WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY |
This is the ninth in a .series
of weekly summaries of the
work of the 1947 session of the
General Assembly of North Caro
lina. These summaries are not
intended as a report upon all leg
islation, but are confined to dis
cussions of matters of general
interest or of major importance.
When the Senate and House ad
journed on Friday the total number
of bills introduced in this session had
reached 1,052, 754 of them in the
House, 298 in the Senate. On the
same legislative day in 1945 the total
had reached 1,287. Thus this session
continues to lag behind its immediate
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predecessor so far as the bulk of leg
islation is concerned. Os the 1,052
bills introduced this y ar, 584, or
something more than 59 < of them
have been local in nature. This situ
ation will be up for study if the Gen
eral Assembly passes HB 751 intro
duced on Friday calling for a commis
sion whose business it would be to
consider the whole problem of local
legislation and to make recommenda
tions as to the passage of general
• laws on subjects most often embraced
I in local bills.
' The tenth legislative week was
! marked by the reappearance of the
1 big ' money” bills on the floor of the
1 General Assembly. The Finance and
1 Appropriations committees of both
houses have reported out their rec
ommendations on the Revenue, Appro
' priations and Post War Reserve Fund
bills. No sooner had the Revenue
Bill been released for debate in the
House than some members began to
assault it with amendments. There
j were efforts to insure that Confeder
ate widows and veterans get a $9-a
--| month pension raise, to restore thea-
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tre taxes to their 1939 schedule, and
to restore the 25c reduction in the
corporate franchise tax rate made by
the original bill. All of them failed
although the introduction of SB 275
on Thursday, to give totally blind and
helpless Confederate widows a pen
sion increase, indicates that the
friends of Confederate widows are not
yet ready to concede defeat. Repre
sentative Mull was more successful
than his colleagues. By a close vote
he succeeded in amending the Reve
nue Bill so as to prohibit the sale of
wine and to closely regulate the sale
of beer in his home county of Cleve
land. The following day, stating that
he had secured assurance from Fi
nance Committee leaders that they
would give favorable ear to his local
bill to the same'effect, Mr. Mull with
drew his amendment leaving the com
mittee’s bill unscathed. And so it
left the House to be considered in the
Senate earlv next week.
The Appropriations Bill left com
mittee with a net increase in ap
propriations of $8,013,794. Os this
figure, $0,156,000 is accounted for by
the raise in teachers’ salaries. The
bulk of the remaining $1,858,794
would go to the State Board of
Health, the Department of Conserva
tion and Development (this despite its
loss of the Division of Game and In
land Fisheries), to the Board of
Charities and Public Welfare for old
age assistance and aid to dependent
children, to the Retirement System: to
take care of contributions for State
employees, to increase State aid to,
public libraries, to the Department of!
Agriculture and to the Cooperative!
Agricultural Extension division at
State College. The Department of
Labor, the Industrial Commission,!
the Commission for the Blind, four
State-supported colleges, four State |
hospitals, two orphanages, and State
vocational education work absorb
most of the rest. The only new item
added in committee is a $48,000 ap
propriation for Pure Food Control
work in the Department of Agricul
ture in the next two years. Appro
priations for indigent care work of
the Medical Care Commission and
the veteran’s records project of the
Department of Archives and History
were the only items in the original
bill to suffer reduction (a total of
$389,740) at the hands of the com
mittee. Both the House and Senate
defeated efforts to amend the bill to
increase the $102,418,430 earmarked
for instructional salaries despite
strong efforts to convince the Repre
sentatives and Senators that this sum
might fall short of the 30% increase
desired. Thus, amended only to de
lete a requirement allocating 500', of
the library aid appropriation on the
basis of population, and to give law
bracket State employees preference in
the 20% raise, the Appropriations
Bill passed both houses.
The bill bringing the Post "War Re
serve Fund to an approximate $30,-
000,000 by adding $9,300,000 thereto
passed both the Senate and House
without amendment. The Permanent
Improvements Appropriation Bill re
mains in committee where the prob
lems incident to the Medical Care
Program, especially the four-year
medical school and teaching hospital
at Chapel Hill, may bring on pro
! longed discussion. Indeed, this bill
offers the principal controversy re
maining before the Legislature.
