NC Legislature

The North Carolina Senate plans to vote this week on a bill legalizing medical marijuana. It could have a better shot at becoming law this year than in previous sessions.

A bill in the North Carolina House would require businesses to accept cash payments. It's in response to stores and restaurants that are going cashless.

As the new legislative session begins, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expect healthy debate about Medicaid expansion, mental health care, abortion and other issues.

House Republicans stirred up partisan controversy by adopting a rule that could make it easier to override vetoes by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper.

While mostly ceremonial there was already a partisan stir-up by the Republican majority in the House.

Cooper told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he’ll need to rely partly on self-control by GOP leaders to prevent enactment of legislation he doesn't like. Cooper said he would keep fighting against additional abortion restrictions and for expanding Medicaid.

North Carolina Republicans enjoyed their own little red wave while the GOP faltered elsewhere in the 2022 midterms.

The Dec. 3 shootings put Moore County in the dark for days. State Senate leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Tim Moore said on Tuesday that ways to better safeguard infrastructure for generating electricity, producing clean water and other services would soon get the attention of colleagues.

North Carolina state Rep. Robert Reives of Chatham County has been chosen to remain the party's state House leader for the next two years.

The Senate Republican Caucus on Monday elected Sen. Paul Newton of Cabarrus County to the post. Newton succeeds Sen. Kathy Harrington, who didn't seek reelection this fall to her Gaston County seat. The caucus also agreed to nominate Phil Berger to a seventh term as president pro tempore when the session convenes in January.