AN ACT to clarify that persons who had a three-year waiting period for a hearing on conditional restoration of a revoked license when the law was changed to a five-year waiting period were not affected by the change.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Section 33 of S.L. 2007‑493 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 33.  Sections 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, and 31 of this act become effective December 1, 2007, and apply to offenses committed on or after that date. Section 14 of this act applies to persons whose waiting period for a hearing on conditional restoration commences on or after the effective date of this act. The remainder of this act is effective when it becomes law. Prosecutions for offenses committed before the effective date of this act are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 2nd day of June, 2009.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 11:30 a.m. this 12th day of June, 2009