AN ACT to extend the exemption from statutory copy costs to prisoner legal services and other attorneys working under contract with the office of indigent defense services.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑308(b1) reads as rewritten:
"(b1)	The fees set forth in subdivision (12) of subsection (a) of this section are not chargeable when copies are requested by an attorney who has been appointed or who is under contract with the Office of Indigent Defense Services to represent an indigent person at State expense, if the request is made in connection with the appointed case or the contract and during the duration of the  appointment or the contract."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 16th day of July, 2009.

	s/	 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

	s/	 Joe Hackney
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

	s/	 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved 5:41 p.m. this 17th day of July, 2009