A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to require the payment of accident impact fees in certain circumstances.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑304(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	In every criminal case in the superior or district court, wherein the defendant is convicted, or enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, or when costs are assessed against the prosecuting witness, the following costs shall be assessed and collected, except that when the judgment imposes an active prison sentence, costs shall be assessed and collected only when the judgment specifically so provides, and that no costs may be assessed when a case is dismissed.
…
(8)	For the services of the State Highway Patrol, the district or superior court judge shall, upon conviction, order payment of the sum of five hundred dollars ($500.00) to be remitted to the Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. This cost shall be assessed only in cases in which there was a motor vehicle accident that resulted from a violation of G.S. 20‑141.6, and the State Highway Patrol investigated the accident. The court may waive or reduce the amount of the payment required by this subdivision upon a finding of just cause to grant a waiver or reduction."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.