BIlls of Interest Introduced This Week

H 1539 (By Gene Rogers, Doug Yongue, Donald Bonner, Flossie Boyd-McIntyre, Charles Buchanan, Verla Insko, Maggie Jeffus, Marian McLawhorn, Pete Oldham, Jean Preston, Alex Warner, Edith Warren, Steve Wood) QUALIFIED ZONE ACADEMY BOND ACT OF 2000 -- An act to designate the State Board of Education as the state education agency responsible for administering the Qualified Zone Academy bond program.

H 1540 (By Gene Rogers, Doug Yongue, Donald Bonner, Flossie Boyd-McIntyre, Charles Buchanan, Verla Insko, Maggie Jeffus, Marian McLawhorn, Pete Oldham, Jean Preston, Alex Warner, Edith Warren, Steve Wood) IHE REP CARD CHANGES/STUDY HS PROGS. -- An act to implement recommendations of the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee to require the State Board of Education to report annually on IHE report cards and to direct the education cabinet to study various high school programs.

H 1547 (By Pete Oldham, Flossie Boyd-McIntyre, Stan Fox, Max Melton and Edith Warren) CLOSING THE ACHIEVEMENT GAP -- An act to implement recommendations of the Commission on Improving the Academic Achievement of Minority and At-Risk Students to establish a pilot program to assist families at certain income levels with children performing below grade level in improving family cohesiveness, functioning and economic progress and student academic success, to direct the State Board of Education to study issues related to closing the achievement gap, to make permanent the Commission, to appropriate funds to support the historically minority college and university initiative to close the achievement gap and to appropriate funds to implement this act.

H 1550 (By William Wainwright) RESPECTFUL FORMS OF ADDRESS/SCHOOLS -- An act to ensure that students addressing teachers and other school employees use respectful forms of address such as "ma'am", "sir", or an appropriate title followed by a surname and to appropriate funds to provide and enhance instruction in character education.

H 1534 (By Martin Nesbitt) AMEND STATE TORT CLAIMS LAW -- An act to increase the State tort claim limit and State liability under the duty to defend State employees liability and to provide for the funding of State tort liability claims in excess of one hundred fifty thousand dollars, as recommended by the Legislative Research Commission.

H 1535 (By Bill Owens and Danny McComas) FILM INDUSTRY INCENTIVES -- An act to provide incentives for development of the film industry in North Carolina, to make the North Carolina Film Council a statutory advisory council and to modify the Film Council's membership.

H 1560 (By Gordon Allen, Lyons Gray, Dewey Hill, Mary Jarrell, Paul Luebke, Art Pope and Russell Tucker) MODIFY BILL LEE TAX CREDITS -- An act to modify the income tax credit for job creation, to make a correction to the credit for investing in machinery and equipment and to clarify that a taxpayer who claims a tax credit under the William S. Lee Act loses any remaining installments if the taxpayer ceases to engage in an eligible business.

H 1578 (By Joe Tolson) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE -- An act to repeal the powers and duties of the Secretary of Commerce regarding information technology matters and to reestablish those powers and duties within the Office of the Governor, and to make other changes in the laws regarding information technology related State government functions.

H 1580 (By Pryor Gibson) ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLENCE AGREEMENT-1 -- An act to establish a voluntary program regarding Environmental Excellence Program Agreements.

H 1581 (By Pryor Gibson) DELEGATION OF ENV. PROGRAM AUTHORITY -- An act to authorize the Department of Environment and Natural Resources and various commissions responsible for the protection of the environment to delegate responsibility for the implementation of certain programs to units of local government.

H 1582 (By Pryor Gibson) STATE EMPLOYEE FMLA -- An act clarifying state employees' eligibility for family and medical leave benefits.

