A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to appropriate funds for an additional district court judge for district court district 14, five additional assistant district attorneys and three victim witness assistants for prosecutorial district 14, and six deputy clerks and four magistrates for durham county.
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:
	
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District 	Judges 	County
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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	9	NewHanover
		Pender
6A	3	Halifax
6B	3	Northampton
		Bertie
		Hertford
7	7	Nash
		Edgecombe
		Wilson
8	6	Wayne
		Greene
		Lenoir
9	4	Granville
		(partofVance
		seesubsection(b))
		Franklin
9A	2	Person
		Caswell
9B	2	Warren
		(part of Vance see 
		subsection(b))
10	18	Wake
11	10	Harnett
		Johnston
		Lee
12	10	Cumberland
13	6	Bladen
		Brunswick
		Columbus
14	 8	Durham
15A	4	Alamance
15B	5	Orange
		Chatham
16A	3	Scotland
		Hoke
16B	5	Robeson
17A	3	Rockingham
17B	4	Stokes
		Surry
18	14	Guilford
19A	4	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))
20D	1	Union
21	10	Forsyth
22A	5	Alexander
		Iredell
22B	6	Davidson
		Davie
23	4	Alleghany
		Ashe
		Wilkes
		Yadkin
24	4	Avery
		Madison
		Mitchell
		Watauga
		Yancey
25	9	Burke
		Caldwell
		Catawba
26	20	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 Court District 14 authorized by this act, and that judge's successor shall be elected in the 2010 election for a four‑year term commencing January 1, 2011.
SECTION 3.  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 	 2115A 	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 	53
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 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of one million two hundred ninety‑seven thousand seven hundred thirty‑one dollars ($1,297,731) for the 2008‑2009 fiscal year to establish the additional district court judge authorized for District Court District 14 by this act, to establish the five assistant district attorneys authorized for Prosecutorial District 14 by this act and three victim witness assistant positions for Prosecutorial District 14, and to establish six deputy clerk positions and four magistrate positions for Mecklenburg County.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2008.