A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish an additional district court judgeship and three additional assistant district attorney positions in district 15B.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑133 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	2	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	 5	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 15B authorized by this act, and that judge's successor shall be elected in the 2008 election for a four‑year term commencing on the first Monday in December 2008.
SECTION 3.  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
		Prosecutorial		Asst. District
		District	Counties	Attorneys
	1	Camden, Chowan, Currituck,	10
		Dare, Gates, Pasquotank,
		Perquimans
	2	Beaufort, Hyde, Martin,	6
		Tyrrell, Washington
	3A	Pitt	9
	3B	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	10
	4	Duplin, Jones, Onslow,	14
		Sampson
	5	New Hanover, Pender	14
	6A	Halifax	4
	6B	Bertie, Hertford,	4
		Northampton
	7	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	16
	8	Greene, Lenoir, Wayne	11
	9	Franklin, Granville,	11
		Vance, Warren
	9A	Person, Caswell	4
	10	Wake	31
	11	Harnett, Johnston, Lee	14
	12	Cumberland	18
	13	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	11
	14	Durham	13
	15A	Alamance	8
	15B	Orange, Chatham	 10
	16A	Scotland, Hoke	5
	16B	Robeson	10
	17A	Rockingham	5
	17B	Stokes, Surry	5
	18	Guilford	27
	19A	Cabarrus	6
	19B	Montgomery, Moore, Randolph	11
	19C	Rowan	5
	20	Anson, Richmond,	15
		Stanly, Union
	21	Forsyth	17
	22	Alexander, Davidson, Davie,	16
		Iredell
	23	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes,	5
		Yadkin
	24	Avery, Madison, Mitchell,	4
		Watauga, Yancey
	25	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	15
	26	Mecklenburg	36
	27A	Gaston	12
	27B	Cleveland,	9
		Lincoln
	28	Buncombe	11
	29	Henderson, McDowell, Polk,	11
		Rutherford, Transylvania
	30	Cherokee, Clay, Graham,	9
		Haywood, Jackson, Macon,
		Swain."
SECTION 4.  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 additional district court judgeship for District Court District 15B authorized by this act.
SECTION 5.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of two hundred fifty‑four thousand eighty‑eight dollars ($254,088) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to establish the three additional assistant district attorney positions for Prosecutorial District 15B authorized by this act.
SECTION 6.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective December 15, 2006. The remainder of this act becomes effective July 1, 2006.