GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 917

Short Title:  DWI Screening Test Admissibility.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senator Carpenter.

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Referred to:  Judiciary I.

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April 14, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO MAKE THE RESULTS OF ALCOHOL SCREENING TESTS ADMISSIBLE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 20-16.3(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	Use of Screening Test Results or Refusal by Officer. – The results of an alcohol screening test or a driver's refusal to submit may be used by a law-enforcement officer, a court, or an administrative agency in determining if there are reasonable grounds for believing that the driver has committed an implied-consent offense under G.S. 20-16.2.  Negative or low results on the alcohol screening test may be used in factually appropriate cases by the officer, a court, or an administrative agency in determining whether a person's alleged impairment is caused by an impairing substance other than alcohol.  "
Section 2.  This act becomes effective December 1, 1999.