Amends GS 116-143.7, (Tuition surcharge), specifying that courses and credit hours taken at another constituent institution or community college and accepted for transfer credit count towards the credit limit for the tuition surcharge (was, any courses and credit hours accepted for transfer). Excludes courses and credit hours transferred and accepted for credit from an institution of higher learning that is not a constituent institution or a community college from counting towards the tuition surcharge limit.

Mandates that each constituent institution must implement procedures to notify students and parents about the tuition surcharge and to provide advance notice to a student when the student is approaching the credit hour limit for the tuition surcharge.

Charges the UNC Board of Governors (Board) with developing a uniform set of notification principles regarding the tuition surcharge, including a process for each campus to notify students and parents at orientation and through each each semester's tuition statements, as well as advance notification when the student is approaching the credit hour limit for the tuition surcharge. The Board will direct each constituent instituion to implement these procedures.

Effective when the act becomes law and applies to the fall 2013 academic semester and each subsequent academic semester.