GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 1999

S	1 

SENATE BILL 911

Short Title:  Compensation for Emergency Judges.	(Public)

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Sponsors: Senators Rand; Allran, Ballance, Ballantine, Clodfelter, Cooper, Dalton, Garrou, Gulley, Hagan, Hartsell, Horton, Martin of Guilford, Miller, Reeves, Soles, Warren, and Wellons.

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Referred to:  Appropriations/Base Budget.

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April 14, 1999

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO INCREASE THE COMPENSATION FOR EMERGENCY JUDGES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
Section 1.  G.S. 7A-52(b) reads as rewritten:
"(b)	In addition to the compensation or retirement allowance the judge would otherwise be entitled to receive by law, each emergency judge of the district or superior court who is assigned to temporary active service by the Chief Justice shall be paid by the State the judge's actual expenses, plus four hundred dollars ($400.00) for each day of active service rendered upon recall. No recalled retired trial judge shall receive from the State total annual compensation for judicial services in excess of that received by an active judge of the bench to which the judge is recalled."
Section 2.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Judicial Department the sum of two hundred seventy-eight thousand two hundred forty-five dollars ($278,245) for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and the sum of two hundred seventy-eight thousand two hundred forty-five dollars ($278,245) for the 2000-2001 fiscal year to implement this act.
Section 3.  This act becomes effective July 1, 1999.