A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that a bond forfeiture shall be set aside if the defendant failed to appear because the defendant was incarcerated anywhere in the united states.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑544.5(b)(6) reads as rewritten:
"(6)	The defendant was incarcerated anywhere serving a sentence or in a unit of the Federal Bureau of Prisons located within the borders of the United States at the time of the failure to appear."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2007.