This amendment authorizes 18 vacant judgeships to be filled as of July 1, 2016, and one vacant judgeship to be filled as of August 1, 2016, consistent with the caseload and staffing study conducted by the National Center for State Courts. Additional funding of $877,395 each year from the general fund is required to increase the total number of funded judgeships to 408 (currently 405 judgeships are funded), consistent with the caseload study. The judgeships which are not authorized to be filled are the vacant General District Court judgeships in the 8th, 19th and 25th Districts, and the vacant Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court judgeship in the 19th District. The language authorizes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, under his authority, to direct that the general district court judges of the seventh district provide assistance to the general district court judges in the eighth district.