A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO ADD ONE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE TO DISTRICT 18 and to appropriate funds.
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	9	New Hanover
			Pender
	6	4	Northampton
			Bertie
			Hertford
			Halifax
	7	7	Nash
			Edgecombe
			Wilson
	8	6	Wayne
			Greene
			Lenoir
	9	5	Granville
			(part of Vance
			see subsection
			(b))
			Franklin
			Person
	9B	2	Warren
			(part of Vance
			see subsection (b))
	10A	3	(part of Wake
			see subsection (b))
	10B	3	(part of Wake
			see subsection (b))
	10C	3	(part of Wake
			see subsection (b))
	10D	6	(part of Wake
			see subsection (b))
	10E	3	(part of Wake
			see subsection (b))
	10F	3	(part of Wake
			see subsection (b))
	11	11	Harnett
			Johnston
			Lee
	12	10	Cumberland
	13	6	Bladen
			Brunswick
			Columbus
	14	7	Durham
	15A	4	Alamance
	15B	5	Orange
			Chatham
	16A	4	Scotland
			Anson
			Richmond
	16B	5	Robeson
	17A	4	Caswell
			Rockingham
	17B	4	Stokes
			Surry
	18	15	Guilford
	19A	5	Cabarrus
	19B	5	Randolph
	19C	5	Rowan
	19D	4	Hoke, Moore
	20A	3	Montgomery, Stanly
	20B	1	(part of Union
			see subsection
			(b))
	20C	2	(part of Union
			see subsection
			(b))
	20D	1	Union
	21	11	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
	26A	3	(part of
			 Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26B	3	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26C	2	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26D	2	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26E	3	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26F	3	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26G	2	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	26H	3	(part of 
			Mecklenburg
			see subsection (b))
	27A	7	Gaston
	27B	6	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.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of one hundred nine thousand two hundred twenty‑three dollars ($109,223) in fiscal year 2020‑2021 and one hundred ninety‑eight thousand five hundred eighty‑eight dollars ($198,588) in fiscal year 2021‑2022.
SECTION 3.  Section 1 of this act becomes effective January 1, 2021, and elections conducted in 2020 shall be conducted in accordance with the judgeship created in Section 1. The remainder of this act is effective July 1, 2020.