Bill Summary for H 775 (2025-2026)

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Jun 17 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 775 (Public) Filed Thursday, April 3, 2025
AN ACT TO REQUIRE CRIMINAL HISTORY CHECKS FOR THE INITIAL MEMBERS OF A CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND APPLICANTS FOR EMPLOYMENT WITH A PUBLIC SCHOOL UNIT; TO MODIFY REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR MISCONDUCT BY SCHOOL EMPLOYEES; TO STRENGTHEN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THREATS AND ASSAULTS ON TEACHERS; AND TO ENCOURAGE THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO ALIGN ITS LICENSURE SYSTEM WITH THE MULTISTATE EDUCATOR LOOKUP SYSTEM.
Intro. by Biggs, N. Jackson, Cotham, Willis.

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House committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.  Makes conforming changes to act’s long title. Makes organizational changes.

Part I.

Makes technical and clarifying changes to GS 115C-218.4 (criminal history checks for charter school board of directors).  

Part II.

Removes amendments to GS 115C-270.1, GS 115C-270.10, along with new GS 115C-270.12 (licensure criminal history checks).

Makes technical and organizational changes to GS 115C-77 (school personnel criminal history checks). Removes provisions providing that if an applicant for a school personnel position has received a criminal history record check as a part of an application for licensure within the previous 90 days, then the governing body must accept that licensure check as the required criminal history check. Allows the governing body to delegate any of the criminal history review or provision of a copy of a criminal history check to the State Board of Education (SBE), except for the governing body of a charter school.

Removes provisions authorizing the State Bureau of Investigation to provide the specified criminal record checks to the SBE of the described applicants for licensure under GS 143B-1209.11.

Changes the effective date of the provision that encourages the State Board of Education to work toward programming the licensure system to align with the Multistate Educator Lookup System to enable electronic validation of out-of-state credentials and related information, from October 1, 2025, to when the act becomes law.