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The General Assembly is nearing the end of its session, with the Senate planning to adjourn on Thursday. So, the pace of activity in the Legislative Building is picking up.

good evening. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of the rap on Leslie for the royal couple Travis Fain, Wael Statehouse reporter. And since the last time we talked to You, which was Friday, a lot of things happened Friday night. I can kind of look down the street there and see some things that are missing. Exactly. So, as you know, I'm sure unless you've been out of town or something, the the the Confederate monuments were. A couple of statues were taken off, and then the rest of them were taken down by Governor Cooper's order. This has, of course, been all the talk of Raleigh. It's not getting a lot of talking here. There were a couple of statements that came out on Saturday, but, you know, I chased around yesterday trying to get Republicans talking about this and nobody wanted to. I think I think that see, it is a winning winning issue, and I think they're smart not to see it that way. You're hearing a lot of lawlessness. The governor allowed lawlessness. He allowed a mob to dictate which statues would come down. Which ones wouldn't would not number Republicans, noting that governors dancing a cock their statues. They're still up there. They, of course, were, you know, raving segregationists. But they were not, actually Confederate soldiers are, nor were they targeted by the crowd. And the governor's justification for taking these down is it was a public safety problem, and then he needed to address that public safety problem. I'm pretty sure the Aycock one got hit with graffiti at one point, but you're right. They weren't yelling to taking them as I was interesting today, because on one hand we had Republicans talking about criticizing Cooper for making the decision to take him down, at the same time criticizing Cooper for not deciding to take to otherwise, yeah, Center. Burger was asked today whether he could see 87 circumstances that would bring the monuments taken down back to the Capitol Square. He said it was too soon to tell eso. We'll see. There's also been legislative fallout. You know, a bill was moving had moved unanimously through the Senate last week to fund a new Freedom Park, which was going to be kind of between the governor's mansion and this building the legislative building, I believe, and then also to put up some new statues honoring African American heritage at Capitol Square, but also some signs contextual izing the Confederate monuments there. Of course, there's not as much to contextualized anymore, so that Bill is on hold. That bill passed unanimously. It is on hold in the house. We'll see what happens. I mean, obviously holding up funding for African American monuments right after Confederate monuments got ripped down. I mean, that's that's not gonna be a great look for Republicans, either. So I don't know that that Bill's fate is sealed particular since their two elements to it. There's the Capitol Square element and this other Freedom Park element that has been in the discussion in discussions for years. It sounds like that that may not get resolved the next couple of days because it sounds like the Senate is Aziz pretty much decided that they are done as of Thursday. Yeah, center Berger said. I know what you're all gonna be doing, but I'm gonna be gone after Thursday. Senate wants to adjourn sine die. The house would like to set a date certain to come back. Why would they turn sunny die if they don't know how all the covert stuff is gonna I don't know. Don't argue with it. Let's make it happen. Um, way we'll see how that all works out. The senator Berger says the Senate is definitely going home one way or another on after Thursday. And if they need to go skeletal sections because the house is not done, that's fine. But he did not see the Citic coming back to deal with whatever the house wants it over there talking. Well, okay, so on the health side, they were talking about late July, so burgers not talking about that either. Hey, did not talk about that now, and he was asked about coming back. And I mean, never say never. I don't think. But that didn't seem to be in the cards. At least not in there. Ideal. He also said, Shut the door, which I don't think was open very much on the speakers bond proposal. The three point 1,001,000,000 excuse me that the Speaker of the House wants to put before voters in the fall center burger. Kind of just reiterating the sitting position on that this afternoon, saying a good time to borrow money. So, you know, at the time. The chief time to borrow money is always when things are it is the chief time to borrow money. And then we talked about you know, whether or not I don't know, there was the whole thing, but it didn't seem. But that ain't ago. That's enough. OK, so also, OK. Things that did move today with the legislator the House voted looked like pretty much party lines. I didn't couldn't check exactly. They went ahead and said that Bill that would really hope that would basically allow for fireworks and parades to be held for the 1st 10 days of July to celebrate the fourth. And then they also sent in the one that started out as mostly