Today@NCCapitol: Tax cuts, Dorian relief and veto overrides

Here's what's going on at the General Assembly on Wednesday, Oct. 30.

Posted 9:00 a.m. Oct 30, 2019 — Updated 9:00 a.m. Oct 30, 2019

RALEIGH, N.C. — Here's what's going on at the General Assembly on Wednesday, Oct. 30:

House Finance takes up bills to increase the standard deduction on individual income tax returns and to cut the franchise taxes charged to businesses. (9 a.m., 544 LOB)
House Appropriations rolls out a Hurricane Dorian relief package. (10 a.m., 643 LOB)
Senate Appropriations considers a supplemental budget for school funding and other needs. (1 p.m., 643 LOB)
The House has five bills on its 2 p.m. floor calendar, including "mini-budgets" to provide teachers with pay bumps on the state salary schedule and funding for university and community college workers and state retirees and a proposal to use excuses to get out of jury duty as a means of purging suspected non-citizens from voter rolls.
The Senate holds its voting session at 4 p.m., when it has seven bills on the calendar, including three possible veto override votes (state budget, regulatory changes and money to help Medicaid shift to a managed care system), a mini-budget for information technology and the voter roll purge measure.