Senator Norm Sanderson, R-Pamlico, is refiling the Government Transparency Act this week in the North Carolina General Assembly, coinciding with Sunshine Week, a national initiative that promotes open government and accountability.
On Tuesday, Grass Roots NC personally delivered 5,000 petition signatures to the House speaker at the General Assembly, viewing it as a significant step forward in advancing the bill.
Lawmakers in the North Carolina General Assembly are looking to scrap the state's current carbon reduction plan, which aims to reduce carbon emissions by 70% by 2030, in an effort to save billions of dollars for North Carolinians.
Republicans in the North Carolina General Assembly want to prohibit hostile foreign governments, like China and Russia, from buying agricultural land and property surrounding military installations. The NC Farmland and Military Protection Act was filed this week by Reps. Jennifer Balkcom, R-Henderson, Neal Jackson,R-Moore, Jeff Zenger, R-Forsyth, and John Bell, R-Wayne. The legislation aims to...
The North Carolina House voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 382 on Monday in a 72-46 vote, officially making the legislation law in North Carolina.
At his last post-Council of State press conference, outgoing Democrat Gov. Roy Cooper had plenty of criticism about the North Carolina Senate’s override of his veto of Senate Bill 382 yesterday.
“A constitutional amendment preventing the income tax rate from exceeding 5 percent provides a strong protection to the paychecks of hard-working North Carolinians,” said Brian Balfour, Senior VP of Research at the John Locke Foundation.
The North Carolina General Assembly will return in the first two weeks of December for its final actions of 2024 when legislators are expected to override Gov. Cooper's latest veto.
Late on Tuesday evening, the North Carolina House passed Senate Bill 382, which will provide an additional $227 million to the Hurricane Helene Disaster Recovery Fund, but also makes sweeping changes to the State Board of Elections by shifting power from the governor's office to the state auditor.
The North Carolina General Assembly plans to override House Bill 10 next week when they reconvene for four days in Raleigh in what could be the last strike against Gov. Cooper by the Republican supermajority. The legislation, which was passed by the General Assembly in September and subsequently vetoed by Cooper, will mandate that all...
House Republicans find themselves in the same position as 2022, just one seat shy of a supermajority, while Senate Republicans picked up one seat and retained their supermajority power.
