Bill Summary for S 274 (2025-2026)

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Mar 12 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 274 (Public) Filed Wednesday, March 12, 2025
AN ACT TO REPEAL THE CRIMINAL OFFENSE OF CRIME AGAINST NATURE AND ESTABLISH A SEPARATE OFFENSE OF BESTIALITY.
Intro. by Grafstein.

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Repeals GS 14-177 (designating crimes against nature, with mankind or beast, as a Class I felony). Enacts GS 14-363.4, creating the separate offense of bestiality, as described, as a Class I felony. Replaces references to GS 14-177 with new GS 14-363.4 in GS 115C-270.35(b) (automatic revocation of an educator license upon conviction of certain offenses) and GS 7B-101(1)d (definition of abused juvenile in the dependency statutes). Removes reference to GS 14-177 as one of the statutory exceptions to the defined term racketeering activity under GS 75D-3 (State RICO definitions provisions). Effective December 1, 2025, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.