GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1989

S	2 

SENATE BILL 1200
Corrected Copy 5/10/89

Short Title:  District Attorney Personnel Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senators Basnight; Allran, Ballance, Barker, Block, Bryan, Carpenter, Chalk, Cobb, Cochrane, Conder, Daniel, Daughtry, Ezzell, Goldston, Hardin, Harris, Hunt of Durham, Hunt of Moore, Kincaid, Martin of Guilford, Marvin, Odom, Parnell, Plyler, Rauch, Raynor, Richardson, Sands, Shaw, Simpson, Smith, Soles, Speed, Staton, Swain, and Ward.
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Referred to:  Judiciary II.
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May 5, 1989

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL FOR DISTRICT ATTORNEYS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-60(a1) reads as rewritten:
"(a1)	The counties of the State are organized into prosecutorial districts, and each district has the counties and the number of full-time assistant district attorneys set forth in the following table:
No. of Full-Time
Judicial	Asst. District
District	Counties	Attorneys
1	Camden, Chowan,Currituck,	7
Dare, Gates, Pasquotank,
Perquimans
2	Beaufort, Hyde, Martin,	5
Tyrrell, Washington
3A	Pitt	7
3B	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	5
4	Duplin, Jones, Onslow,	11
Sampson
5	New Hanover, Pender	9
6	Bertie, Halifax, Hertford,	4 5
Northampton
7	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	10
8	Greene, Lenoir, Wayne	10
9	Franklin, Granville, 	7
Person, Vance, Warren
10	Wake	17
11	Harnett, Johnston, Lee	7
12	Cumberland	13
13	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	7
14	Durham	10
15A	Alamance	5
15B	Orange, Chatham	4
16A	Scotland, Hoke	3
16B	Robeson	8
17A	Caswell,	5
Rockingham
17B	Stokes, Surry	5
18	Guilford	17
19A	Cabarrus, Rowan	6
19B	Montgomery, Randolph	5
20	Anson, Moore, Richmond,	9
Stanly, Union
21	Forsyth	13
22	Alexander, Davidson, Davie,	8
Iredell
23	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes,	4
Yadkin
24	Avery, Madison, Mitchell,	3
Watauga, Yancey
25	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	11
26	Mecklenburg	24
27A	Gaston	10
27B	Cleveland,	6
Lincoln
28	Buncombe	5
29	Henderson, McDowell, Polk,	6
Rutherford, Transylvania
30	Cherokee, Clay, Graham,	8
Haywood, Jackson, Macon,
Swain."
Sec. 2.  G.S. 7A-68(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	Each district attorney shall be entitled to at least one administrative assistant to be appointed by the district attorney and to serve at his pleasure. The assistant need not be an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of North Carolina."
Sec. 3.  G.S. 7A-69 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A-69. Investigatorial assistants.
The district attorney in the third-B, fourth, seventh, tenth, eleventh, twelfth, fourteenth, fifteenth-A, sixteenth, eighteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth judicial districts is entitled to one investigatorial assistant to be appointed by the district attorney and to serve at his pleasure.  The Administrative Office of the Courts shall allocate additional investigatorial assistants to prosecutorial districts on the basis of need and within available appropriations. It shall be the duty of the investigatorial assistant to investigate cases preparatory to trial and to perform such other duties as may be assigned by the district attorney. The investigatorial assistant is entitled to reimbursement for his subsistence and travel expenses to the same extent as State employees generally."
Sec. 4.  In allocating administrative assistants, investigatorial assistants, victim and witness assistants, and other supporting positions to prosecutorial districts, the Administrative Office of the Courts shall give due consideration to recommendations of the Conference of District Attorneys.
Sec. 5.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts, $6,156,211 for the 1989-90 fiscal year and $6,013,535 for the 1990-91 fiscal year for the assistant district attorneys positions created by Section 1 of this act and for 28 additional victim and witness assistants, 23 investigatorial assistants, and 70 other support positions.
Sec. 6.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1989.