A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to create a permissive inference of proximate case for the use of a mobile phone when involved in a reportable crash.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Article 3 of Chapter 20 of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 20‑137.4B.  Mobile phone use in a crash; permissive inference.
In a civil action for damages resulting from a reportable crash, the trier of fact may infer that the use of a mobile phone or additional technology, as those terms are defined in G.S. 20‑137.3, was a proximate cause of the reportable crash."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2011, and applies to causes of action arising on or after that date.