H 1583 (By Pryor Gibson) NONHAZARDOUS DRY-CLEANING TECH. INCENTIVES -- An act to provide a new tax credit as an incentive for investing in dry-cleaning and wet-cleaning equipment that does not use hazardous substance as solvents, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1584 (By Pryor Gibson) PETROLEUM DISCHARGE AMENDS-1 -- An act to provide that certain requirements related to land-use restrictions that apply generally to risk-based environmental cleanups do not apply to cleanups of petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks and to direct the Environmental Review Commission to continue to study the application of land-use restrictions to the cleanup of environmental damage from these tanks through a stakeholder negotiation process, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1586 (By Pryor Gibson) DRY-CLEANING SOLVENT CLEANUP AMENDS. -- An act to establish a temporary environmental surtax to fund cleanup of dry-cleaning solvent contamination; to designate the State sales tax revenue from dry-cleaning solvent cleanup fund; to amend the Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Act of 1997 to repeal the requirement of financial responsibility for dry-cleaning facilities and wholesale dry-cleaning solvent distribution facilities; to allow the Environmental Management Commission to enter into contracts with private contractors for assessment and remediation activities at dry-cleaning facilities and wholesale dry-cleaning solvent distribution facilities; to direct the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to study the use of dry-cleaning solvents in North Carolina, and to make other changes in the Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Act of 1997, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1589 (By Joe Hackney and Edd Nye) MANAGED CARE ENTITIES LIABLE FOR DAMAGE -- An act to provide that a managed care entity providing a health benefit plan is liable for damages for harm to its insured or enrollees caused by the managed care entity's failure to exercise ordinary care.

H 1592 (By Ronald Smith) EXTEND ELECTRIC STUDY FUNDS -- An act to extend the funding of the Study Commission on the Future of Electric Service in North Carolina.

H 1593 (By Ronald Smith) EXTEND ELECTRIC SERVICE COMM. -- An act to extend the Study Commission on the Future of Electric Service in North Carolina.

H 1594 (By David Redwine) PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS/LAND SURVEYORS LICENSURE -- An act to implement a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedure Oversight Committee to authorize the Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors to adopt rules to require additional information prior to the reexamination of an applicant; limit the number of offices a licensee may supervise; and change the annual license renewal date for businesses.

H 1597 (By David Redwine) EXPAND APA OVERSIGHT -- An act to expand the duties of the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedure Oversight Committee to include consideration of bills which affect the rule-making power of an agency or otherwise amend the Administrative Procedure Act.

H 1602 (By Pryor Gibson, Edwin McMahan, Alma Adams, Verla Insko, and Mary Jarrell) STORMWATER UTILITY FEES -- An act to clarify that stormwater utility fees may be used to fund all costs of stormwater management programs, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1611 (By Joe Tolson and Phil Baddour) RURAL INTERNET ACCESS AGENCY -- An act to create the North Carolina Rural Internet Access Agency.

H 1612 (By Joe Tolson) ELECTRONIC COMMERCE ACT OF 2000 -- An act to facilitate the use of electronic and digital transactions by State agencies to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and improve government services to citizens and businesses, and to create the State Electronic Commerce Fund.

H 1613 (By Joe Hackney) WHITE GOODS SUNSET REPEAL -- An act to repeal the sunset of the white goods tax and to direct the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to study issues related to the scrap tire disposal tax and the white goods disposal tax, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1614 (By Joe Hackney) ADD. NOTICE/MINING PERMIT APPLICATION -- An act to provide for additional notice of an application for a permit under the Mining Act of 1971, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1616 (By Phillip Haire, Debbie Clary, and Ruth Easterling) ABANDONED INFANT PROTECTION ACT -- An act to decriminalize abandonment of an infant under certain circumstances and to modify some procedures involving abandoned juveniles.

H 1617 (By Nurham Warwick and Thomas Wright) LEA ISLAND NATURAL AREA -- An act to authorize the addition of Lea Island State Natural Area to the State Park System, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1618 (By Nurham Warwick) PETROLEUM DISCHARGES/DE MINIMIS REPORTS -- An act to extend the de minimis reporting exception to all discharges of petroleum, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1619 (By Howard Hunter and Ruth Easterling) SAFE STORAGE OF FIREARMS -- An act to amend the law regarding the storage of firearms to protect minors as recommended by the Child Fatality Task Force.

H 1620 (By Wayne Goodwin and Arlie Culp) ON-SITE WASTEWATER SYSTEM CONTRACTORS -- An act to create the On-Site Wastewater System Contractors Licensing Board, to require that on-site wastewater system contractors be licensed, to establish licensing requirements for on-site wastewater systems contractors, and to create remedies for violations of the licensing requirements and other violations, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1621 (By Frank Mitchell) CREDIT FOR VALUE-ADDED AG. BUSINESS -- An act to create an income tax credit for taxpayers investing in agribusiness enterprises that add value to raw, North Carolina grown agricultural commodities.

H 1622 (By Frank Mitchell) USE VALUE ROLLBACK MODIFIED -- An act to eliminate rollback of deferred taxes when use value property is transferred between farmers, without extinguishing the lien for the deferred taxes.

