JMAC/ABC/Other Revisions.

Added three new employer categories for grant eligibility: major employers (200M investment, 2000 employees), large manufacturing employers (50M investment, 320-800 employees depending on location), and heritage manufacturing employers (325M investment, 1050 employees, 100+ years operation).

Added detailed definitions for major employer, large manufacturing employer, and heritage manufacturing employer with specific investment thresholds and employee count requirements.

Removed amendment markup language, signatures, and committee approval sections from the original amendment document format.

Added requirements for businesses to maintain employee levels throughout the grant term and for projects to be located in specific development tiers.

Bill title expanded to include JMAC agreement flexibility, mixed beverage law corrections, municipal cost exemptions, and Megasites Readiness Program technical corrections

Added provisions for municipalities to receive exemptions from nonbetterment costs

Added flexibility provisions for noncompliance with JMAC agreements

Changed bill origin from Senate to House and updated version number from AMC-18-v-2 to ATQ-95-v-5

The effective date was changed to apply retroactively to October 25, 2024, and the expiration date was extended to July 31, 2025.

The amendment's focus shifted from proprietorships and megasites readiness programs to a different provision regarding investment levels and grant applications.

The bill version was updated from A2 to A1, and the sponsoring senator was changed from Craven to B. Newton.

The bill's title was rewritten to include proprietorships, megasites and selectsites readiness programs, and extending the temporary moratorium for certain JDIG requirements.

The expiration date for a temporary moratorium on JDIG requirements was extended from January 31, 2025 to July 31, 2025, with the change applied retroactively to October 25, 2024.

The original bill text containing detailed eligibility criteria for major employers, large manufacturing employers, and heritage manufacturing employers was removed as part of the amendment process.

Heritage manufacturing employer eligibility now requires a four-year investment period (previously six years) and mandates relocating 400 employees to a development tier two area upon commercial production begins.

Heritage manufacturing employers must now employ at least 1,050 full-time employees in the State and agree to retrain and relocate 400 of those employees to a tier two area facility.

The investment period for heritage manufacturing employers changed from six years to four years, accelerating the timeline for capital investment commitments.

The bill was converted from a working draft through multiple editions to a ratified final version, with formatting adjustments and removal of committee substitute markings.

For major employer grants, the requirement now explicitly states that businesses must maintain at least 2,000 full-time employees for the full term of the grant agreement, with the text reorganized for clarity.

The definition of a 'heritage manufacturing employer' was changed to reference G.S. 143B-437.01 instead of G.S. 105-129.81, and now requires the business to have operated in North Carolina for over 100 years.

The investment threshold for heritage manufacturing employers was updated to require at least $325,000,000 in private funds, though the full amount appears truncated in the provided text.

Several lines related to 'to-go mixed beverages' and 'alternating proprietorships' were removed from the short title, suggesting these topics may have been addressed in separate legislation or removed from this bill's scope.

The bill edition number was updated from 5 to 6, and the short title was revised to remove references to ABC laws and focus on JMAC requirements, corrections, and technical updates.

Short title updated from 'JMAC Flexibility / ABC Law Revisions' to 'JMAC/ABC/Other Revisions' to reflect additional provisions including culinary permits, mixed beverage corrections, and construction contract requirements.

Added new provisions expanding culinary permits, correcting 'to-go' mixed beverage laws to align with federal regulations, and allowing water/sewage construction contracts when at least two competitive bids are received.

Added exemption from nonbetterment costs for certain municipalities and established that the state or public authority requiring utility relocation is responsible for relocation costs.

Reorganized the structure of the Job Maintenance and Capital Development Fund eligibility requirements, moving the 'previously received grant' provision (subdivision 1a) to appear after the initial major employer requirements for better logical flow.

Added a technical correction to the Megasites Readiness Program and updated bill versioning from Edition 4 to Edition 5 with additional House Committee Substitute approval.

The short title was revised from 'JMAC Flexibility/ABCLaws/Megasite/Selectsite' to 'JMAC Flexibility / ABC Law Revisions', removing references to Megasites and Selectsites programs.

Minor formatting changes to the bill header, including updating the edition number from 3 to 4 and adding a new House Committee Substitute approval date of 6/10/25.

A minor text adjustment was made to subdivision (1a) of the Job Maintenance and Capital Development Fund eligibility requirements, clarifying that amounts certified as invested under subdivision (1) shall not be included in the amount required by that subdivision.

Added extension of temporary moratorium for certain JDIG requirements to the bill's short title and scope.

Added new eligibility category (1a) for businesses that previously received grants as major employers, requiring them to invest at least $150 million in improvements to real and tangible personal property within six years at the same project location.

Revised the short title to reflect the expanded scope including the new JDIG moratorium extension and eligibility changes.

Short title changed from 'JMAC Compliance Flexibility' to 'JMAC Flexibility/ABCLaws/Megasite/Selectsite' indicating expanded legislative focus beyond just JMAC agreements.

Removed specific sponsor information (Senators B. Newton and McInnis) and referral information (Rules and Operations of the Senate), suggesting the bill is in a different legislative stage or committee process.

Added Commerce and Insurance Committee Substitute Adopted 4/8/25 designation, indicating this is a committee substitute version rather than the original bill.

Bill now covers multiple economic development programs (JMAC, ABC laws, megasites, selectsites) rather than just JMAC eligibility criteria.

Page numbering changed from v-1 to v-2, indicating this is a revised version of the bill document.