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NC Legislature Close To Completing Annual Session
The North Carolina General Assembly is getting close to completing its annual work session.
Top House and Senate leaders say they're hopeful they can adjourn the 5½-month session sometime Thursday, or perhaps early Friday. The two chambers worked Wednesday until midnight debating bills and negotiating behind the scenes.
Brock Appointed To State Panel, Will Resign Senate Seat
An oversight by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper to fill an expected opening on the state panel that rules on unemployment insurance appeals means a senator will resign to take that post.
The annual bill containing dozens of appointments made by legislative leaders to state boards and commissions and approved Wednesday night lists Sen. Andrew Brock of Mocksville joining the Board of Review on July 1 for a four-year term.
Brock says he'll resign the Senate seat he's held since 2003 to take the job, with a $124,000 annual salary.
Appeals Court Rejects Challenge To Gay Marriage-Recusal Law
A federal appeals court has rejected a challenge to a North Carolina law that allows magistrates to refuse to perform same-sex marriages.
The Richmond-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling on Wednesday that the three couples who sued to overturn the law lack standing to challenge the law's use of taxpayer funds.
House GOP Interested In Formal Investigation Of Marshall
House Republicans have opened the door for the chamber to investigate North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall based on a lawmaker's allegations she issued notary public commissions to people who live in the U.S. illegally.
A House committee voted along party lines Wednesday to allow the full body to consider a resolution to create a special panel for investigating Marshall, a Democrat first elected in 1996.
For-Profit Charter Operator Lobbies For Workplace Schools
One of the country's largest for-profit charter school management companies is lobbying North Carolina legislators to create a new market for a type of school only rarely attempted.
Proposed legislation would allow corporations that help build or equip taxpayer-funded charter schools to reserve half the seats in those schools as an employee perk. The only workplace charter now operating in the country is affiliated with a massive retirement community in central Florida.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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