House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following change. Adds the House Chairs of the Committee on Military and Veterans Affairs to the entities that receive the report on the veterans cemeteries. Adds an appropriation of $100,000 for 2023-24 from the General Fund to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to be used to implement the act.

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

Amends GS 136-133.1(a)(2), which adds new authority for owners or their designees to cut vegetation within any area on the State right-of-way located between viewing zones of two sign faces on the same structure (was, just between the viewing zones of two sign faces).  Makes technical change.

Amends GS 105-164.44M(b) to require the Secretary of Revenue to transfer certain funds monthly (was, at the end of each month) from the net proceeds of sales and use taxes collected at the general rate to the Highway Fund and Highway Trust Fund.

Amends new GS 136-44.40 (setting forth limitations on rail transportation liability for S-Line Corridor acquisition) as follows. Amends defined term S-Line Corridor to mean that portion of the rail corridor located generally  between Raleigh and Ridgeway, also known as the S-Line, which is to be acquired by the Department of Transportation (DOT), as it may now be constituted or hereafter enlarged, adjusted, or relocated, and shall include any additional real property from any source and howsoever acquired if used for or in connection with passenger rail service on or near the S-Line (was, the portion of the rail corridor located generally along the CSX Transportation, Inc.). Changes the third meaning of passenger rail claims to an incident occurring on property owned by DOT or a railroad, or otherwise occupied by DOT or a railroad, pursuant to charter grant, fee simple deed, lease, easement, license, trackage rights, or other form of ownership or authorized use, and intended for current or future use in connection with passenger rail service on the S-Line. (Prior definition did not specify types of ownership.) Changes meaning of railroad to mean a railroad corporation or railroad company from whom DOT has acquired an interest in land related to passenger rail service, its successors in interest, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, or any other intercity rail passenger service provider, and, in the case of all of the foregoing, that has entered into any contracts or operating agreements of any kind with DOT for operations on the S-Line Corridor. Now requires DOT to secure and maintain a liability insurance policy in line with the requirements of GS 136-44.40 (previously DOT could secure and maintain said policy or cause that policy to be secured and maintained).  Now specifies that the insurance policy limits as provided in the contract, cannot exceed the then current limitation of liability provided in 49 U.S.C. § 28103 (or any successor legislation) (was, just limitation of liability provided in 49 U.S.C. § 28103 or any successor legislation).  

Amends Section 3.2 of SL 2021-180 to indicate the figures are for the Highway Fund availability used in developing the 2021-23 fiscal biennial budget (was, the Highway Fund availability used in adjusting the 2021-22 FY budget).  

Amends Section 3.4 of SL 2021-180, as amended, to indicate that the figures are for the Highway Trust Fund availability used in developing the 2021-23 fiscal biennial budget (was, Highway Trust Fund availability used in adjusting the 2021-22 fiscal year budget).   

Amends GS 20-158 by adding new subsection (f), which specifies the following requirements that apply to a traffic control photographic system used to enforce vehicle control signs and signals under GS 20-158 as follows: (1) A violation detected by a traffic control photographic system is defined as when a vehicle enters and proceeds into the intersection after the onset of the  signal display of a steady circular red or steady red arrow controlling traffic approaching the intersection and the applicable red clearance interval has  expired. All signals with traffic control photographic systems must be designed with an appropriate red clearance interval, (2) The duration of the yellow light change interval and the red clearance interval at intersections where traffic control photographic systems are in use must be no less than the yellow light change interval and the red clearance interval  durations specified on the traffic signal plan of record signed and sealed by a  professional engineer, licensed in accordance with the provisions of GS Chapter 89C, and must comply with the provisions of the most recently adopted Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. Effective December 1, 2023, and applies to any enforcement of GS 20-158 by a traffic control photographic system, including by any municipality authorized under GS 160A-300.1, and SL 2001-286, as amended, on or after that date.

