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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-05-03
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 144 (2019-2020) HANDS FREE NC. Filed Feb21 2019, AN ACT MAKING IT UNLAWFUL TO OPERATE A VEHICLEONA
PUBLIC STREET HIGHWAY, OR PUBLIC VEHICULAR AREA WHILE ENGAGING IN DISTRACTED BEHAVIOR.
House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 2nd edition.
Deletes all provisions of the previous edition. Instead, enacts GS 20-137.3A to prohibit the operation of a motor vehicle on a
public street, highway, or public vehicular area while using the person's hands to engage in distracted behavior that impairs or
otherwise restricts the proper operation of the motor vehicle and results in operation that is careless, reckless, or heedless,
under the then existing conditions. Specifies that use of a handheld mobile telephone and use of an electronic device is
distracted behavior under the proposed law. Makes any violation of the law an infraction punishable by a $100 fine plus court
costs. Prohibits insurance surcharges as a result of a violation. Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2019.
Requires law enforcement to issue only warning tickets for offenses committed within the six months immediately after the
effective date of the act. Makes conforming changes to the act's long title.
Intro, by Corbin, Torbett, Hardister, Pierce.
GS 20
View summary
Courts/Judiciary, Motor Vehicle, Government, Public Safety
and Emergency Management
H 201 (2019-2020) RANDOLPH CO. REGISTER OF DEEDS TAX CERT. (NEW) Filed Feb 26 2019, AN ACT TO ALLOW
RANDOLPH COUNTY TO NOT ACCEPT THE REGISTRATION OF A DEED TRANSFERRING REAL PROPERTY WHEN TAXES ARE
DELINQUENT.
House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.
Deletes the proposed changes to GS 161-31 to allow all counties rather than certain counties to prohibit their respective
register of deeds from accepting the registration a deed transferring real property when taxes are delinquent. Instead maintains
the statute's scope of the existing named counties and expands its scope to include Randolph County. Makes conforming
changes to the act's long title.
Intro, by Hurley, McNeill. GS 161
Courts/Judiciary, Civil, Civil Law, Development, Land Use
View summary and Housing, Property and Housing, Government, Tax, Local
Government
H 347 (2019-2020) NO DELINQUENT/UNDISCIPLINED UNDER 10 YRS OLD. Filed Mar 13 2019 , AN ACT TO MODIFY THE
DEFINITIONS OF DELINQUENT JUVENILE AND UNDISCIPLINED JUVENILE TO INCLUDE ONLY JUVENILES AT LEAST TEN
YEARS OF AGE.
House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.
Makes technical changes to remove the changes to the definition of delinquent juvenile set out in GS 7B-1 50 1 (7) (as amended
by the act) that becomes effective December 1, 2019.
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