Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.
Part I.
Limits the Teachers and State Employees’ Retirement System (TSERS) Board of Trustees (Board) discretion to make a final decision accepting a charter school application for participation in TSERS upon receipt of the audit report required under GS 135-5.3 (optional participation for charter schools owned by private nonprofit corporations or municipalities) to those instances when a charter school applied for entry within two years of the charter school’s effective date of entry. Specifies that any charter school approved by the Board contingent upon receiving the described audit report must continue its period of provisional entry for up to one year or until the Board has denied its application for entry into TSERS, whichever is earlier. Provides that the charter school will cease participation in TSERS the first of the month following either of these two occurrences.
Part VII.
Expands the circumstances under GS 135-7(h) (TSERS) and GS 128-29(g) (the Local Government Employees Retirement System-LGERS) under which each retirement system’s board of trustees may direct the described contributions to fund the Legislative Enactment Implementation Arrangement (LEIA) to include if the board identifies a specific administrative or information technology purpose that is necessary to prevent an interruption to the described retirement system’s normal operation. Makes conforming changes.
Authorizes the Board to delegate its power to review a charter school’s application for participation in TSERS to the State Treasurer under GS 135-48.54. Further permits the Board to require that the board of directors of charter schools applying for participation in TSERS to file their applications with the person or entity designated by the State Treasurer. Makes conforming change to GS 135-48.30(a) (powers and duties of the State Treasurer).
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Senate committee substitute to the 4th edition makes the following changes.
Removes Section 13 of the act, concerning changes to a survivor’s alternate benefit under the specified retirement systems, including amendments to GS 135-5, GS 128-27, GS 135-63, and GS 120-4.2. Also removes the $2,702,000 appropriation to the Department of State Treasurer that was for the expansion of eligibility for the survivor’s alternate benefit. Makes conforming changes to the act’s long title.
Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.
Part I.
Repeals GS 147-66, which required the State Treasurer to have an office in Raleigh, and be there between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm, except for Saturdays, Sundays, periods of travel, and legal holidays.
Part II.
Amends proposed GS 147-71.1 to require that the members of the Investment Authority’s Board of Directors (Board) who are appointed by the Governor and the State Treasurer to be subject to confirmation by the NCGA by joint resolution. No longer requires the State Treasurer to determine the sufficiency of a prospective Board member’s expert knowledge. Adds that a Board member may be removed by the applicable appointment authority for misfeasance, malfeasance, or nonfeasance.
Part IV.
Further amends the language added in GS 126-5 by correcting the cross-reference to the Part under which the North Carolina Investment Authority is established.
The Daily Bulletin: 2025-05-20
The Daily Bulletin: 2025-05-20
Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Makes organizational changes. Makes conforming changes to act’s long and short titles, the effective date of the act’s changes to the Charter of the Town of Madison, and the effective date of the act itself.
Adds the following new content.
Section 2.
Amends SL 1903-363, Section 4, as amended, to require elections in Faith to be held at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year, and conducted in accordance with the uniform municipal election laws in GS Chapter 163. Also amends Section 3, as amended, to require that the Town aldermen serve a term of four years.
Prohibits conducting municipal elections in Faith in 2025. Extends the terms of office for the aldermen in Faith serving on the act's effective date by one year. Requires regular municipal elections to be held in Faith every four years beginning in 2026. Specifies that in 2026, and quadrennially thereafter, five aldermen are to be elected to serve four-year terms. Applies to elections held in the town after the act becomes law.
Section 3.
Amends Article III of the Charter of the Town of China Grove (SL 2002-42) as follows. Directs that all regular municipal elections will be held on even-numbered years (was, odd-numbered years) at the time of the general election. Specifies that the Aldermen are to be elected to staggered four-year terms. Makes clarifying and technical changes.
Requires that when elections resume in even-numbered years beginning in 2026, they will be with the same staggering of terms as when elections were conducted in odd-numbered years. (Currently, elections are staggered with two alderman seats and the mayoral seat up for re-election starting 2003 and quadrennially thereafter with the other three alderman seats up for reelection starting in 2005 and quadrennially thereafter.) Directs the town not to hold municipal elections in 2025. Extends the terms by one year of: (1) the three Aldermen whose terms expire in 2025 and (2) the two Aldermen and the Mayor whose terms expire in 2027. Applies to elections held on or after the act becomes law.
| Intro. by Pyrtle. | Rockingham, Rowan |
Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. Makes organizational changes. Makes conforming changes to Section 1's effective date along with the act’s long and short titles. Makes a technical change to the act’s effective date.
