A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to direct the department of correction to replace the current electronic monitoring service and equipment used to monitor convicted sex offenders with a new system that provides exclusion zones around all of the State's  K‑12 school campuses.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  By January 1, 2012, the Department of Correction shall replace the electronic monitoring service and equipment currently being used to monitor convicted sex offenders with a provider that offers electronic monitoring equipment and service that provides exclusion zones around every K‑12 school campus in the State.   The new equipment shall have the ability to notify immediately the probation officer, supervising officer, or other proper authority that the convicted sex offender has violated one of the exclusion zones established so that proper action may be taken. 
SECTION 2.   The Department of Correction shall report to the Joint Legislative Corrections, Crime Control, and Juvenile Justice Oversight Committee by June 1, 2012, regarding the implementation of the new electronic monitoring service and equipment and provide the Committee with its evaluation of how the new system is functioning and how it compares with other systems used by the Department for this same purpose.
SECTION 3.	This act is effective when it becomes law.