GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

H	1 

HOUSE BILL 17*

Short Title:  Food Stamp Fraud Felony.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Representatives Howard, Berry, Brawley, Russell, Daughtry, Hayes, Mitchell, Snowden, Capps, Neely; Aldridge, Arnold, Baker, Barbee, Bowie, Buchanan, Cansler, Carpenter, Cocklereece, Culp, Cummings, Davis, Decker, Dockham, Eddins, Edwards, Gardner, Hiatt, Holmes, Kiser, Lemmond, McComas, McCombs, McMahan, K. Miller, Nichols, Pate, Preston, Pulley, Rayfield, Reynolds, Sexton, Sharpe, Sherrill, Shubert, Thompson, and Warner.

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Referred to:  Welfare Reform and Human Resources.

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January 26, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO RETURN THE FOOD STAMP FRAUD FELONY THRESHOLD TO ITS PRE-1991 LIMIT.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 108A-53(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Any person, whether provider or recipient or person representing himself as such, who knowingly obtains or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets any person to obtain by means of making a willfully false statement or representation or by impersonation or by failing to disclose material facts or in any manner not authorized by this Part or the regulations issued pursuant thereto, transfers with intent to defraud any food stamps or authorization cards to which he is not entitled in the amount of four hundred dollars ($400.00) or less shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.  Whoever knowingly obtains or attempts to obtain, or aids or abets any person to obtain by means of making a willfully false statement or representation or by impersonation or by failing to disclose material facts or in any manner not authorized by this Part or the regulations issued pursuant thereto, transfers with intent to defraud any food stamps or authorization cards to which he is not entitled in an amount more than four hundred dollars ($400.00) shall be guilty of a Class I felony."
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1995, and applies to convictions for offenses committed on or after that date.