amusement parks, bowling alley skating rinks. He got rolled in with county fairs, state fairs, event venues you name. It is sort of all been lumped into this, Bill said. Both of those are on the way of the governor's desk to fate that we probably can predict, although tomorrow the governor is scheduled, we're told a scheduled to announce what's going to happen and face the next faces you probably know face to is set to expire Friday So they've got to do something. Either. Announced a new phase. Extend the phase where in whatever. We're all a lot of the talk here today, as they've been debating these reopening bills has sort of circled around, You know, what exactly is the plan here? How is the governor making his decisions? Okay, You don't like the governor's plan? The Democrats say to the Republicans. Then what's your plan? Because we don't see you doing anything to reduce the cove. It spread, so Yeah, well, it's a little tense around here. People and business owners, right. Very concerned about this. I mean, you've got bars and Jim's it enclosed for what, 90 days, then? Yeah. I mean, you think about it. March 15 is when this all really started. And it is a, you know, we're in past mid June now. Yeah, eso I mean, just shut down your livelihood for three months with no riel and inside and inside, you know? Certainly no certainty. Insight, that is, uh, that will get you right there. I mean, that'll that'll turn your head around. Yeah, and so we know that. Okay, So in phase two, there were some things that were originally supposed to reopen. That ended up not reopening because we had turns were moving in the right direction even then, right? And those included bars and nightclubs. You had your, uh, event venues. Movie theaters were actually think on the West. Initially, Jim's, of course, were on their public playgrounds. So I'm kind of thinking we might see, like a few of these things included. It seems like politically and I don't have any inside information anything. This is Travis, kind of supposing yeah, but it is. First of all, he's kind of got to do something right. He can't send people home with nothing politically. That might be untenable. But then again, maybe he'll look at the trends and will make the argument any wall. We reached out to a number of people today trying to kind of get a preview, as reporters are want to do and really could not shake much of anything loose. So I don't really know what the man's going to say tomorrow. We also don't know what, if anything, will say about masks. You know, they're the I always thought maybe we go a little bit forward, but there's a mask requirement tacked on to it as well. That's always a possibility. How do you enforce that? You know, how do you enforce seatbelt laws? I mean, it's you can get a ticket. You can, but the law is not always about we'll always not always about enforcement, but sending a message. I agree with you, but seat belts or not, they probably were in the 19 seventies and eighties, but they're certainly not politicized as masks are at this point. Yeah, I just I don't know what what? What the governor is gonna announce tomorrow. I'm not sure he does at this moment, although I may be totally wrong about that. I'll make a bet. What? Okay, here's my prediction is probably wrong. But I must say publicly, Grass, because I've heard that W. H. O. Has said that they have not seen a lot of trouble with those. I bet she's gonna let the bars because it's only 15% of a Zafar. People will tell you, you know, 85% of ABC permit holders in the state are already open because their restaurants with bars or their bars that served food of their distilleries and breweries. Whatever So you've got a very, very, very slim segment of the bars that are not a lot of open. So I don't think it seems like that would be low hanging fruit. Yeah, we talked a little bit before we went on camera here. About if you spread out your drinkers Because, I mean, are there really more people who are going to go out drinking if you open the bars or is going to be the same number of people spread over more locations because they're not just going to a restaurant or a brewery. And if you saw what was going on on Glenwood South last weekend or two, it's hard to make the argument that opening bars is going to cause more crowds than that. And those were the non bar places. Yeah. So, clearly, people are stacking up wherever they can stack up, and so is you say it may actually cut the grounds. Yeah, I run through a couple of legislative things today. There was briefly a gun bill that got pulled before it actually got to committee. It kind of reads like a grab bag of fairly noncontroversial things. I bought us the PC as we saw. I don't want your emails, people if you think it was really controversial, but it would allow E. M T's Teoh concealed carry. It changed the way that renewals were done. In some cases, it would allow you to drive with a gun in your locked vehicle through a owner road through an educational facility where you otherwise wouldn't be able to. So it seemed like small things, but again it could have shifted. But then it shifted to doesn't exist Right now, I think, at least, is a a se functional possibility before we leave Thursday. That's always subject to change, right? Exactly Way did see one big spending bill