S 429
2025 Public Safety Act.
Jurisdiction
North Carolina
Session
2025-2026 Session
Last updated at
Jun 16, 2026, 4:57 AM
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- Passed House
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Bill overview
An act to set limits on motions for appropriate relief IN noncapital cases; To ban hemp-derived consumable products from school grounds; To create a new criminal offense for exposing a child to a controlled substance; To increase the punishment for possessing a firearm OR weapon of mass death and destruction by a felon during the commission OR attempted commission of a felony; To revise laws pertaining to the disclosure and release of autopsy information compiled OR prepared by the office of the chief medical examiner; To increase the punishment for committing the offense of solicitation of minors by computer; To revise the law governing the granting of immunity to witnesses; To require certain petitions pertaining to sex offender registration be placed on the criminal docket; To clarify the standing of district attorneys IN certain cases; To allow persons outside of this state to file for a domestic violence protection order; To revise the requirement under the crime victims compensation act that criminally injurious conduct be reported to law enforcement within seventy-two hours of its occurrence; To revise the criminal offense of secretly peeping into room occupied by another person; To revise the law prohibiting sexual activity by a substitute parent OR custodian to include religious organizations OR institutions; To establish an offense for wrongfully entering a part of a building not open to the public; To establish the offense of larceny of gift cards; To revise the organized retail theft offense to include offenses involving gift cards; To allow unlicensed law school graduates to practice law under supervision; To clarify that felony school notifications are limited to class a through class e felonies; To allow the transfer of biological evidence back to the collecting agency for preservation; To revise the law governing the recording of court proceedings; To increase the punishment for committing the offense of failure to yield that results IN serious bodily injury; And to increase the penalty for failure to yield the right-of-way to a blind OR partially blind pedestrian.
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