A parent effects or attempts to effect an unlawful transfer of custody of that parent's minor child; or

Any person accepts or attempts to accept custody pursuant to an unlawful custody transfer. However, it would not be a crime if the person promptly notifies law enforcement or child protective services in the county where the child resides or is found and promptly provides the child to law enforcement or child protective services; or

Any person advertises, recruits, solicits, or aids, abets, conspires or seeks the assistance of another to effect the unlawful transfer of a minor.  

Would define a “formal inquiry” to mean the stage of an investigation when the Commission has entered into a signed agreement with the original claimant and the Commission has made efforts to notify the victim;

Would require the Director of the Commission (Director) to report to the Director of the Administrative Office of the Courts;

Would clarify that a claim of factual innocence for any conviction may be referred to the Commission by any court, State or local agency, or a claimant’s counsel, whereas a claim of factual innocence for convictions of homicide, robbery, any offense requiring registration under the Sex Offender and Public Protection Registration Program, and any Class A through E felony may be made directly by the claimant;

Would prohibit the Commission from conducting forensic testing and claimant interviews prior to obtaining a signed agreement from the convicted person;

Would provide that if a formal inquiry regarding a claim of factual innocence is granted, the Commission would notify each codefendant, who would have 60 days from receipt of notice to also file a claim of innocence or their claim may be barred from future investigation by the Commission; and

Would require the Director to provide a confidential case status update at least once every six months for each case under formal inquiry by the Commission to the District Attorney and the convicted person, or his/her counsel, if any.

A person whose image or voice is in the recording;

A personal representative of an adult person whose image or voice is in the recording, if the adult person has consented to the disclosure;  

A personal representative of a minor or of an adult person under lawful guardianship whose image or voice is in the recording;

A personal representative of a deceased person whose image or voice is in the recording;  

A personal representative of an adult person who is incapacitated and unable to provide consent to disclosure; or

The custodial law enforcement agency.

Disposal of used needles and hypodermic syringes;

Needles, hypodermic syringes, and other injection supplies at no cost and in quantities sufficient to ensure that needles, hypodermic syringes, and other injection supplies are not shared or reused;

Reasonable and adequate security of program sites, equipment, and personnel;

Educational materials on topics such as overdose prevention and the prevention of HIV, AIDS and viral hepatitis transmission;

Access to naloxone kits or referrals to programs that provide such access; and

Personal consultations from a program employee or volunteer concerning mental health or addiction treatment for each individual requesting services.

Would authorize the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue permanent registration plates for certain transit providers that are designated or direct recipients of specific Federal Transit Administration grant funds;

Would allocate $900,000 from the “funds in the Reserve for Repairs and Renovations” for renovations to dormitories at the Eastern campus of the North Carolina Justice Academy located in Salemburg;

Would provide $508,000 for the construction and development of first generation School Risk Management Plans for public schools, fulfilling the initiative of the North Carolina Center for Safer Schools;

Would provide funds to equip and operate the new Western Crime Laboratory in Edneyville. Specifically, funds would be provided for an HVAC technician, scientific supplies, increased maintenance and utility costs, and to purchase new equipment for the laboratory;

Would allocate $640,000 in additional funds to meet equipment needs at North Carolina State Crime Laboratory facilities in Raleigh and Greensboro;

Would provide additional funds to the State Crime Laboratory (approximately $2.2 million) for the outsourcing of forensic analysis services, including toxicology and DNA;

Would increase permanent full-time State employee salaries by 1.5% and also provide them with a 0.5% one-time bonus;

Would provide $500,000 for salary increases for Alcohol Law Enforcement and State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) agents and would require the Director of the SBI to report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety by September 1, 2016 their plan to adjust the salaries of these agents;

Would allocate $8 million for the purchase of a new airplane for the SBI Airwing;

Would provide step increases for eligible employees paid in accordance with a salary step plan, including assistant and deputy clerks, magistrates, and State Highway Patrol troopers;

Would provide $500,000 to the Veterans Leadership Council of North Carolina for the Veterans Life Center;

Would provide funding for a legislative liaison position for the SBI;

Would allocate $120,000 to the SBI for Operation Medicine Drop, a program that conducts events for citizens to bring unused or expired medications to a central location for safe disposal;

Would provide $85,000 to Tarheel Challenge Academy in Salemburg for the purchase of new buses and an additional $700,000 for a gymnasium renovation;

Would provide funding for two instructor positions at the North Carolina Justice Academy in Salemburg, a narcotics investigation instructor and a crime scene instructor;

Would provide a 4.5% increase in salary for non-step eligible Judicial Branch employees;

Would provide funding to create new district court judge positions in District 19A (Cabarrus) and District 27B (Cleveland and Lincoln);

Would restore assistant district attorney positions in District 9A (Caswell and Person), District 15B (Orange and Chatham), and District 20B (Union);

Would allocate $250,000 for the digitizing of mental health records to facilitate compliance by clerks of court with the requirements of S.L. 2015-195, Amend Firearms Laws, which requires clerks to submit certain historical records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS);

Would provide a 1.6% cost of living supplement to retired State employees for one year only;

Would direct the Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the Departments of Public Safety and Commerce, to study ways to provide additional off-highway parking and rest areas for tractor trailers and semi-trailers;

Would exempt the SBI, the State Highway Patrol, and the Division of Emergency Management located within the Department of Public Safety (DPS) from Department of Information Technology oversight and from Enterprise Active Directory participation;

