A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to provide that the district attorney is to be notified if a person on supervised or unsupervised probation is discharged from a domestic violence abuser treatment program for failure to comply with the program or its rules.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 15A‑1343(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Regular Conditions. – As regular conditions of probation, a defendant must:
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(12)	Attend and complete an abuser treatment program if (i) the court finds the defendant is responsible for acts of domestic violence and (ii) there is a program, approved by the Domestic Violence Commission, reasonably   available to the defendant, unless the court finds that such would not be in the best interests of justice. A defendant attending an abuser treatment program shall abide by all of the rules of the program. 
a.	If the defendant is placed on supervised probation, the probation officer shall forward a copy of the judgment, including all conditions of probation, to the abuser treatment program. The program shall notify the probation officer of any violations of program rules by the defendant. If the defendant is discharged from the program for failure to comply with the program or its rules, the probation officer shall notify the district attorney of such noncompliance.
b.	If the defendant is placed on unsupervised probation, the district attorney shall forward a copy of the judgment, including all conditions of probation, to the abuser treatment program. If the defendant is discharged from the program for failure to comply with the program or its rules, the program shall notify the district attorney of such noncompliance.
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Defendants placed on unsupervised probation are subject to the provisions of this subsection, except that defendants placed on unsupervised probation are not subject to the regular conditions contained in subdivisions (2), (3), (6), (8), (13), (14), and (15) of this subsection."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies to all defendants placed on supervised or unsupervised probation prior to, on, or after the effective date of this act.