A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to allow justices and judges to list a business address on a statement of economic interest and to allow the address of a spouse and the names and addresses of minor children to remain confidential.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 138A‑24(a)(1) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Any statement of economic interest filed under this Article shall be on a form prescribed by the Commission and sworn to by the filing person. Answers must be provided to all questions. The form shall include the following information about the filing person and the filing person's immediate family:
(1)	The name, home address, occupation, employer, and business of the  person, except that a justice or judge may provide a business address instead of the home address. The justice or judge shall provide a home address on a separate form which shall be held confidential by the Commission and is not a public record. The name and home address of any minor child of the justice or judge who is an immediate family member, and the home address of the spouse of the justice or judge, shall be provided to the Commission on a separate form which shall be held confidential by the Commission and is not a public record. The justice or judge shall list on the public form the initials of any minor child for whom a separate report is provided under this subdivision.
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SECTION 2  This act is effective when it becomes law.