WEEKLY LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY !
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\ weekly summaries prepared by the
legislative staff of the Institute of
J Government bn the work of the
5 North Carolina General Assembly
?of 1959. It is eonfined to discus*
sions of matters of general interest
: and major importance.
I Business of the General As
lembly slowed perceptibly this
jireek as the House struggled with
the minimum wage issue. The
Jlouse debate attracted so many
Senators that it appeared that a
joint session might be in pro
gress. For the first time total
ratifications for the session fell
behind the comparable date for
last session.
Minimum Wage
HB 121, the minimum wage
bill, survived ordeal by amend
ment and passed third reading by
a vote of 66 to 39 in the House
Wednesday. When Speaker Hew
lett asked that all proposed
amendments be sent forward at
once, a veritable avalanche des
cended upon the reading clerk.
Before these 24 new amendments
were offered, action had to, be
taken to clarify an amendment
which was adopted Tuesday, af
ter two hours of debate, and then
was discovered to be of uncer
tain meaning. As debate pro
ceeded, the Speaker announced
that the House would remain in
session until the bill was disposed
of. The House recessed for lunch
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and finally, about 6:00 P. M., put
the final stamp of approval on
the amended bill. The bill now
exempts persons engaged in
farming, dairying, and domestic
service, part-time workers, hand
icapped workers, apprentices,
persons in domestic service in
hospitals, theater doormen, con
cession attendants and cashiers,
and persons over 65. As the bill
goes_ to the Senate, where it is
expected to have an easier road,
proponents face the tactical de
cision of whether to try to elimi
nate some of the House amend
ments and thus run the risk in
volved in returning the bill to the
House floor, or to accept the bill
as it is.
Finances
The 89-member Joint Appro
priations Committee took the tra
ditional step of setting up a
smaller subcommittee (25 mem
bers last session) to handle the
budget bill. The full committee
has generally been considered too
unwieldly for effective discussion
of the detailed and lengthy bill.
The session usually ends about
two weeks after the subcommit
tee reports back to the Joint
Committee.
The Highway Auditorium was
a smoker-filled room, as oppon
ents of the proposed tax on to
bacco swarmed to the hearing on
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HB 437 Tuesday. Not a single
voice was raised in favor of the
tax, and by the end of the hear
ing even one of the bill’s spon
sors expressed misgivings.
Occupational Licensing
Optometrists saw three bills
introduced Monday affecting
their qualifications and licensing
board. HB 527 replaces specific
proofs of good moral character
with evidence satisfactory to the
Board of Examiners in Optome
try. HB 528 authorizes the
Board to reimburse its members
for travel and other expenses
which the Board considers are
properly incurred in perform
ance of their duties. HB 529 au
thorizes the Board to increase the
annual optometrist’s license fee
from sls to $25, and to increase
the penalty for late payment
from $5 to $lO.
New regulations were prescrib
ed for pharamacists and drug
stores by HB 541 and 542. The
first bill specifies several addi
tional grounds for refusal to
grant or for revocation of a phar
macist’s license; the second spe
cifies standards to govern the is
suance of permits to physicians
and others to operate drug stores.
Education
“Gunsmoke” in selected areas
under provisions of HB 581,
which appropriates $50,000 for
the first year and $75,000 for the
second year of the 1959-67 bien
nium to finance a program of ed
ucation by television in the pub
lic schools of the State. Stand
ards for television course would
be formulated by the State Board
of Education, and funds would be
allocated among county and city
administrative school units which
meet the standards prescribed
by the Board. “Pay now—build
later” could be a motto under
HB 572, which permits the estab
lishment of School Outlay Re
serve Funds to finance future
school construction projects. HB
543, aimed at the increasing
shortage of trained nurses in the
state, appropriates $200,000 for
nursing scholarships, and $200,-
000 for aid to accredited nursing
schools in the state, for each
year of the 1959-61 biennium.
The bill would establish for each j
year, 50 graduate scholarships
and 50 collegiate nursing train
ing scholarships (each - worth
$1200) and 400 smaller scholar
ships to be administered by the
NC Board of Nurse Registration
and Nursing Education; recipi- I
ents are not required to repay |
grants if they agree to practice I
nursing in North Carolina for a
prescribed period of time. The :
Prison Education bill (HB 448);
passed the House after it was |
amended to prohibit spending'
any funds of the Department of
Public Instruction in connection
with the program.
Motor Vehicles
Efforts to curb drunk driving
kept the' legislators in a whirl
this week. A new bill, SB 234,
authorizes the Department of Mo
tor Vehicles (with or without a
hearing) to suspend for 60 days
the license of a person convict
ed of a single offense of driving
under the influence. SB 120, the
“drunkometer” bill, was report
ed favorably by the Senate Com
mittee on Public Roads, but en
countered such opposition that
its sponsor steered it into Ju
diciary 2 lest it fall into more
hostile hands. SB 119, which
would have permitted an officer
to arrest without a warrant a
driver who had been reported by
another officer as violating a m j
tor vehicle law in the presence
of the reporting officer, ran off
the road Wednesday as it failed
to pass third reading in the Sen
ate. HB 567 makes the maxi
mum vehicle length of 35 feet in
applicable to a vehicle used in
combination with another ve
hicle. HB 571 would limit the
definition o f “chauffeur” for
driver’s license purposes, to driv
ers of trucks operating under
franchise of the Utilities Com
mission or the Interstate Com
merce. The role of innocent by
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Public Utilities
Identical bills (SB 240, HB 566)
were introduced Thursday to per
mit electric and telephone mem
bership corporations to elect di
rectors for 3-year staggered
terms, to pay the directors up to
S2O per day for attendance at
meetings, to prohibit such cor
porations from denying member
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cept for good cause! and to bring
telephone membership corpora
tions under the same laws with i
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electric membership corporations.
In 1945 most of the statutes gov
erning electric membership cor- ,
porations were made applicable
to the newly-authorized tele
phone corporations; this amend
ment makes another provision
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porations. The bill is approved
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sociation which is composed of
two men from each of the state’s
32 electric membership corpora
tions.
HB 305, which validates exist
ing agreements between tele
phone companies and municipali
j ties and establishes uniform pro
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ments, has passed the House and
is now in the Senate Committee |
on Public Utilities. HB 451,
which requires utilities to pay
6% interest on refunds when
suspended rates placed in effect
under bond are finally disallow
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passed the House Friday.
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PAGE THREE
! The Assembly passed HR 537
1 expressing the desire of the
members to attend the fund
raising dinner of the Young
Democratic Clubs at Raleigh,
April 30, 1959; it was not learn
ed whether the five Republican
members shared in the sentimerf