA committee, if the board has taken office at that time. Adds a second interim report to those required by DPI, now requiring DPI to submit interim reports by May 15, 2023, and December 15, 2023 (was one interim report by December 15, 2023). Modifies and adds to required content of the transition plans to specify that the plan (1) must identify areas where the transition may provide employees lesser protections, salaries, or benefits specifically not addressed by the act, and (2) includes an assessment of the most effective administrative structure for the schools for the schools.
Adds the following new content.
Requires each board of trustees of the schools to provide interim reports to the specified NCGA committee by December 15, 2023, and March 15, 2024, and a final report by July 1, 2024, on the plans and progress in transitioning to assumption of administration of the schools. Requires support and consultation of school staff, and requires DPI to provide information as requested by each board. Details required content of the reports, including responses to DPI's reports and an assessment of employment as current employees of the schools under the State Human Resources Act and State salary schedules compared to that of local school administrative unit employees.
Mandates that the board of each school for the deaf and blind honor the terms of any employment contract for employees of those schools as it exists as of July 1, 2024.
Mandates administrators of each school for the deaf and blind employed remain in employment, subject to dismissal for cause, until June 30, 2025. Requires the State Board to waive superintendent licensure requirements for those employed as administrators of each school until June 30, 2025.
Makes the State Human Resources Act, GS Chapter 126, apply to employees of the schools for the deaf and blind employed on June 30, 2024, for as long as that employee remains employed at that school.
House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.
Further amends GS 90-18.1 to modify and add to the conditions under which a physician assistant (PA) is authorized to compound and dispense drugs. Previously amended the conditions to replace the requirement to comply with the rules and regulations of the Board of Pharmacy governing compounding and dispensing to instead include compliance with all applicable State and federal laws and rules governing compounding and dispensing. Now reinstates the condition to comply with the Board of Pharmacy's rules and regulations and adds compliance with all applicable State and federal laws governing compounding and dispensing. Additionally, adds a new condition for PAs to register with the Board of Pharmacy.
Enacts GS 163-33.4 to prohibit an individual, whether paid or volunteer, who is found to have not exercised due care and diligence while performing elections-related work during an elections process from working further in any elections process.
| Intro. by Kidwell, Cleveland, Tyson, Moss. | GS 163 |
Appropriates $3.4 million for 2023-24 from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management for a directed grant to the Town of Jonesville for the construction of the Double Bluff Recreational Park. Effective July 1, 2023.
Amends GS 105-277.3, which defines three classes of property (agricultural land, horticultural land, and forestland) eligible for taxation on the basis of the value of the property in its present use under GS 105-277.4. Amends the income requirement of the class of property defined as agricultural land, which requires the land to have produced an average gross income of at least $1,000 for the preceding three years to claim the benefit, to no longer exclude honey sales from the computation of gross income from agricultural land (currently includes income from the sale of products derived from beehives other than honey). Effective for taxable years beginning on or after July 1, 2023.
| Intro. by Wheatley, Penny, Shepard, Moss. | GS 105 |
Enacts GS 116-4.2 as title indicates.
| Intro. by Pierce, Lucas, Wheatley, Charles Smith. | GS 116 |
Enacts new Article 9, Housing Market Manipulation, in GS Chapter 75, providing as follows. Sets out NCGA findings related to the state's urban growth, businesses purchasing homes as rental properties, and home ownership. States that the NCGA seeks to balance the interests of building wealth through the use of business entities acquiring properties for rental purposes against the State, local, and individual economic benefits that result from having a citizenry broadly engaged in and accruing the advantages attendant to home ownership.
Makes it illegal for any person (as defined), including affiliates of the person, to purchase a single-family home in a qualifying county for a purpose other than for use by the person as a residence if the person, including affiliates of the person, owns 100 or more single-family homes in qualifying counties that are used primarily for rental purposes. Defines a qualifying county as a county with a population greater than 150,000 as of the most recent decennial census. Defines a single family home as a residential structure that is either a fully detached or semi-detached building or that is a row or town home that (1) is separated from the adjacent unit by a ground-to-roof wall, (2) does not share heating or air-conditioning systems or utilities, and (3) does not have units located above or below.
