North Carolina HB 58: Parents' and Students' Bill of Rights.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025

SESSION LAW 2025-3
HOUSE BILL 58

*H58-v-6*
AN ACT TO EXTEND THE TERMS OF THE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD
OF COMMISSIONERS FOR THE TOWN OF KITTRELL FROM TWO TO FOUR
YEARS; TO PROVIDE THAT THE ASHEBORO CITY BOARD OF EDUCATION
SHALL CONSIST OF SEVEN MEMBERS ELECTED ON A PARTISAN BASIS IN
EVEN-NUMBERED YEARS TO SERVE FOUR-YEAR STAGGERED TERMS; TO
ESTABLISH RESIDENCY DISTRICTS FOR THE ANSON COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS; TO PROVIDE THAT VACANCIES ON THE CASWELL COUNTY
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ARE FILLED IN ACCORDANCE WITH
G.S. 153A-27.1; AND TO AUTHORIZE THE SCOTLAND COUNTY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS TO ADOPT A SCHOOL BUDGET IN ITS DISCRETION; TO
ELIMINATE THE MANDATORY SCHOOL FUNDING FLOOR; AND TO MAKE
CONFORMING CHANGES.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.(a) Section 3 of the Charter of the Town of Kittrell, being Chapter 136
of the Private Laws of 1885, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 3. That the officers of said town shall consist of a mayor, mayor and three
commissioners and a constable; commissioners, and the commissioners shall have power to
appoint a secretary and treasurer.clerk and finance officer. The mayor and three commissioners
shall be elected for four-year terms."
SECTION 1.(b) This section is effective when it becomes law and applies to
elections held on or after that date.
SECTION 2.1.(a) Notwithstanding Chapter 35 of the 1957 Session Laws, as
amended by Chapter 838 of the 1959 Session Laws, Chapter 172 of the 1969 Session Laws,
Chapter 310 of the 1973 Session Laws, and Chapter 81 of the 1985 Session Laws, two members
of the Asheboro City Board of Education shall be elected in 2025 on a nonpartisan plurality basis
with the results determined in accordance with G.S. 163-292 to serve a one-year term.
SECTION 2.1.(b) This section does not affect the term of office of any member
elected in 2025 to the Asheboro City Board of Education. Any vacancy on the Asheboro City
Board of Education for a member elected in 2025 shall be filled by appointment of the remaining
members of the Asheboro City Board of Education to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
Each member of the Asheboro City Board of Education elected in 2025, or any member
appointed to fill a vacancy for a member elected in 2025, shall serve until a successor has been
elected and qualified.
SECTION 2.2.(a) Section 2 of Chapter 35 of the 1957 Session Laws, as amended
by Chapter 838 of the 1959 Session Laws, Chapter 172 of the 1969 Session Laws, Chapter 310
of the 1973 Session Laws, and Chapter 81 of the 1985 Session Laws, reads as rewritten:
"Sec. 2. (a) The Asheboro City Board of Education shall consist of 11 seven members
elected for six-year staggered four-year terms. Members shall be elected on a partisan basis. The
election shall be held at the same time as provided by general law for the municipal elections for
the City of Asheboro. At the election on November 6, 1973, four (4) members shall be elected

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for six-year terms. At the election on November 4, 1975, three (3) members shall be elected for
six-year terms and at the election on November 8, 1977, four (4) members shall be elected for
six-year terms. Thereafter, biennially there shall be elected members of the board to fill those
vacancies created by expiration of the terms of office. of the general election in each
even-numbered year as terms expire. Candidates for election to the Asheboro City Board of
Education shall be nominated at the same time and manner as county officers. Members shall
take office on the first Monday in December following their election. The terms of all present
members are extended until the first Monday in December following the election of their
successors, or Members shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. The election
shall be held and conducted by the Randolph County Board of Elections under the same
applicable provisions of Articles 23 and 24 of Chapter Chapters 115C and 163 of the General
Statutes which are applicable to the election of municipal officers in the City of
Asheboro.Statutes.
(b) Any vacancy occurring by reason of death, resignation or otherwise than by expiration
of the term of office, on the Asheboro City Board of Education shall be filled for the unexpired
term by the appointment made by the remaining members of the board of education.in accordance
with G.S. 115C-37.1."
SECTION 2.2.(b) Sections 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 of Chapter 35 of the 1957 Session
Laws, as amended by Chapter 838 of the 1959 Session Laws, Chapter 172 of the 1969 Session
Laws, and Chapter 81 of the 1985 Session Laws, are repealed.
SECTION 2.2.(c) The terms of office for the four members serving on the effective
date of this section whose terms of office are set to expire in 2027 shall be extended by one year,
and the terms of office for the three members serving on the effective date of this section whose
terms are set to expire in 2029 s