A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to divide prosecutorial district 11 into districts 11A and 11B.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  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,	8
	Tyrrell, Washington
3A	Pitt	11
3B	Carteret, Craven, Pamlico	12
4	Duplin, Jones, Onslow,	18
	Sampson
5	New Hanover, Pender	18
6A	Halifax 	5
6B	Bertie, Hertford,	6
	Northampton
7	Edgecombe, Nash, Wilson	19
8	Greene, Lenoir, Wayne	14
9	Franklin, Granville,	12
	Vance, Warren
9A	Person, Caswell	6
10	Wake	42
 11A	Harnett,  Lee	 9
11B	Johnston	10
12	Cumberland	23
13	Bladen, Brunswick, Columbus	13
14	Durham	18
15A	Alamance	11
15B	Orange, Chatham	10
16A	Scotland, Hoke	7
16B	Robeson	13
17A	Rockingham	7
17B	Stokes, Surry	8
18	Guilford	32
19A	Cabarrus	9
19B	Montgomery, Randolph	10
19C	Rowan	8
19D	Moore	5
20A	Anson, Richmond,	12
	Stanly
20B	Union	10
21	Forsyth	25
22A	Alexander, Iredell	11
22B	Davidson, Davie	11
23	Alleghany, Ashe, Wilkes,	8
	Yadkin
24	Avery, Madison, Mitchell,	7
	Watauga, Yancey
25	Burke, Caldwell, Catawba	19
26	Mecklenburg	58
27A	Gaston	15
27B	Cleveland,	11
	Lincoln
28	Buncombe	14
29A	McDowell, Rutherford	7
29B	Henderson, Polk, Transylvania	8
30	Cherokee, Clay, Graham,	11
	Haywood, Jackson, Macon,
	Swain."
SECTION 2.  The district attorney position established for District 11B by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by the district attorney currently serving District 11 who resides in Johnston County. The district attorney position established for District 11A by Section 1 of this act shall be filled by appointment of the Governor for the remainder of the term expiring January 1, 2011. A district attorney for District 11A shall be elected in the 2010 election for a four‑year term commencing January 1, 2011.
SECTION 3.  G.S. 7A‑69 reads as rewritten:
"§ 7A‑69.  Investigatorial assistants.
The district attorney in prosecutorial districts 1, 3B, 4, 5, 7, 8,  11A, 11B, 12, 13, 14, 15A, 15B, 16A, 18, 19B, 20A, 20B, 21, 22A, 22B, 24, 25, 26, 27A, 27B, 28, 29A, 29B, and 30 is entitled to one investigatorial assistant, and the district attorney in prosecutorial district 10 is entitled to two investigatorial assistants, to be appointed by the district attorney and to serve at his pleasure.
It shall be the duty of the investigatorial assistant to investigate cases preparatory to trial and to perform such other Duties as may be assigned by the district attorney. The investigatorial assistant is entitled to reimbursement for his subsistence and travel expenses to the same extent as State employees generally."
SECTION 4.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of two hundred sixty‑six thousand five hundred seventy‑two dollars ($266,572) for the 2009‑2010 fiscal year and the sum of three hundred twenty‑eight thousand nine hundred eighteen dollars ($328,918) for the 2010‑2011 fiscal year to implement the provisions of this act.
SECTION 5.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2009.