Winter Sports Safety and Accidents.

Added 'collisions with other skiers' to the list of inherent risks that skiers are responsible for avoiding.

Added 'failing to ski within their own abilities' as an inherent risk of skiing.

Expanded the skier's duty to include maintaining control to avoid obvious hazards and inherent risks such as terrain changes, snow conditions, and forest debris.

Corrected grammatical errors and redundant phrasing in definitions for 'passenger tramway' and 'ski area'.

Removed provisions requiring the Administrative Office of the Courts to distribute appellate reports to specific law schools and modify provisions regarding judicially managed accountability courts.

Removed the requirement that individuals must publish a notice in a newspaper before filing a petition to change their name.

Added duties for ski area operators to maintain passenger tramways and duties for skiers to ski within their ability and maintain control.

Added new definitions for winter sports terms including 'competitor,' 'freestyle terrain,' 'inherent risks of skiing,' 'passenger,' 'ski area,' and 'skier.'

Added specific definitions for 'season pass' and 'ski pass' to distinguish between daily and seasonal access licenses.

The document version identifier was updated from 'v-2' to 'v-3' to reflect the new edition status.

The header date was updated to indicate the bill was engrossed on May 1, 2025, replacing the previous edition date.

The bill version identifier was updated from 'S648-v-1' to 'S648-v-2' to reflect the committee's amendments.

A new line was added stating 'Judiciary Committee Substitute Adopted 4/16/25', indicating the bill has been revised by the Judiciary Committee.

The original list of primary sponsors (Senators B. Newton, Britt, and Daniel) and the referral to Rules and Operations was removed, likely to be updated in the final version.

Page numbering and header information were adjusted to correspond with the new substitute version.

High Point University School of Law was added to the list of educational institutions eligible to receive copies of appellate division reports at state expense.

New requirements were added to prohibit attorneys from modifying official Administrative Office of the Courts forms without clearly notating the changes.

The requirement for public notice of a name change application in the courthouse was repealed, though publication notice remains.

New sections were added to establish the goals and operational guidelines for the Judicially Managed Accountability and Recovery Court Program.

The original amendment text regarding litigation costs under G.S. 42-46 was removed during the conversion to the full bill version.

Added a new section permitting landlords to charge tenants up to 15% of the owed amount or monthly rent for reasonable attorney fees if the landlord wins the case.

Added a provision allowing landlords to recover all actual attorney fees if a tenant files a frivolous, unreasonable, or bad-faith appeal to district court.

Made the litigation cost provisions effective retroactively to September 9, 2024, rather than waiting for the standard effective date.

Removed provisions related to distributing appellate court reports to specific law schools and modifying administrative forms.