Appropriates $15.760 million from the General Fund to the Office of State Budget and Management for 2025-26 to provide a directed grant to Wayne County:

(1) for a capital project at Rosewood Middle School,

(2) to update the athletic track at Dillard Middle School,

(3) for water and sewer upgrades for the Village of Walnut Creek,

(4) for the "Saving Union Station" revitalization project,

(5) for a training facility for the Wayne County Sheriff's Office,

(6) for the Wayne County United Way,

(7) for Wayne County Alcohol Anonymous,

(8) for the Tuscarora Council Scouting Program,

(9) for the Mattamuskeet Lodge Restoration Initiative, and

(10) for the Pricetown Volunteer Fire Department.

Appropriates $162,351 in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-27 biennium and $3,752 in nonrecurring funds for 2025-26 from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts to hire one assistant district attorney for Prosecutorial District 9.

Appropriates $2,347,071 in recurring funds for each year of the 2025-27 biennium and $96,730 in nonrecurring funds for 2025-26 from the General Fund to the Administrative Office of the Courts, Office of Indigent Defense Services, to create a new Defender District 9 serving Green, Lenoir, and Wayne counties and to hire the following positions:

(1) one chief public defender,

(2) ten assistant public defenders,

(3) two chief investigators,

(4) one social worker,

(5) one administrative assistant II, and

(6) two legal assistant I positions.

Effective July 1, 2025.