A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
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.