A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT amending the campaign finance laws to raise the limit on merchandise sales for political parties and to provide for at‑large election of district court judges in mecklenburg county.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.(a)  G.S. 163‑278.8A(b)(2) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	Exempt Purchase Price. – A purchase price for goods or services sold by a political party executive committee or affiliated party committee qualifies for the exemption provided in subsection (a) of this section as long as the sale of the goods or services adheres to a plan that the treasurer has submitted to and that has been approved in writing by the Executive Director of the State Board of Elections. The Executive Director shall approve the treasurer's plan upon and only upon finding that all the following requirements are satisfied:
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(2)	That the total amount to be raised from sales under all plans by the committee does not exceed twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) per election cycle.
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SECTION 1.(b)  This section is effective when it becomes law and applies to election cycles occurring on or after that date.
SECTION 2.(a)  G.S. 7A‑133 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑133.  Numbers of judges by districts; numbers of magistrates and additional seats of court, by counties.
(a)	Each district court district shall have the numbers of judges as set forth in the following table:
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(b)	For district court districts of less than a whole county, or with part or all of one county with part of another, the composition of the district is as follows:
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The names and boundaries of voting tabulation districts specified for Wake County, and Vance County in this section are as shown on the 2010 Census Redistricting TIGER/Line Shapefiles. Precinct boundaries for Union County are those shown on the Legislative Services Office's redistricting computer database on January 1, 2005; and for other counties are those reported by the United States Bureau of the Census under Public Law 94‑171 for the 1990 Census in the IVTD Version of the TIGER files.
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SECTION 2.(b)  Section 2(b) of S.L. 2018‑14 reads as rewritten:
"SECTION 2.(b)  In order to implement the district court districts as enacted by this section, the following shall apply:
(1)	Judges in the following districts, as set out in this section, shall take office on January 1, 2019, with elections in 2018, and every four years thereafter, to be held accordingly:
a.	District 10A – one judge.
b.	District 10B – one judge.
c.	District 10D – three judges.
d.	District 10E – two judges.
e.	District 10F – one judge.

	

(2)	Judges in the following districts, as set out in this section, shall take office on January 1, 2021, with elections in 2020, and every four years thereafter, to be held accordingly:
a.	District 10A – two judges.
b.	District 10B – two judges.
c.	District 10C – three judges.
d.	District 10D – three judges.
e.	District 10E – one judge.
f.	District 10F – two judges.

	

	
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SECTION 2.(c)  This section becomes effective January 1, 2021, and applies to elections conducted on or after that date. All elections in 2020 shall be conducted in accordance with the Consent Order as it was filed on November 27, 2019, in Alexander v. North Carolina State Board of Elections, 19 CVS 011321, Wake County.
SECTION 3.  Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law.