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House bills name new state raptor and saltwater reptile, expand fishing season
North Carolina could soon have new state animals and an extended recreational fishing season.
Opinion
Let’s fully protect right to work
When states recognize occupational licenses issued by other states, that tends to boost in-migration by highly productive professionals.
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House passes legislation expediting removal of squatters
“With the advent of YouTube and other forms of social media, criminals are actually teaching people how to use the system to trespass (squat),” Rep. Steve Tyson, R-Craven, told the Carolina Journal.
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Hall announces the North Carolina House committee appointments for 2025-26
As the North Carolina General Assembly prepares to gavel in the long legislative session, new House Speaker Destin Hall makes appointments to key committees responsible for shepherding policy through the state's lawmaking process.
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Rep. Destin Hall to be NC’s next Speaker of the House
Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, is leaving the North Carolina House after winning his election bid for the US House. At 37 years old, Hall will replace Moore in one of the highest roles in state government as the youngest House speakers in modern history.
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Ban on public hospitals performing gender transition in minors advances
The North Carolina House Health Committee passed a measure Tuesday that would ban public health facilities, or any providers under contract with them, from performing surgical gender transition procedures on minors or providing them with puberty blocking drugs. The Minor Gender Trans. Proc./Public Providers bill is a committee substitute for the Fairness in Women’s Sports...
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Compelled speech would be banned on NC college campuses in House bill
The Prohibit Compelled Speech/Higher Ed Act, House Bill 607, sits in the Senate Rules Committee this week, after passing the House earlier this month. It seeks to extend and codify protections from compelled speech for students and college applicants in North Carolina. More specifically, this bill would prevent colleges and Universities from using Diversity, Equity,...
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Speaker Moore announces NC House committee assignments
On Tuesday, North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, announced committee assignments. House Republicans have 71 out of 120 seats, and would need 72 out of 120 for a gubernatorial veto override. This will likely be a focus when issues that are especially partisan - abortion, 2nd Amendment laws, voter ID, tax policy - come before members.
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New and familiar faces at the N.C. General Assembly. Here’s the House:
Carolina Journal is taking a brief look at each new member of the General Assembly — 10 in the Senate and 11 in the House. We look at where they’ve been, what they’re doing now, and what we might expect them to do as lawmakers. The 2021-22 session began in late January. Expect COVID-19 and the ongoing...
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Next generation of GOP leaders could come from newly elected commissioners
Editor’s note: The original version of this story mistakenly said six counties would flip from Democrat to Republican. Five counties will turn from Democrat to Republican, since Guilford County went from red to blue. The story has since been corrected. Republicans won a strategic victory on Election Day in North Carolina, claiming several formerly Democratic...
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N.C. House Republican majority grows, dashing Democratic hopes
North Carolina Democrats lost four seats in the state House on Election Day. Republicans will open the 2021 legislative session with a 69-51 majority. It was an upset. Legislative redistricting, brought on by lawsuits in 2019, should’ve made it easier for Democrats to gain ground. Instead, the party lost seats during an election year where...
