GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 64

Short Title:  Establish District Attorney Salaries.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Cooper; Albertson, Dannelly, Gulley, Hoyle, Martin of Pitt, Perdue, Rand, Soles, and Warren.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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February 10, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO SET THE SALARIES OF DISTRICT ATTORNEYS AT AN AMOUNT THAT IS THE MIDPOINT BETWEEN THE SALARY OF A SENIOR REGULAR RESIDENT SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE AND THE SALARY OF A CHIEF DISTRICT COURT JUDGE.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-65(a) reads as rewritten:
"(a)	The annual salary of district attorneys shall be the midpoint between the salary of a senior regular resident superior court judge and the salary of a chief district court judge, as provided by law.  The annual salary of full-time assistant district attorneys shall be as provided in the Current Operations Appropriations Act. When traveling on official business, each district attorney and assistant district attorney is entitled to reimbursement for his subsistence and travel expenses to the same extent as State employees generally."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of one hundred ninety-five thousand four hundred forty-eight dollars ($195,448) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of one hundred ninety-five thousand four hundred forty-eight dollars ($195,448) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to increase salaries of district attorneys as provided in Section 1 of this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.