A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish a new district court judge in district court district 6A.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑133(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑133.  Numbers of judges by districts; numbers of magistrates and additional seats of court, by counties.
(a)	Each district court district shall have the numbers of judges as set forth in the following table:
District	Judges	County
1	5	Camden
		Chowan
		Currituck
		Dare
		Gates
		Pasquotank
		Perquimans
2	4	Martin
		Beaufort
		Tyrrell
		Hyde
		Washington
3A	5	Pitt
3B	5	Craven
		Pamlico
		Carteret
4	8	Sampson
		Duplin
		Jones
		Onslow
5	8	New Hanover
		Pender
6A	 3	Halifax
6B	3	Northampton
		Bertie
		Hertford
7	7	Nash 
		Edgecombe
		Wilson
8	6	Wayne 
		Greene
		Lenoir
9	4	Granville
		(part of Vance
		see subsection (b))
		Franklin
9A	2	Person 
		Caswell
9B	2	Warren
		(part of Vance
		see subsection (b))
10	15	Wake
11	8	Harnett
		Johnston
		Lee
12	9	Cumberland
13	6	Bladen
		Brunswick
		Columbus
14	6	Durham
15A	4	Alamance
15B	4	Orange 
		Chatham
16A	3	Scotland
		Hoke
16B	5	Robeson
17A	2	Rockingham
17B	4	Stokes 
		Surry
18	12	Guilford
19A	4	Cabarrus
19B	6	Montgomery
		Moore
		Randolph
19C	4	Rowan
20A	4	Stanly
		Anson
		Richmond
20B	3	Union
21	9	Forsyth
22	9	Alexander
		Davidson
		Davie
		Iredell
23	4	Alleghany
		Ashe
		Wilkes
		Yadkin
24	4	Avery
		Madison
		Mitchell
		Watauga
		Yancey
25	8	Burke 
		Caldwell
		Catawba
26	17	Mecklenburg
27A	6	Gaston
27B	4	Cleveland
		Lincoln
28	6	Buncombe
29A	3	McDowell
		Rutherford
29B	4	Henderson
		Polk
		Transylvania
30	5	Cherokee
		Clay
		Graham
		Haywood
		Jackson
		Macon
		Swain"
SECTION 2.  The Governor shall appoint the additional district court judge for District 6A authorized by this act, and that judge's successor shall be elected in the 2008 general election for a four‑year term commencing on the first Monday in December 2008.
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of eighty-nine thousand one hundred seventy‑two dollars ($89,172) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to establish the new district court judge for District Court District 6A authorized by this act.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective December 15, 2006, or the date upon which Section 1 of this act is approved under section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, whichever is later.