No it didn't. It passed a law requiring regulatory agencies to use a single standard for the rate of change.<p>The law includes this language:<p>The provisions in this act shall not prohibit other State agencies, boards, commissions, other public entities or institutions, including academic institutions within The University of North Carolina, or any county, municipality, or other local public body from engaging in studies and dissemination of studies of sea-level research for nonregulatory purposes. Collaboration between academic institutions, including those within The University of North Carolina, the Division of Coastal Management, the Coastal Resources Commission, and other State agencies, boards, commissions, or other public entities or counties, municipalities, or other local public bodies regarding generally accepted, peer-reviewed scientific and statistically significant sea-level research is encouraged.
This sounds very much like printing press reform, where clerics frowned upon spread information. No, you cannot censor science. Every censor will be worked around.