Lawmakers stick to plans for quiet Sunday night

House Speaker Thom Tillis stuck to his word tonight. 

Despite rampant speculation among Democrats and advocacy groups that House Republicans were planning a "furtive" and "underhanded" veto override of Voter ID or the Energy Jobs Act in Sunday night's session, the ten-minute session proved as uneventful as legislative leaders had promised.

In the House, a conference report was read in, a bill was re-referred, two committee meetings were announced, and that's pretty much all that happened – just as Tillis and Senate Leader Phil Berger had pledged when they announced the unusual Sunday-night-on-a-holiday-weekend session.

Tillis thanked those who showed up for Sunday's session. "As stated at the end of our prior session, there was no intent to take up any matters or any votes today," Tillis said. "The chair regrets that you had to come in and cut your holiday weekend short." 

SB709 was vetoed by the governor earlier this summer. Legislators could vote on whether to override that veto tomorrow or Tuesday.

House Session Monday is scheduled for 2 p.m., with a 1:30 p.m. Rules committee meeting on a conference report that may or may not include language enabling live-dealer gaming at Cherokee casinos.