S.B. 245 amends a criminal statute, repeals Part V of a prior act and includes a technical embalming-fluid correction

S.B. 245 contains criminal-law adjustments and a repeal of prior session-law language. Section 3.5(a) amends G.S. 90-96.2(c3)(3a), as enacted by S.L. 2025-71, to read: “(3a) A violation of G.S. 90-113.154 G.S. 90-113.154(b)(1) punishable as a Class I felony.” Section 3.5(b) makes that change effective Dec. 1, 2025, and applies it to offenses committed on or after that date. The act also repeals Part V of S.L. 2025-72 (Section 3). The bill's title and opening statement mention a “technical correction related to possession of embalming fluid,” but the ratified excerpts provided do not include the text of that technical correction; the enacted bill references it in the title but the operative language for that correction is not present in the provided excerpt. Effect and next steps: the G.S. amendment ties the cited G.S. provision to a Class I felony classification for the subsection noted; the December 1, 2025 effective date applies to offenses occurring on or after that date. Repeal of Part V of S.L. 2025-72 takes effect when the act becomes law, per Section 5, unless otherwise specified. Because the provided ratified text does not include the detailed language of the embalming-fluid technical correction, further review of the published session law or the official codified statutes is needed to report the precise change to possession-related language.