Section 2.
Amends SL 1977-633 (election of members to the Gaston County Board of Education) as follows. Staggers the four-year terms of the nine members of the Gaston County Board of Education (Board). Changes the method of election so that seven members of the Board are elected from residency districts (was, townships) where they reside and changes the election for all nine members from nonpartisan elections to partisan elections. Notwithstanding GS 115C-37 (providing for nonpartisan biennial elections of county board members), requires Board members to be elected on a partisan basis at the time of the general election in each even-numbered year as terms expire. Directs that all members be voted on by all eligible voters of the county. Removes outdated language. Repeals Section 4 of SL 1977-633, pertaining to ballot and notice of candidacy and residence requirements. Instructs that candidates for election to the Board will be nominated at the same time and manner as other county officers. Sets the start-date of a Board term as the first Monday in December following the election, with the member to serve until their successor is elected and qualified. Requires vacancies to filled in line with GS 115C-37.1 (concerning vacancies in county boards of election where members are elected by partisan elections).
Clarifies that the act does not affect the term of any Board member elected in 2024. Applicable to Board members in residency districts elected in 2024, requires vacancies to be filled by the appointment of the remaining Board members. If the vacancy occurs in a residency district, requires it to be filled by the appointment of a person residing in the same district in which the vacating member was elected to serve. Specifies that a person filling a vacancy caused by a Board member elected in 2024 will serve until a successor has been elected and qualified. Makes technical and conforming changes.
Section 3.
Makes the following changes to SL 1997-32. Requires that members of the Johnston County Board of Education (J Board) be elected by partisan elections (was, nonpartisan elections). Directs that members be nominated at the same time and manner as other county officers. Repeals Section 3 of SL 1997-32 as amended (addressing when nonpartisan primary elections are necessary for candidates to the J Board). Requires vacancies to be filled in accordance with GS 115C-37.1. Makes conforming changes.
Clarifies that the act does not affect the term of any J Board member elected in 2024. Applicable to J Board members in residency districts elected in 2024, requires vacancies to be filled by the appointment of the remaining Board members. If the vacancy occurs in a residency district, requires it to be filled by the appointment of a person residing in the same district in which the vacating member was elected to serve. Specifies that a person filling a vacancy caused by a Board member elected in 2024 will serve until a successor has been elected and qualified. Makes technical and conforming changes.
Section 4 (was, Section 6).
Makes conforming changes to GS 115C-37.1 to include Johnston and Gaston Counties.
House committee substitute to the 1st edition replaces the content of the 1st edition with the following.
Increases Haywood County’s (County) authority to impose an occupancy tax under Part V of SL 1983-908, as amended, from 2% of gross receipts of the specified rentals to 6% of gross receipts derived from the rental of an accommodation within the county subject to State sales tax. Removes both of the optional 1% occupancy taxes. Makes conforming changes. Requires the County to remit the net proceeds of the tax on a quarterly basis (was, monthly) to the County’s Tourism Development Authority (TDA). Requires the TDA to use one-third of the funds for tourism-related expenditures in the county and two-thirds to promote travel and tourism in the county (was, TDA had to use at least two-thirds of the remitted funds to promote travel and tourism with the remainder for tourism-related expenditures). Decreases the TDA’s members from fifteen to eight. Details residency requirements for the TDA members who: (1) own or operate the specified lodging and (2) own or operate tourism-related businesses. Decreases the number of members who own or operate lodging from six to four. Removes the four at-large members. Reduces the number of ex officio nonvoting members from three to one (the County finance officer). Designates the TDA member who is on the County Board of Commissioners a voting member. Removes the Executive Director of the County Economic Development Commission. Removes provisions pertaining to terms, specifying that TDA members are not compensated, and describing how vacancies are filled. Requires the Board to provide for members’ terms of office and filling of vacancies on the TDA by resolution. Tasks the Board with designating a chair and determining the amount of compensation, if any, to be paid to TDA members. Removes provisions limiting the chair’s ability to vote. Changes the County finance officer’s duty from the TDA’s ex officio account to the TDA’s ex officio finance officer. Requires the TDA to expend tax proceeds on promoting travel and tourism and for tourism related expenditures. Makes technical changes. Requires that the Board of Commissioners adopt a resolution modifying the TDA when it adopts a resolution levying an increase in the room occupancy tax as authorized in this act. Makes conforming changes to the act’s long and short titles.
