Legislative
NOTE: This is the thirteenth of
a series of weekly summaries
prepared by the legislative staff
of the Institute of Government
on the Work of the North, Caro
lina General Assembly of 196-7.
It is confined to discussions of
matters of general interest and
major importance.
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The Assembly has now moved
into the interval between the
local bill deadline and budget ac
tion when much of the important
floor work of the sassiqn occurs.
This week was a fair sample of
the heavy going that makes for
long days in Raleigh hi the mer
rie month of Mfcy.
On Monday the Senate soncur
red in the House amendments to
SB 104, thereby completing en
actment of the State’s new abor
tion law. Monday night also saw
House approval of the hike in
usury rates to 7% for home
loans.
Highlight of Tuesday in the
Senate was the unexpectedly
early committee report of a Con
gressional redistricting proposal,
Ik substitute version of the Mills
^Jriffin bill, SB 69. This plan re
portedly involves a topside popu
lation deviation of 3.33% above
perfect equality and a downside
deviation of 1.94%. Its contours
mirror a major facelifting for
the the tortured visage of the
present Congressional map. Un
der this plan two sets of Incum
bent Congressmen might be
thrown into the election ring to
gether (barring changes of resi
dence), Gardner-Fountain and
Whitener-Jonas. After its emer
gence from committee the bill
was placed on the Senate cal
endar for next Tuesday’s con
sideration, the 16th. The Senate
also completed, this Tuesday,, its
passage of the remaining seg
ments of the Governor’s law and
order program, which now return
to the House for concurrence in
amendments. In addition the Sen
ate gave final approval to a.
House bill proposing a Constitu
tional amendment removing re
strictions on legislator pay — a
measure heralded as paving the
way for eventual transition to
annual legislative sessions.
The House devoted most of its
Tuesday session to debate on a
proposed Constitutional amend
ment to lower the voting age to
18 (HB 11), after rejecting an
^alternative proposal to give the
"Assembly discretion to lower the
voting age, This debate occasion
ed the first vote of 1967 by Speak
er Britt, who departed the Chair
long enough to contribute his
ballot to a two-vote margin above
the required three-fifths approv-.
al for a Constitutional amend
ment. By Wednesday, however,
the wind had shifted and this
bare majority had evaporated.
On third reading — amid a wel
ter of vote shifts and abstentions
—backers of 18-year old voting
could only muster 63 votes, nine
shy of the necessary 72.
The latter half of the week
brought final passage and ratifi
cation of the much-amended
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By-Friday the House had passed
the Administration-backed indus
trial development revenue bonds
bill, and the Senate had approved
the companion bill on second
reading. Several major proposals
were reported out of committee
on Friday for floor action next
week, including the Uniform
Commercial Code amendments
and tne election law recodifica?
titm (in the House), and the lo
cal jail law revision (in the Sen
ate).
A TWO-THIRDS TALLY
On Wednesday the General
Assembly finished its 66th week
day session of 1967—probably
about two-htirds of the way to
completion of this legislature.
Through Wednesday 1410 bills
and resolutions had been intro
duced, of which 391 bills and 46
resolutions had been ratified and
38 WUs had been killed by for
mal action in committee or on
the floor. 734 bills were in com
mittee' -T- 392 in the House and
342 ip fhe Senate. The Appropri
ations and Finance Committees
and the two Judiciary Commit
tees of each House remain the
major repositories for bills, ac
counting for 361 or alrdofit one
half of the bills in committee.
(Of these 361, 219 were in the
money cbmmlttees alone.) About
ISO of the bills remaining in com
mittee Were local bills awaiting
their turn in the committees that
deal With the bulk of all local
bills — Local Government, Sala
ries and Fees, Education, and
Counties, Cities and Towns.
The Volume of introductions i§
now running well ahead of any
legislature in modem times at
this stage of the session — 15#
ahead 6f 1965, 12% ahead of 1963
(which produced a modem rec
ord high in. introductions), and
22% above the average for thy
last tliree regular sessions. Com
parisons with years before 1965
are likely to be somewhat mis
leading, because the May 1st 10
cal bm deadliite was instituted
that year,. Which tends to inflate
the. 1965 and 1907 totals, None
theless, if current trends -con
tinue, the 1967 session promises
to produce 2000-plus bills and
may iwejl set an all-time record
for introductions. 5
It Pemains too early to pre
dict with any tjope of accuracy
the adiojurnment date lor this
ssion. The first big obstacle to be
cleared is aaction upon the gen
eral appropriations bills, a step
which Wll be more cumbersome
and time consuming than usual
because of the necessity of mesh
ing. both* taking and spending
Proposals this year'- Another high
hurdle,is the subject of Congres
sional redistricting, though the
Probability of Senate action on
the Senate Committee’s proposal
pext week offers hope for a de
cision this month or in early
June A general notion of the
amount of heavy work remaining
ahead can be gleaned by exam
ining the pumber of public bills
awaiting consideration. About 350
pupbUc bill* other than “money
bite”', ate. now lodged ip coin
mined. 4AMVto' this additional
public' Mils likely to be intro
djfijCd during the remainder of
the sassion, probably upwards of
300 or more bill* judging from
redent years’ experience, 'ntus,
chances are that 600 to 700 pub
lic bills are yet> to receive floor
consideration and, in most cases,
committee review a* well.
