North Carolina HB 91: Create Pretrial Release Study Committee.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025

SESSION LAW 2025-20
HOUSE BILL 91

*H91-v-5*
AN ACT TO AMEND THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM "ARMED FORCES" OF THE
UNITED STATES TO INCLUDE THE NEWLY ESTABLISHED UNITED STATES
SPACE FORCE, TO MAKE CONFORMING CHANGES TO RELEVANT STATUTES
RELATED TO THE MILITARY, TO EXTEND THE LOOKBACK PERIOD FOR
CERTAIN LATE APPLICATIONS FOR PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION, AND TO
ALLOW THE RELEASE OF TAXES LEVIED AGAINST CERTAIN PROPERTY.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

PART I. "ARMED FORCES" TO INCLUDE UNITED STATES SPACE FORCE
SECTION 1.1. G.S. 17C-10.1 reads as rewritten:
"§ 17C-10.1. Certification of military service members and veterans with law enforcement
training and experience.
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(g) As used in this section, the following terms mean:
(1) Branches of military service. – The United States Armed Forces: Air Force;
Army; Marine; Marine Corps; Navy; Space Force; active, reserve, Air/Army
National Guard components; and the Coast Guard.
...."
SECTION 1.2. G.S. 58-58-335 reads as rewritten:
"§ 58-58-335. Definitions.
As used in this Part:
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(1a) "Armed Forces" means all components of the United States Army, Navy, Air
Force, Marine Corps, Space Force, and Coast Guard.
...."
SECTION 1.3. G.S. 116-143.3 reads as rewritten:
"§ 116-143.3. Tuition of qualifying federal services members and their spouses and
dependents.
(a) Definitions. – The following definitions apply in this section:
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(2) Armed Forces. – The United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine
Corps, Space Force, and Navy; the North Carolina National Guard; and any
reserve component of the foregoing.
...."
SECTION 1.4. G.S. 116-235 reads as rewritten:
"§ 116-235. Board of Trustees; additional powers and duties.
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(b) Students. –
(1) Admission of Students. – The School shall admit students in accordance with
criteria, standards, and procedures established by the Board of Trustees. To be
eligible to be considered for admission, an applicant must be either a legal

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resident of the State, as defined by G.S. 116-143.1(a)(1), or a student whose
parent is an active duty member of the Armed Forces, as defined by
G.S. 116-143.3(2), G.S. 116-143.3(a)(2), who is abiding in this State incident
to active military duty at the time the application is submitted, provided the
student shares the abode of that parent; eligibility to remain enrolled in the
School shall terminate at the end of any school year during which a student
becomes a nonresident of the State. The Board of Trustees shall ensure,
insofar as possible without jeopardizing admission standards, that an equal
number of qualified applicants is admitted to the program and to the
residential summer institutes in science and mathematics from each of North
Carolina's congressional districts. In no event shall the differences in the
number of qualified applicants offered admission to the program from each of
North Carolina's congressional districts be more than two and one-half
percentage points from the average number per district who are offered
admission.
...."
SECTION 1.5. G.S. 143B-1224 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143B-1224. Definitions.
As used in this Part the terms defined in this section shall have the following meaning:
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(2) "Armed Forces" means the United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air
Force, Space Force, and Coast Guard, including their reserve components.
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PART II. CONFORMING CHANGES
SECTION 2.1. G.S. 1-82 reads as rewritten:
"§ 1-82. Venue in all other cases.
In all other cases the action must be tried in the county in which the plaintiffs or the
defendants, or any of them, reside at its commencement, or if none of the defendants reside in
the State, then in the county in which the plaintiffs, or any of them, reside; and if none of the
parties reside in the State, then the action may be tried in any county which the plaintiff designates
in the plaintiff's summons and complaint, subject to the power of the court to change the place
of trial, in the cases provided by statute; provided that any person who has resided on or been
stationed in a United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Space Force, or Air Force
installation or reservation within this State for a period of one (1) year or more next preceding
the institution of an action shall be deemed a resident of the county within which such installation
or reservation, or part thereof, is situated and of any county adjacent to such county where such
person stationed at such installation or reservation lives in such adjacent county, for the purposes
of this section. The term person shall include military personnel and the spouses and dependents
of such personnel."
SECTION 2.2. G.S. 14-395 is repealed.
SECTION 2.3. G.S. 45-21.12A reads as rewritten:
"§ 45-21.12A. Power of sale barred during periods of military service.
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(d) Definitions. – The following definitions apply in this section:
(1) Military service. –
a. In the case of a member