A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to divide district court district 19b into districts 19B and 19D.
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	6	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	16	Wake
	11	9	Harnett
		Johnston
		Lee
	12	9	Cumberland
	13	6	Bladen
		Brunswick
		Columbus
	14	7	Durham
	15A	4	Alamance
	15B	5	Orange
		Chatham
	16A	3	Scotland
		Hoke
	16B	5	Robeson
	17A	3	Rockingham
	17B	4	Stokes
		Surry
	18	13	Guilford
	19A	4	Cabarrus
	19B	 5	Montgomery
		
		Randolph
	19C	5	Rowan
	19D	3	Moore
	20A	4	Stanly
		Anson
		Richmond
	20B	1	(part of Union
		see subsection (b))
	20C	2	(part of Union
		see subsection (b))
	21	9	Forsyth
	22	9	Alexander
		Davidson
		Davie
		Iredell
	23	4	Alleghany
		Ashe
		Wilkes
		Yadkin
	24	4	Avery
		Madison
		Mitchell
		Watauga
		Yancey
	25	9	Burke
		Caldwell
		Catawba
	26	18	Mecklenburg
	27A	7	Gaston
	27B	5	Cleveland
		Lincoln
	28	7	Buncombe
	29A	3	McDowell
		Rutherford
	29B	4	Henderson
		Polk
		Transylvania
	30	6	Cherokee
		Clay
		Graham
		Haywood
		Jackson
		Macon
		Swain."
SECTION 2.(a)  The five district court judgeships established for District Court District 19B by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the five district court judges currently serving District Court District 19B who reside in Montgomery and Randolph Counties. The terms of two of those judges expire December 31, 2008. Those judges' successors shall be elected in the 2008 election. The terms of three of those judges expire December 31, 2010. Those judges' successors shall be elected in the 2010 election.
SECTION 2.(b)  Two of the district court judgeships established for District Court District 19D by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district court judges currently serving District Court District 19B who reside in Moore County. The term of one of those judges expires December 31, 2008. That judge's successor shall be elected in the 2008 election. The term of the other judge expires December 31, 2010. That judge's successor shall be elected in the 2010 election.
SECTION 2.(c)  The Governor shall appoint the additional district court judge for District Court District 19D authorized by Section 1 of this act. That judge's successor shall be elected in the 2008 general election for a four‑year term commencing January 1, 2009.
SECTION 3.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of two hundred thirty‑three thousand two hundred thirteen dollars ($233,213) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of four hundred twenty‑six thousand four hundred seventy‑seven dollars ($426,477) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2008.