Sen. Andy Wells (R-Catawba) speaks at a 2018 event. Wells said he supported legislation to streamlines finding the state's criminal codes. | Andy Wells/Facebook
Sen. Andy Wells (R-Catawba) speaks at a 2018 event. Wells said he supported legislation to streamlines finding the state's criminal codes. | Andy Wells/Facebook
A bill is being proposed in North Carolina to create a bipartisan legislative working group that would be tasked with creating a database of the state’s criminal laws.
“We’re trying to get [crimes] in one place, organized,” Sen. Andy Wells (R-Catawba), a sponsor of the bill, told the Senate Judiciary Committee in June, the Carolina Journal reported.
As stated in the bill posted on the North Carolina General Assembly website, the working group would consist of nine members including senators and representatives of both the political parties.
“The purpose of the Working Group is to make recommendations to the 2021 General Assembly regarding a streamlined, comprehensive, orderly, and principled criminal code which includes all common law, statutory, regulatory, and ordinance crimes,” the bill states. Among the changes that will be made to the criminal codes include defining and applying consistent terminology across all statutes, simplifying offense numbering, and eliminating outdated laws.
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