Bill Text: NC S268 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Enhance Protection of Victims and Witnesses
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2011-06-23 - Ch. SL 2011-190 [S268 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2011-S268-Enrolled.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2011
SENATE BILL 268
RATIFIED BILL
AN ACT to create enhanced protections for victims and witnesses by increasing the criminal penalty for the offense of intimidating or interfering with a witness.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 14‑226(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a) If any person
shall by threats, menaces or in any other manner intimidate or attempt to
intimidate any person who is summoned or acting as a witness in any of the
courts of this State, or prevent or deter, or attempt to prevent or deter any
person summoned or acting as such witness from attendance upon such court, he
the person shall be guilty of a Class H felony.Class G
felony."
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2011, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 18th day of June, 2011.
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Philip E. Berger
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
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Thom Tillis
Speaker of the House of Representatives
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Beverly E. Perdue
Governor
Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011