Amends GS 143-299.2 (limitations on payments by the State under State Tort Claims Act) to specify that the maximum amount that DOT may pay cumulatively to all claimants on account of injury and damage to any one person arising out of any one occurrence, whether the claim or claims are brought under the State Tort Claims Act, or Article 31A (Defense of State Employees) or Article 31B (Defense of Public School Employees) of GS Chapter 143, is $3 million, less any commercial liability insurance purchased by DOT and applicable to the claim or claims under GS 143-291(b), 143-300.6(c), or 143-300.16(c). Amends DOT’s powers set forth in GS 136-18 to allow DOT to purchase and maintain an umbrella policy of commercial liability insurance providing coverage in an amount up to $10 million beyond the limits of commercial liability insurance policies otherwise authorized by law. Effective when it becomes law and applies retroactively to January 1, 2021.

Amends GS 136-44.20 (DOT as designated agency to administer and fund public transportation programs) to require DOT to recognize a regional council of governments or regional planning commission as an eligible unit of government to apply for, accept, receive, and dispense all rural and urban planning, operating, and capital transit grants made available through DOT or the Federal Transit Administration. Authorizes DOT to designate a council of governments or a regional planning commission as a transit planning district in order to promote efficient and effective planning and coordination of transit services and programs and to allocate funding to carry out planning and coordination activities. Specifies that the council of governments or a regional planning commission is subject to the following: (1) it cannot apply for transit operating or capital funds to replace an existing transit agency without consent of the member governments in the proposed transit service area and (2) it is authorized to apply for and implement mobility management activities, as defined by the Federal Transit Administration, for 49 U.S.C. § 5307, 49 U.S.C. § 5310, and 49 U.S.C. § 5311 grant programs. Specifies that funding percentages for these grants will be allocated based on (i) 80) federal match and 20% local match for capital projects, (ii) 50% federal match and 50% local match for operating projects, or (iii) the most recent recommended match percentages published by the Federal Transit Administration for these grant programs.

Amends GS 136-44.27 (NC Elderly and Disabled Transportation Assistance Program) to specify that a regional council of governments or a regional planning commission may apply for and receive any funds to perform mobility management activities, as defined by the Federal Transit Administration, and use funding to fill gaps in service, where they exist, by coordinating with existing transit agencies, nonprofit organizations, or third-party operators. Effective July 1, 2023, and applies to applications for transit grants on or after that date.

Makes organizational changes.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Changes statutory references in GS 115C-218.7 (material revisions of charters) and GS 115C-218.8 (nonmaterial revisions of charters) to refer to low-performing schools under GS 115C-218.94, pertaining to identification of low-performing and continually low-performing charter schools (was, GS 115C-105.37A, a continually low performing school and reassignment of students). Deletes new GS 115C-218.87 (authorizing charter schools to establish micro school programs) and conforming changes to GS 115C-84.3 and GS 115C-218.1.

Adds new subsection (h1) to GS 115C-218.45 to authorize charter schools unable to fill current enrollment with students qualified under the laws of this State for admission to a public school to enroll out-of-state students who are domiciliaries of other states. Requires the charter school to charge those students a tuition of at least 50% of the total per pupil allocation of the local appropriation for the county where the charter school is located and the per pupil State appropriation for that school year but no more than 100% of the total of the per pupil allocation of the local appropriation for the county in which the charter school is located and the per pupil State appropriation for that school year. Caps the number of out-of-state enrollees at 10% of the number of students enrolled in the charter school. Defines foreign exchange student for purposes of the subsection. Permits charter schools to enroll no more than two foreign exchange students per high school grades nine through twelve in any given school year at the charter school. Sets forth the same tuition framework as described above. Specifies that foreign exchange students do not count toward the enrollment capacity or cap for any program, class, building, or grade levels for grades nine through 12 and are not be subject to any lottery process used by the charter school for enrollment. Specifies that new GS 115C-218.45(h1) applies beginning with the admissions process for the 2024-25 school year. 

Deletes new subsection (b1) to GS 115C-218.45 (non-discrimination provisions of charter school students) and instead enacts new GS 115C-74(68), which prohibits a local board of education from considering a student's current or prior enrollment in a charter school in any criteria used by the local board for determination of admissions or eligibility to any school or special program.

Deletes amendments to GS 115C-426(c) (uniform budget).

