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

Amends proposed GS 143-50.2, Oversight of certain service contracts, by replacing the language "change(s)," "changing," and "change" of a service provider with "select," "selecting," and "selection" of a service provider, throughout the statute. Amends subsection (b) by deleting the "notwithstanding any other provision of law" phrase that precedes the provision prohibiting a State agency from selecting the provider of an agency service until it has done the three specified requirements.

Amends the directive, now requiring the Office of State Budget and Management to develop and submit (previously, to develop and implement) a plan to determine whether services provided by state agencies could be more effectively provided by private providers, as that term is defined in GS 143-50.2(d)(2), as enacted by Section 1 of the act. Makes a technical change.