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SB 508

Relating to prohibiting geographic tracking in connection with motor vehicle liability insurance policies; prescribing an effective date.

2025 Regular Session Introduced by David Smith

SB 508 mainly makes technical corrections and clarify budgeting rules to ensure consistent implementation of the 2023 budget, including reallocating some directed funds.

In committee upon adjournment.
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Bill Summary · SB 508

SB 508 — "2023 Budget Technical / Other Corrections" (North Carolina; SL 2024‑1)

Status: Ratified and signed by Governor (Chapter SL 2024‑1); Signature date: May 15, 2024

Main purpose

SB 508 is an omnibus, technical-corrections bill that (1) makes technical, clarifying, and corrective amendments to the Current Operations Appropriations Act of 2023 (S.L. 2023‑134), and (2) fixes cross‑references, definitions, and implementation details in numerous statutes. Its intent is to resolve drafting errors, clarify legislative intent, and implement minor programmatic adjustments so state agencies, local governments, and program administrators can carry out the 2023 budget and related laws consistently.

Key substantive provisions and examples

Note: the bill is large and omnibus in nature. The text contains many discrete edits; the list below highlights representative and material changes shown in the enrolled language.

  • Project ordinances / local government budgeting

    • Clarifies and expands definitions in G.S. 159‑13.2 (adds/clarifies “grant project,” “settlement project,” and “project ordinance”).
    • Confirms that local governments may adopt project ordinances for capital, grant, or settlement projects and requires budget materials to include project-level information.
    • Amends accounting and budget statutes (G.S. 159‑11, 159‑13, 159‑26, 159‑28) to align terminology and to require reporting of settlement projects and encumbrances where applicable.

  • Revisions to directed grants and allocations

    • Reallocates specified directed grant receipts from the State Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund (SERDRF): e.g., funds originally budgeted for certain community college or county projects are redirected to specified alternative grantees (excerpt: Johnston Community College → Southeastern Drainage Office, Inc.; Madison County → Haywood County for same purpose).

  • Education provisions and corrections

    • Patriot Star Family Scholarship program: changes the distribution of recurring funds (of $350,000 recurring initially allocated to Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation, beginning 2023‑24 $300,000 recurring is instead allocated to the Patriot Foundation; each nonprofit continues to administer awards per program rules).
    • Delays or adjusts rulemaking/deadlines for State Board of Education actions (for example, revised deadline for emergency rule establishing early‑graduation course sequences).
    • Clarifies eligibility/forgiveness criteria for the Teaching Fellows / forgivable loan program (timing/ten‑year graduation window and related conditions).
    • Corrects statutory cross‑references and reporting requirements related to nonpublic school registration/authority reporting and scholarship program administration.
    • Modifies applicability dates for certain scholarship or nonpublic school provisions (e.g., timing for in‑person instruction requirement for nonpublic schools accepting Opportunity Scholarship funds).

  • Miscellaneous technical fixes

    • Repeals or corrects unintended language in statutes (examples include preemption language related to local regulation of auxiliary containers).
    • Numerous conforming edits across education, budgeting, and administrative code provisions to correct grammar, cross‑references, and statutory consistency.

Who is affected

  • State agencies (Department of Public Instruction, Office of State Budget and Management, Department of Public Safety, others) — by clarifying implementation duties and deadlines.
  • Local governments and public authorities — clearer rules for project ordinances, accounting, and budgeting for settlement/grant projects.
  • Scholarship administrators and private nonprofit scholarship organizations — changes in fund allocations and administrative responsibilities.
  • School units, students, and parents — procedural changes (rule deadlines, notice/eligibility clarifications) that affect implementation timelines.
  • Targeted grantees of directed grants (counties, nonprofits, drainage projects) receiving reallocated funds.

Fiscal and procedural notes

  • The bill is primarily technical. Many provisions are housekeeping; fiscal impacts are generally minimal unless specific reallocations or directed grants are involved (those reallocations are reflected in the bill text/committee reports).
  • Effective dates vary by provision. Portions of the act amend prior-year provisions (some applying retroactively or effective July 1, 2023) and others take effect on enactment or specified future dates. The act was ratified as S.L. 2024‑1 and signed by the Governor on May 15, 2024.

Bottom line

SB 508 is an omnibus technical‑corrections and implementation bill tied to the 2023 Appropriations Act. It does not create a major new program but (a) reallocates certain directed funds, (b) clarifies how local governments account for and budget project/settlement grants, and (c) fixes numerous statutory drafting errors and timing or reporting details—primarily to ensure consistent administration of the 2023 budget and related laws.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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