Bill Summary for H 458 (2025-2026)

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Mar 19 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 458 (Public) Filed Wednesday, March 19, 2025
AN ACT TO BETTER ENSURE THE CORRECTION OF MIGRANT HOUSING VIOLATIONS.
Intro. by Butler, Harrison, Price, Morey.

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Makes technical changes and modifies the term person in GS 95-223 (definitions pertaining to the NC Migrant Housing Act [Act]) to also include a limited liability company.  Effective October 1, 2025, and applies to applications for inspections submitted on or after that date.

Prevents a migrant from occupying housing (provisionally or otherwise) for a period exceeding 14 days without a satisfactory housing inspection under GS 95-226 (pertaining to preoccupancy inspections of migrant housing). Clarifies that the inspection process begins upon receipt of a fully completed application by the described government entities (currently, process begins upon receipt of an application). Expands the information required to be submitted with an application for inspection to include the address, property tax ID, and parcel number of the property as well as an affidavit of ownership and compliance, as described, completed by the person who owns or controls the migrant housing. Applies to inspections conducted on or after the date the act becomes law. 

Requires the Department of Labor (DOL), as part of its enforcement of the Act under GS 95-227, to document in its summary both the name of the operator and the identifying information of the migrant housing for cross reference on each application for inspection. Prevents DOL from providing a preoccupancy inspection to operators known to be barred by State or federal authority from participation in temporary foreign agricultural labor programs or to be otherwise in violation of the Act. If DOL determines that the affidavit required under GS 95-223 has been falsified, including any information therein, then bars DOL from providing a preoccupancy inspection for three years from the date of the affidavit.