AN ACT to amend the law defining home schools.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑563 reads as rewritten:
"§ 115C‑563.  Definitions.
As used in this Part or Parts 1 and 2 of this Article:(a)	"Home school" means a nonpublic school consisting of the children of not more than two families or households, where the parents or legal guardians or members of either household determine the scope and sequence of academic instruction, provide academic instruction, and determine additional sources of academic instruction.
(b)	"Duly authorized representative of the State" means the Director, Division of Nonpublic Education, or his staff."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2013‑2014 school year.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 24th day of May, 2013.

	s/	 Neal Hunt
	 Presiding Officer of the Senate

	s/	 Paul Stam
	 Speaker Pro Tempore of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Pat McCrory
	 Governor

Approved 4:20 p.m. this 30th day of May, 2013