Requires that $800,000 of the funds appropriated from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation for 2025-26 be allocated to the Greensboro Transit Agency to be used in specified amounts for the two listed projects. Effective July 1, 2025.

Requires the Department of Instruction (DPI) to study methods for increasing teacher planning time or decreasing teacher obligations that decrease planning time. Requires DPI to report to the specified NCGA committee by February 15, 2026, on the study results, including four specified items. Appropriates $5,000 for 2025-26 from the General Fund to DPI for the study and allows DPI to use the funds to partner with a third party to conduct the study. Effective July 1, 2025.

Amends GS 115C-407 (prohibiting tobacco use in school buildings, grounds, and at school sponsored events) as follows. Now also prohibits the use of hemp products by any person in school buildings, in school facilities, on school campuses, and in or on any other school property owned or operated by the school. Defines hemp products to mean products derived from hemp, as defined in the State controlled substances act, and their synthetic counterparts designed, manufactured, or sold to be inhaled or otherwise consumed, including the substances commonly known as "delta-8," "delta-9," and "CBD." Defines tobacco products to include vapor products. Changes the implementing entity responsible for the adoption of a written policy prohibiting tobacco use and hemp products to governing bodies of public school entities instead of local boards of education (was, local boards of education are responsible for the adoption, implementation, and enforcement of the tobacco policy). Makes conforming changes, including to the statute's title. Removes outdated language.

Requires, in GS 115C-562.5, nonpublic schools accepting eligible students receiving scholarship grants under Part 2A of Article 39 of GS Chapter 115C to adopt the policy described above. 

Applies beginning with the 2025-26 school year. 

Expands the definition of opiates under GS 90-89 (listing Schedule I controlled substances) to include 39 additional chemical designations. Amends GS 90-89(1a) to change the alternative names for certain fentanyl derivatives. Amends GS 90-89 to enact new subdivision GS 90-89(1b) to include Nitazene derivatives as a Schedule I controlled substance including any of the specified derivatives, their salts, isomers, or salts of isomers unless specifically utilized as part of the manufacturing process by a commercial industry of a substance or material not intended for human ingestion or consumption, as a prescription administered under medical supervision, or for research at a recognized institution, whenever the existence of these salts, isomers, or salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation or unless specifically excepted or listed in this or another schedule, structurally derived from benzimidazole by substitution at the 1-position nitrogen with an ethylamine group, and by substitution at the 2-position carbon with a benzyl group, whether or not the compound is further modified in any of specified ways. 

Modifies the listed chemical designation for the hallucinogenic substance at GS 90-89(3)mm so it now reads “5-methoxy-N-methyl-N-isopropyltryptamine (5-MeO-MiPT)" (was, same formula but no isopropyltryptamine, just propyltryptamine).  

Adds bromazolam to systemic depressants listed at GS 90-89(4). 

Adds cycloalkyl to the list of substituted cathinones considered stimulants under GS 90-89(5).  

Amends GS 90-89(7) (synthetic cannabinoids) to conform to statutory list. Modifies the statutory list of indole carboxamides (GS 90-89(7)(l)) so that it includes the described compounds substituted in one or both of the listed ways (was, just one of the listed ways). Modifies descriptions of listed substitution at the nitrogen of the carboxamide and adds reference to MDMB-ICA as a substance included in the definition.

Amends GS 90-89(7)(n), indazole carboxaldehydes, to add four additional groups. Modifies GS 90-89(7)(o) to so that it includes the described structurally derived compounds substituted in one or both of the listed ways (was, just one of the listed ways). Modifies descriptions of listed substitution at the nitrogen of the carboxamide deletes APINCACA as a substance and adds four more substances in the class. Adds four more substances (oxindoles, indole acetamides, indazole acetaldehydes, and pyrazoles) to the list of synthetic cannabinoids, as described.

Amends GS 90-90(2)h1 (pertaining to Schedule II controlled substances that are opioids/opiates) to read as follows: fentanyl immediate precursor chemical 4-anilino-N-phenethylpiperdine (ANPP) [(was, Fentanyl immediate precursor chemical, 4-anilino-N-phenethyl-4-piperidine (ANPP)]. Amends GS 90-91(k)11 (Schedule III controlled substances that are anabolic steroids) to change listing to Dehydrochloromethyltestosterone (was, Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone) and GS 90-91(k)16 to Mesterolone (was, Mesterolene).

