Bill Summary for H 358 (2025-2026)

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Sep 22 2025

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View NCGA Bill Details2025-2026 Session
House Bill 358 (Public) Filed Monday, March 10, 2025
AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DISASTER RELIEF, TO IMPLEMENT ADDITIONAL BUDGETARY ADJUSTMENTS, AND TO MAKE OTHER CHANGES.
Intro. by Humphrey.

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Senate amendments make the following changes to the 2nd edition.

Amendment #1.

Adds the following new content.

Part V.

Authorizes the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) to sell its mainframe computing system and any related components on terms that it determines it to be in its best interest without any involvement by the State Surplus Property Agency (Agency) and without being required to pay any service charge or surcharge to the Agency. Directs that the sale’s net proceeds be deposited in the Court Information Technology Fund. Removes references to cost recovery in describing the type of nonexclusive contracts that that the Director may enter into to provide remote electronic access to the electronic data processing records or any compilation of electronic court records or data of the clerks of superior court by the public in GS 7A-109. Makes conforming change.

Amendment #2.

Part IX.

Changes the entity receiving the $10.4 million appropriation from the Stabilization and Inflation Reserve from the Coastal Carolina Regional Airport Authority (Authority) to the Department of Transportation, Division of Aviation to be allocated to the Authority for site improvement.

Amendment #3.

Specifies that the three full-time equivalent attorney positions in the Department of Labor (DOL) created by the act’s appropriation of $650,000 in recurring funds from the General Fund to DOL for 2025-26 and 2026-27 are designated as exempt policy-making positions of the Commissioner of Labor, not subject to the limitations under GS 126-5(d)(2) (governing exempt positions in the Council of State4 Departments and Offices and the Office of the State Controller).

Amendment #4.

Subpart I-A.

Amends the legislative findings to refer to the major disaster declaration issued by the President of the United States on September 11, 2025, for multiple counties in the State, approving public assistance federal funding for affected counties.

Subpart I-B.

Specifies that the $15 million allocated for State matching requirements are for federal disaster assistance programs for Tropical Storm Chantal (was, no reference to federal disaster assistance programs).