Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition adds the following content.

Amends GS 1-567.36 and GS 1-567.4 by removing references to GS 1-567.43, which has been repealed, and by making additional clarifying and technical changes.

Amends GS 20-4.02 to require the adjustment for per transaction rates for calculating the amount of compensation payable to a commission contractor (instead of referring to the $1 fee the DMV may charge for information on motor vehicle registration or liability insurance) be rounded to the nearest cent; makes additional technical and clarifying changes.

Amends GS 17F-20 by making clarifying, technical, and organizational changes.

Amends GS 17F-21 by making clarifying and technical changes.

Amends GS 17F-5 by making clarifying changes and making language gender neutral; amends the statute’s caption.

Amends GS 36C-4-411 by making technical and clarifying changes.

Amends GS 41-73 by amending one of the listed events that terminate a joint tenancy with right of survivorship due to the collective action of all joint tenants, including the execution of an instrument by all joint tenants for the purpose of expressing an intent to terminate the joint tenancy (was, intent to terminate the joint tenancy as between or among themselves). Makes additional clarifying changes.

Amends GS 74C-12 to allow the Private Protective Services Board (Board) to deny, suspend, or revoke a license, certification, registration, or permit for failure to provide the required notice of the cessation of employment of a qualifying agent or failure to obtain a substitute quality agent within the time frames specified in GS 74C-8(c) (was, time frame set in GS Chapter 74C for the required notification and was for obtaining a substitute qualifying agent), which requires notifying the Director within 10 working days if a qualifying agent upon whom the business entity relies in order to do business ceases to perform his or her duties as qualifying agent, and requires a substitute qualifying agent to be obtained within 90 days after the original qualifying agent ceases to serve as qualifying agent unless the Board, in its discretion, extends the 90-day period, for good cause, for an additional 30 days. Make additional clarifying and technical changes and makes language gender neutral.

Amends GS 130A-115, which includes penalties for failure to file death certificates electronically with the Office of Vital Records via the North Carolina Database Application for Vital events system, by requiring that the proceeds of penalties assessed under the statute be remitted to the Civil Penalty and Forfeiture Fund. Removes outdated language and makes additional clarifying and technical changes.

Amends GS 130A-309.06(a)(12), requiring the Department of Environmental Quality to provide and maintain recycling bins for the collection and recycling of newspaper, aluminum cans, glass containers, and recyclable plastic beverage containers at the North Carolina Zoological Park, by recodifying the provision under GS 143B-135.204(a), thereby shifting responsibility to the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. Also makes a technical change.

Amends GS 150B-21.12 by making clarifying and technical changes.

Amends GS 160D-1110 by removing reference to permits issued under Article 9C (concerning the North Carolina Code Officials Qualification Board) under GS Chapter 143 and removing other references to repealed GS 113A-71. Makes additional clarifying and technical changes.

Amends Section 12 of SL 2012-149 by removing the language making Section 5 effective on and after the date that a magistrate is appointed to perform the function in that section.

Amends Section 34.3B of SL 2021-180 to make the section that allowed an income tax deduction for the amount received by a taxpayer under the Business Recovery Grant Program effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021 (was, January 1, 2020).

Amends SL 2021-189, Section 6.5, by correcting the number of the Session Law that was being amended.

Amends Section 40.3(f) of SL 2021-180 by correcting an internal cross reference.