A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to modify the criminal justice partnership program to allow community‑level offenders to be served by the program.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 143B‑273.4 reads as rewritten:
"§ 143B‑273.4.  Eligible population.
(a)	An eligible offender is an adult offender who was convicted of a misdemeanor or a felony offense and received a nonincarcerative sentence of a community punishment or an intermediate punishment or is serving a term of parole or post‑release supervision after serving an active sentence of imprisonment.
(b)	The priority populations for programs funded under this Article shall be offenders sentenced to intermediate punishments."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2009.