S851 - Boards & Commissions Efficiency Act of 2012

• Abolishes 31 state boards, commissions, and committees deemed inactive, duplicative, or non-critical, including the North Carolina Apprenticeship Council, Commission of Anatomy, and North Carolina Courts Commission

• Reduces membership on 28 existing boards and commissions to eliminate redundancy and lower operational costs, including the Environmental Management Commission (reduced from 13 to 7 members), Commission for Mental Health (32 to 20 members), and Coastal Resources Commission (45 to 26 members)

• Transfers functions of abolished boards to existing agencies, such as moving the Commission of Anatomy's duties to the Commission for Public Health and apprenticeship oversight to the Department of Labor

• Restructures the governance of the North Carolina Museum of Art by creating a Director's Committee to hire and evaluate the director instead of the Secretary of Cultural Resources maintaining direct control

• Directs the North Carolina Brain Injury Advisory Council and Justus-Warren Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Task Force to cease operations effective June 30, 2019