GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2011

SESSION LAW 2011-378

HOUSE BILL 662

AN ACT to authorize counties thaT PROVIDE ELECTRONIC MONITORING FOR OFFENDERS to collect a fee to recover the actual costs of providing THAT monitoring.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Article 28 of Chapter 7A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:

"§ 7A-313.1.  Fee for costs of electronic monitoring.

A county that provides the personnel, equipment, and other costs of providing electronic monitoring as a condition of an offender's bond or pretrial release may collect a fee from the offender that is the lesser of the amount of the jail fee authorized in G.S. 7A-313 or the actual cost of providing the electronic monitoring.  A county may not collect a fee from an offender who is determined to be indigent and entitled to court-appointed counsel."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17^th day of June, 2011.

                                                                    s/  Walter H. Dalton

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Thom Tillis

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         Governor

Approved 1:07 p.m. this 27^th day of June, 2011