Bill > H481

This bill provides technical corrections and clarifications to various North Carolina statutes. Here's a summary of its key provisions: This bill makes several technical amendments to North Carolina law, primarily focusing on standardizing language, correcting grammatical issues, and updating terminology across multiple statutes. The key changes include standardizing the spelling and capitalization of terms like "email", "Internet", "website", and "rulemaking" throughout various state laws. The bill also updates definitions in several chapters, including those related to health services, long-term care, and criminal record expungement. Specific changes include modifying language in statutes about assault on emergency personnel, criminal record expungement procedures, health service facility definitions, and various other technical legal language corrections. The bill aims to improve consistency and clarity in state legal language without substantially changing the substantive meaning of the laws. Most provisions become effective immediately upon the bill becoming law, with a few sections having specific future effective dates. The changes are primarily administrative in nature, designed to clean up and standardize legal terminology across different sections of North Carolina's General Statutes.

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https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H481