A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to divide prosecutorial district 11 into districts 11a and 11B.
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	11
	3B	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	11
	4	Duplin, Jones, Onslow,	16
		Sampson
	5	New Hanover, Pender	16
	6A	Halifax	5
	6B	Bertie, Hertford,	5
		Northampton
	7	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	18
	8	Greene, Lenoir, Wayne	13
	9	Franklin, Granville,	12
		Vance, Warren	
	9A	Person, Caswell	5
	10	Wake	38
	 11A	Harnett,  Lee	 8
	11B	Johnston	8
	12	Cumberland	21
	13	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	12
	14	Durham	15
	15A	Alamance	10
	15B	Orange, Chatham	9
	16A	Scotland, Hoke	6
	16B	Robeson	13
	17A	Rockingham	6
	17B	Stokes, Surry	7
	18	Guilford	30
	19A	Cabarrus	8
	19B	Montgomery, Randolph	8
	19C	Rowan	7
	19D	Moore	4
	20A	Anson, Richmond,	10
		Stanly
	20B	Union	8
	21	Forsyth	20
	22	Alexander, Davidson, Davie,	20
		Iredell 
	23	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes,	7
		Yadkin 
	24	Avery, Madison, Mitchell,	6
		Watauga, Yancey
	25	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	18
	26	Mecklenburg	49
	27A	Gaston	14
	27B	Cleveland,	10
		Lincoln
	28	Buncombe	13
	29A	McDowell, Rutherford	6
	29B	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	7
	30	Cherokee, Clay, Graham,	11
		Haywood, Jackson, Macon,
		Swain."
SECTION 2.  The district attorney position established for District 11B by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district attorney currently serving District 11 who resides in Johnston County. The district attorney position established for District 11A by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by appointment of the Governor for the remainder of the term expiring January 1, 2009. A district attorney for District 11A shall be elected in the 2008 election for a four‑year term commencing January 1, 2009.
SECTION 3.  G.S. 7A‑69 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑69.  Investigatorial assistants.
The district attorney in prosecutorial districts 1, 3B, 4, 5, 7, 8,  11A, 11B, 12, 13, 14, 15A, 15B, 16A, 18, 19B, 20A, 20B, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27A, 27B, 28, 29A, 29B, and 30 is entitled to one investigatorial assistant, and the district attorney in prosecutorial district 10 is entitled to two investigatorial assistants, to be appointed by the district attorney and to serve at his pleasure.
It shall be the duty of the investigatorial assistant to investigate cases preparatory to trial and to perform such other Duties as may be assigned by the district attorney. The investigatorial assistant is entitled to reimbursement for his subsistence and travel expenses to the same extent as State employees generally."
SECTION 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of four hundred sixty‑nine thousand one hundred ninety‑nine dollars ($469,199) for the 2007‑2008 fiscal year and the sum of five hundred sixty‑two thousand five hundred thirteen dollars ($562,513) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2007.