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.