ID

 (click on the Bill ID for additonal information)

H22  

Enhance Youth Employment Protections - Filed 1/29/09.  An act to enhance youth employment protections by requiring the commissioner of labor to report on enforcement activities.

  (Enacted into Law)

H23  

Strengthen Child Labor Violation Penalties - Filed 1/29/09. Amending chapter 95 of the general statutes to protect the health and safety of children by increasing the penalties for violations of child labor laws. 
  (Enacted into Law)

H136

DOT/Fiber-Optic Cable - Filed 2/11/09. To expand the authority of the North Carolina department of transportation to locate and acquire right-of-way for the location, above or below ground, of fiber optic cable. 
 

H188  

Study Raising Compulsory Attendance Age - Filed 2/17/09. To direct the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina, in conjunction with the Department of Public Instruction and the North Carolina Independent Colleges and Universities, to direct the appropriate entity to study the impacts of raising the compulsory attendance age for public school attendance prior to completion of a high school diploma from sixteen to seventeen or eighteen, as recommended by the Joint Legislative Commission on Dropout Prevention and High School Graduation.
  (Enacted into Law)

H218  

Parent & Student Educational Involvement Act - Filed 2/18/09.  An act to modify the requirements for the notice that must be given to a parent when a student is recommended for a suspension of more than ten days or an expulsion from school.

  (Enacted into Law)

H223

No High School Graduation Project Required - Filed 2/18/09.  Removing the high school graduation project as a requirement for graduation and directing the program evaluation division of the general assembly to study the cost of the effectiveness of requiring a high school graduation project.

  (Enacted into Law)

H227

Winston-Salem/Rocky Mount Acquire Substandard Dwellings – An act to allow the city to exercise eminent domain, in lieu of demolition, to acquire certain substandard dwellings (vacant for at least two years due to housing code violations) to provide housing for low and moderate income persons pursuant to a low/moderate income housing plan.

  (Enacted into Law)

H455

Designate Kidney Month - Filed 3/5/09.  Designating the month of March as kidney month in North Carolina.
 

H459  

Rocky Mount / Fair Housing Ordinance - Filed 3/5/09. Amending the charter of the City of Rocky Mount to allow the city to enact a fair housing ordinance.

  (Enacted into Law)

H578

Partition Sales/Commrs., Sellers, Buyers - Filed 3/12/09.  To provide notice of right to seek legal counsel and clarify notice required to parties who may be unknown or unlocatable in a partition proceeding; to codify the current practice of granting owners credit for their existing interest in land when bidding on a partition sale; to require a court to order an independent appraisal if requested and paid for by a party to the partition who challenges the amount bid in a partition sale, as recommended by the Partition Sales Study committee.
  (Enacted into Law)

H581  

Partition Sales/Extend Report & Answer Times - Filed 3/12/09.  To extend the deadline for the commissioners in a partition action to report back to the court on their proposed division of the land, and to extend the deadline for responding to a summons in a partition action from ten days to thirty days, as recommended by the partition sales study committee. 
  (Enacted into Law)

NC Green Business Fund – Filed 3/16/09.  To change the NC Green Business Fund from a grant-making fund to a no-interest loan-making fund and to appropriate funds to the department of commerce for the NC Green Business Fund. (incorporated in budget bill – SB 202)    (Enacted into law)

H650

Roanoke Rapids/No Loiter For Drugs - Filed 3/17/09. To make it a criminal offense to loiter in the city of Roanoke Rapids for the purpose of violating the controlled substance Laws.
(Enacted into Law)

H898

No Killing Of Grass Carp - Filed 3/30/09.  To prohibit the possession or taking of grass carp from the Gaston or Roanoke Rapids reservoirs or from the Roanoke River.
  (Enacted into Law)

Insurance Law Changes -. To make various changes in the laws governing insurance producers and brokers, bail bondsmen, motor clubs, premium finance companies, and collection agencies and to proscribe procedures for life insurance companies to provide certain life insurance contract information to funeral service providers on behalf of persons authorized to bury a deceased insured. (incorporates H1647 -  Filed 4/7/09)

(Enacted into Law)

H1260

Voter Pre-registration And Education - Filed 4/8/09.  To provide for pre-registration of qualified individuals who are sixteen or seventeen years of age and to Expand instruction on the importance of voting in the high school social studies curriculum and to encourage local boards of education to promote registration and preregistration of students. 
(incorporated in H908- Election Administration Amendments) (Enacted into Law)

H1329

Consolidate Expunction Statutes - Filed 4/8/09. To consolidate all statutes related to expunction of records in one article of the general statutes.
  (Enacted into Law)

H1330

Utilities/Collectors/Debt Collection - Filed 4/8/09.  Prohibiting public utilities and cities and counties that operate public enterprises from using certain debt collection practices that result in a customer being liable for the past due and unpaid debts of another person, and prohibiting collection agencies and debt collectors from collecting or attempting to collect a debt by claiming that a consumer is legally responsible for the debts of another person.
(Enacted into Law)

H1481

Energy To Commerce; OEO To Energy - Filed 4/9/09.  To transfer the State Energy Office from the Department of Administration to the Department of Commerce and to transfer the Residential Program from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Energy Office of the Department of Commerce.   (Enacted into Law)

SJR 110

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 110- Honor Thomas Ghio “Sonny Boy” Joyner and Recognize Weldon as the Rockfish Capital of the World  (H131)     (Enacted into Law)