Senate committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.

Makes organizational changes and adds the following.

Section 2

Amends GS 130A-50, concerning the election and terms of office of sanitary district boards, to require a sanitary district board (board), for the purpose of electing members of the board, to adopt single-member residency districts in which only a person residing in a district is eligible as a candidate in the election for the seat apportioned to that district, but candidates must be elected at large by the qualified voters of the entire sanitary district. Requires the district boundaries to be adopted in a resolution following a public hearing. Requires the most recent federal decennial census data to be used as the basis of population for establishing the districts and requires the districts to be revised as needed after each census. Requires board members to serve staggered terms. Applies only to a sanitary district lying wholly within a county with more than 17 municipalities lying wholly within that county.

Requires the resolution establishing the district boundaries to be adopted by December 1, 2024, and specifies that the boundaries will remain in effect until after the return of the 2030 census, at which time they must be revised.

Section 3

Amends SL 2023-134 by adding Columbus and Tryon to the recipients of the $2,304,878 allocation. Amends Section 4.2(h) of SL 2024-1 to require the funds that were allocated from Columbus and Tryon to be transferred to OSBM for a grant to those two towns for repayment of debt incurred for construction of a water or wastewater project. 

Section 4

Enacts new GS 130A-70.2 to allow a sanitary district board (board) to extend the boundaries of the district to include all of the contiguous corporate areas of any municipality adopting a resolution requesting inclusion. Requires the board to hold a public hearing as soon as practicable after receiving the resolution. Also requires establishing the new boundaries, if expanded, by resolution after the hearing. Requires the boundary change effective date, as determined by the board, to coincide with the start of a fiscal or calendar year. Requires the board to file a copy of the resolution, upon the expansion of the boundaries, and a map of the new boundaries with the county board of elections.

Applies to any resolution from a municipality received by a board on or after January 1, 2024.

Makes conforming changes to the act's titles.