A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for eight additional assistant district attorneys for prosecutorial district 26.
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	12
4 	Duplin, Jones, Onslow,	18
	Sampson 
5 	New Hanover, Pender 	17
6A 	Halifax 	5
6B 	Bertie, Hertford, 	6
	Northampton 
7 	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson 	18
8 	Greene, Lenoir, Wayne 	14
9 	Franklin, Granville, 	12
	Vance, Warren
9A 	Person, Caswell 	5
10 	Wake 	39
11 	Harnett, Johnston, Lee 	17
12 	Cumberland 	22
13 	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus 	13
14 	Durham 	16
15A 	Alamance 	10
15B 	Orange, Chatham 	10
16A 	Scotland, Hoke 	6
16B 	Robeson 	13
17A 	Rockingham 	6
17B 	Stokes, Surry  	7
18 	Guilford 	31
19A 	Cabarrus 	9
19B 	Montgomery, Randolph 	9
19C 	Rowan 	7
19D 	Moore 	5
20A 	Anson, Richmond, 	11
	Stanly 
20B 	Union 	9
21 	Forsyth 	24
22 	Alexander, Davidson, Davie, 	20
	Iredell 
23 	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes, 	8
	Yadkin 
24 	Avery, Madison, Mitchell, 	7
	Watauga, Yancey 
25 	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba 	18
26 	Mecklenburg 	 61
27A 	Gaston 	14
27B 	Cleveland, 	10
	Lincoln 
28 	Buncombe 	13
29A 	McDowell, Rutherford 	7
29B 	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania 	8
30 	Cherokee, Clay, Graham,	11
	Haywood, Jackson, Macon, 
	Swain."
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of eight hundred thirty thousand one hundred seventy‑six dollars ($830,176) to establish eight additional assistant district attorney positions for Prosecutorial District 26.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.