Some Incentive for early ad
journment’ is offered, of course,
by the fact that legislators’ per
diem of $15 per day Is limited
by law t« 120 days, or June 7th
this session: Payment of expenses
at $20 per day continues, how
ever, as long hs the Assembly re
mains in SAleigh. and the pass
ing of the jaat per diem pay day
has never gignalled an automatic
exodus from the Statehouse.
The average legislative leave
taking date for the past decade
is June 18th, and the record stay
(M 1963) wee through June 26th.
With the amount of major legis
lation still on the docket, chances
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Summary
for adjournment by June 18 are
fast glimmering and the June
26th record is within easy reach.
NEW .BILLS
Although the volume of new
bills shrank from the previous
week’s staggering total of 197 to
a modest haul of 78, quite a few
substantial new offerings were
floated this week. Three new
entries in the UNC-Trustee derby
topepd the list—SB 429 (HB 940)
sponsored in the Senate by Sen.
McLendon and in the House by
Reps. McFadyen and Tate; SB
426 (HB 941) sponsored in the
House by Rep. Ragsdale and in
the Senate by Sens. Griffin and
Harrington; and 8B 430, intro
duced by Sens. Wood and Henley.
The McLendon bill embodies the
Hodges Commission proposal for
a 24-member board of trustees,
while the Ragsdale bill seeks a
42-member board with nine of
them appointed by the Governor
and the remainder by the Assam-,
bly, standing three each from the'
State’s 11 Congressional Districts.
The Wood bill would keep the
present 100-member contingent,
but apportion It on the basis of
enrollment at each of the four
campuses. It would parcel out the
trustee functions in part to an
executive committee and in part
to separate subcommittees of the
board for each campus. Still
pending in committee is the earl
iest trustee reorganization pro
posal of the session, SB 324 in
troduced by Republican Sen. Bag
nal and calling for separate 9
man boards for each campus.
Other new bills of the week
include a consumer finance pack
age offered by Repp. Clark of
Union, to regulate auto install
ment purchasing, retail install
ment financing and small loans;
Synod Meeting
Set June 6-7
Approximately 700 ministers;
and ruling^ elders from all parts;
of North Carolina will attend the'
1967 meeting of the Presbyterian
<U. S.) Synod of North Carolina
on June 6 - 7 at Montreat, N. C.
a tobacco tax bill sponsored by
Rep. Baugh of Mecklenburg; a
local government study commis
sion request, by Rep. Bowles; a
group of amendments to the
small watershed laws, largely
involving local financing, intro
duced by the two Johnsons (of
Wake and Duplin); and a bill to
tighten rules of evidence in ad
ministrative proceedings, intro
duced by Sen. Thomas White,
A test of diamond skills is
scheduled to spark next week's
festivities, following a House
challenge and Senate acceptance
of an inter-chamber softball »ame
proposed by ex-miler, Mecklen
burg Rep. Jim Beatty. This match
of Senate wind power and House
speed-in-depth should produce one
of the stirring spectacles of the
session.
This will bo the 154th annual
meeting of the Synod of North
Carolina, which was formed in
1S13 near Greensboro, N. C.
The Synod of North Carolina
will be called to order and open
ed with prayer at 2:00 P.M. on
June 6 by the Retiring Modera
tor, the Rev. Mack C. MacQueen
of Clinton, N. C. Mr. MacQueen
is pastor of the Graves Memorial
Presbyterian Church. .
One of the first orders of bus-i
iness will be the election of a
new Moderator, who will preside
at the 19(17 sessions and hold of
fice for the ensuing year.
The Moderator-Nominee, who
was elected at the 19(56 Synod
meeting, is Mr. J. Harold Me
Keithen of Winston-Salem. If
elected, Mr, McKeithen will be
the first layman to hold the postj
since 1960.
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