HB 952 — Comprehensive Capital for Childcare Expansion.
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This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced April 10, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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14 sponsors
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In House Bill 952, key changes were made to clarify the roles and responsibilities of the North Carolina Child Care Finance Agency. Notably, it emphasizes the agency's ability to prioritize funding for high-quality child care facilities and removes some specific references to executive oversight. These modifications are important because they aim to streamline the funding process for child care and ensure more direct support for improvements in child care infrastructure, benefiting families and the community.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA H.B.SESSION 2025 H 1 HOUSE BILL 952 Short Title:
952 Apr 10, 2025 SESSION 2025 HOUSE PRINCIPAL CLERK H D HOUSE BILL DRH40502-TCa-6A Short Title:
RepresentativeRepresentatives Helfrich.Helfrich, Crawford, Turner, and Rubin (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House April 14, 2025 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE NORTH CAROLINA CHILD CARE FINANCE AGENCY.
(3) That the purposes of this Chapter are to provide financing for child care construction, neworrehabilitated, forindividuals providingprovidinghigh-qualitychild high-quality child care to families.
(b) In accomplishing these public purposes, the North Carolina Child Care Finance Agency,apublicagencyAgency,apublicagencyandaninstrumentalityoftheState,isactinginallrespectsforthebenefit andaninstrumentalityoftheState,isactinginallrespectsforthebenefit of the people of the State in the performance of essential public functions and serves a public purpose in improving and otherwise promoting their health, welfare and prosperity.
The North *DRH40502-TCa-6A**H952-v-1* General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 CarolinaChild CareFinanceAgencyis empoweredto act onbehalfoftheStateofNorth Carolina and its people in serving this public purpose for the benefit of the general public.
(c) Whenever feasible, the North Carolina ChildCare Finance AgencyAgencyshall shall prioritize the following policy goals in its actions:
– Any bank or trust company, savings bank, national banking association, savings and loan association, or building and loan association, life insurance company, mortgage banking company, the federal government, and anyanyother other financial institution authorized to transact business in the State.
Page 2 DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 (9) Mortgagee.
– The owner of a beneficial interest in a mortgage loan, the servicer for the owner of a beneficial interest in a mortgage loan, or the trustee for a securitized trust thatthatholds holds title to a beneficial interest in a mortgage loan.
– The renovation or improvement of a child care facilityfacilitybythe by the owner or operator of that facility.
– A loan made bybya alendinginstitution lending institution or bybythe the Authority to any person for the purpose of financing renovation of a child care facility.
(d) AnyvacancyAnyvacancyfora forapersonperson appointedundersubdivision(1)ofsectionappointedundersubdivision (1)ofsection (c)ofthis section shall be filled by appointment of the Governor for the remainder of the unexpired term.
Each memberoftheboardofdirectors mayberemovedbytheGovernorformisfeasance,mayberemovedbytheGovernorfor malfeasance,misfeasance,malfeasance, or neglect of duty after reasonable notice and a public hearing, unless the same are in writing expressly waived.
DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition Page 3 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 (g) The Executive Director of the Agency shall be appointed by the Board of Directors, subject to approval by the Governor.
The salarysalaryof of the Executive Director shall be fixed by the Board ofDirectors.
ThesalaryThesalaryofthe oftheExecutiveDirector Executive Director andall staffand employees ofthe Agencyshall not be subject to anyanylimitations limitations imposed pursuant to any salary schedule adopted pursuant to the terms of the North Carolina Human Resources Act.
The members of the Agency shall receive no compensation for their services but shall be entitled to receive, from funds of the Agency, forattendanceat meetingsoftheAgencyoranycommitteethereofandforotherservicesmeetings oftheAgencyoranycommitteethereofandforotherservices for the Agency reimbursement for such actual expenses as may be incurred for travel and subsistence in the performance of official duties and such per diem as is allowed by law for members of other State boards, commissions and committees.
The SecretarySecretarymay may have copies made of all minutes and other records and documents of the Agency and may give certificates under the official seal of the Agency to the effect that such copies are true copies, and all persons dealing with the Agency may rely upon such certificates.
provided, however, that the Board of Directors may appoint an executive committee to act in behalf of said Board duringduringthe the period between regular meetings of said Board, and said committee shall have full power to act upon the vote of a majority of its members.
(3) To acquire on a temporarytemporarybasis basis real property, or an interest therein, in its own name, by purchase, transfer or foreclosure, where such acquisition is Page 4 DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 necessary or appropriate to protect any loan in which the Agency has an interest and to sell, transfer and convey any such property to a buyer and, in the event such sale, transfer or conveyance cannot be effected with reasonable promptness or at a reasonable price, to rent or lease such property to a tenant pending such sale, transfer or conveyance.
(4) To sell, at public or private sale, all or any part of any mortgage or other instrument or document securing a loan of anyanytype type permitted by this Chapter.