Gives the Attorney General the same authority under this Article to make rules, conduct civil investigations, bring civil actions, and enter into assurances of discontinuances as provided under GS Chapter 75. Allows the court to award or impose any relief available under GS Chapter 75. Allows bringing a civil action for violations, allowing courts to impose civil penalties of up to $100 per day for each single-family home acquired in violation of this Article. Also allows the court to award a prevailing plaintiff one or more of the following: (1) equitable relief; (2) damages; (3) costs and fees, including reasonable attorneys' fees; and (4) exemplary damages equal to the greater of $50,000 or three times the total of damages, costs, and fees. Allows awarding a prevailing defendant costs and fees, including reasonable attorneys' fees, upon a finding by the court that the action was not well-grounded in fact and warranted by existing law or was interposed for any improper purpose.
Sets out the process for the joinder of interested parties. Provides that if a party is unable to pay an amount awarded by the court, the court may find an interested party joined as jointly and severally liable for violation of the Article and make the award recoverable against any or all of the joined parties.
Specifies that the Article does not limit rights and remedies available to the State or to any person under any other law and does not alter or restrict the Attorney General's authority under this Article concerning conduct involving assertions of violations of this Article.
| Intro. by Alexander. | GS 75 |
Amends GS 7A-64 to remove subdivision (b)(3) and create subsection (d), establishing a procedure for district attorneys who recuse themselves from the investigation and prosecution of a matter due to a conflict of interest or for other good cause, to apply to the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) for assignment of another district attorney, a resource prosecutor, or a special prosecutor. Establishes that payment for a special prosecutor must be approved by the Conference of District Attorneys and the director of the AOC. Gives a special prosecutor all the authority the requesting district attorney would otherwise have had.
Amends GS 7A-65 to include other district attorney staff, and provides that the salaries for district attorney administrative assistants, district attorney legal assistants, and district attorney investigators will be as provided in the Current Operations Appropriations Act. Provides that those employees are also entitled to reimbursement for subsistence expenses, travel expenses on official business and longevity pay to the same extent as state employees generally. Effective July 1, 2023, and applies to reimbursements and pay increases after that date.
Amends GS 7A-69 to provide that each district attorney is entitled to at least one district attorney investigator (was, specified districts were entitled to one or two investigatorial assistants). Makes changes to the statute to rename “investigatorial assistant” as “district attorney investigator.” Effective July 1, 2023.
Amends GS 132.1-1(a) to include district attorneys and staff in the list of governmental bodies for which written attorney-client communications are confidential and not public records when concerning claims or judicial/administrative actions for or against the body. Specifies that written attorney-client communications regarding criminal investigations and prosecutions made to a governmental body are not public information except as provided in GS 132.1-4(g).
Amends GS 132.1-4(g) to specify that disclosure of records regarding criminal investigations and criminal intelligence transmitted to a staff member of the Conference of District Attorneys is subject to the requirements of GS 132.1-4 and GS Chapter 15A.
Repeals GS 150B-21.5(c), which permits the Occupational Safety and Health Division of the Department of Labor to adopt a rule regarding an occupational safety and health standard that is identical to a federal regulation promulgated by the Secretary of the United States Department of Labor without publishing notice in the North Carolina Register, holding a hearing, or submitting the rule text to the Rules Review Commission.
Amends GS 150B-21-6 to create subsection (a) from existing text. Requires that an agency incorporating material by reference in a rule must specify where members of the public can obtain copies of the referenced material at no cost. Removes language regarding statements citing to former GS 150B-14(b) and (c) for specifying whether referenced material includes subsequent amendments and editions. Creates new subsection (b), which prohibits agencies subject to GS 150B-19.3 (limitation on certain environmental rules) from incorporating subsequent amendments and editions of the referenced material, except through a subsequent rulemaking proceeding.
