2025 General Administration Law Changes

This subsection was amended to update “Web site” to the term “website”. This conforms with the state’s drafting conventions for the use of this term.

(Effective June 26, 2025; HB 40, s. 29.(5), S.L. 2025-25.)

This subdivision allows the Department to exchange information with certain agencies when the information is needed to fulfill a duty. One of those agencies is the State Highway Patrol.

The 2024 General Assembly passed legislation to make the State Highway Patrol an independent, cabinet-level department. This subdivision was amended to remove a reference to the Department of Public Safety.

(Effective July 1, 2025; SB 382, s. 3E.2.(w), S.L. 2024-57.)

This subdivision was added to facilitate the organ and tissue donor election on income tax returns. The addition was needed to allow the Department to furnish the Department of Transportation, Division of Motor Vehicles, with the information of an individual who has elected to become an organ and tissue donor under G.S. 105-153.8A for purposes of making an anatomical gift in accordance with Part 3A of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes.

(Effective on January 1, 2027, and for tax returns for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027.; SB 600, s. 2.(b)., S.L. 2025-60.)

This subdivision was added to facilitate the organ and tissue donor election on income tax returns. The addition was needed to allow the Department to furnish any organ procurement organization and any organization responsible for maintaining a list of individuals who have authorized an anatomical gift with the information of an individual who has elected to become an organ and tissue donor under G.S. 105-153.8A for purposes of making an anatomical gift in accordance with Part 3A of Chapter 130A of the General Statutes.

(Effective on January 1, 2027, and for tax returns for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027.; SB 600, s. 2.(b)., S.L. 2025-60.)

Subsection (c) was amended to update the term “Internet” to “internet”. Subsection (d) was amended to update “rule making” to the term “rulemaking”. These amendments conform with the state’s drafting conventions for the use of these terms.

(Effective June 26, 2025; HB 40, s. 29.(3),(6), S.L. 2025-25.)

Subsection (b) was amended to update “Web site” to the term “website”. This conforms with the state’s drafting conventions for the use of this term.

(Effective June 26, 2025; HB 40, s. 29.(5), S.L. 2025-25.)

This subsection was amended to extend the sunset of G.S. 105-269.8, the statute that allows an individual to contribute some or all of their income tax refund to the North Carolina Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program. As amended, the option to donate now expires on January 1, 2030.

(Effective June 27, 2025; H 576, s. 4.6., S.L. 2025-27.)

Subdivisions (1) and (2) were amended to update the term “Internet” to “internet”. These amendments conform with the state’s drafting conventions for the use of these terms.

(Effective June 26, 2025; HB 40, s. 29.(3), S.L. 2025-25.)