"The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. S.L. 2016-3 and S.L. 2016-99 are repealed.
SECTION 2. Chapter 143 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new
Article to read:
"Article 81A.
"Preemption of Regulation of Access to Multiple Occupancy Restrooms.
"§ 143-760. Preemption of regulation of access to multiple occupancy restrooms, showers,
or changing facilities.
State agencies, boards, offices, departments, institutions, branches of government, including
The University of North Carolina and the North Carolina Community College System, and
political subdivisions of the State, including local boards of education, are preempted from
regulation of access to multiple occupancy restrooms, showers, or changing facilities, except in
accordance with an act of the General Assembly."
SECTION 3. No local government in this State may enact or amend an ordinance
regulating private employment practices or regulating public accommodations.
SECTION 4. This act is effective when it becomes law. Section 3 of this act
expires on December 1, 2020.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 30th day of March, 2017."