Amends GS 150B-21.9(a)(4) to remove “Part 2” from the subdivision, meaning the revised language would require the Rules Review Commission to find that a rulemaking was adopted in compliance with all of Article 2A (Rules).
| Intro. by Stevens, Riddell. | GS 150B |
Appropriates $500,000 for 2023-24 from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management as a directed grant to the Town of Cooleemee to be used as title indicates. Effective July 1, 2023.
Amends GS 143-131(a) to require that the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency use the statute's informal bid process (selecting the lowest responsible, responsive bidder when considering the quality, performance, and time specified in the bid) when awarding contracts for construction or repair work, including the purchase of manufactured housing units, related to disaster recovery. The requirement applies to contracts expending public funds of $250,000 or more, but less than the limit prescribed by GS 143-129 (currently $500,000).
| Intro. by Pless, Stevens, Bell, B. Jones. | GS 143 |
Amends the definition of compensation in GS 135-1, as it applies to the retirement system for teachers and state employees, and GS 128-21, as it applies to the retirement system for counties, cities and towns, by adding that for employees or teachers (as applicable) who start earning contributory retirement service in the retirement system on or after January 1, 2024, only the amount of unused vacation leave accruing during the 12-month period immediately preceding the employee's or teacher's retirement is to be counted for the purpose of calculating average final compensation.
Repeals GS 135-70.1 and GS 135-71(d), as the title indicates. Applies to applications for transfer submitted on or after January 1, 2024.
| Intro. by Warren. | GS 135 |
Amends GS 159-34 to add new subsection (e) requiring the Local Government Commission (LGC) to provide a warning to every local governmental unit that does not submit an audit within nine months of unit’s fiscal year end. Sets out additional requirements for the warning notice. Establishes that a unit will be deemed to consent to the sales and use tax withholding penalty in GS 159-34(f) if the unit does not comply with the warning and fails to submit an audit within 12 months of fiscal year end. Allows a local government to notify LGS of its plan to appeal the action, with notice of appeal due within 45 days of receiving notice of the warning.
Adds new subsection (f) establishing a sales and use tax withholding penalty for failure to comply with the warning provided under subsection (e). Permits the LGC to request the Secretary of Revenue withhold 150% of the cost of the required annual audit for the local governmental unit from the unit’s quarterly sales and use tax distributions, and allows the withholding to occur in subparts if the amount to be withheld exceeds 5% of the unit’s monthly general fund budget. Establishes a procedure for the Secretary of Revenue to release the funds to the governmental unit after the LGC receives the required annual audit report, or two years have passed since the notice from the LGC to begin withholding funds.
Effective January 1, 2024, and applies to audits for fiscal years ending on or after June 30, 2023.
| Intro. by Warren. | GS 159 |
Subject to approval by voters at a statewide general election in November of 2024, amends Section 3 of Article VI of the NC Constitution by adding that if the NCGA authorizes voting in person before election day, then the period of time authorizing voting in person before election day must be no longer than seven consecutive days. Sets out the ballot language. If approved, effective upon certification and applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2026.
| Intro. by Warren, Pike. | CONST |
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Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
No longer names the act the “Religious Assembly Security and Protection Act of 2023.”
Adds the following content to the bill.
Part II.
Repeals the following statutes concerning pistol permits: GS 14-402 (forbidding sale of pistols without permit), GS 14-403 (concerning issuance of a permit to purchase a pistol), GS 14-404 (concerning permit denials) and GS 14-405 (concerning confidentiality and record keeping requirements). Repeals GS 14-407.1 (concerning permits for the purchase of blank cartridge pistols). Repeals GS 14-315(b1)(1) (setting out the defense for selling a weapon to a minor that the minor produced a permit under now repealed GS 14-402). Repeals GS 122C-54(d2) (giving a sheriff access to a record of involuntary commitment for mental health treatment or for substance abuse treatment that is required to be reported to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) by GS 14-409.43, for the purposes of conducting background checks under now repealed GS 14-404).
