AN ACT to authorize counties thaT PROVIDE ELECTRONIC MONITORING FOR OFFENDERS to collect a fee to recover the actual costs of providing THAT monitoring.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  Article 28 of Chapter 7A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 7A‑313.1.  Fee for costs of electronic monitoring.
A county that provides the personnel, equipment, and other costs of providing electronic monitoring as a condition of an offender's bond or pretrial release may collect a fee from the offender that is the lesser of the amount of the jail fee authorized in G.S. 7A-313 or the actual cost of providing the electronic monitoring.  A county may not collect a fee from an offender who is determined to be indigent and entitled to court‑appointed counsel."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2011.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 17th day of June, 2011.

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		 Walter H. Dalton
	 President of the Senate

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		 Thom Tillis
	 Speaker of the House of Representatives

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		 Beverly E. Perdue
	 Governor

Approved __________.m. this ______________ day of ___________________, 2011