Bill Text: NC H211 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Expand Use of Toxicology Funds
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-05-22 - Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget [H211 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2015-H211-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2015
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HOUSE BILL 211
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Short Title: Expand Use of Toxicology Funds. |
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Sponsors: |
Representatives Stevens, Bryan, Floyd, and D. Hall (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site. |
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Referred to: |
Appropriations. |
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March 12, 2015
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to expand the authorized uses of grant funds provided to the conference of district attorneys.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 18B.4 of S.L. 2013‑360 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 18B.4. Of the
funds appropriated in this act to the Judicial Department, the sum of five
hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) in the 2013‑2014 fiscal year
shall be allocated to the Conference of District Attorneys and shall be used to
establish a grant fund to provide district attorneys across the State with the
resources to obtain toxicology analysis the following from local hospitals
on hospitals or from those private laboratories approved by the State
Crime Laboratory as complying with Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
requirements:
(1) Toxicology analysis on persons
charged with driving while impaired whose impaired, but only in those
cases in which the person's conduct did not result in serious injury or
death to others.
(2) Forensic DNA analysis.
The Conference of District Attorneys shall report to the Chairs of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety by October 1, 2014, on the expenditure of these funds."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective July 1, 2015.