Amends GS 115C-407.55 (rules for high school interscholastic athletic activities) as follows. Requires all rules adopted by the State Board of Education (Board) for high school interscholastic activities by public schools to require that charter schools and nonpublic schools be classified as follows: (1) the charter or nonpublic school must determine, based on the address of the student, the school in the local school administrative unit the student would be assigned to attend by the local board of education. Requires the charter or nonpublic school to submit to the administering organization (i) the names of all schools to which the students would have been assigned and (ii) the percentage of students who would have attended each of those schools; (2) the charter or nonpublic school classification must be based on the classification of the school or schools that the largest percentage of the student body of that school would have been assigned to attend in any local school administrative unit; and (3) permits a charter or nonpublic school to apply for a hardship waiver based on the school's classification made in accordance with this subdivision. Requires the Board to adopt emergency rules to implement GS 115C-407.55 as amended by the act for the 2023-24 school year.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition deletes the content of the previous edition and replaces it with the following House Resolution.

Creates the nine-member House Select Committee on Homeowners' Associations (Select Committee), with members appointed upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, who will also designate one of those members as chair. Requires the Select Committee to study the following with regards to homeowners' associations (HOAs), including unit owners' associations governed by GS Chapter 47C and owners' associations governed by GS Chapter 47F: (1) current laws applicable to HOAs, (2) existing remedies for HOA violations of their obligations under the law and recommended additional remedies for such violations, (3) executive agencies best positioned to assist homeowners in resolving complaints against HOAs for violations of law, and (4) any other relevant issue the Select Committee deems appropriate.

Sets out provisions governing quorum, exercise of powers, contracting for services, receipt of per diem, subsistence and travel allowance, and staffing. 

Requires the Select Committee to submit a final report on the results of its study, including any proposed legislation, to the NCGA by March 1, 2024, by filing a copy of the report with the Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Legislative Library. Terminates the Select Committee on March 1, 2024, or upon the filing of its final report, whichever occurs first.

Amends the act's titles.

House amendment to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. 

Amends new GS 160D-1110.1 by removing residential building plans from those types of permit applications where the government must issue applicable building permit plan decisions within 21 business days. Makes conforming changes to the statute's caption and to the act’s long title.

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

Section 1

Amends GS 143-137 and new GS 143-137.1 to refer to the Department of Insurance rather than the Department of Administration as the entity responsible for designating separate accounts for funds of the Building Code Council and the Residential Code Council.

Makes a technical change to GS 143-138(d).

Specifies that the provisions of Section 1 do not affect the timing of, or abrogate the duties of, the Building Code Council in its revision of the State Building Code collection into the 2024 State Building Code collection, to become effective January 1, 2025, as required by GS 143-138(d) prior to the effective date of the Section (January 1, 2025), effective on the date the act becomes law.

Section 7

Sets the provisions of Section 7, prohibiting the Building Code Council from amending specified Parts of the State Building Code: Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings, to expire on January 1, 2026 (was, on the effective date of the 2025 State Building Code: Residential Code for One- and Two-Family Dwellings).

Section 8

Sets the provisions of Section 8, prohibiting the Building Code Council and Residential Code Council from amending or adopting new provisions or Parts of the State Building Code relating to energy conservation or efficiency of buildings, dwellings, and structures to which the State Residential Code applies, to expire on January 1, 2026 (was, January 1, 2031).

Section 13

Amends new GS 160D-925(d1) to also authorize the owner of a privately owned and maintained stormwater control project to collect funds for maintenance, repair, replacement, and reconstruction costs for the project (previously, only authorized establishing and retaining the funds). Adds a new requirement for the local government to allow five years from acceptance of the project as complete for the funds to be collected and retained by the owner of the project. Allows for the local government to require segregated accounting for funds collected for this purpose. Makes technical changes to internal cross-references included in the directive relating to local governments that have required owners to make payments to the local government for these purposes prior to date new GS 160D-925(d1) becomes law.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition changes the bill's short title.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following change. Changes the date the State Board of Community Colleges is to report to the specified NCGA committee on its study of options for improving community college funding and accountability from January 15, 2024, to March 1, 2024.

House committee substitute amends the 1st edition as follows.

