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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-04-01
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 377 (2019-2020) REDUCE TESTING. Filed Mar 1 8 20 19. AN ACT TO REPLACE OR ELIMINATE CERTAIN TESTS
ADMINISTERED TO STUDENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND TO PROHIBIT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION PROJECTS AS A
CONDITION OF GRADUATION.
House committee substitute to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.
Regarding the components of the Statewide Testing Program set forth in GS 1 15C-1 74. 1 1, as amended, exempts from the
provisions any identification or evaluation by a local board of education under Articles 9 (Children with Chemical
Dependency) or 9B (Academically or Intellectually Gifted Students) of GS Chapter 1 15C.
Intro, by Elmore, K. Hall, Bell, Conrad.
GS 1 15C, GS 116
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Education, Elementary and Secondary Education,
Government, State Agencies, State Board of Education
H 448 (2019-2020) PLANNING DEVELOPMENT CHANGES. Filed Mar 25 2019, AN ACT TO REORGANIZE, CONSOLIDATE.
MODERNIZE. AND CLARIFY STATUTES REGARDING LOCAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT REGULATION.
Includes whereas clauses.
Enacts new GS Chapter 160D. Local Planning and Development Regulation, which consolidates, reorganizes, and clarifies
local planning and development regulations previously found in GS Chapter 1 53 A. Article 18 (Planning and Regulation of
Development for counties), and GS Chapter 1 60A, Article 19 (Planning and Regulation of Development for cities and towns),
and recodifies and updates those statutes to by including changes made in 2015-2018 session laws. Consolidates city and
county planning and development statutes, making the provisions applicable to local governments, while retaining necessary
differences, and makes conforming changes. Additionally, makes the following changes.
Article 1, General Provisions
Establishes the scope of Article 1 as follows. Sets forth that the provisions of Article 1 apply to all development regulations
and programs adopted pursuant to new GS Chapter 160D or applicable or related to local acts. Establishes that GS 160D-1-1 1
is applicable to the extent there are contrary provisions in local charters or acts, unless GS Chapter 160D expressly provides
otherwise. Further establishes that Article 1 applies to any other local ordinance that substantially affects land use and
development. Provides that Article 1 is supplemental to specific provisions included in other Articles in GS Chapter 160D, and
establishes that the more specific provisions control if the two are in conflict. Permits local governments to apply any
definitions and procedures authorized by GS Chapter 160D to any ordinance that does not substantially affect land use and
development adopted under the general police power of cities and counties. Article 8 of GS Chapter 160A and Article 6 of GS
Chapter 153 A respectively, and permits local ordinances to employ any organizational structure, board, commission, or
staffing arrangement authorized by GS Chapter 1 60D to any or all aspects of those ordinances. Clarifies that new GS Chapter
1 60D does not expand, diminish, or alter the scope of authority for planning and development regulation authorized by other
GS Chapters.
Adds the defined terms administrative decision, administrative hearing, bona fide farm purposes, charter, conditional zoning,
decision-making board, determination, development approval, development regulation, evidentiary hearing, governing board,
legislative hearing, legislative decision, local government, planning and development regulation jurisdiction, site plan, special
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