Bill Text: NC S200 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Extend Time For Forensic Accreditation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Passed) 2013-07-23 - Ch. SL 2013-338 [S200 Detail]
Download: North_Carolina-2013-S200-Amended.html
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2013
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SENATE BILL 200
Judiciary I Committee Substitute Adopted 3/19/13
Short Title: Extend Time For Forensic Accreditation. |
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March 6, 2013
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to extend the time for local forensic science labs to obtain accreditation.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. Section 11 of S.L. 2011‑19, as amended by Section 9 of S.L. 2011‑307 and by Section 6 of S.L. 2012‑168, reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 11. Sections 1 through 5 and Sections 9
through 11 are effective when this act becomes law, and Section 6 becomes
effective July 1, 2011. Sections 7 and 8 of this act are effective when they
become law, law; however, until July 1, 2013, July 1,
2020, the provisions of those sections shall apply only to the North
Carolina State Crime Laboratory, and on or after July 1, 2013, July
1, 2020, the provisions of Sections 7 and 8 shall apply to all laboratories
conducting forensic or chemical analysis for admission in the courts of this
State. Nothing in this act is intended to amend or modify either the statutory
or common law applicable to discovery in criminal cases which was applicable
prior to the effective date of this act. Prosecutions for offenses committed
before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act,
and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to
those prosecutions."
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.