Updates

Raleigh was a bit quieter this week as oversight committee meetings slowed down and closed-door leadership meetings sped up in preparation for the impending short session. The Program Evaluation Oversight Committee heard a number of reports, including on the state’s ferry system and increasing lottery proceeds. The Legislative Research Commission to Study Rates and Transfers/Public Enterprises met to discuss water utility systems. The Joint Legislative Study Committee on the Division of Local School Administrative Units met yet again, and The LRC on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DDs) heard from a variety of community organizations.

This Week: Omnibus arrives… Right to Try passes House on the second try… and then Congress is gone for two weeks.

Your weekly North Carolina political news report.

This week kept the House of Representatives busy with special House Select Committee meetings on Disaster Relief, School Safety, and North Carolina River Quality. There was also a joint meeting of the House and Senate for the Agriculture and Forestry Awareness Study Commission. Rounding things out with the executive branch, Governor Cooper’s Prison Reform Advisory Board had their first meeting as well.