Provides that prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this section are not abated or affected by this section, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this section remain applicable to those prosecutions.
Part III.
Requires the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to collaborate with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and the Wildlife Resources Commission (Commission), to launch a two-year statewide firearm safe storage awareness initiative to educate the public about the importance of the safe storage of firearms and to facilitate the distribution of gun locks, which must include the development of a website and toolkit and include an outreach process.
Requires DPS to develop a website to provide information to the public about six specified issues related to the safe storage of firearms, including access to a toolkit of information that local communities may use to launch firearm safe storage initiatives at the local level. Specifies what is to be included in the toolkit, including the distribution of free or discounted gun locks. Requires the development of the website and toolkit by July 1, 2024.
Requires DPS, upon development of the website and toolkit, to implement an outreach process for disseminating the information and toolkit to the public and to local communities, and requires providing technical assistance to local communities to assist them in using the toolkit to launch local initiatives.
Allows contracting with a third-party with relevant expertise related to public health and injury prevention to launch the firearm safe storage awareness initiative.
Prohibits the firearm safe storage awareness initiative and any state funds used to launch and maintain the initiative, from being used to advocate, promote, or lobby for the creation of new, or the revision of existing, laws regulating firearms; limits use to the purposes set out in the act and to explaining and promoting existing laws regulating firearms and best practices for firearm storage and safety.
Requires DPS, in collaboration with DHHS and the Commission, to report to the specified NCGA committee on progress in launching the initiative by September 1, 2024.
Effective July 1, 2023.
Makes conforming technical changes in Part I and amends the act's titles.
Includes whereas clauses and findings relating to the Haw River Trail. Authorizes the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources (Department) to add the Haw River Trail (Trail) in Rockingham, Guilford, Alamance, Orange, and Chatham Counties, between the Haw River State Park and Jordan Lake State Recreation Area, to the State Parks System (System) as a State trail. Directs the Department to support, promote, encourage, and facilitate the establishment of trail segments as specified. Excludes the Trail from the requirements of GS 143B-135.54(b) regarding appropriations requirements for additions to the System. Allows donations of land as well as purchase of lands for the Trail with existing funds in the Land and Water Fund, the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund, the Complete the Trails Fund, the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund, and other available funding.
| Intro. by Galey. | UNCODIFIED, Alamance, Chatham, Guilford, Orange, Rockingham |
Amends GS 20-183.3 by no longer requiring that tinted windows be inspected during a motor vehicle safety inspection. Makes conforming changes including removing the corresponding fee in GS 20-183.7 and amends GS 20-183.7 by no longer specifying that the fee for an electronic inspection authorization applies when an electronic inspection authorization is used. Amends GS 20-127 by adding the requirement that a driver of a vehicle with tinted windows roll down the driver side window when a law enforcement officer approaches, and roll down the passenger window if the officer approaches from the passenger side. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2023.
| Intro. by Johnson. | GS 20 |
Amends GS 18B-302 (prohibiting the sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, wine, spirituous liquor, or mixed beverages to anyone less than 21 years old) and GS 14-313 (regulating youth access to tobacco products, tobacco-derived products, vapor products, and cigarette wrapping papers) to add tribal enrollment cards issued by a federal recognized tribe to the list of acceptable identification of purchasers or prospective purchasers. Make a clarifying change to GS 14-313. Applies to purchases made on or after July 1, 2023.
