North Carolina HB 206: DPS/Other Changes.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025

SESSION LAW 2026-53
HOUSE BILL 206

*H206-v-6*
AN ACT TO ENACT MODIFICATIONS AS RECOMMENDED BY THE NORTH
CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, TO AUTHORIZE TRIBAL POLICE
CHIEFS TO ENTER INTO MUTUAL AID AGREEMENTS WITH OTHER LAW
ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, AND TO MODIFY THE LAW RELATED TO THE
CONFIRMATION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

AIRPORT LEASE AUTHORITY
SECTION 1.(a) The North Carolina Department of Public Safety and North Carolina
Air National Guard are granted independent signature authority to accept an additional 50-year
land use license from the United States Air Force for the approximately 114.19 acres at the Stanly
County Airport that extends current License No. DACA21-3-94-0983 through calendar year
2093.
SECTION 1.(b) This section is effective when it becomes law.

ALLOW DONATION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES
SECTION 3.(a) The Division of Emergency Management at the Department of
Public Safety is authorized to transfer ownership of travel trailers and utility terrain vehicles that
were donated to or purchased by the State during disaster operations to any of the following:
local governments, nonprofit organizations working in emergency response or disaster relief, or
to survivors with a need for long-term housing support.
SECTION 3.(b) This section is effective when it becomes law.

VICTIM COMPENSATION CHANGES
SECTION 5.(a) G.S. 15B-2 reads as rewritten:
"§ 15B-2. Definitions.
As used in this Article, the following definitions apply, unless the context requires otherwise:
...
(7) Dependent's economic loss. – Loss after a victim's death of contributions of
things of economic value to his dependents, not including services they would
have received from the victim if he had not suffered the fatal injury, less
expenses of the dependents avoided by reason of the victim's death.
Dependent's economic loss will be limited to a 26-week period commencing
from the date of the injury, and compensation shall not exceed three four
hundred dollars ($300.00) ($400.00) per week.
...
(10a) Household support loss. – The loss of support that a victim would have
received from the victim's spouse for the purpose of maintaining a home or
residence for the victim and the victim's dependents. A victim may be
compensated fifty one hundred dollars ($50.00) ($100.00) per week for each
dependent child. Compensation for household support loss shall not exceed

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three four hundred dollars ($300.00) ($400.00) per week and shall be limited
to 26 weeks commencing from the date of the injury. A victim may receive
only one compensation for household support loss. Household support loss is
only available to an unemployed a victim whose spouse is the offender who
committed the criminally injurious conduct that is the basis of the victim's
claim under this act.
...
(14) Work loss. – Loss of income from work that the injured person would have
performed if he had not been injured and expenses reasonably incurred by him
to obtain services in lieu of those he would have performed for income,
reduced by any income from substitute work actually performed by him, or
by income he would have earned in available appropriate substitute work that
he was capable of performing but unreasonably failed to undertake.
Compensation for work loss will be limited to 26 weeks commencing from
the date of the injury, and compensation shall not exceed three four hundred
dollars ($300.00) ($400.00) per week. A claim for work loss will be paid only
upon proof that the injured person was gainfully employed at the time of the
criminally injurious conduct and, by physician's certificate, that the injured
person was unable to work."
SECTION 5.(b) G.S. 15B-6(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b) The Director shall have all of the following authority:
(1) With the consent of the district attorney, to request that law enforcement
officers employed by the State or any political subdivision provide copies of
any information or data gathered in the investigation of criminally injurious
conduct that is the basis of any claim to enable the Director or Commission to
determine whether, and the extent to which, a claimant qualifies for an award
of compensation.
(2) With the consent of the district attorney, to request that prosecuting attorneys,
law enforcement officers, and State agencies conduct investigations and
provide information necessary to enable the Director or Commission to
determine whether, and the extent to which, a claimant qualifies for an award
of compensation.
(3) To require the claimant to supplement the application for an award of
compensation with any reasonably available medical or psychological reports
pertaining to the injury for which the award of compensation is claimed.
(4) To utilize the sums remaining in the fund in any particular fiscal year to
promote the mission of the Commission through outreach awareness
measures.training for crime vi