(11) To promote research and development in scientific methods of constructing low-costchildcarefacilitiesofhighdurabilityandimprovedsafetylow-costchildcarefacilitiesofhighdurabilityandimprovedsafetyandutility. andutility.
(18) To employ fiscal consultants, engineers, attorneys, real estate counselors, appraisers and such other consultants and employees as may be required in the judgment of the Agency and to fix and paypaytheir their compensation from funds available to the Agency therefor.
DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition Page 5 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 (19) To purchase or to participate in the purchase and enter into commitments by itself or together with others for the purchase of federally insured securities;
(21) To acquire, hold, rent, encumber, transfer, convey, and otherwise deal with real property and utilities in the same manner as a private person or corporation, subject onlyonlyto to theapproval oftheGovernorandCounciloftheGovernorand Council ofState.
Such rules and regulations shall bedesignedto effectuatethegeneraleffectuatethe general purposes ofthis Chapter and the following specific objectives:
(b) The interest rate or rates and other terms of federally insured securities or mortgage loans, construction loans, and rehabilitation loans purchased from the proceeds of any issue of bonds of the Agency shall be at least sufficient to assure the payment of said bonds and the Page 6 DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 interest thereon as the same become due from the amounts received by the Agency in repayment of such federally insured securities or such loans and interest thereon.
(d) The AgencyAgencyshall shall require as a condition of the purchase of federallyfederallyinsured insured securities from a mortgage lender and the purchase or the making of a commitment to purchase mortgage loans from a mortgage lender where the Agency has not given its approval prior to the initial making of the mortgage loan that such mortgage lender shall on or prior to the one-hundred-eightieth day (or such earlier day as may be prescribed by rules and regulations of the Agency) following the receipt of the sale proceeds have entered into written commitments to make, and shall thereafter proceed as promptly as practicable to make from such sale proceeds, new mortgage loans with respect to child care facilities in the State having a stated maturity of not less than 20 years from the date thereof in an aggregate principal amount equal to the amount of such sale proceeds.
(a) The AgencyAgencymayupon may upon application of a proposed mortgagee insure and make advance commitments to insure payments required by a loan for child care facilities upon such terms and conditions as the Agency may prescribe.
Theaggregateprincipal amount ofall mortgages soinsuredbysoinsuredbytheAgencyunderthis theAgency underthis Chapter and outstanding at any one time shall not exceed 10 times the average annual balance for the preceding calendar year of funds on deposit in the child care mortgage insurance fund, the creation of which is hereby authorized.
The aggregate amount of principal obligations of all mortgages so insured shall not be deemed to constitute a debt, liability or obligation of the State or of any political subdivision thereof or a pledge of the faith and credit of the State or of any such political subdivision, but shall be payable solelysolelyfrom from moneys on deposit to the credit of the child care mortgage insurance fund.
Any contract of insurance executed by the Agency under this section shall be conclusive evidence of eligibility for such mortgage insurance and the validityvalidityof ofanycontract any contract of insurance so executed or of an advance commitment to issue such shall be incontestable in the hands of a mortgagee from the date of execution of such contract or commitment, except for fraud or misrepresentation on the part of such mortgagee and, as to commitments to insure, noncompliance with the terms of the advance commitment or Agency regulations in force at the time of issuance of the advance commitment.
DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition Page 7 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 (4) Contain amortization provisions satisfactory to the Agency requiring periodic payments by the mortgagor not in excess of the ability to pay as determined by the Agency.
The Agency shall cause an investigation of the proposed project to be made, review the application and the report of the investigation, and approve or denydenythe the application.
Any such approval shall be conditioned upon payment to the Agency, within such reasonable time and after notification of approval as maymaybe be specified by the Agency, of the commitment fee prescribed by the Agency.
When it appears feasible, the Agencymayforatemporaryperiodupondefaultorthreateneddefaultbythemortgagorauthorize mortgage payments to be made by the Agency to the mortgagee which payments shall be repaid under such conditions as the AgencyAgencymayprescribe. may prescribe.
The AgencyAgencymay may also agree to revised terms of financing when such appear prudent.
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(1) Anysale ofthe mortgagedpropertymortgagedpropertybycourtorder bycourtorder in foreclosureora sale with the consent of the Agency by the mortgagor or a subsequent owner of the property or by the mortgagee after foreclosure or acquisition by deed in lieu of foreclosure, provided all claims of the mortgagee against the mortgagor or others arising from the mortgage, foreclosure, or any deficiency judgment shall be assigned to the Agency without recourse except such claims as may have been released with the consent of the Agency;
Upon the occurrence of either subdivision (1), (2) or (3) hereof, the obligation of the mortgagee to pay premium charges for insurance shall cease, and the Agency shall, within 30 days thereafter, paypayto to the mortgagee ninety-eight percent (98%) of the sum of (i) the then unpaid Page 8 DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 principal balance of the insured indebtedness, (ii) the unpaid interest to the date of conveyance or assignment to the Agency, as the case may be, (iii) the amount of all payments made by the mortgagee for which it has not been reimbursed for taxes, insurance, assessments and mortgage insurance premiums, and (iv) such other necessary fees, costs or expenses of the mortgagee as may be approved by the Agency.