Amends GS 132-1.4 to make booking photographs confidential and not public records, and prohibits public law enforcement agencies from publishing, distributing, or releasing booking photographs (however, allows a public law enforcement agency to release a booking photograph when the photograph is a record of criminal investigation related to a missing person report). Allows a court to order the release of a booking photograph upon a showing by the person requesting disclosure that the disclosure is actually necessary for immediate law enforcement needs. Defines booking photograph as an image of an individual taken by an arresting public law enforcement agency for the purpose of identification or taken when the individual was processed into a jail. Effective October 1, 2023.
| Intro. by Moffitt, Lowe, Johnson. | GS 132 |
GS 150B-18 requires rules to be adopted in substantial compliance with Article 2A (rules). Prohibits agencies from implementing or enforcing against any person a policy, guideline, or other interpretive statement that meets the definition of a rule if the policy, guideline, or other interpretive statement has not been adopted as a rule in accordance with Article 2A. Amends GS 150B-18 by adding that any policy, guideline, or other interpretive statement that an agency attempts to implement or enforce inconsistent with this statute is unenforceable unless it is adopted as a rule in accordance with Article 2A.
| Intro. by Moffitt, Sawrey, Daniel. | GS 150B |
Includes whereas clauses.
Amends GS 115C-457.3, adding a new subsection to direct any amount of funds in excess of legislative appropriations for a fiscal year in the Current Operations Appropriations Act for the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund to be transferred to the School Technology Fund in the same fiscal year in which the excess funds are collected.
Directs the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to allocate these funds to local school administrative units on a per pupil basis to be credited toward the remaining judgement in the specified case until the judgement is satisfied. Requires DPI to send written notice to the NC School Boards Association (a party in the specified case) upon the transfer of excess funds as provided in GS 115C-457.3, as amended.
Directs that in any fiscal year funds are legislatively appropriated from a source other than the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund for capital improvements for school technology for local school administrative units, the funds must be credited toward the same identified judgement until the judgement is satisfied. Directs DPI to send written notice to the NC School Boards Association within 60 days after the end of each fiscal year of any funds credited toward the remaining judgement.
Directs the Legislative Research Commission to study the ways the State must satisfy the remainder of the judgement in the identified case, including sources of funding to satisfy the judgement and the time line for payments to be made within a 10-year period. Directs the LRC to report to the 2023 NCGA by March 15, 2024.
Amends GS 18B-302 (prohibiting the sale of malt beverages, unfortified wine, wine, spirituous liquor, or mixed beverages to anyone less than 21 years old) and GS 14-313 (regulating youth access to tobacco products, tobacco-derived products, vapor products, and cigarette wrapping papers) to add tribal enrollment cards issued by a State or federal recognized tribe to the list of acceptable identification of purchasers or prospective purchasers. Make a clarifying change to GS 14-313. Applies to purchases made on or after July 1, 2023.
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House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Instead of describing the property to be removed from the corporate limits of the Town of Fuquay-Varina as the described tracts of land, identifies those properties being removed from the corporate limits using the properties' Wake County Parcel Identification Numbers.
| Intro. by Paré. | UNCODIFIED, Wake |
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Amends Section 2 of the act to no longer require that the election for members of the Thomasville City Board of Education be conducted in accordance with the applicable provisions of GS Chapter 115C (Elementary and Secondary Education). Makes an additional clarifying change.
Makes technical and clarifying changes to Section 3 of the act, which provides for staggered terms of initial members elected in 2023 as well as for elections in 2025 and 2027. Also makes technical changes to Section 5 of the act.
| Intro. by Watford. | Davidson |
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Amends the proposed changes to Section 8 of SL 1989-292 by clarifying the staggered terms of members of the Granville County Board of Education elected from Districts 3 and 4 to now require that those members be elected in 2024 and every four years thereafter (was, elected in 2024 and in 2028 and every four years thereafter). Makes additional clarifying changes. Amends the introductory language in Sections 1 and 2 of the act by making clarifying changes to the session laws being amended.
| Intro. by Winslow, Sossamon. | UNCODIFIED, Granville |
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes a technical change to the lead in language in Section 1 of the act.
| Intro. by Hardister, Faircloth. | Guilford |
Amends GS 115C-84.2(d) as title indicates. Requires Durham County Schools and Person County Public Schools to open no earlier than August 10 (currently, prohibited from opening earlier than the Monday closest to August 26), excluding year-round schools. Deletes the provisions of subsection (d) concerning waiver of the opening date requirements upon a showing of good cause. Also amends GS 115C-174.12 to allow Durham County Schools and Person County Public Schools to administer assessments before the end of the fall semester if it implements a school calendar that concludes the fall semester before December 31. Applies beginning with the 2023-24 school year.
