North Carolina would face a new state constitutional limit on government spending growth, if lawmakers and voters approve a proposal filed Monday in the state House. House Bill 146 is titled the Taxpayer Protection Act.
Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, has resurrected legislation to create a task force to identify and eliminate regulations harming the state’s economic climate and stunting business growth. The new legislation, House Bill 379, got unanimous approval vote in the House Regulatory Reform Committee on Tuesday morning. It passed with no debate, other than a technical...
State Rep. Dennis Riddell, R-Alamance, is under no illusion a constitutional amendment to impose legislative term limits will be an easy sell, even though the earliest anyone would be barred from running for re-election is 2035. After all, in 2013 U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis — the then-popular Republican House speaker — couldn’t persuade the General...
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