Not all the week’s interest has been
confined to money legislation, but at I
least one new bill effects an inter- j
esting tie-up between revenue mat- |
ters and the health, school teacher and j
liquor problems. Representative Buie !
of Robeson introduced HB 640 with;
the encouraging title “To provide ad
ditional funds for salaries of teachers
and other State employees, for the
Good Hi alth Program, for mental in
stitutions and for other General Fund
purposes,” If passed, this bill would
require every ABC store in the State
to turn over its net profits to the
State General Fund.
HB 229 aimed at opening the shops
has passed both houses without
amendment despite vigorous efforts!
in the Senate to remove its prohibi
tion of maintenance of membership
contracts. The Senate committee has
reported out its substitute of SB HR
setting minimum wages and maximum
J hours of a somewhat more elastic
variety than those set by the original
j bill. Teachers and educational prob
-1 lems in general continue to hold the
; legislative spotlight. HB 621 w'ould
! provide that beginning with next year
I no school should lose teachers for lack
I of average daily attendance when its
] average daily enrollment would jus
i tify keeping the allotment it already
has. SB 219 and its companion HB
548 would submit the entire State
educational system to close scrutiny I
by a commission required to investi- 1
gate and make recommendations to •
the next General Assembly. These 1
bills, having been approved by the
respective committees on Education,
noW rest in the Appropriations com
mittees for consideration of the
$50,000 proposed to be appropriated
for the commission’s expenses.
SB 222 which has passed the Sen
ate without substantial amendment j
would give the State Aeronautics
Commission power to regulate the in
stallation, equipment and safety of
airports. Counties and municipalities
will have their tax ceilings raised if
two recent bills continue the success
ful progress they have enjoy, d thus
far. SB 203, introduced by Senator
McKinnon on February 27, which
would raise the municipal general
purpose tax limit from $1 to $1.50 011
the SI.OO valuation has passed the
Senate without amendment. And on
Wednesday Senator Richardson intro
duced SIJ 254 which would submit
to the people at the next general elec
tion an amendment to the Constitu
tion raising the county general fund
tax limitation (less contingent levy
of 5c by State) from 15c to 25c on
the SIOO valuation. These two bills
tie in with SB 196 introduced by
Senator Richardson in February which
would submit a Constitutional amend
ment to the people to remove the
limitation upon the public debt for
necessary expenses.
Several new bills of general inter
est have been introduced this week:
ISB 250 (til* 604) would establish, a
vocational training school for veter
ans at Cam)i Butner: HR 703 Would
| establish a commission to investigate
1 State-created examining boards with
licensing power; HB 630 would au
thorize the establishment of a two
year medical school at the North
Carolina College at Durham for the
training of Negroes; SB 205 (HB
726) would appropriate. $ 1,000,000 for
improvements to North Carolina
ports; SB 285 (HB 744) dealing with
the licensing and regulation of hos
pitals and the general medical care
program; and SB 286 (HB 748) regu
lating the sale of insecticides.
By affixing their signatures the
presiding officers of the two houses
turned 56 bills into laws this week.
At least one bill of major interest was
finally laid to rest: SB 200, the second
Senate bill calling for a Statewide
liquor referendum, was reported un
favorably by the Senate Finance Com
mittee. The House liquor referendum
bill still rests in committee.
Legislative leaders now speak with
some confidence of adjournment on or
before April sth. It may be done,
but if so, it will probably be because
the presiding officer has more success
with turning the clocks back than
Canute had with the sea.
On Tuesday of last week Represen
tative John W. Graham introduced
HB 650 to amend section 161-10 of
the General Statutes and Chapter 63
of the Public-Local Laws of North
Carolina, fixing the fees of the Reg
ister of Deeds of Chowan County. As
the title Indicates, the bill would set
new fees for the Register of Deeds in
the following cases: For recording,
indexing and cross-indexing statutory
form of chattel mortgage, 75c; for
cancelling chattel mortgage, 25c; for
indexing and cross-indexing deeds and
deeds of trust, 10c per additional
name over two names constituting
grantors, and all over one name con- !
I stituting grantees; for registering any
J deed or other writing authorized to
be registered, $1.50 for the first 300
words and 25c for each additional 100
words. The bill was sent to the Com
mittee on Salaries and Fees.
FOR COUNCILMAN
This is to announce my candi- \
lacy for Councilman of the Third
Ward, subject to the Democratic !
Primary election May 6, 1947. If '
elected, I promise to use my best !
efforts to the best interest of the j
Town of Edenton as a whole. Your !
vote and support will bg greatly |
appreciated. ■
George S. Twiddy
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