Under current law, GS 115C-84.2(d) sets the parameters within which local boards of education must determine the opening and closing dates of public schools under subdivision (a)(1) of this statute. Amends GS 115C-84.2(d) to provide the local boards of education for the Catawba County Schools, Hickory City Schools, and Newton-Conover City Schools with additional flexibility in adopting their school calendars by removing the specified opening and closing dates. Applies beginning with the 2023-24 school year.
| Intro. by Setzer. | Catawba |
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Requires, beginning in 2024, that the Henderson County Board of Public Education (Board) be elected on a partisan basis at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year as terms expire for four-year terms. Requires elections to be conducted in accordance with GS Chapters 115C (Elementary and Secondary Education) and 163 (Elections and Election Law). Requires candidates to be nominated at the same time and manner as other county officers. Requires Board members to take office on the first Monday in December of the year of election, at which time the terms of their predecessors expire. Requires members to serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.
Sets out the following requirements for filling Board vacancies: (1) requires vacancies for positions elected on a nonpartisan basis in 2020 or 2022 to be filled by the remaining members of the Board until the next election of the members of the Board, at which time the remaining unexpired term of the office in which the vacancy occurs must be filled by election; (2) requires vacancies for positions elected on a partisan basis in 2024 and thereafter to be filled by appointment by the remaining members of the Board in accordance with GS 115C-37.1 (vacancies in offices of county boards elected on a partisan basis in certain counties); and (3) requires a person appointed to fill a vacancy be a resident of the seat in which the vacancy occurs.
Specifies that these provisions do not affect the terms of office of any person elected to the Board in 2020 or 2022. Require Board members elected in 2020 or 2022, or any member appointed by the remaining members of the Board to fill a vacancy of a member elected in 2020 or 2022, to serve until a successor has been elected and qualified.
Makes conforming changes to GS 115C-37.1(d). Effective December 1, 2024.
| Intro. by Moffitt. | Henderson |
Blank bill.
| Intro. by Applewhite. | Cumberland |
Actions on Bills: 2023-02-14
H 8: VARIOUS STATUTORY CHANGES. (NEW)
H 11: SCHOOLS FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND.
H 35: EXPAND DEFINITION OF OPIOID ANTAGONIST.
H 36: FIREARMS TRAINING/PROBATION & PAROLE OFFICERS.
H 75: PA TEAM-BASED PRACTICE.
H 76: ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE OPTIONS.
H 89: ADOPT OFFICIAL STATE COOKIE AND STAR.
H 90: JUDICIAL DISCRETION OF FTA RELEASE CONDITIONS.-AB
H 91: CREATE PRETRIAL RELEASE STUDY COMMITTEE.-AB
H 92: SUPERSEDING ORDERS/DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.-AB
H 93: ALLOW PRESERVE OPERATORS TO PURCHASE RABBITS.
H 94: ABC LAWS/LOCAL SALES OPTION.
H 95: FUNDS FOR BERMUDA RUN PROJECTS.
H 96: NC REACH ACT.
H 97: VARIOUS EDUCATION CHANGES. (NEW)
H 98: RIGHT TO TRY INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENTS. (NEW)
H 100: REGIONAL FIRING RANGE/ALAMANCE CC.
H 101: THE FIREARMS LIBERTY ACT.
H 102: HOUSE PERMANENT RULES.
H 103: GSC TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS 2023.
H 104: GSC UNIF. UNREG. CHILD CUST. TRFR. ACT/ART. 3.
