Today @NCCapitol (July 20): Focus turns to finishing budget
Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, told members recently that Thursday would be the last day for regular committee hearings in the Senate this year. Today, the Senate Redistricting Committee will take up a bill setting the 2016 presidential election primary date.
Posted — Updated"Our intent is to wrap up committees a week from Thursday – I believe that will be the 23rd – and maybe get home sometime this year," Sen. Tom Apodaca, R-Henderson, told his colleagues last Wednesday.
That deadline would be this Thursday.
Toward the end of every legislative session, top leaders in the House and the Senate order their committee chairmen to stop holding hearings. That curbs the flow of bills headed to the floor and, in a year like this one, allows negotiators to focus on unfinished major pieces of legislation, such as the budget, Medicaid reform and an economic development bill.
There has not been a similar announcement in the House, although House Speaker Tim Moore did tell reporters recently that he expected most noncontroversial pieces of lawmaking to wrap up by the end of this week.
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