A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds to establish seventy‑five new assistant district attorney positions throughout the state.
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
		Prosecutorial		Asst. District
		District	Counties	Attorneys
	1	Camden, Chowan, Currituck,	 11
		Dare, Gates, Pasquotank,
		Perquimans
	2	Beaufort, Hyde, Martin,	 7
		Tyrrell, Washington
	3A	Pitt	 10
	3B	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	 11
	4	Duplin, Jones, Onslow,	 15
		Sampson
	5	New Hanover, Pender	 15
	6A	Halifax	 5
	6B	Bertie, Hertford,	 5
		Northampton
	7	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	 17
	8	Greene, Lenoir, Wayne	 12
	9	Franklin, Granville,	 12
		Vance, Warren
	9A	Person, Caswell	 5
	10	Wake	 36
	11	Harnett, Johnston, Lee	 18
	12	Cumberland	 21
	13	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	 12
	14	Durham	 15
	15A	Alamance	 9
	15B	Orange, Chatham	 8
	16A	Scotland, Hoke	 6
	16B	Robeson	 13
	17A	Rockingham	 6
	17B	Stokes, Surry	 6
	18	Guilford	 29
	19A	Cabarrus	 8
	19B	Montgomery, Moore, Randolph	 13	19C	Rowan	 7
	20	Anson, Richmond,	 19
		Stanly, Union
	21	Forsyth	 18	22	Alexander, Davidson, Davie,	 20
		Iredell
	23	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes,	 7
		Yadkin
	24	Avery, Madison, Mitchell,	 6
		Watauga, Yancey
	25	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	 17
	26	Mecklenburg	 43
	27A	Gaston	 16
	27B	Cleveland,	 10
		Lincoln
	28	Buncombe	 13
	29	Henderson, McDowell, Polk,	 13			Rutherford, Transylvania
	30	Cherokee, Clay, Graham,	 10
		Haywood, Jackson, Macon,
		Swain."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of six million one hundred sixty‑eight thousand nine hundred seventy‑five dollars ($6,168,975) for the 2005‑2006 fiscal year and the sum of five million eight hundred nineteen thousand four hundred dollars ($5,819,400) for the 2006‑2007 fiscal year to establish the 75 new assistant district attorney positions authorized by this act.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2005.