GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1995

S	1 

SENATE BILL 956

Short Title:  Criminal Case Management Funds.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Rand and Edwards.

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Referred to:  Appropriations

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May 2, 1995

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A CRIMINAL CASE MANAGEMENT PILOT PROGRAM IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL DISTRICTS AND TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS TO IMPLEMENT THE PILOT PROJECTS.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  The Administrative Office of the Courts shall establish a criminal case management pilot program in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Judicial Districts to help reduce the backlog of court cases and resolve new court cases quicker.  A case management facilitator position shall be added to the district attorney's office in both of those judicial districts to help implement the pilot program and the positions shall be filled after consultation with the Senior Resident Superior Court Judges in both of those judicial districts.
Sec. 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1995-96 fiscal year and the sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) for the 1996-97 fiscal year to implement this act.
Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1995.