A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify domestic violence laws reGarding when a law enforcement officer must arrest a person who has knowingly violated a valid protective order.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 50B‑4.1(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	A law enforcement officer must arrest and take a person into custody without a warrant or other process where there is probable cause to believe that the person knowingly has violated a valid protective order excluding the person from the residence or household occupied by a victim of domestic violence or directing the person to refrain from doing any or all of the acts specified in G.S. 50B‑3(a)(9)."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.