A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to establish a policy of providing each judicial and prosecutorial district with court system personnel representing the same percentage of total funding that the district comprises in terms of total caseload, and to direct the administrative office of the courts to ensure that its requests for funding are consistent with that goal.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the General Assembly that funding for court personnel for each judicial and prosecutorial district of the State shall represent the same percentage of total funding that the district comprises in terms of total caseload.
SECTION 2.  Article 29 of Chapter 7A of the General Statutes is amended by adding a new section to read:
"§ 7A‑350.  Apportionment of court system personnel.
In requesting funding from the General Assembly for additional court personnel for the various judicial and prosecutorial districts of the State, the Administrative Office of the Courts shall ensure that its requests are consistent with a policy of providing each district with the same percentage of funding that the district comprises in terms of caseload."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective January 1, 2008.