A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for an additional district court judge for district court district 19A.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 7A‑133(a) reads as rewritten:
"(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	 5	Cabarrus
	19B	7	Montgomery
		Moore
		Randolph
	19C	5	Rowan
	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.  The Governor shall appoint the additional district court judge for District 19A authorized by this act, and that judge's successor shall be elected in the 2008 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 eighty thousand eight hundred twenty dollars ($80,820) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of one hundred thirty‑six thousand six hundred sixty dollars ($136,660) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to fund the additional district court judgeship authorized by this act.
SECTION 4.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2008.