Senate committee substitute to the 1st edition makes the following changes. Deletes the content of the previous edition and replaces it with the following. Makes conforming changes to the act's titles.

Amends GS 15A-544.5 by adding to the reasons that bail bond forfeiture can be set aside to include when the defendant was in the custody of the Division of Adult Correction and Juvenile Justice of the Department of Public Safety or the Federal Bureau of Prisons within the state at any time between the failure to appear and the final judgment. 

Amends GS 15A-544.8 by making a clarifying change. Also allows the court to grant the defendant or any surety named in the judgment relief from the judgment of forfeiture when extraordinary circumstances (was, circumstances) exist that the court, in its discretion, determines should entitle that person to relief.