RALEIGH — The House on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at beefing up the state’s rainy day fund. “It takes North Carolina from frankly one of the weaker savings regiments of any state to what the Pew Center believes will be one of the strongest,” said Rep. Nelson Dollar, R-Wake, the sponsor of...
RALEIGH — Not long after members of the House Appropriations Committee gave their approval to two bills, lawmakers left town for the weekend. One of the bills getting a thumbs-up from the committee was House Bill 13, which would give local schools systems more flexibility in primary grades class sizes. The other bill, House Bill...
RALEIGH — Properties included in certain long-range “wish list” road projects would not have to be disclosed in real estate transactions, under a bill filed in the state House. The bill, House Bill 31, sponsored by Rep. Kelly Hastings, R-Gaston, would consider a property’s inclusion in a comprehensive transportation plan “not a material fact.” Comprehensive transportation...
Lawmakers began filing bills, assigned committee members, and remembered a former state representative as the N.C. General Assembly returned to the state capital after a two-week break. Democratic leaders laid out an agenda they hope the Republican majority might consider. Sen. Dan Blue, D-Wake, and Rep. Darren Jackson, D-Wake, the minority leaders in their respective...
Perhaps the biggest task facing a Republican-controlled General Assembly when it returns from a two-week hiatus Wednesday is finding common ground with a new Democratic governor, and vice versa. That’s a significant challenge, considering the contentious nature of last year’s special sessions and the flurry of lawsuits that followed. Lawmakers will work toward passing a $22...
Bipartisanship ruled the day as lawmakers returned Wednesday to begin the 2017 long session of the General Assembly. The collegiality on opening day marked a stark contrast with the final days of special legislative sessions held in December, when the GOP-controlled General Assembly whittled away at some of the powers of the governor’s office and...
The previous assumption that all or part of House Bill 2 was destined for destruction in federal court — which was never warranted in the first place — is now dissipating.
On July 22, the day after the National Basketball Association announced it would remove Charlotte as the host for its 2017 All-Star Game, the NCAA revealed a plan requiring all future host sites for NCAA-sponsored intercollegiate athletics to verify whether they are subject to “bathroom laws” that allegedly discriminate against transgendered people. The NCAA Board...
