Senate amendment to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.
Part V.
Specifies that three or more of the eligible local governments (i.e., Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln, and Mecklenburg Counties) can create the Lake Norman Marine Commission (Commission) by joint resolution in GS 77-89.2. Specifies, in GS 77-89.8, that violations of any of the Commission’s regulation commanding or prohibiting an act is a Class 3 misdemeanor subject to a fine of not less than $200 but not more than $500 (was, just Class 3 misdemeanor with existing fee cap of $500 removed). Removes provisions assigning a magistrate to adjudicate regulations of the Commission as described in GS 77-89.10. Removes provisions that specified that any joint resolution adopted by the four counties that is in effect immediately prior to the effective date of the act, expires upon the adoption of a subsequent joint resolution by the participating local governments consistent with the provisions of this act or September 30, 2025, whichever is earlier. Removes provisions providing that the terms of the commissioners currently appointed to the Commission’s governing board of the Commission expires on September 30, 2025. Removes provisions specifying that upon the Commission being reconstituted pursuant to a joint resolution adopted by the participating local governments, directs that all new appointments to the governing board of the Commission are effective on October 1, 2025. Now directs that the initial appointments to the governing board of the Commission will become effective on the date that is seven calendar days following the adoption of three or more eligible local governments of a joint resolution reconstituting the Commission.
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| Intro. by Huneycutt. | UNCODIFIED, Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Pender, GS 77, GS 138A |
Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. Makes conforming changes to act’s short title. Makes organizational changes.
Makes the following changes to the Underground Utility Safety and Damage Prevention Act, Article 8A of GS Chapter 87 (Act).
Includes soft dig technologies (an excavation method that uses air or water pressure to break up soil and remove it with vacuum extraction) in the term nonmechanized equipment. Makes technical and clarifying changes to GS 87-121. Changes the expiration date for the excavator notice required under GS 87-122 to twenty-eight calendar days after the work start date (was, twenty-eight calendar days after the date notice was given). Makes technical and clarifying changes. Removes references to demolition from the required notice content. Makes technical changes to GS 87-124 (exemptions). Now sets the venue for all claims of actual and consequential damages arising when damage is done by an excavator in the State as described in GS 87-126 in the State court in the county of occurrence (was, set venue based on the type of injury). Makes technical and organizational changes to GS 87-128 (absence of facility location). Reinstates provisions of GS 87-129 (concerning the Underground Damage Prevention Review Board-Board) allowing a person found to be in violation of the Article to request a hearing and providing for notice to the Utilities Commission so that it may issue an order imposing the Board’s recommended penalty. Allows a person requesting an informal conference before the Board upon being found responsible for a violation to be represented by a non-attorney. Removes the March 1 deadline for the Utilities Commission’s annual report to the Board. Makes technical and clarifying changes.
Changes the act’s effective date from September 1, 2025, to October 1, 2025.
| Intro. by Zenger, Watford, Setzer. | GS 87 |
Senate amendment to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.
Section 4.
Makes a technical change to act’s depiction of the changes to Section 8 of SL 2024-34. Makes a conforming change and a technical change to GS 110-91(7) by incorporating existing language.
Section 5.
Clarifies that the section’s changes to GS 119-91(8) is to that statute as amended by Section 4(d) of the act.
| Intro. by Arp, Lambeth, Paré, Rhyne. | GS 110 |
Senate committee substitute to the 3rd edition makes the following changes.
Amends GS 162-62 by requiring that a judicial officer transfer a prisoner appearing before them who is the same person subject to the detainer and administrative warrant to the custody of an officer of Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon the officer's appearance at the facility and request for custody.
Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. Makes conforming changes to act’s titles. Makes organizational changes. Deletes changes to GS 150B-34 (final decision or order under the APA); and GS 150B-51 (APA scope and standard of review).
Amends GS 150B-21.3 (pertaining to the effective date of rules under the APA), as follows. Requires that any permanent rule that would have an aggregate financial cost on all persons affected of at least $20 million as calculated under law in a five-year period can only become effective if the NCGA ratifies a bill approving the rule with the rule becoming effective in accordance with the described timetable. Exempts rules promulgated to comply with federal law, as specified. Makes organizational and conforming changes.
Changes the timeframe for a proposed permanent rule to have a substantial economic impact under GS 150B-21.4 so that it applies when that rule would have an aggregate economic impact of at least $1 million in a five-year period (was, 12-month period). Removes provisions requiring an agency to consider an estimate of the combined cost of the baseline conditions and the proposed rule, including direct costs as well as opportunity costs, as described, in determining the substantial economic impact of a proposed rule.
Creates new GS 150B-19.4 (Limitation on rules with substantial financial costs), which requires any board/commission or other similar unit of government that proposes a rule with a financial cost of more than $1,000,000 to all affected persons during a five-year period to adopt the permanent rule by at least a 2/3rds vote of the board/commission members present and voting. If the proposed rule has a cost of more than $10,000,000 to all affected persons during the five-year period, then the board/commission must adopt the permanent rule by unanimous vote of the members present and voting, unless the rule is required to comply with federal law, in which case the vote must be at least 2/3rds. Applies to all rules under GS Chapter 150B, Article 2A, including periodic review and re-adoption. Clarifies that the aggregate financial cost required under the statute is the amount calculated in a substantial economic impact analysis under GS 150B-21.4, not including benefits.