H 1624 (By George Miller, Gordon Allen, Lyons Gray, Dewey Hill, Mary Jarrell, Paul Luebke, Art Pope, and Russell Tucker) STREAMLINED SALES TAX SYSTEM -- An act to implement the recommendation of the National Governor's Association for a streamlined sales tax collection system and to otherwise improve collection.

H 1625 (By Scott Thomas) REMOVAL OF ABANDONED VESSELS -- An act to make it unlawful to abandon vessels in coastal waters and to authorize the removal of abandoned vessels and the recovery of costs for removal, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1627 (By Ruth Easterling) ENFORCE GUN LAW AT GUN SHOWS -- An act to increase the enforcement of gun laws at gun shows as recommended by the Child Fatality Task Force.

H 1630 (By Jim Crawford) TOLL ROADS -- An act to authorize construction of up to three privately funded and three publicly funded toll road or bridge projects.

H 1631 (By Pryor Gibson) CULLASAJA RIVER DESIGNATION -- An act to designate a 7.5-mile section of the Cullasaja River as a Scenic River in the North Carolina Natural and Scenic Rivers System, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1632 (By Pryor Gibson) FLOOD HAZARD PREVENTION ACT OF 2000 -- An act to prevent inappropriate development in the one hundred-year floodplain and to reduce flood hazards, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1633 (By Phil Baddour and Thomas Wright) MILLION ACRE OPEN SPACE GOAL -- An act to encourage, support, and accelerate the permanent protection of farmland, forestland, parkland, gameland, wetland, open space, and conservation lands in North Carolina, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1635 (By Thomas Wright) REVISIONS TO CONSUMER LENDING -- An act to revise the applicable interest rates on loans made pursuant to the Consumer Finance Act under certain circumstances, to establish a loan processing fee for certain loans, to allow borrowers to cancel loans under certain circumstances, to allow lenders to charge a late payment penalty under certain circumstances, to require disclosure on solicitation of loans by facsimile or negotiable checks, and to allow lenders to maintain certain records in the form of optical image disks.

H 1638 (By Joe Hackney, Lyons Gray, Pryor Gibson, and David Miner) I/M TECHNOLOGY AND FEE AMENDS. -- An act to improve ambient air quality, to provide for the use of on-board diagnostic equipment in the motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program, and to increase the fees that are charged for motor vehicle safety and emissions inspections, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1639 (By Danny McComas, Pryor Gibson, and Edwin McMahan) BROWNFIELDS TAX INCENTIVE -- An act to create a tax incentive for the redevelopment of Brownfields Properties, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

H 1640 (By Ruth Easterling, Phil Baddour, Bob Hensley, Howard Hunter, Martin Nesbitt, and Wilma Sherrill) STATE COMPENSATION PLAN CHANGES/FUNDS -- An act amending the employee compensation and performance evaluation provisions of the State Personnel Act, Chapter 126 of the General Statutes, and appropriating funds for full implementation of the State Compensation Plan.


SENATE BILLS

S 1252 (By Fountain Odom) BROWNFIELD TAX INCENTIVES -- An act to create a tax incentive for the redevelopment of Brownfields properties, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1291 (By David Hoyle, Dan Clodfelter and John Kerr) INCREASE TAX POLICY COMMISSION MEMBERSHIP -- An act to implement a recommendation of the North Carolina Tax Policy Commission to increase the legislative membership of the North Carolina Tax Policy Commission.

S 1279 (By Aaron Plyler and Bill Purcell) PETROLEUM DISCHARGE AMENDS-1 -- An act to provide that certain requirements related to land-use restrictions that apply generally to risk-based environmental cleanups do not apply to cleanups of petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks and to direct the Environmental Review Commission to continue to study the application of land-use restrictions to the cleanup of environmental damage from these tanks through a stakeholder negotiation process, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1280 (By David Hoyle) HEALTH CARE FACILITY AND CCRC TAX EXEMPT -- An act to clarify the property tax treatment of a health care facility undertaken by the Medical Care Commission pursuant to the Health Care Facilities Finance Act and to extend the sunset on the property tax exemption for continuing care retirement centers.

S 1275 (By Luther Jordan and Wib Gulley) EXTEND BILLBOARD MORATORIUM -- An act to extend the moratorium on new billboards along a designated section of Interstate 40, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1266 (By Eric Reeves) UNIFORM ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS ACT -- An act to adopt the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act.