roll out this morning, and that was in Senate appropriations. That bill was formerly known as the Storm Recovery Act 2019. It was Hospital 10 23. It's new Life is sort of additions and appropriations and changes of coded federal relief money to ah whole slew of different sort of entities and purposes and programs. And I think initially when we were first talking about that offset funds Bill, you know, basically talking about getting trump to DPS, getting a chunk to DHHS and letting them figure out how to do all the offices. This is very specific, in some cases, almost strangely so. Yeah, it takes a lot of things that we knew existed. One thing. The calm eyes Remember, they're going to $5 million for tourism to kind of tell people had a tour North Carolina without getting covered, night entered, or while so and get people to come to her. Yeah, and that goes from five million to 15 million. So it's something's being tweak some things. You're exactly right, you know, like divvy it up. And then there's 3.5 million for a GPS monitoring project for people accused of stalking or various domestic violence offenses. And it would be run by a group called Caitlin's Courage, which is a nonprofit that didn't exist until last year in Greenville. People in this space, domestic violence, abuse advocates or prevention advocates I should say they're not really familiar with this group. It's not clear how it got this money. It seems to track back to represented parent Jones, who is a freshman down here and had a bill to help fund a pilot program like this at $100,000 bill never went anywhere. It's getting catching a ride on the Corona Virus five and a 3.5 eso that that certainly raised my eyebrows. Another one. Plasma games. They make a video game that helps teach students high school students math and chemistry particularly. Excuse me, chemistry and physical science, I think. Thank you. And there has been a push. Craig Horn, Jason saying. And Lynda Johnson late Lynn Johnson had pushed for funding for a pilot project. The software seems to be like, We're not saying it doesn't work. It seems to be very highly. Was that one Picks? Yeah, yeah, it gets $2.5 million. And again, this is This is it was a bill, a stand alone bill that couldn't get traction hitching a ride on a bill that is a must pass. So is the biggest, most expensive Christmas tree. We've seen the session yet. I think that's a fair way to Cata crisis. These parts of the bill is also a 1,000,000 bucks in it for the zoo to reopen it. $7 million to buy PPE for schools, two million for the General Assembly. They help to cover way we've heard that they spent more than a $1,000,000 already in terms of overtime for personnel. And for all the the precautions they've been taken, cleaning and And what not So that is it gonna be on the Senate floor tomorrow? That is a great question with their Senate rules today, So I think so. Also, World briefly mention the red reform bill. Got kicked again. Should be on the house calendar tomorrow. Speaking of grab bag bills, Christmas trees there is piling up some interesting amendments. There's a ton of stuff in there, Not much more. Oh, okay. I wrote something last night about a debt settlement bill. This is a building I think we've talked about a couple of times that would essentially outlaw debt settlement. Go read that, please. On into capital it posted Monday night. Might not have been a lot of people might not have seen it. So I'll commit that one, Teoh. And we do have to mention that tomorrow in the house they're gonna do that, Gregor for Mural's gonna honor total rant who passed away recently and they're supposed to release as of yesterday. Have the veto override vote on the bill to reopen bars gyms. So and that's it. 1 30 is one session is supposed to start, although we know that may be subject to change on Vito Days as the count noses. And it's but you know it'll be an interesting It'll be interesting to have a look at that and see whether the Democrats, at least the ones in the House, are facing the same pressures from their constituents that Governor Cooper is sort of getting from the business community as well. That might be a harder Teoh hold. It will be. And one more thing from today I'll mention there was. There's a bit of a House Senate issue on a finance bill. It deals with how decoupling the state have analyzed from the way the feds tax medical expenses for people have a lot of high medical bills on. There's a question about whether or not we should mirror what the feds are doing, which is, I believe, allowing people basically saving people money on taxes. Uh, the I don't remember. The House wants to do it, or the Senate wants to do it. One of them wants to do it. One of them doesn't want to do it. It's a small thing. But Julie Howard, Julia Howard involved it is not a small She was incident finance this morning, she said. Well, I don't know if you want to do this because you might in danger, and they should just started ticking off other things that are in the bill. So one small thing that may not be so small to watch. So what's going on? Obviously tomorrow, committees air winding down a little bit. So we will be, of course, keeping out on that veto override for you. Of course, I will fill you in tow.

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