A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to increase judicial Salary and benefits for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  Effective July 1, 2017, the annual salaries, payable monthly, for specified judicial branch officials for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year are increased by twenty percent (20%), as follows:
Judicial Branch Officials	Annual Salary
Chief Justice, Supreme Court	$180,103
Associate Justice, Supreme Court	175,429
Chief Judge, Court of Appeals	172,654
Judge, Court of Appeals	168,173
Judge, Senior Regular Resident Superior Court	163,637
Judge, Superior Court	159,101
Chief Judge, District Court	144,588
Judge, District Court	140,052
SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts the sum of nineteen million seven hundred sixty thousand dollars ($19,760,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year to increase salary and benefits for all judges and justices and to increase the annual contribution into the Consolidated Judicial Retirement System.
SECTION 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2017, for the 2017‑2018 fiscal year.