A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide a punishment for failure to yield resulting in death.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑160.1(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Unless the conduct is covered under some other law providing greater punishment, a person who commits the offense of failure to yield while approaching or entering an intersection, turning at a stop or yield sign, entering a roadway, upon the approach of an emergency vehicle, or at highway construction or maintenance shall be punished under this section.
(1)	When there is serious bodily injury but no death resulting from the violation, the violator shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500.00) and the violator's drivers license or commercial drivers license shall be suspended for 90 days.
(2)	When a death results from the violation, the violator shall be fined one thousand dollars ($1,000) and the violator's drivers license or commercial drivers license shall be suspended for six months."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2005, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.