Identical to S 122, filed 2/21/25.

Repeals GS Chapter 31C, Uniform Disposition of Community Property Rights at Death Act, and enacts new Article 5, Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act (Act), to GS Chapter 30. Titles the Article and sets forth 11 defined terms. Provides the following. 

Describes the property of a community-property spouse subject to the Article, with separate criteria for property based on whether the decedent was domiciled in the State at the time of death. Defines community-property spouse as an individual in a marriage or other relationship under which community property could be acquired and which the relationship remains in existence at the time of death of either party to the relationship. Details application to community property acquired by community-property spouses through transfer of property to a trust. Excludes from the Article's scope (1) property that community-property spouses have partitioned or reclassified and (2) property that is the subject of a waiver of rights granted by the Article. 

Permits community-property spouses to partition or reclassify property to which the Article would otherwise apply by a record signed by both spouses, which is presumed to result in each owning a one-half separate property interest in each item in the record. Allows a community-property spouse domiciled in the State to waive a right granted by the Article pursuant to State laws applicable to waiver of a spousal property right. 

Establishes a rebuttable presumption that the Article applies to all property acquired by a community-property spouse when domiciled in a jurisdiction where property acquired by the spouse was presumed to be community property under the law of that jurisdiction. 

Details the disposition of community property at death, with one-half of the applicable property belonging to the surviving community-property spouse and not subject to disposition by the decedent at death. Deems the other one-half of the applicable property to belong to the decedent and subject to disposition by the decedent at death, but not subject to the surviving community-property spouse's rights to an elective share or elective life estate under State law. Excludes property transferred by right of survivorship or under a revocable trust or other nonprobate transfer. Specifies that these provisions do not limit a surviving community-property spouse to the year's allowance under Article 4, GS Chapter 30, or the property exemptions under Article X of the Constitution and Article 16, GS Chapter 1C. Allows a court to require a community-property spouse to elect between retaining other property transferred to the surviving community-property spouse or asserting rights to property that, under the Article, belongs to the surviving community-property spouse that at death the decedent purports to transfer to a third party. 

Describes acts of the surviving community-spouse or decedent that are grounds for the surviving community-spouse or personal representative, heir, or nonprobate transferee can assert a right at the death of a community-property spouse. Details a court's authority to consider community property law and requires applying equitable principles in determining rights and remedies. 

Sets forth the procedure for a surviving community-property spouse to assert a claim for relief under the Article, ranging from commencing a civil action to filing a petition with the clerk of superior court within specified time frames. Specifies that incapacity of the surviving spouse does not toll the time for commencing an action or filing a petition. Authorizes distribution of a decedent's estate without personal liability to the personal representative if no timely demand is made. 

Sets forth the procedure for an heir, devisee, or nonprobate transferee of a deceased community-property spouse to assert a claim for relief under the Article, ranging from commencing a civil action to filing a petition with the clerk of court within specified time frames. Similarly, specifies that incapacity of the heir, devisee, or nonprobate transferee does not toll the time for commencing an action or filing a petition. 

Grants limited immunity for third persons who transact in good faith and for value with either the surviving community-property spouse, personal representative, heir, devisee, or nonprobate transferee so long as the person does not know or have reason to know that the party is exceeding or improperly exercising their authority. Provides for liability of lien creditors and purchasers for value of the property, and priority of a community-property spouse's registered instrument of their intent that the Article apply to the property. 

Provides for the principles of law and equity to supplement the Article. Requires uniform application of the Article. 

Makes conforming changes to GS 28A-2-4 to include claims for relief regarding the disposition of community property at death within the jurisdiction of estate proceedings. Makes technical changes. 

Includes a severability clause and directives for the Revisor of Statutes. Includes a savings clause for property rights acquired, extinguished, or barred on the expiration of a limitation period that began to run under another statute before the effective date of the act. 

Effective January 1, 2026.