House amendment to the 5th edition, as amended, makes the following changes.

Amendment #46 amends Amendment #23 as follows.

Part IX-D. Child Development and Early Education

Section 9D.8. Exempt Certain Department of Defense (DOD) Family Child Care Homes from Child Care Licensure

Amendment #46 adds the following to new GS 110-106.3 (creating an exemption for certain DOD family child care homes from child care licensing requirements). Specifies that if a program’s certification as a family child care home operator is suspended or terminated for noncompliance or there is substantiated evidence of child abuse, neglect, or endangerment, the operator is ineligible to apply for a child care license and subject to an administrative action revoking its child care license. Requires the operator to have their name placed on the State’s Child Mistreatment Registry if DOD or the US Coast Guard substantiates child abuse, neglect, or endangerment, and prohibits them from being a caregiver under GS 110-105.5.

Part XXXVIII. Treasurer

Section 38.8 Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

Amendment #46 does the following.

Changes the definition of killed in the line of duty under GS 143-166.2(7), as it applies under the Public Safety Employees’ Death Benefits Act, so that a presumption arises that a firefighter was killed in the line of duty when their death occurs as a direct and proximate result of any cancer diagnosis that qualified the firefighter for benefits under the Firefighters’ Cancer Insurance Program and because of which benefits under that program were received (was, cancer of the stomach, i.e., gastric cancer). Enacts GS 58-86A-10, the Firefighters Health Benefits Pilot Program (Pilot Program), deeming any firefighter having received a benefit under the Pilot Program to have received benefits under the Firefighters’ Cancer Insurance Program (CIP). Deems CIP a permanent continuation of the Pilot Program in GS 58-86A-1. Makes technical changes. Adds the Pilot Program and CIP to the definitions listed in GS 58-86A-2. Increases the funds appropriated to the Department of State Treasurer for each year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium by $4 million (was, $500,000) in recurring funds to be used for the implementation of this section. Increases the system-wide budget reductions in Budget Code 16011 for the UNC Board of Governors by $3.5 million for each year of the 2025-27 fiscal biennium in recurring funds.