(f) Upon request of the mortgagee, the Agency may at any time, under such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, consent to the release of the mortgagor from the mortgagor's liabilityliabilityor orconsentconsent to thereleaseofpartsofthepropertyfromthe releaseofpartsofthepropertyfrom thelien ofthe mortgage,orapprovemortgage, orapprove a substitute mortgagor or sale of the property or part thereof.
(b) Notwithstanding anyanyother other provision of this section, the interest rate or rates and other terms of the loans to lenders made from the proceeds of any issue of bonds of the Agency shall provide that the amounts received by the Agency in repayment of the loans and interest thereon shall be at least sufficient to assure the payment of the principal of and the interest on the bonds as they become due.
(d) Theloansto lendersshall begeneral obligations of therespectivelendersowingtherespectivelendersowingthem. them.
The Agency shall require that such loans shall be secured as to payment of both principal and interest bybya a pledge and lien upon collateral security.
The collateral securitysecurityitself itself shall be in such amount as the Agency determines will assure the payment of the principal of and the interest on the bonds as theytheybecome become due.
Collateral securitysecurityshall shall be deemed to be sufficient if the principal of and the interest on the collateral security, when due, will be sufficient to pay the principal of and the interest on the bonds.
(iv) mortgages insured or guaranteed by the United States of America or an instrumentality of it as DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition Page 9 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 to payment of principal and interest;
Each obligation issued under this Chapter shall contain on the face thereof a statement to the effect that the Agency shall not be obligated to pay the same nor the interest thereon except from the revenues or assets pledged therefor and that neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State or of anyanypolitical political subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on such obligation.
Expenses incurred by the AgencyAgencyin in carrying out the provisions of this Chapter may be made payable from funds provided pursuant to this Chapter and no liability shall be incurred by the Agency hereunder beyond the extent to which moneys shall have been so provided.
TheAgencyTheAgencyis isherebyauthorizedto hereby authorizedto provide forthe issuance, at onetimeor fromtimeto time, of bonds and notes of the Agency to carry out and effectuate its corporate purposes.
The Agency also is hereby authorized to provide for the issuance, at one time or from time to time of (i) bond anticipation notes in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds and (ii) construction loan notes to financethe makingmakingor or purchase of mortgage loans,constructionloans, and rehabilitationloans, for the construction, rehabilitation or improvement of child care facilities.
The total amount of bonds, bond anticipation notes, and construction loan notes outstanding at any one time shall not exceed twelvebillion dollars($12,000,000,000) excludingexcludingtherefrom therefromanybond anyanticipation bondanticipation notes for the payment of which bonds have been issued.
The principal of and the interest on such bonds or notes shall be payable solelysolelyfrom from the funds herein provided for such payment.
AnyAnysuch such notes may be made payable from the proceeds of bonds or renewal notes or, in the event bond or renewal note proceeds are not available, such notes may be paid from any available revenues or assets of the Agency.
The bonds or notes may be issued in coupon or in registered form, or both, as the Agency may Page 10 DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 determine, and provision may be made for the registration of any coupon bonds or notes as to principal alone and also as to both principal and interest, and for the reconversion into coupon bonds or notes of any bonds or notes registered as to both principal and interest, and for the interchange of registered and coupon bonds or notes.
Such trust agreement or resolution may contain such provisions for protecting and enforcing the rights and remedies of the holders of any such obligations as may be reasonable and proper and not in violation of law, including covenants setting forth the duties of the Agency in relation to the purposes to which obligation proceeds may be applied, the disposition or pledging of the revenues or assets of the Agency, the terms and conditions for the issuance of additional obligations, and the custody, safeguarding and application ofall moneys.Itmoneys. shall belawfulforany bank ortrust company incorporatedunder the laws of the State which may act as depositary of the proceeds of obligations, revenues or other money hereunder to furnish such indemnifying bonds or to pledge such securities as may be required by the Agency.
AnyIt suchshall trustbelawfulforanybankortrust agreementcompanyincorporatedunder orthe resolutionlaws mayof setthe forthState thewhich rightsmay andact remediesas depositary of the holdersproceeds of anyobligations, obligationsrevenues andor ofother themoney trustee,hereunder andto mayfurnish restrictsuch theindemnifying individualbonds rightor ofto actionpledge bysuch anysecurities suchas holders.may be required by the Agency.
