Amends GS 15A-534.1(a), establishing that a judge must be the judicial official who determines the conditions of a pretrial release when the defendant is charged with an assault on, stalking, communicating a threat to, or committing a felony provided in GS Chapter 14, Articles 7A, 8, 10, or 15, against a person with whom the defendant has or has had a personal relationship as defined in GS 50B-1(b).

Effective December 1, 2013, applying to offenses committed on or after that date.