GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

SESSION LAW 2015-229

SENATE BILL 185

AN ACT to clarify credit for time served as recommended by the North carolina sentencing and policy advisory commission.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  G.S. 15‑196.1 reads as rewritten:

"§ 15‑196.1.  Credits allowed.

The minimum and maximum term of a sentence shall be credited with and diminished by the total amount of time a defendant has spent, committed to or in confinement in any State or local correctional, mental or other institution as a result of the charge that culminated in the sentence. sentence or the incident from which the charge arose. The credit provided shall be calculated from the date custody under the charge commenced and shall include credit for all time spent in custody pending trial, trial de novo, appeal, retrial, or pending parole, probation, or post‑release supervision revocation hearing: Provided, however, the credit available herein shall not include any time that is credited on the term of a previously imposed sentence to which a defendant is subject.a defendant has spent in custody as a result of a pending charge while serving a sentence imposed for another offense."

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 2015.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 19^th day of August, 2015.

                                                                    s/  Daniel J. Forest

                                                                         President of the Senate

                                                                    s/  Tim Moore

                                                                         Speaker of the House of Representatives

                                                                    s/  Pat McCrory

                                                                         Governor

Approved 10:06 a.m. this 25^th day of August, 2015