NC Legislative Newsletter
April 21, 2023
In the past week, lawmakers at the North Carolina General Assembly returned to Raleigh after the Easter break to committee work and floor votes. The NC House had a bill filing deadline on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.
This coming week, the NC Senate will continue its internal work on their version on the 2023-24 State Budget and both chambers will continue with committee hearings and floor votes with the Crossover deadline on Thursday, May 4.
Issue Insights
Governor Roy Cooper / North Carolina General Assembly
- House Speaker Tim Moore spent his legislative break visiting Kiev, Ukraine (The Raleigh News & Observer)
News Roundup
- Dr. Jeff Cox, Wilkes Community College president, named new leader of North Carolina Community College System (Press Release)
- New Hanover County’s Republican Party has selected a Wilmington lawyer to fill a vacant seat on the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners (Wilmington StarNews)
- Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools on Wednesday unveiled a new draft of boundary plans for a new southern middle and high school (WFAE)
- Douglas Sasser, senior resident superior court judge for Columbus and Bladen counties, announced Wednesday that he will retire this summer (The News Reporter)
- Climate researchers at North Carolina State University predict the upcoming hurricane season could produce more than a dozen storms (The Charlotte Observer)
- North Carolina students made major gains last school year recovering from COVID-19 pandemic learning loss, according to a new state report presented Tuesday (The Raleigh News & Observer)
- Drivers face 2 months of detours as I-77 ‘whirlpool’ interchange reaches final stage (The Raleigh News & Observer)
- Construction on Kitty Hawk North Wind Energy Area slated to begin next year (The Outer Banks Voice)
- Charlotte Checkers team up with Knights to host city’s first outdoor hockey game in 2024 (Charlotte Regional Journal)
- Prestigious Old Town Club in North Carolina shuts down for renovations (Charlotte Business Journal)