A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to amend the requirement allowing the court to order a report in stepparent adoption proceedings under the laws pertaining to adoption.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 48‑2‑501(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	As an exception to this section, in any stepparent adoption under Article 4 of this Chapter in which the minor has lived with the stepparent for at least the two consecutive years immediately preceding the filing of the petition, the court may not order a report unless the minor's consent is to be waived, the minor has revoked a consent, or both of the minor's parents are dead."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.