Makes technical changes to the lead in language of the proposed changes to GS Chapter 17C. Eliminates "eligibly county" as a defined term in GS 17C-20, applicable to the Criminal Justice Fellows Program (Program) set forth in Article 2 (previously, amended the term to mean any county in the State, rather than a county meeting the population threshold set under current law). Makes conforming changes to delete references to the term throughout Article 2.

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

Revises new GS 147-86.19 as follows. Removes the term cryptocurrency and replaces it with central bank digital currency, defined as a digital currency, a digital medium of exchange, or a digital monetary unit of account issued by the US Federal Reserve System or a federal agency that is made directly available to a consumer by such entities. Specifies that the term includes a digital currency, a digital medium of exchange, or a digital monetary unit of account issued by the US Federal Reserve System or a federal agency that is processed or validated directly by such entities. Bars a state agency or the General Court of Justice from accepting a payment using central bank digital currency (was, using cryptocurrency).  Adds a prohibition on a state agency or the General Court of Justice from participating in any test of central bank digital currency by any Federal Reserve branch. Adds a severability clause. Amends the act's titles.

House committee substitute to the 2nd edition deletes the previous edition in its entirety (was, proposed amendments to the Giglio disclosure process set forth in GS 17C-16 and GS 17E-16) and replaces it with a total repeal of GS 17C-16 and GS 17E-16. Requires the Criminal Justice Standards Division and Justice Officers’ Standards Division to destroy any notifications received pursuant to GS 17C-16 or GS 17E-16 within 60 days of the effective date of the act. Makes conforming changes to the act’s long and short titles.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.  Now requires the UNC School of Medicine’s Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) (was, the Department of Health and Human Services [DHHS]) to consult with the NC Medical Board, DHHS, NC Board of Nursing, NC Board of Pharmacy, and the following professional associations: the NC Nurses Association,  NC Medical Society, NC Academy of Family Physicians, and NC Pediatric Society (was, just NC Nurses Association), to gather evidence-based information on sudden unexpected death in epilepsy from publications and nonprofit organizations to create standard information to provide to all health care practitioners in this State.  Makes conforming changes to account for new role of NC AHEC. Amends the act's long title.

House committee substitute replaces the content of the 1st edition with the following.

Amends GS 128-27 (Local Governmental Employees Retirement System) and GS 135-5 (Teachers and State Employees' Retirement System) to allow justice officers (LGERS) and law enforcement officers (LGERS and TSERS) who are 59.5 or a normal retirement age safe harbor designated by the Internal Revenue Code to receive any retirement allowance for which they are otherwise eligible even if they have not retired or otherwise separated from service. 

Amends GS 128-24 (LGERS) and GS 135-3 (TSERS) to require payment of a retirement allowance without restriction to beneficiaries who retired on an early or service retirement as a justice officer (LGERS) or law enforcement officer (LGERS and TSERS) and are subsequently employed as a justice officer (LGERS) or a law enforcement officer (LGERS and TSERS) following a bona fide separation from service lasting at least one month. Requires the employer to pay into the System the member's and employer's contribution for the duration of the employment. Prohibits counting this service as membership service that increases the beneficiary's retirement benefits. Details the criteria that must be satisfied for a bona fide separation, including the employer and beneficiary filing sworn affidavits with the System regarding the beneficiary's retirement. Also requires payment of a retirement allowance without restriction when the beneficiary is subsequently employed as a justice officer (LGERS) or a law enforcement officer (LGERS and TSERS) with an employer other than the employer the beneficiary was employed by at the time of retirement.

Amends GS 143-166.41(c) (State law enforcement officers) and GS 143-166.42(c1) (law enforcement officers employed by a local government employer) pertaining to when payments to retired officers cease under the special separation allowances for law enforcement officers to narrow the exemption for when those officers return to certain reemployment with the State/local government to have it only apply as follows: (1) to State law enforcement officers when the reemployment is a public safety position (but not a probation or parole officer) and (2) to local government officers when reemployment is in a public safety position (i.e., a law enforcement officer or justice officer). 

Makes conforming changes to GS 143-166.85 (benefits under the Sheriffs’ Supplemental Pension Fund Act of 1985) to delete the provision requiring monthly pension payments under that act to stop upon certain reemployment.

