GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

EXTRA SESSION 1994

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SENATE BILL 159*

Short Title:  Court/Crime Prev. Funds.	(Public)
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Sponsors: Senator Daniel.
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Referred to:  Courts.
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February 15, 1994

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE EXPANSION FUNDS TO THE JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT FOR NECESSARY POSITIONS AND EQUIPMENT NECESSARY TO EFFECT THE CRIME PREVENTION INITIATIVES OF THE 1994 EXTRA SESSION OF THE 1993 GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of thirteen million eight hundred fifteen thousand five hundred forty-eight dollars ($13,815,548) for the 1994-95 fiscal year, for expansion funds for necessary positions and equipment needed to effect the crime prevention initiatives of the 1994-95 Extra Session of the 1993 General Assembly and for other purposes.  These funds shall be allocated as follows:
(1)	$3,663,691 for court implementation of the Structured Sentencing Act;
(2)	$6,120,932 for additional court infrastructure requirements for equipment and data processing equipment;
(3)	$315,000 for laptop personal computers for those superior court judges that do not now have them;
(4)	$576,381 for connection of remote magistrate offices to court information system;
(5)	$1,418,962 for the district attorney and public defender case management system expansion;
(6)	$375,047 for the court information system for additional support personnel;
(7)	$513,923 for court-ordered arbitration;
(8)	$303,756 for custody mediation;
(9)	$392,440 for Juvenile Services Division Intensive Counseling positions;
(10)	$118,296 for Juvenile Services Division Juvenile Transportation Program; and
(11)	$17,120 for additional prosecutorial staff for the new District Attorney's office in Prosecutorial District 19-C.
Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1994.