Wednesday Wrap: Many balls still in air

Three of the seven vetoes Gov. Roy Cooper issued late Monday have been overridden and are now law. They are the Farm Act, with its controversial provision insulating hog farms from lawsuits by neighbors, changes to the early voting schedule and rollbacks of various state regulations.

The House quickly overrode two other vetoes but didn't even touch the final two. The Senate has yet to take up any of the four remaining.

Both chambers also continue to pass proposed amendments back and forth.

The Senate gave final approval to an amendment that would once again overhaul the structure of the state elections board. The measure, if approved by voters in November, also would asset legislative authority to appoint people to dozens of state boards and commissions.

Meanwhile, the House gave initial approval to a proposed amendment to create a system for filling judicial vacancies and lowering the cap on the state's income tax rates. The tax bill, however, was dramatically different from what the Senate approved last year, moving the limit from 5.5 percent to 7 percent.