• • This Week at the General Assembly
• • Regulatory Reform Committee Schedules Public Meetings
• • Bills Introduced This Week
• • Bills on the Move
• • NAHB Legislative Day in Washington, DC is COMING SOON
• • Quote of the Week (a shout out to our Wilmington area peeps!)

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Both the House and Senate appointed members to the newly created Joint Select Committee on Regulatory Reform.  Members from the House include: Representatives Avila and McElraft (Co-Chairs); Representatives Brawley, Brisson, Crawford, Owens, McGrady, Tolson and West.  Senate members are Senators Brown and Rouzer (Co-chairs) ; Senators Clary, Clodfelter, East, Gunn, Jackson, Jenkins and Walters.

This new committee is in the process of scheduling public hearings to be held across the state over the next several weeks.  NCHBA staff will let you know all the details as soon as they are available and we ask that our members come to these hearings and SPEAK!  Almost all of our members have had to deal with the federal, state and local regulatory morass and we know you have stories to be told and some suggestions on how to improve the state’s regulatory environment. 

The first public meeting will be held next Friday, March 11^th in Wilmington at the Cape Fear Community College auditorium from 1:00 pm until 3:00 pm.  Doors open at 12:30 pm.  Speakers are asked to sign up to speak; however, the committee will make every effort to allow time for anyone who attends to address the committee. 

Other locations for meetings will be: Greenville, Raleigh, Greensboro, Charlotte and Hendersonville.  Again, we will let you know the details for each of these meetings as soon as they are available.

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HB 195 ETJ/Clairfy Definition of Bona Fide Farm would exempt farms from municipal ETJ and would prohibit the annexation of farms.

HB 223 Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Days would ensure all workers fully paid sick days. 

HB 225/S 165 NC Turnpike Authority Corridor Selection would restrict the selection of transportation corridors to existing protected corridors or corridors south of an existing protected corridor, except in the area of Interstate 40 East.

H 237 Economic Impact/Regulatory Legislation would require an economic impact statement on all legislation that imposes an additional regulatory burden (similar to fiscal notes agencies prepare during rulemaking).

SB 155 Wake Local Stormwater Utility Fees would allow the Towns of Garner, Knightdale, Morrisville, Wendell and Zebulon to collect delinquent stormwater utility fees the same way they collect delinquent personal and real property taxes.

SB 164/HB 206 Modify Property Tax Base Exclusions expands the list of exclusions from property tax.

SB 170 Clarify Nuisance Abatement Laws would change the definition of a nuisance to include ownership or leasing of any building or place wherin or whereon repeated acts of an illegal activity occur.

SB 204 Public Entities & Contractors/Use E-Verify would require that cities, counties and public contractors use the federal E-Verify system to verify all employees and subcontractors (similar to HB 36).

SB 207 Increase Statutory Homestead Exemption would increase the amount of aggregate interest that a debtor is entitled to retain free from enforcement of the claims of creditors to $75,000.

SB 214 Transportation Map Corridors/Condemnation would limit the amount of time land may be encumbered by a transportation corridor official map before the entity adopting the transportation corridor map is required by law to purchase the property or initiate condemnation proceedings.  Introduced at the request of NCHBA.

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