GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2017

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SENATE BILL DRS35261-MSa-57A   (02/10)

 

 

 

Short Title:      Judicial Assistants for Judges.

(Public)

Sponsors:

Senators Daniel, Britt, and Newton (Primary Sponsors).

Referred to:

 

 

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds to the administrative office of the courts to provide judicial assistants to all district and superior court judges.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of one million forty‑nine thousand six hundred ninety‑eight dollars ($1,049,698) in nonrecurring funds for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year and seventeen million seven hundred sixty thousand eight hundred twenty‑one dollars ($17,760,821) in recurring funds for the 2018‑2019 fiscal year to be allocated by the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide each district court judge with one judicial assistant and to provide each superior court judge with at least one but no more than two judicial assistants.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2017.