S 1303 (By Fountain Odom) DRY-CLEANING SOLVENT CLEANUP AMENDS. -- An act to establish a temporary environmental surtax to fund cleanup of dry-cleaning solvent contamination; to designate the State sales tax revenue from dry-cleaning solvent cleanup fund; to amend the Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Act of 1997 to repeal the requirement of financial responsibility for dry-cleaning facilities and wholesale dry-cleaning solvent distribution facilities; to allow the Environmental Management Commission to enter into contracts with private contractors for assessment and remediation activities at dry-cleaning facilities and wholesale dry-cleaning solvent distribution facilities; to direct the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to study the use of dry-cleaning solvents in North Carolina, and to make other changes in the Dry-Cleaning Solvent Cleanup Act of 1997, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1304 (By Fletcher Hartsell, Walter Dalton, David Hoyle, and John Kerr) PROPERTY TAX COMMISSION TRAINING -- An act to provide for training of members of the Property Tax Commission.

S 1305 (By Fletcher Hartsell) REVISE ARTICLE 9 OF THE UCC -- An act to enact revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code, conforming amendments to other Articles of the Uniform Commercial Code, and conforming amendments to other sections of the General Statutes and to increase certain fees under current Article 9, as recommended by the General Statutes Commission.

S 1306 (By David Hoyle) EXTEND ELECTRIC SERVICE COMM. -- An act to extend the Study Commission on the Future of Electric Service in North Carolina.

S 1307 (By David Hoyle) EXTEND ELECTRIC STUDY FUNDS -- An act to extend the funding of the Study Commission on the Future of Electric Service in North Carolina.

S 1308 (By John Kerr) EXPAND APA OVERSIGHT -- An act to expand the duties of the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedure Oversight Committee to include consideration of bills which affect the rule-making power of an agency or otherwise amend the Administrative Procedure Act.

S 1309 (By John Kerr and David Hoyle) PENSION TAX WITHHOLDING -- An act to provide for withholding of North Carolina income taxes from certain pensions.

S 1312 (By Charlie Albertson) USE VALUE ROLLBACK MODIFIED -- An act to eliminate rollback of deferred taxes when use value property is transferred between farmers, without extinguishing the lien for the deferred taxes.

S 1313 (By Charlie Albertson) ENDANGERED PLANT PROTECTION FUNDS -- An act to appropriate funds for endangered plant protection.

S 1314 (By Charlie Albertson) CREDIT FOR VALUE-ADDED AG BUSINESS -- An act to create an income tax credit for taxpayers investing in agribusiness enterprises that add value to raw, North Carolina grown agricultural commodities.

S 1315 (By Brad Miller) PRIVATE COUNSEL/ATTY. FEES/STATE EMP. -- An act to provide for private counsel and to provide for the recovery of costs and attorneys' fees in civil actions against a State employee when the State employee is alleged to be personally liable for damages for any official act or omission in connection with the enforcement of environmental laws, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1316 (By Brad Miller) PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS/LAND SURVEYORS LICENSURE -- An act to implement a recommendation of the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedure Oversight Committee to authorize the Board of Examiners for Engineers and Surveyors to adopt rules to require additional information prior to the reexamination of an applicant; limit the number of offices a licensee may supervise; and change the annual license renewal date for businesses.

S 1317 (By Brad Miller) I/M TECHNOLOGY AND FEE AMENDS. -- An act to improve ambient air quality, to provide for the use of on-board diagnostic equipment in the motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program, and to increase the fees that are charged for motor vehicle safety and emissions inspections, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1318 (By Walter Dalton) AMEND BILL LEE ACT TIER DESIGNATIONS -- An act to provide that an enterprise Tier 2 area may not be redesignated as a higher-numbered tier area until it has been an enterprise Tier 2 area for two consecutive years.

S 1319 (By Walter Dalton) MODIFY BILL LEE TAX CREDITS -- An act to modify the income tax credit for job creation, to make a correction to the credit for investing in machinery and equipment, and to clarify that a taxpayer who claims a tax credit under the William S. Lee Act loses any remaining installments if the taxpayer ceases to engage in an eligible business.

S 1320 (By David Hoyle, John Kerr, and Hugh Webster) SIMPLIFY TAXES ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS -- An act to simplify the collection of telecommunications taxes.

