Bill Text: NC H210 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Indigent Defense/Rate Increase Funds

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-03-12 - Ref To Com On Appropriations [H210 Detail]

Download: North_Carolina-2015-H210-Amended.html

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA

SESSION 2015

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HOUSE BILL 210

 

 

Short Title:        Indigent Defense/Rate Increase Funds.		(Public)
Sponsors:	Representatives Stevens, Floyd, and D. Hall (Primary Sponsors). For a complete list of Sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly Web Site.
Referred to:	Appropriations.

March 12, 2015

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT to appropriate funds to increase the rate paid to private attorneys.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

SECTION 1.  There is appropriated to the Judicial Department the sum of six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000) for the 2015‑2016 fiscal year and the sum of six million five hundred thousand dollars ($6,500,000) for the 2016‑2017 fiscal year to provide funding to allow the Commission on Indigent Defense Services to increase the rates paid by the Office of Indigent Defense Services to private assigned counsel during the 2015‑2017 fiscal biennium by five dollars ($5.00) an hour and to provide comparable increases for contract attorneys during the 2015‑2017 fiscal biennium.

SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2015.