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The Daily Bulletin: 2019-10-01
PUBLIC/HOUSE BILLS
H 1001 (2019-2020) RAISE THE AGE FUNDING. (NEW) Filed Apr 25 2019, AN ACT CONSISTENT WITH HOUSE BILL 966 OF
THE 20 1 9 REGULA R SESSION PRO VI DING THE RESOURCES NEC ESS AR Y TO IMPLEMENT THE LEGISLA TION KNO WN AS
RAISE THE AGE.
House committee substitute deletes the provisions of the 1st edition and instead provides the following.
Part I.
Effective July 1. 2019, amends GS 7A-60(al ) to add one assistant district attorney to the following prosecutorial districts:
District 5 (Duplin. Jones, Onslow, and Sampson); District 6 (New Hanover and Pender); District 9 (Greene. Lenoir, and
Wayne); District 13 (Johnston); District 20 (Roberson); District 24 (Guilford); District 25 (Cabarrus); District 36 (Burke.
Caldwell, and Catawba); and District 38 (Gaston).
Effective July 1 . 2020, amends GS 7A-60(al ), as amended, to add one assistant district attorney to the following prosecutorial
districts: District I (Camden. Chowan. Currituck, Dare. Gates, Pasquatank, and Perquimans); District 12 (Harnett and Lee);
District 1 5 (Bladen. Brunswick, and Columbus); District 22 (Caswell and Rockingham); District 32 (Alexander and Iredell);
District 39 (Cleveland and Lincoln); and District 43 (Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Haywood, Jackson. Macon, and Swain).
Effective January 1, 2023, amends GS 7A-60(al ), as amended, to add one assistant district attorney to Prosecutorial District 36
(Burke and Caldwell).
Part II.
Effective January 1. 2021. amends GS 7A-133(a) to add one district court judge to the following judicial districts: District
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(Pitt); District 4 (Sampson. Duplin. Jones, and Onslow); District 10D (part of Wake); District 16B (Robeson); District 19A
(Cabarrus); District 20D (Union); District 22A (Alexander and Iredell); District 25 (Burke. Caldwell, and Catawba); and
District 29A (McDowell and Rutherford). Requires elections conducted in 2020 to comply with these provisions.
Effective July 1. 2019, amends Section 2(b) of SL 2018-14, which sets forth terms forjudges in districts enacted by that act.
Now provides for two. rather than three, judges in District 10D (part of Wake) to take office on January 1 . 2021. with elections
in 2020, and every four years thereafter.
Part 111.
Appropriates from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC): $373,191 in recurring funds for the
2019-20 fiscal year; $16.093 in nonrecurring funds forthe 2019-20 fiscal year; $1.366.131 in recurring funds for the 2020-21
fiscal year; and $69.503 in nonrecurring funds for the 2020-2 1 fiscal year. Restricts use of the funds to (1 ) creating seven
deputy clerk positions, effective July 1. 2019. located in Alamance, Burke. Davidson. Johnston, McDowell. Randolph, and
Yadkin counties, and (2) creating seven district court judge positions, effective January 1 , 2021 .
Appropriates from the General Fund to AOC: $1 ,332.252 in recurring funds for each fiscal year of the 2019-2 1 fiscal
biennium; and $46.362 in nonrecurring funds for the 2019-20 fiscal year. Restricts use of the funds to creating nine assistant
district attorney positions and three district attorney legal assistant positions, effective July 1 . 201 9. Provides for the legal
assistant positions to be assigned to Prosecutorial District 28 (Stanley and Montgomery); 33 (Davie and Davidson); and 36
(Burke, Caldwell, and Catawba).
Appropriates from the General Fund to AOC $879,123 in recurring funds for the 2020-21 fiscal year to be used to create seven
assistant district attorney positions starting in the 2020-21 fiscal year.
Part IV.