Would require that an applicant for a “school personnel” position associated with a “lab school” would have to undergo a criminal history record check. “School personnel” would consist of a member of the board of trustees or advisory board, an employee of the lab school, or an independent contractor or employee of the independent contractor of the lab school who carries out duties customarily performed by school personnel, has significant access to students, or has responsibility for the fiscal management of the lab school.  A “lab school” would be a public school located within a local school administrative unit that has a certain percentage of schools within the unit that have been identified as low-performing schools.  The lab school would provide an enhanced education program for students in that unit;

Would provide that “lab schools” are encouraged to adopt a School Risk Management Plan (SRMP) and to provide schematic diagrams and keys to the main entrance of the school to local law enforcement agencies.  Additionally, the school would be encouraged to hold a full school wide lockdown exercise with local law enforcement and emergency management agencies that are part of the school’s SRMP.  The school would be encouraged to provide information from the SRMP and schematic diagrams to the Division of Emergency Management located within DPS;

Would expand the definition of “caretaker” under G.S. 7B-101 to include “a potential adoptive parent during a visit or trial placement with a juvenile in the custody of a department;”

Would require DPS to report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety and the Chairs of the House of Representatives and Senate Appropriations Committees on Justice and Public Safety on: a) The volume of emergency and scheduled health care services for adult and juvenile inmates listed by hospital; b) The percentage of those services provided by contracted or non-contracted providers; and c) The status of efforts to address the backlog of unpaid claims;

Would clarify that the SBI Director exercises his/her authority independently of the Secretary of DPS;

Would require DPS to report quarterly to the chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety on the progress of the State’s VIPER system;

Would make technical changes to the statutes concerning funding for the Statewide Misdemeanant Confinement Program;

Would direct DPS, in consultation with the Department of Administration and the Department of Revenue, to study whether probation and parole officers should be allowed to take their State vehicles home with them, to include the tax implications of allowing them to do so;

Would require the Community Corrections Section of DPS to make the Treatment for Effective Community Supervision Program report. Currently the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice is required to make this report. The report would include information on Recidivism Reduction Services, Community Intervention Centers, Transitional and Temporary Housing, Local Reentry Councils, and Intensive Outpatient Services.

The following types of information, among others, would be reported: the method by which offenders are referred to the program, the target population, the amount of services contracted for and the amount of funding expended in each fiscal year, supervision type, the risk level of offenders served, and the demographics of the population served;

Would direct the North Carolina Justice Academy to develop an online training course for law enforcement officers on the use of social media. The course would include methods individual law enforcement officers can take to protect their personal information; and

Would provide that the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission’s authority to certify, suspend, revoke, or deny the certification of a criminal justice instructor or school director would be expanded to include instructors and directors of courses required by an agency head, in addition to those courses required by the Commission.

An applicant for licensure as a pharmacist would be required to obtain his/her own criminal history record reports from one or more reporting services designated by the North Carolina Board of Pharmacy.  These applicants would no longer have criminal record checks performed through the State Bureau of Investigation.

Applicable only to Buncombe County, it would be a Class 3 misdemeanor to hunt, or attempt to hunt, with a firearm or other deadly weapon from or across the right away of any public road or highway.  This law could be enforced by any law enforcement officers of the Wildlife Resource Commission or by any sheriffs or deputy sheriffs or other law enforcement officers with general subject matter jurisdiction.   

A "provisional" child care provider would be required to undergo a criminal history record check processed through the State Bureau of Investigation and would include a check of the State and federal databases of criminal histories. A provisional childcare provider would mean a person who has been employed as a child care provider whose qualifications are pending.  

The obligations of a surety on a bail bond would end if a defendant is placed on probation pursuant to a deferred prosecution or conditional discharge.  The court would be required to modify the conditions of release in this circumstance so that a secured bond would not be required for future appearances.  

The Commissioner of Insurance would retain enforcement authority over a bail bondsman or runner even when a person's license has been surrendered or has lapsed.  

Community mediation centers would have 45 days to resolve a criminal case before it proceeds to court.  The previous edition of this bill provided that the mediation center had 30 days to resolve a criminal case before it proceeds in court.

Sheriff Ernie L. Coleman of Beaufort County and Benjamin J. Curtis of Rockingham County would be appointed to the Governor's Crime Commission for terms expiring on February 28, 2017.  

Angela L. Harris of Franklin County, Gregory C. Light of Rockingham County, the Honorable David V. Byrd of Wilkes County, Maureen H. Krueger of Moore County, Johnette R. Smith of Wake County, Michael C. Phillips of Wake County, Mary Catherine Stevens of Surry County, Charles E. Campbell, II, of Moore County, and Julia B. Freeman of Haywood County would be appointed to the Domestic Violence Commission for terms expiring on August 31, 2018.

Joshua T. Brown of Durham County and Jeffrey H. Ledford of Cleveland County would be appointed to the 911 Board for terms expiring on December 31, 2020. Charles D. Greene of Forsyth County and Eric S. Cramer of Wake County would be appointed to the 911 Board for terms expiring on December 7, 2020.

William M. Bryan of Nash County would be appointed to the Criminal Justice Information Network Governing Board for a term expiring on June 30, 2019, to fill the unexpired term of Norlan Graves. Joel R. Shores of Cleveland County would also be appointed to the Criminal Justice Information Network Governing Board for a term expiring on June 30, 2017, to fill the unexpired term of Robert A. Graves.