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Governor McCrory Signs 26 Bills Into Law

Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 @ 1:43 pm
By: McCrory Communications ( More Entries )

Press Release:

Raleigh, N.C. — Governor Pat McCrory has signed the following bills into law.

H.B. 134 — A bill to exempt minors from prosecution for solicitation of prostitution in the same manner that they are currently exempt from the charge of prostitution.
H.B. 553 — A bill prohibiting cities and counties from adopting ordinances regulating standard of care for farm animals.
H.B. 562 — A bill amending various firearm laws.
H.B. 774 — A bill authorizing a medical professional other than a physician to monitor lethal injection for death penalty executions and clarify that matters relating to executions are not subject to rulemaking.
S.B. 678 — A bill amending the debt collector statutes to more nearly conform to the federal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act.
S.B. 679 — A bill making omnibus clarifications and conforming changes to the Consumer Finance Act.
H.B. 607 — A bill requiring a credit card reporting agency to place a security freeze on a protected consumer's consumer report upon request of the protected consumer's authorized representative.
S.B. 192 — A bill allowing domestic violence protective orders, civil no-contact orders, and involuntary commitment orders to be transmitted by electronic and facsimile transmission.
H.B. 174 — A bill amending and enhancing certain notice requirements and protections for tenants of real properties in foreclosure and other amendments to the Homebuyer Protection Act.
H.B. 446 — A bill amending the statutes governing bail bondsmen.
H.B. 397 — A bill clarifying that upon conviction for exploitation of an older adult or disabled adult, any seized assets shall be used to satisfy the defendant's restitution obligation as ordered by the court.
H.B. 383 — A bill recognizing, renaming, and renumbering various sexual offenses to make them more easily distinguishable from one another as recommended by the North Carolina Court of Appeals in "State of North Carolina v. Slade Weston Hicks, Jr.," and making other various changes.
H.B. 185 — A bill making omnibus amendments to obsolete statutes as recommended by the Department of Cultural Resources.
H.B. 229 — A bill modifying the property tax exemption for real property used for religious purposes to include construction phase. The bill also authorizes the holder of a limited driving privilege to drive to and from the person's place of religious worship.
H.B. 529 — A bill to limit the imposition of an additional period of revocation upon a conviction of driving while license revoked and to make various conforming changes.
H.B. 721 — A bill clarifying the law regarding performance guarantees developers are required to provide to cities and counties to assure completion of required improvements to subdivided land.
S.B. 345 — A bill limiting the period of time a vehicle can be impounded after a collision to 20 days unless a court order provides otherwise.
H.B. 797 — A bill exempting from the definition of public record any registration or sensitive security information received or compiled by a city pursuant to an alarm registration ordinance.
S.B. 182 — A bill regulating the use by law enforcement agencies of automatic license plate reader systems.
S.B. 183 — A bill eliminating confinement in response to violation for misdemeanants sentenced under Structured Sentencing, as recommended by the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Committee.
H.B. 638 — A bill directing the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, in cooperation with the Wildlife Resources Commission, to encourage wetland mitigation practices supportive of public recreation and hunting on mitigation sites.
H.B. 186 — A bill requiring the Environmental Review Commission to conduct a study of water resources availability in the Cape Fear River Basin and to permit the Rules Review Commission to retain private counsel under certain circumstances.
H.B. 823 — A bill establishing the Advisory Council on Rare Diseases within the School of Medicine of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
S.B. 82 — A bill ensuring the integrity of birth records presented for registration by requiring Registers of Deeds to clearly mark related documents that are not official birth records.
H.B. 651 — A bill to bar civil actions filed after the period of record retention established under the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice or five years, whichever is greater, and to require appraisal management management companies to accept criminal background checks performed within the preceding 12 months.
S.B. 374 — A bill to repeal the requirement that for-hire coastal recreational fishing licensees maintain a logbook of catch and effort statistical data; study implementation of the logbook reporting provision; require DENR to conduct a 12-month implementation process of the reporting requirement, including forming a stakeholder advisory group; and prohibit the Department of Environment and Natural Resources from entering into a Joint Enforcement Agreement.

Contact: Crystal Feldman
govpress@nc.gov

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