Wets Win Assembly fight; Major
Legislation Is Getting Attention
(Editor's Note: This is the ninth
of a series of weekly summaries of
the work of the 1949 session, of the
General Assembly of North Carolina.
These summaries are not intended
as a report on all legislation, but
' are confined to discussions of mat
ters of general interest or of major
importance.)
The General Assembly papsed on
Monday and Tuesday to mourn the
death of Senator J. Melville Brough
ton and then returned to the prob
lem of making up its mind on 1949
legislation.
Liquor
Last week HB 270, the liquor ref
erendum bill initially given the
best chance of .success, was report
ed unfavorably by a vote of 26 to 4
In the House Propositions and Gri
evances Committee. Unable to mus
ter one-fourth of the committee
membership needde to bring out a
minority report, Representative L. A.
Martin, introducer of the bill, moved
on Thursday of this week to have his
foil! taken from the unfavorable eal
endar and presented to the House
' on its merits. Answering the first
roll-call on a liquor bill in several
sessions, 54 members voted to re
vive the bill and 51 voted against
removing it from the unfavorable
calendar. The motion failed for lack
of the two- third vote needed Under
House rules. No effort has been
made to resurrect the Senate refer
endum bill. It is safe to predict that
there will be no state-wide liquor
referendum in North Carolina in the
next two years.
Just before this action on Thurs
day, a bill was introduced to per
mit any incorporated town to vote
on the establishment or closing of
ABS stores upon the petition of 15
percent of the registered voters.
Heretofore the only municipal li
quor elections permitted have come
as the result of special legislation
for particular cities and towns. This
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breaking of the county-option pat
tern is cushioned by the bill's pro
vision that 85 percent of the State
taxes colected from stores establish
ed under this plans are to be spent
for school buildings and 15 percent
for Aid to Dependent Children and
Old Age Assistance.
Licensing Boards . .
I The licensing of members of va
rious trades ahd professions has
Come, in recent years, 10 be a fruit
ful source of legislation and a fre
quent subject of litigation in this
state. Most of the furore in legisla
tive hail and court chamber has in
volved the propriety and legal stat
us of the licensing boards which
? control entrance int omany trades
and professions. Just last week the
'Governor's bill" to put a public
' member on each of these' bodies met
its probable demise in the Senate by
the inglorious device of being tab
led Four bills introduced this week
indicates the conflicting Interests at
, work In this field. HB 661 would ush
ler into the growing group qf voca
tions with state licensing boards the
funeral directors. while HB 713, off
I the other hand, would see out the
1 Pj,u?bin9 011,1 hea*ln9 contractors.
i>B 23 b would tighten the licensing,
or "registration," requirements of
the engineers and land surveyors
with the stated purpose of raising
their standards sufficiently to in
sure reciprocal licensing by other
states, while HB 684, in the other di
rection, provides for the licensing
without examination of pharmacists
licensed by other states who have
worked under N. C. pharmacists for
periods of 25 years.
Schools t ?
Raleigh this week yvas immersed
in a welter of figures and arguments
'over ' the proposed "Foundation
Plan for North Carolina public
schools. The Plan was discussed at
a public hearing held by the Joint
Appropriations and Education Com
mittees on Wednesday, and the net
result seemed to be that everyone
favored the Plan, but few could a- ,
gree where the money was coming
from. None of the sets of figures
passed around among legislators
and educators seemed to jibe, the
difference being that thty approach !
from different angles the problem
of how much money the couties
would have to raise under the Plan.
One set was based on the assump
tion that no county would support
anything more than tlje minimum
program, and under those figures
only 8 counties would have to raise
more than $50,000 more than they
raise now, and of these 8 only Gas
ton and Cabarrus would have to
raise over $200,000 more. Another .set
oi figures was based on the as
sumption that the counties would
continue to supplement the mini
mum state-supported' program in
the same ratio that they are now
supporting the present program,
and under these figures 19 counti
es would have to raise over $50,000
more and 7 would have to' raise ov
er $200,000 more. Actually the first
set of figures represented the min
imum that the individual counties
would have to raise, and whatever
else were raised would depend on
the decision in each county as to
how much Jocal supplementation
might bp desirable.
Whether or not the "Foundation
Plan* is enacted, there is indication
that other aid to schools will be for
thcoming. SB 203, which originally
called for the raising of $)0 million
from several sources for school plant
construction, was rewritten in com
mittee .to eliminate all sources but
a $50 million bond issue which
would be subject to a vote of the
people. Indications are that this bill
as amended will become law; if so,
each county could receive a maxi
mum of $500,000 for school buildings
under its provisions. If It passes, it
would replace both HB 627, which
calls for the submission of a similar
bond issue, and the Committee Sub
stitute for House bills 3, 4 and 221,
which authorizes the appropriation
of $50 million for the same purpose.
Roads and Motor Vehicles
The question of issuance of $200
million of secondary road bonds mo
ved another step toward a vote of
the people on Friday when HB 89,
which had been reported favorably
by House Finance . Committee on
"Hiursday, passed its second read
ing by a vote of 101 to 2. As report
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ed out the bill now designates the
portion of bond money to be spent
in each county based on factors of
alrea, population and mileage and
permits the Highway Commission to
retain up to 10 percent of ihe pro
ceeds as an equalization fund for
secondary road purposes. Efforts in
committee to tie the lc gas tax in- ,
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bond issue failed, and this bill also
passed second reading on Friday.
Meanwhile the Chairman of the Se- i
nate Finance Committee- announced
that his committee would postpone
action on SB 52 linking the bonds
and tax increase until the Housej
measures arrived in the Senate. ;
| Which version eventually reaches
! the people depends on the relative
strength of the opposing factions ?
those who think combination is a
I shotgun marriage and those who
I view it as placing the tax' increase
proposal in its proper light.
The introduction on Tuesday of ,
HR 693, authorizing the Governor j
to appoint a commission to study |
the sharing of State highway rev- 1
enues "~ith municipal ties, seemed
to anticipate the rebuff given the
cities on Thursday when the House
Finance Committee reported unfav
orably HB 54, giving the municipal
ities lc of the present 6c gas tax. A
few hours later the Appropriations
Committee attempted to soorhe ruf
fled feelings by increasing the $2
million recommended for division to
the cities in the next biennium to
$5 million. Another solution em^
bodied in SB 274 would do away
with the problem from the munici
palties point of vie# by having the
State- take over for maintenance all
city streets which form a part of the
State high way; system.
County and Municipay Property
Taxes
Two years ago, in answer to pleas
from tax supervisors, the General
Assembly passed a bill which re
quired businesses engaged in sell
ing merchandise in more than one
county (largely chain stores) to file
with the tax listing authorities in
every county in which they operate
a list of a!l the counties in which
they ope. ate, a statement of the
value of their tangible personal prop
erty in each county, plus a state
ment of the total value of their
goods and merchandise in the whole
state. On Wednesday HB 718 was j
introduced to repeal the 1947 act.
SB 239 is equaily interesting. This
bill, introduced Tuesday night, Sets
up a new method for assessing the >
property of franchise motor comet*.
While counties would will take their
land and building listings, the car
riers would be required to file an I
annual report with the State Board
of Assessment under which that a
gency would allocate to the counti
es, townships and municipalities in !
end through which the particulad
carrier operates their shares of its i
property value. This would, in effect
place franchise motor carriers in a
pestion similar to that presently oc
cupied by railroads and other uUli
ties with respect to local property
taxation.
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