Provides a severability clause.

Requires expiration of provisions which the IRS deems not in compliance with IRS law or regulation, effective 30 days from receipt of the determination by the State Treasurer. 

Effective October 1, 2023, and expires October 1, 2027.

Changes the act's short title.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Amends new GS 75-152 by deleting defined term commerce and adding defined term Department (NC  Department of Commerce). Amends term large social media platform to specify that the service must have more than 30,000 monthly active users in the State (was, 1 million monthly active users in the United States) or generates more than $15 million in annual gross revenue from activities in the State (was, had to generate more than $500 million in annual gross revenue, adjusted annually for inflation). Amends term large social media provider to specify that the term does not include the following: (1) an Internet service provider, electronic mail, or online service application; (2) a website consisting primarily of news, sports, entertainment, or other information or content that is not user generated but is preselected or curated by the provider and for which chat, comment, or interactive functionality is incidental to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of that information or content; (3) interactive video game service; or (4) e-commerce or online shopping. Amends definition of third-party safety software provider to delete requirement that the person is engaging for commercial purposes or affecting commerce.

Amends new GS 75-155 (was enforcement) to pertain to permits and rulemaking. Requires every large social media platform provider to obtain a permit from the Department before operating in the State. Requires a nonrefundable application fee of $1,000. Requires annual renewal with same fee. Provides for a form. Requires that the application must contain enough information to confirm compliance with the act. Permits the Department to retain the fees and use them for its operations and to issue rules to implement the act. Reorganizes the enforcement provision to GS 75-156.

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

In the new GS 143-300.1B, defines health, human, and welfare services in subdivision (a)(1) as any services provided by the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) and its various divisions, in conjunction with or through nongovernmental organizations. This definition was previously health care services, and referenced the definition in GS 90-21.50 regarding DHHS services. Makes conforming changes throughout the section to use “health, human, and welfare services” in place of “health care services.”

In the new GS 143-300.1C, makes an identical change to the definition of health, human, and welfare services in subdivision (a)(1) and removes health care services. Makes conforming changes throughout the section in the same manner. Amends subsections (e) and (g) of the section to correct a reference to the monetary limits as applied in “subsection (d).” Previously the subsections referenced “subsection (c),” which was erroneous. 

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

Deletes whereas clauses.

Changes the title of new Article 1M, to Surgical Gender Transition Procedures on Minors (was, Youth Health Protection Act), of GS Chapter 90. Deletes Article 1M’s prohibition for an individual to engage in any of the following practices upon a minor, or cause them to be performed for the purpose of attempting to alter the appearance of or affirm the minor's perception of his or her gender or sex, if that is inconsistent with the minor's sex: (1) performing surgeries that sterilize, including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy, oophorectomy, orchiectomy, or penectomy; (2) performing surgeries that artificially construct tissue with the appearance of genitalia that differs from the individual's sex, including metoidioplasty, phalloplasty, and vaginoplasty; (3) performing a mastectomy; (4) prescribing, administering, or supplying gonadotropin releasing hormone analogues or other synthetic drugs used to stop luteinizing hormone and follicle stimulating hormone secretion, synthetic antiandrogen drugs used to block the androgen receptor, or any drug to suppress or delay normal puberty; (5) prescribing, administering, or supplying testosterone, estrogen, or  progesterone to a minor in an amount greater than would normally be produced endogenously in a healthy individual of that individual's age and sex; (6) removing any otherwise healthy or nondiseased body part or tissue.  Now provides that it is unlawful for any physician or other health care provider to provide surgical gender transition procedures to any individual under 18 years of age, except as provided in Article 1M. Specifies that a physician or other health care provider may not refer any individual under 18 years of age to any health care provider for surgical gender transition procedures. Deletes old defined terms and enacts ten newly defined terms, including gender reassignment surgery, genital gender reassignment surgery, and non-genital gender reassignment surgery.  Deletes exemptions to prohibition except for exemption authorizing treatment of any infection, disease, or disorder that has been caused or exacerbated by the performance of a procedure described in the act, whether or not the procedures were performed in accordance with State or federal law and exemption authorizing procedure if death or substantial bodily injury is imminent. Now provides that a physician or other health care provider is not prohibited from providing any of the following additional procedures to a minor: (1) services to persons born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex  development, including a person with external biological sex characteristics  that are unresolvedly ambiguous, such as those born with 46 XX chromosomes with virilization, 46 XY chromosomes with under-virilization, or having both ovarian and testicular tissue; (2) services provided when a physician has otherwise diagnosed a disorder of sexual development that the physician has determined through genetic or biochemical testing that the person does not have normal sex chromosome structure, sex steroid hormone production, or sex steroid hormone action; (3) breast reduction procedures for a female patient causing a physical disorder; (4) any procedure, including defined term non-genital gender reassignment surgery, which a treating physician is medically necessary to treat a physiological condition. Specifies that Article 1M does not require any person to perform surgical gender transition procedures. Amends GS 143C-6-5.6 to only require that state funds not be used for surgical gender transition procedures for individuals under 18 years of age (was, all gender transition procedures for any person, regardless of age). 

