Bill Summaries: S567 (2013-2014 Session)

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  • Summary date: Apr 1 2013 - View summary

    Enacts new GS 143B-605, (North Carolina Statewide Reentry Advisory Council), establishing the North Carolina Statewide Reentry Advisory Council (Council) within the Department of Public Safety. Their duties will include providing the Governor, General Assembly and multiple other state agencies that serve juvenile and adult offender populations, with comprehensive information about programs that serve juvenile and adult offender populations upon reentry into the community, barriers faced by that population, best practices to meet the needs of that population, and funding sources for program and practices that address the needs of that population. Specifies tasks.

    The members of the Council will be appointed by the Secretary of Public Safety (Secretary). Provides for the compensation of the different members that constitute the Council.

    The Council will report on its progress to the Joint Oversight Committee on Justice and Public Safety by February 1, 2014.