GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2003

 

 

SESSION LAW 2003-181

HOUSE BILL 304

 

 

AN ACT to provide that a defendant convicted of MISDEMEANOR stalking who is sentenced to a community punishment shall be placed on supervised probation in addition to any other punishment imposed by the court.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

SECTION 1.  G.S. 14-277.3(b) reads as rewritten:

"(b)      Classification. - A violation of this section is a Class A1 misdemeanor. A person convicted of a Class A1 misdemeanor under this section, who is sentenced to a community punishment, shall be placed on supervised probation in addition to any other punishment imposed by the court. A person who commits the offense of stalking when there is a court order in effect prohibiting similar behavior by that person is guilty of a Class H felony. A person who commits the offense of stalking after having been previously convicted of a stalking offense is guilty of a Class F felony."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2003, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 4th day of June, 2003.

 

 

                                                                    s/ Beverly E. Perdue

                                                                         President of the Senate

 

 

                                                                    s/ Richard T. Morgan

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

 

 

                                                                    s/ Michael F. Easley

                                                                         Governor

 

 

Approved 10:09 a.m. this 12th day of June, 2003