Amends GS 15A-1343(b3) to include defendants ordered to submit to residential treatment at the Black Mountain Substance Abuse Treatment Center for Women among those defendants that must undergo screening to determine chemical dependency. Effective when the act becomes law.
Amends GS 15A-1343(b1) to provide that a defendant may be required, as a condition of probation, to participate in medical or psychiatric treatment and stay in a specified institution if doing so is required to receive that treatment regardless of the length of the suspended sentence the defendant received. Effective when the act becomes law and applies to persons sentenced on or after that date.