InAny addition to the foregoing, any such trust agreement or resolution may containset suchforth otherthe provisionsrights asand theremedies Agencyof maythe deemholders reasonableof anyobligations and properof for the securitytrustee, ofand may restrict the holdersindividual right of anyaction obligations.byanysuch holders.
In addition to the foregoing, anysuch trust agreement or resolution may contain such other provisions as the Agency may deem reasonable and proper for the security of the holders of any obligations.
DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition Page 11 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 The pledge of any assets or revenues of the Agency to the payment of the principal of or the interest on any obligations of the Agency shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made and any such assets or revenues shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the Agency, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof.
159-30(b) the AgencyAgencymaydeposit may deposit moneys at interest in banks or trust companies outside as well as in this State, as long as any moneys at deposit outside this State are collateralized to the same extent and manner as if at deposit in this State.
The repurchase agreement provides that it shall be terminated, without penalty, if the institution with which the repurchase agreement is Page 12 DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 entered or by whom the institution's obligations are guaranteed fails to maintain (i) in the event that the repurchase agreement was entered into in reliance upon the rating of the institution's long-term obligations, a rating of its long-term obligations in one of the three highest ratings categories by at least one nationally recognized securities rating agency, or (ii) in the event that the repurchase agreement was entered into in reliance upon the rating of the institution's short-term obligations, a rating of its short-term obligations in one of the two highest ratings categories by at least one nationally recognized securities rating agency.
The repurchase agreement does not have to beterminated,however,if anewguarantoranew guarantor meeting the rating requirement set forth in subparagraph a.
DRH40502-TCa-6AHouse Bill 952-First Edition Page 13 General Assembly Of North Carolina Session 2025 "§ 122F-16.
Such obligations are hereby made securities which may properlyproperlyand and legally be deposited with and received by anyanyState State or municipal officer or any agency or political subdivision of the State for any purpose for which the deposit of bonds, notes or obligations of the State is now or may hereafter be authorized by law.
Pending the application of the proceeds of any such refunding obligations, with any other available funds, to the payment of the principal, accrued interest and any redemption premium on the obligations being refunded, and, if so provided or permitted in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such refunding obligations or in the trust agreement securing the same, to the payment of any interest on such refunding obligations and any expenses in connection with such refunding, such proceeds may be invested in direct obligations of, or obligations the principal of and the interest on which are unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States of America which shall mature or which shall be subject to redemption by the holders thereof, at the option of such holders, not later than the respective dates when the proceeds, together with the interest accruingaccruingthereon, thereon, will be required for the purposes intended.
– The AgencyAgencyshall shall cause an audit of its books and accounts to be made at least once in each year by an independent certified public accountant and the cost thereof may be paid from any available moneys of the Agency.
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The exercise of the powers granted by this Chapter will be in all respects for the benefit of thepeople oftheState, fortheir well-beingwell-beingandprosperityand andprosperity and for theimprovementtheimprovementof of theirsocial and economic conditions, and the Agency shall not be required to pay any tax or assessment on any property owned by the Agency under the provisions of this Chapter or upon the income therefrom.
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Action History
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Sponsors
- Lindsey Prather · Cosponsor
- Marcia Morey · Cosponsor
- Carolyn G. Logan · Cosponsor
- Pricey Harrison · Cosponsor
- Mike Colvin · Cosponsor
- Maria Cervania · Cosponsor
- Laura Budd · Cosponsor
- Mary Belk · Cosponsor
- Eric Ager · Cosponsor
- Phil Rubin · Cosponsor
- Brian Turner · Primary
- Sarah Crawford · Primary
- Neal Jackson · Cosponsor
- Beth Helfrich · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →3 sponsors · 11 co-sponsors · 165 not signed on
Sponsors (3)
- Brian Turner Democratic
- Sarah Crawford Democratic
- Beth Helfrich Democratic
Co-sponsors (11)
- Lindsey Prather Democratic
- Marcia Morey Democratic
- Carolyn G. Logan Democratic
- Pricey Harrison Democratic
- Mike Colvin Democratic
- Maria Cervania Democratic
- Laura Budd Democratic
- Mary Belk Democratic
- Eric Ager Democratic
- Phil Rubin Democratic
- Neal Jackson Republican
Not signed on (165)
165 members have not signed on to this bill.
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- Who sponsors HB 952?
- HB 952 is sponsored by Lindsey Prather (Democratic), Marcia Morey (Democratic), Carolyn G. Logan (Democratic), Pricey Harrison (Democratic), Mike Colvin (Democratic), Maria Cervania (Democratic), Laura Budd (Democratic), Mary Belk (Democratic), Eric Ager (Democratic), Phil Rubin (Democratic), Brian Turner (Democratic), Sarah Crawford (Democratic), Neal Jackson (Republican), and Beth Helfrich (Democratic).
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- This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced April 10, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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