Makes conforming changes to effective date.
| Intro. by Chesser, Bell, Zenger, Schietzelt. | GS 150B |
Senate amendment to the 4th edition makes the following changes.
Makes a technical change to GS 110-91 to reflect current statutory language.
Makes a technical change to Section 1.7 of the act by adding underlining, indicating new language is being added in Section 8 of SL 2024-34.
| Intro. by Arp, Lambeth, Paré, Rhyne. | GS 110 |
Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes. Makes organizational changes.
Section 1.1.
Specifies, in new GS 95-136.2 (third-party subpoenas to the Department of Labor [DOL]), that any written report, citation, or investigative finding issued by DOL pursuant to an occupational safety and health inspection is admissible in the described legal proceedings to the same extent as if its author was available to testify, unless the court finds the document clearly lacks indicia of reliability or would result in manifest injustice. Prevents subpoena of DOL current or former employees for an inquiry into any occupational safety and health inspection unless one of the four exceptions in the statute is met. Makes clarifying, organizational, and conforming changes, including to statute's title.
Section 1.3.
Makes technical and clarifying changes to GS 95-135 (North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission).
Section 2.1.
Clarifies that only employers who have five or more employees have a duty to post the described notice of employment laws in a conspicuous place in GS 95-9 (currently, employers are required to post notice in every room where five or more persons are employed).
Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes.
Makes organizational changes so that the content of the previous edition of the act is now placed under Section 1 of the act. Converts whereas clauses into legislative findings.
Adds the following new content.
Section 2
Includes legislative findings regarding the elimination of the Haw River, Deep River, and Contentnea Creek subbasin designations.
Amends GS 143-215.22G, to now include the Haw River (2-1) and Deep River (2-2) basins in the Cape Fear River basin, and the Contentnea Creek basin (10-2) in the Neuse River basin.
Section 3
Amends Section 15 of SL 2020-18 (Specify that the TMDL Transport Factor Applies when Offsetting Certain Permitted Wastewater Discharges) to allow the TMDL transport factor exceptions from subsection (a) of that bill to apply to all wastewater discharge permit applications for local governments in the Neuse River basin. Allows the Environmental Management Commission (Commission) to use the Department of Environmental Quality's (Department) watershed modeling for the Neuse River basin to adopt new transport zones and delivery factors by rule once the Department has completed the watershed modeling. Eliminates the requirement for the Department to provide the Commission a list of qualified professionals from which the Commission can select at least two to validate the completed watershed modeling before the Department can use the modeling to adopt the new transport zones and delivery factors.
Makes conforming organizational changes. Amends the act’s titles.
Contains whereas clauses. Urges the US Congress to take any and all necessary steps to criminalize and prohibit acts that perpetuate harm and injustice to members of the Jewish faith and supporters of Israel and bring justice on behalf of those who have been unlawfully kidnapped and held hostage by Hamas following the unprovoked attack on innocent civilians in Israel.
| Intro. by Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House. | HOUSE RES |
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AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TERM OF OFFICE OF THE MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF MADISON FROM TWO YEARS TO FOUR YEARS; TO PROVIDE THAT REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS FOR THE TOWN OF FAITH SHALL BE HELD IN EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS AND TO EXTEND THE TERMS OF OFFICE FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN IN THE TOWN OF FAITH FROM TWO YEARS TO FOUR YEARS; AND TO PROVIDE THAT REGULAR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN THE TOWN OF CHINA GROVE SHALL BE HELD IN EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS. SL 2025-5. Enacted June 4, 2025. Effective June 4, 2025, except as otherwise provided.
| Intro. by Pyrtle. | Rockingham, Rowan |
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Actions on Bills: 2025-06-04
H 23: VARIOUS STATE AND LOCAL GOV'T PROVISIONS. (NEW)
H 247: UNDERGROUND SAFETY REVISIONS. (NEW)
H 309: VARIOUS LOCAL PROVISIONS VI. (NEW)
H 318: THE CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN ENFORCEMENT ACT.
H 402: LIMIT RULES WITH SUBSTANTIAL FINANCIAL COSTS. (NEW)
H 412: CHILD CARE REGULATORY REFORMS.
H 434: LOWER HEALTHCARE COSTS. (NEW)
H 477: RETIREMENT DEATH BENEFITS REWRITE.-AB
H 506: 2025 STATE INVESTMENT MODERNIZATION ACT.-AB
H 568: 2025 OMNIBUS LABOR AMENDMENTS.-AB
H 694: REG'L WATER STUDY/IBT SUBBASIN/TMDL. (NEW)
H 959: VARIOUS EDUCATION CHANGES. (NEW)
H 1013: SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL.
S 153: NORTH CAROLINA BORDER PROTECTION ACT.
S 248: BIRTH CERTIFICATES FOR PERSONS ADOPTED.
S 321: ACCOUNTING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACT.
S 387: BROWNFIELDS PROPERTY REUSE ACT REVISIONS.
S 477: DNCR AGENCY BILL.-AB
S 769: HONORING ELIZABETH HANFORD DOLE.
Actions on Bills: 2025-06-04
H 17: VARIOUS LOCAL ELECTION CHANGES. (NEW)
H 116: VARIOUS LOCAL PROVISIONS IV. (NEW)
H 169: HAYWOOD COUNTY OCCUPANCY TAX MODS (NEW).
H 183: VARIOUS LOCAL PROVISIONS II. (NEW)
H 332: NASH/ROCKY MOUNT DISTRICT OCCUPANCY TAX (NEW).
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