| Intro. by Pless. | UNCODIFIED, Haywood |
House committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Repeals Nash County’s (County) authority to impose an additional 2% room occupancy tax for the City of Rocky Mount under Section 1 of SL 1987-32 as amended, so that the County’s authority decreases from a maximum 5% occupancy tax to a 3% maximum. Allows the tax to be levied on gross receipts from the rental of an accommodation within the county. Modifies the definition of the term tourism-related expenditures. Makes conforming changes. Specifies at least one-half of the Nash County Tourism Development Authority (NCTDA) must be individuals who are currently active in the promotion of travel and tourism in the County (previously, required one less than one-half of the members have such experience if there was an odd number of members on the NCTDA). Specifies that no elected official can serve as a member of the NCTDA. Removes provisions allowing the NCTDA to convene upon written request of one-third of its members. Narrows the NCTDA’s duties to expending net tax proceeds to the City of Rocky Mount, as described. Effective July 1, 2025, and applies to gross receipts derived from the rental of an accommodation that a person occupies or has the right to occupy on or after that date. Instructs that the reduction of the room occupancy tax under the act does not affect a liability for a tax that was attached before the effective date of the reduction, nor does it affect a right to a refund of a tax that accrued before the effective date of the reduction.
Creates the Rocky Mount District R (District R) taxing district, consisting of the part of Rocky Mount located within Nash County. Makes the Rocky Mount City Council the ex officio governing body of the district with the officers of the City serving as the officers of the governing body of the district. Allows the governing body of the District R to impose a room occupancy tax up to 3% of the gross receipts derived from the rental of an accommodation within the district that is subject to the described State sales tax. Clarifies that the occupancy tax is in addition to State or local sales tax. Provides that the tax must be levied, administered, collected, and repealed as provided in GS 160A-215 (uniform provisions for room occupancy taxes). Requires the District R Tourism Development Authority (TDA) to use at least two-thirds of the occupancy tax proceeds to promote travel and tourism and the remainder for tourism–related expenditures. Mandates that at least one-third of the members of the TDA must be affiliated with businesses that collect the tax in the district and at least one-half must be currently active in the district’s travel and tourism promotion. Makes conforming changes to GS 160A-215(g) (city occupancy taxes).
Instructs the County to remit the net proceeds of the 2% occupancy tax that has been collected but not yet remitted to the TDA as soon as practicable after the repeal of the 2% room occupancy tax and the creation of the TDA. Directs for any unexpended net proceeds of the 2% room occupancy tax held by the City of Rocky Mount as of July 1, 2025, to be remitted to the TDA upon its creation to be used for the same purposes as authorized for the City of Rocky Mount under the specified statutes.
Makes organizational and technical changes. Makes conforming changes to the act’s long and short titles and the effective date.
| Intro. by Chesser. | Nash |
The Daily Bulletin: 2025-05-20
Actions on Bills: 2025-05-20
H 50: LEO SPECIAL SEPARATION ALLOWANCE OPTIONS.
H 476: DST TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS/ADMIN. CHANGES 2025.-AB
H 477: RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFITS REWRITE.-AB
H 506: 2025 STATE INVESTMENT MODERNIZATION ACT.-AB
S 257: 2025 APPROPRIATIONS ACT.
Actions on Bills: 2025-05-20
H 17: VARIOUS LOCAL ELECTION CHANGES. (NEW)
H 116: VARIOUS LOCAL PROVISIONS IV. (NEW)
H 169: HAYWOOD COUNTY OCCUPANCY TAX MODS (NEW).
H 332: NASH/ROCKY MOUNT DISTRICT OCCUPANCY TAX (NEW).
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