Daily bulletin [2016 : May 12]

UNC SCHOOL OF GOVERNMENT The Daily Bulletin: 2016-05-12 PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS H 1021 (2015-2016) AMEND INNOCENCE COMMISSION STATUTES. Filed May 3 2016 , AN ACT TO MAKE VARIOUS AMENDMENTS TO THE LAWS REGARDING THE INNOCENCE INQUIRY COMMISSION, AS RECOMMENDED BY THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE ON JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SAFETY House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition. Adds any Class A through E felony to a claim of factual innocence that may be made directly by a claimant under GS 15A-1467. Intro, by Daughtry'. GS 15A View summary Courts/Judiciary, Court System, Criminal Justice, Corrections (Sentencing/Probation) H 1078 (2015-2016) THE EQUALITY FOR ALL ACT. Filed May 10 2016 , AN ACT TO PROTECT ALL NORTH CAROLINIANS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE. Part I names the act The Equality for All Act. Part II provides for additional protection in housing. Amends GS 41 A-3 to add protected slants to the terms defined in the State Fair Housing Act (Act), and defines the term to mean a person's race, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, sex, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military or veteran status, or genetic information. Amends GS 41 A-4 to prohibit discriminatory housing practices in transactions, as specified in the statute, because of the protected status of another person, as defined in GS 41 A-3 as amended, changing the existing language, which only extends protection under the statute to discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicapping condition, or familial status. Changes language throughout the statute referencing discrimination based on those listed categories by instead referring to a person's protected status. Amends GS 41 A-5, providing for what constitutes a violation of the Act, by changing the language throughout the statute referencing discriminatory acts based on a person's race, color, religion, sex, national origin, handicapping condition, or familial status with the term "protected status." Current GS 41 A-6(a) establishes seven exemptions from the unlawful discriminating housing practices found in GS 41 A-4, except for subsection (a)(6). Amends GS 41 A-6(a)(2) to exempt the rental of four or fewer rooms in a private house (currently, the rental of a room or rooms in a private house), not a boarding house, if the lessor or a member of the lessor's family resides in the house. Amends GS 41 A-6(a)(3) to exempt religious institutions or organizations or charitable or educational organizations operated, supervised, or controlled by religious institutions or organizations which give preference to members of the same religion in a real estate transaction as long as membership in such religion is not restricted by a protected status, other than religion (currently, as long as membership in such religion is not restricted by race, color, sex, national origin, handicapping condition, or familial status).