HB 216

Amends GS 15A-1343.3 to create the Continuous Alcohol Monitoring Fund (Fund), in the Division of Community Supervision and Reentry (Division) of the Department of Adult Correction, to provide access to continuous alcohol monitoring as a sentencing option to people that are determined by the court as unable to pay for the monitoring. Allows the court, if it determines that continuous alcohol monitoring should be ordered and the convicted person is unable to pay for the monitoring, to order that the Division pay from the Fund the cost of monitoring for the period of time required by the court. Requires, to the extent practicable, that funds deposited in the Fund under GS 18B-805 be used in the county where the charge under GS 18B-804(b)(10) is collected. Makes conforming changes to GS 20-179(k)(4). Applies to sentences imposed on or after July 1, 2025.