6/16/2020
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The Daily Bulletin: 2020-06-16
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 1 18 (2019-2020) COV1D-I9 LIAB. SAFE HARBOR. (NEW) Filed Feb 19 2019, AN ACT TO PROVIDE LIMITED IMMUNITY
FROM LIABILITY FOR CLAIMS BASED ON TRANSMISSION OF CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (COVID-19).
Senate committee substitute deletes the content of the 5th edition and instead provides the following.
Enacts Article 8, COVID-19 Limited Liability, of GS Chapter 99E. Grants limited civil immunity to any person against any
claim for relief arising from any act or omission alleged to have resulted in the contraction of COVID-19. Defines person to
mean an individual, corporation, nonprofit corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, sole
proprietorship, association, joint venture, government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public
coiporation; or other legal entity.
Mandates persons to provide reasonable notice of actions taken to reduce the risk of COV1D-1 9 transmission to individuals
present on premises owned or under the possession, custody or control of the person; excludes premises owned by an
individual unless used in the operation of a sole proprietorship. Grants immunity to persons for failure of any individual to
comply with rules, policies or guidelines contained in the notice.
Excludes from the statute's scope workers' compensation claims before the Industrial Commission.
Limits the Article's scope to claims or actions arising no later than 180 days of expiration or rescission of Executive Order
116.
Provides that the act has no effect on immunities provided in SL 2020-3 (COVID-19 Recovery Act).
Changes the act's titles.
Intro, by Warren, Corbin, D. Hall, Potts.
GS 99 E
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Business and Commerce, Courts/Judiciary, Civil, Civil Law,
Government, Public Safety and Emergency Management
H 51 1 (2019-2020) NORTH CAROLINA FIRST STEP ACT. (NEW) Filed Mar 28 2019. AN ACT TO INCREASE JUDICIAL
DISCRETION IN SENTENCING FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING OFFENSES.
Conference report makes the following changes to the 5th edition.
Changes the effective date of Section 2 of the bill, which amends GS 90-95(h). from December 1. 2019, to December 1, 2020.
Changes the annual requirement that the Administrative Office of the Courts publish a report on sentence modifications
pursuant to new GS 90-95(j), from beginning on December 1 , 2020. to beginning on December 1. 2021.
Changes the effective date of Section 4 of the bill, which authorizes motions for appropriate relief for certain convictions, from
effective on December 1. 2019. and applying to sentences ordered on or before November 30, 2019. to effective on December
1 . 2020. and applying to sentences ordered on or before November 30, 2020.
Changes the Department of Information Technology's reporting deadline pursuant to Section 5 from December 1, 2020, to
December 1 . 2021.
Intro, by Grange, Szoka, Goodwin. STUDY, GS 90
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