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

Current GS 20-7(a)(3) provides that a Class C license authorizes the holder to drive a Class A or B fire fighting, rescue, or EMS motor vehicle or a combination thereof when the operator is a volunteer member of a fire department, rescue squad, or emergency medical service in the performance of duty. Adds to the proposed language in GS 20-7(a)(3)b to define the term official business, as the term is used in (a)(3)b, to define it to include training and the performance of maintenance. Makes conforming organizational changes to the proposed language to GS 20-7(a)(3)b.

Amends proposed subdivision (10) of GS 14-269(b), excluding emergency medical services personnel who are deployed providing tactical medical assistance to law enforcement in an emergency from the prohibition on carrying concealed weapons, to clarify that the exemption only applies while the emergency medical services personnel are on duty and are deployed as part of their official duties. Amends the proposed criteria for an approved tactical medical assistance course, which must be completed in order to qualify for this new exemption, to require training and qualification on all weapon systems, both lethal and less lethal, deemed necessary by any law enforcement agency the emergency personnel supports to be included in the course (previously, required an element on firearms safety and training and involving the actual firing of handguns). Makes technical changes.