Bill Text: NC S660 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Dispose of Remaining Toxicology Funds

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-04-15 - Re-ref to Judiciary I. If fav, re-ref to Appropriations/Base Budget [S660 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-S660-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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SENATE BILL 660

 

 

Short Title:        Dispose of Remaining Toxicology Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Senator Newton (Primary Sponsor).
Referred to:	Rules and Operations of the Senate.

March 30, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to authorize district attorneys to use certain grant funds to obtain toxicology analysis from providers of toxicology analyses other than hospitals.

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 from local hospitals hospitals, or from other providers of toxicology analyses, on persons charged with driving while impaired whose conduct did not result in serious injury or death to others. 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 is effective when it becomes law.