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

Enacts new GS 14-190.15A. Defines adult live entertainment as any performance or involving the actual presence of real people that exhibits specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas (definition in GS 14-202.10). Makes it illegal to (1) engage in adult live entertainment on public property (as defined); (2) engage in adult live entertainment knowing, or having reason to know, that individuals under age 18 are present; or (3) expend public funds to adult live entertainment performers, for an event at which adult live entertainment is performed, or to promote adult live entertainment or an event at which adult live entertainment will be performed. Violations are a Class A1 misdemeanor, enhanced to a Class 1 felony for a person committing a second or subsequent offense. 

Enacts new GS 14-202.1A making it a Class A1 misdemeanor, unless covered under another law that provides for a greater punishment, for a person age 18 or older to engage in sexual contact with a minor. Defines sexual contact as any of the following intentional touching, if it can reasonably be construed as being for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification, done for a sexual purpose, or done in a sexual manner: (1) intentional touching of a person's intimate parts (as defined) or the intentional touching of the clothing covering the person's intimate parts or (2) intentional touching of another person with a person's own intimate part, whether or not clothed.

Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2023.

Makes conforming changes to the act's long title.