Deletes provisions pertaining to aiding/abetting liability for medical professionals, parental consent and required disclosure, professional misconduct provisions, civil remedies, preemption, and whistleblower provisions (all of GS 90-21.142-GS 90-146). Deletes proposed amendments to GS 90-21.5 (pertaining to consent of a minor for certain medical health services) which would have deleted all provisions of the article that allow minors to consent to certain medical services, including certain mental health services as well as the provision requiring a health care provider to obtain parental consent before administering a vaccine that has been granted emergency use authorization. Section would’ve only been limited to emancipated minors.

Amends the act's titles.

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

Divides the provision of new GS 143-166.4 into two new statutes, GS 143-166.4, applicable to State law enforcement officers, and new GS 143-166.5, applicable to local law enforcement officers, and makes the following changes to those provisions.

For State law enforcement officers, amends the amount of the separation allowance so that it is equal to 0.85% of the annual equivalent of the base rate of compensation at the time the officer attained 30 years of service times 30 (was, equal to 0.85% of the annual equivalent of the base rate of compensation at 30 years of creditable service). Defines creditable service to mean the service for which credit is allowed under the retirement system of which the officer is a member, provided that at least 50% of the service is as a law enforcement officer or as a probation/parole officer (probation/parole officer was not previously included). Excludes the first day of reemployment by any State department, agency, or institution of an officer returning to State employment in a position exempt from the North Carolina Human Resources Act in any agency other than the agency from which that officer retired from the events that trigger stoppage of the payments. Allows the Director of the Budget to authorize from time to time the transfer of funds within the budgets of each State department, agency, or institution necessary to carry out the purposes of this Article; requires the funds to be taken from those appropriated to the department, agency, or institution for salaries and related fringe benefits. Makes conforming changes throughout the statute to make provisions applicable at a state, instead of local, level. Makes additional technical changes. 

Amends new GS 143-166.5, applicable to local law enforcement officers, as follows. Amends the amount of the separation allowance so that it is equal to 0.85% of the annual equivalent of the base rate of compensation at the time the officer attained 30 years of service times 30 (was, equal to 0.85% of the annual equivalent of the base rate of compensation at 30 years of creditable service). Makes additional technical changes.

Amends the act's titles.

House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Makes a technical change to new GS 131D-10.2C (allowable number of children in family foster home). Makes a technical change to Section 2 which requires the Social Services Commission (Commission) to adopt temporary rules to implement GS 131D-10.2C. Requires the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Social Services or appropriate agency to submit an amended State Plan (was, updated) to the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services for approval in accordance with 42 U.S.C. § 671 to maintain federal funding for foster care maintenance payments, if necessary to implement the act. Amends the effective date of Section 1 of the act to now provide that it is effective on October 1, 2023, if a State Plan amendment is not necessary to implement GS 131D-10.2C, as enacted in Section 1. Section 1 of this act becomes effective on the date that the amended family foster care home rule is approved by the US Secretary of Health and Human Services in accordance with Section 3 of this act, if applicable, to implement GS 131D-10.2C, as enacted in Section 1 of this act. Requires the Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to report to the Revisor of Statutes the applicable effective date once known.