S 1322 (By Dan Clodfelter and David Hoyle) REVISIONS TO CONSUMER LENDING -- An act to revise the applicable interest rates on loans made pursuant to the Consumer Finance Act under certain circumstances, to establish a loan processing fee for certain loans, to allow borrowers to cancel loans under certain circumstances, to allow lenders to charge a late payment penalty under certain circumstances, to require disclosure on solicitation of loans by facsimile or negotiable checks, and to allow lenders to maintain certain records in the form of optical image disks.

S 1323 (By Frank Ballance) INDIGENT DEFENSE SERVICES/FUNDS -- An act to implement the recommendation of the Indigent Defense Study Commission to establish an Office of Indigent Defense Services.

S 1324 (By Allen Wellons, Charlie Dannelly, and Oscar Harris) EXTERNAL REVIEW/MANAGED CARE -- An act to provide standards for the establishment and maintenance of external review procedures in health insurance and managed care to assure that covered persons have the opportunity for an independent review of a health benefit plan coverage decision made by the insurer or managed care plan; and to make conforming amendments to existing laws on utilization review and grievances.

S 1325 (By Allen Wellons, Charlie Dannelly, and Oscar Harris) HMO INSOLVENCY -- An act to protect persons enrolled in an HMO from the consequences of the insolvency of that HMO by authorizing assessments of remaining HMOs in the State to pay for uncovered expenditures of and continuation of coverage for the enrollees.

S 1326 (By Allen Wellons, Charlie Dannelly, and Oscar Harris) HMO PATIENT PROTECTION ACT -- An act to provide that managed care entity providing a health benefit plan is liable for damages for harm to its insureds or enrollees caused by the managed care entity's failure to exercise ordinary care.

S 1327 (By Allen Wellons, Charlie Dannelly, and Oscar Harris) PROMPT PAY -- An act to provide for the prompt payment of claims under health benefit plans and to make conforming amendments to related claims payment laws.

S 1328 (By Fountain Odom) MILLION ACRE OPEN SPACE GOAL -- An act to encourage, support, and accelerate the permanent protection of farmland, forestland, parkland, gameland, wetland, open space, and conservation lands in North Carolina, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1329 (By Fountain Odom) ADD. NOTICE/MINING PERMIT APPLICATION -- An act to provide for additional notice of an application for a permit under the Mining Act of 1971, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1330 (By Fountain Odom and Ellie Kinnaird) NONHAZARDOUS DRY-CLEANING TECH. INCENTIVES -- An act to provide a new tax credit as an incentive for investing in dry-cleaning and wet-cleaning equipment that does not use hazardous substance as solvents, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1331 (By Fountain Odom) WHITE GOODS SUNSET REPEAL -- An act to repeal the sunset of the white goods tax and to direct the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to study issues related to the scrap tire disposal tax and the white goods disposal tax, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1336 (By Fountain Odom and Tony Rand) STORMWATER UTILITY FEES -- An act to clarify that stormwater utility fees may be used to fund all costs of stormwater management programs, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1337 (By Fountain Odom) FLOOD HAZARD PREVENTION ACT OF 2000 -- An act to prevent inappropriate development in the one hundred-year floodplain and to reduce flood hazards, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1338 (By Bill Martin and Jeanne Lucas) A&T STATE, NCCU/ED. DEGREE -- An act to increase the number of school administrator programs that may be established by the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina and to provide that one of those programs shall be at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical University and one at North Carolina Central University.

S 1341 (By Charlie Albertson) PETROLEUM DISCHARGES/DE MINIMIS REPORTS -- An act to extend the de minimis reporting exception to all discharges of petroleum, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1342 (By Charlie Albertson) REAUTHORIZE SMALL FAMILY FARM PRESERVATION COMMISSION -- An act to reauthorize the Commission on Small Family Farm Preservation.

S 1343 (By John Kerr) RURAL INTERNET ACCESS AGENCY -- An act to create the North Carolina Rural Internet Access Agency.

S 1344 (By Luther Jordan) REMOVAL OF ABANDONED VESSELS -- An act to make it unlawful to abandon vessels in coastal waters and to authorize the removal of abandoned vessels and the recovery of costs for removal, as recommended by the Environmental Review Commission.

S 1345 (By Eric Reeves) INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY GOVERNANCE -- An act to repeal the powers and duties of the Secretary of Commerce regarding information technology matters and to reestablish those powers and duties within the Office of the Governor, and to make other changes in the laws regarding information technology related State government functions.

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