H 105: ELDERLY PROP. TAX APPRECIATION EXCLUSION.
H 109: CERTAIN PROHIBITIONS/WORKING/VOTING PROCESS.
H 110: FUNDS FOR TOWN OF JONESVILLE.
H 112: CONSIDER HONEY SALES AS INCOME FOR PUV.
H 113: PROHIBIT RENAMING OF FAYETTEVILLE STATE.
H 114: HOME OWNERSHIP MARKET MANIPULATION.
H 116: MODIFY LAWS AFFECTING DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
H 117: MODIFY ADMINISTRATIVE LAW PROVISIONS.
H 118: FUNDS FOR COOLEEMEE COMMUNITY CENTER.
H 119: NCORR/INCREASE INFORMAL BID THRESHOLD.
H 120: GOVT. RETIREMENT/NO VACATION LEAVE SPIKING.
H 121: ELIMINATE TRANSFER OF CREDITABLE SVC TO CJRS.
H 122: REIMBURSE LATE AUDIT COSTS WITH SALES TAX REV.
H 123: EARLY VOTING CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.
S 20: CARE FOR WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND FAMILIES ACT. (NEW)
S 22: RENAME OUTDOOR HERITAGE ADVISORY COUNCIL.
S 41: GUARANTEE 2ND AMEND FREEDOM AND PROTECTIONS. (NEW)
S 51: KAYLA'S ACT: PROTECTING DOM. VIOLENCE VICTIMS.
S 53: HOTEL SAFETY ISSUES.
S 91: AMEND RULE 4/ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICE.
S 92: EXPAND CIRCUIT BREAKER PROPERTY TAX BENEFIT.
S 93: IN-STATE TUITION PILOT PROGRAM.
S 94: REGIONAL FIRING RANGE/ALAMANCE CC.
S 95: EXPEDITE WATER/WASTEWATER FRANCHISE TRANSFER.
S 98: FARMVILLE FIRE STATION FUNDING.
S 99: BOND REFERENDUM TRANSPARENCY.
S 100: AUTHORIZE HAW RIVER STATE TRAIL.
S 101: WINDOW TINT/INSPECTION/APPROACH OF LEO.
S 102: USE TRIBAL ID FOR ALCOHOL & TOBACCO PURCHASE.
S 104: BOOKING PHOTOGRAPH PRIVACY ACT.
S 106: APA RULES REQUIREMENTS CLARIFICATION.
S 107: FINES AND FORFEITURES/PAYMENT TO SCHOOLS.
S 108: USE TRIBAL ID FOR ALCOHOL & TOBACCO PURCHASE.
Actions on Bills: 2023-02-14
H 5: LOCAL CHANGES OMNIBUS. (NEW)
H 27: ELECT THOMASVILLE CITY BD. OF ED.
H 30: REDUCE LENGTH OF GRANVILLE BD. OF ED. TERMS.
H 31: ROWAN-SALISBURY BOARD OF EDUC. PARTISAN. (NEW)
H 57: HARMONY/LOVE VALLEY ELECTION CHANGES. (NEW)
H 88: OMNIBUS LOCAL ELECTIONS. (NEW)
H 99: WAKE CO. BD. OF COMM. ELECTIONS. (NEW)
H 106: SCHOOL CALENDAR FLEXIBILITY/VARIOUS LEAS. (NEW)
H 111: SCHOOL CALENDAR FLEXIBILITY/DURHAM AND PERSON.
H 115: SCHOOL CALENDAR FLEXIBILITY. (NEW)
S 18: STANLY CTY AIRPORT AUTHORITY/MEMBERS & LEASES.
S 96: SCHOOL CALENDAR FLEXIBILITY/PITT CO.
S 97: 20TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT LOCAL ACT-1.
S 103: PARTISAN BOED. ELECTIONS/HENDERSON.
S 105: 19TH SENATORIAL DISTRICT LOCAL ACT-1.
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