Governor Beverly Perdue signed 56 bills on Wednesday, August 26, 2009. At that point there still remained 52 bills on her desk. Wednesday was day 15 of 30 for gubernatorial action after the August 12 adjournment of the 2009 North Carolina legislative session, final day for action will be September 10. There is no “pocket veto“, any bills not acted on become law September 11.
Here is the list of bills signed Wednesday:
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Today is the day when the 100 counties canvass their election results, and announce the count of about 40,000 provisional ballots. The official State canvass is on November 25.
Want to keep up with the canvass and the provisional ballots? Election return central is here, and you can watch the totals change as the counties report their official tallies up to the State. You can see the provisional count by going to the main election return website, look for “Custom Filter by Vote Type and County”, select the voter type “Provisional”, then “County” “all” to see the statewide provisional tally, or selecxt a particular county. Note that the 100 out of 100 counties reporting header you will see does not mean that 100 counties have reported their provisionals. At 10:18 am, the site shows 20 provisionals counted. There is a refresh button.
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Governor Easley signed the final four bills on his desk into law late Sunday evening, August 16, 2008, day 30 of 30 days for gubernatorial action.
The new laws are listed below:
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2008-225 |
Toll Enforcement Authority Changes. |
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2008-226 |
Emergency Foreclosure Reduction Program. |
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2008-227 |
Earlier Notification of Mortgage Servicer Fee. |
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2008-228 |
Regulate Mortgage Servicers. |
Under Article II, Section 22 of the Constitution, the Governor had 30 days after adjournment to act on all pending bills, with July 19 being day one. The 30-day period concluded at midnight, Sunday, August 17, 2008. 2008 laws enacted are listed here in order of becoming law, and here in order of bill number. These links are normally updated within a few business hours of action being taken.
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Definitely musing.
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“All Staff:
There are two very aggressive mockingbirds that have a nest in a tree on the east side of the Legislative building. They are responsible for numerous attacks on humans in the last several days. The police department has taped off a buffer zone around the nest area. Please do not enter this taped off area. If you do you are subject to being vigorously assaulted by these two protective parents. Use caution.
General Assembly Police Department.”
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The Governor’s office has placed online his proposed budget adjustments for 2008-2009. it’s a 270 page document.
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As of Monday, February 25, 2008, the online database of the North Carolina General Statutes has been updated to reflect enactments made by the 2007 Regular and Extra Sessions of the General Assembly.
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Yesterday, I was doing some research for fun, and at Google typed in “Chapel Hill Iron Mountain Railroad” (the original name of the railroad opened from Chapel Hill north to just eats of Hillsborough in 1882) and found that Google had digitized the 1872-73 public and local acts as well as the Laws of 1879.
Back in August, I posted that we had put the 770 local acts from the 1961 North Carooina General Assembly online. These local acts can be browsed in order of enactment, or searched in our session law database. The 1959 local acts have now been scanned in, and we anticipate adding them to our database in late summer. At that point, we will have 50 years of local acts and 25 years of public laws online. We were planning to stop the project of digitizing old laws, in the hope that perhaps others would have taken up that task. It looks like they have! The old laws that Google has out up are in the public domain, I will check on the copyright law ramifications of migrating their digitized copies of those law books to our site or properly linking to them, as well as finding out how much more is out there!
UPDATE: More NC laws found online:
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In response to a question, today’s (Monday 2/11/2008) 11 a.m. Wright hearing by the House select committee will have an audio stream online. Click on Finance Committee Room (Rm 544) on our audio page.
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last September I posted about local sales and transfer tax referenda that were authorized by the 2007 North Carolina General Assembly.
The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners has just published a chart showing both the 18 counties scheduling 2008 referenda, but also the 2007 results. They also have a short analysis piece on the 2007 and 2008 referenda.
Here is the 2008 list, updated January 22, 2008:
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