NC General Assembly 06-18-2011 Legislative Calendar Links to Bills and Live Audio Feeds

The North Carolina General Assembly is currently preparing to recess until the middle of July and here is the schedule for today. There are no committees meeting today, only sessions of the NC Senate (which has already met and recessed until July) and the NC House are currently scheduled.

If you cannot listen to these meetings live, check back later to see if I have. If I have, I'll post the audio (and a download link) for the meeting in the calendar. You can also follow what is happening in the NC General Assembly by keeping an eye on the hashtag #ncga on Twitter.

If I haven't been able to listen, please check with Voter Radio. You should already be subscribing to their podcasts anyway. I do. ʘ‿ʘ


Link for audio webcasts by room. The old linking system no longer works.

12:05 AM	Session Convenes (Senate) Link to PDF of Calendar Link ot PDF of Supplemental Calendar	Senate
10:00 AM	Session Convenes (House) Link to PDF of Calendar ADOPTION OF CONFERENCE REPORT HB 36 Conference Committee Substitute - H. Warren, Cleveland and Folwell  (Primary Sponsors) - EMPLOYERS AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT MUST USE  E-VERIFY. (Conference Committee Substitute)  LOCAL FOR CONCURRENCE THIRD READING - ROLL CALL HB 56 Senate Committee Substitute - Collins - LOCAL ANNEXATIONS SUBJECT TO  60% PETITION. (Senate Committee Substitute as Amended) (2nd Edition) PUBLIC FOR CONCURRENCE THIRD READING - ROLL CALL HB 619 Senate Committee Substitute - Howard, McLawhorn, Carney and Ingle  (Primary Sponsors) - FORCED COMBINATIONS.  (Senate Committee Substitute as Amended) (3rd Edition) PUBLIC BILLS THIRD READING - ROLL CALL SB 267 Committee Substitute - Clodfelter and Hartsell (Primary Sponsors) - REVENUE  LAWS TECHNICAL CLARIFYING, AND ADMINISTRATIVE CHANGES.  (Finance) (3rd Edition) THIRD READING - NON - ROLL CALL SB 415 Committee Substitute - Purcell - ELIMINATE COST/REDUCED - PRICE  SCHOOL BREAKFAST. (Finance) (2nd Edition)	House

The NC General assembly will take up redistricting when they meet again in July. A public hearing has been scheduled on districts drawn up so that there will be a majority or near majority of black voters on June 23, 2011. The details are below:

North Carolina Redistricting Public Hearing Information

The Joint House and Senate Redistricting Committee will hold a public hearing on Voting Rights Act districts and four other districts proposed by the Chairs for the 2011 State Senate and State House redistricting plans. View map of the Public Hearings site locations.

Each speaker is limited to five (5) minutes. Speakers are encouraged to submit their oral comments in writing. Persons proposing plans are encouraged to provide maps and any supporting data.

Questions about the public hearings may be directed to Erika Churchill or Kelly Quick at 919-733-2578. Persons desiring to submit written comments to be included in the public record may send those comments to

Redistricting Committee
300 N. Salisbury Street
Suite 545 Legislative Office Building
Raleigh, NC 27603

or

Click here to submit written comments on-line.

Registration for speaking will begin: 1) At the hearing site: 1 hour prior to the convening of the hearing, and will close prior to the beginning of the hearing. 2) On-line: 5 days in advance of the hearing and will close 24 hours in advance of the hearing. There are limited slots for on-line sign-up.

Speakers will be called according to the order of registration. If a speaker is not present when called, the speaker will be skipped at that time. Time permitting at the end of all registered speakers, those skipped will be allowed to speak.

The video conference will be streamed live on the NCGA website. The link will be posted under News & Information on the front page of the NCGAwebsite on the day of the public hearing.

Date	Time	Place	County
Sign-up to speak at the June 23 Public Hearing
Thursday, June 23	3:00 - 9:00 pm	NC Museum of History 5 East Edenton Street Raleigh, NC 27601-1011	Wake
		Guilford Technical Community College Learning Resource Center (Library) Jamestown Campus Room 325 601 High Point Road Jamestown, NC 27282	Guilford
		UNC-Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library Room 143 9201 University City Blvd. Charlotte, NC 28223-0001	Mecklenburg
		Roanoke-Chowan Community College Jernigan Building Room 126 109 Community College Road Ahoskie, NC 27910	Hertford
		East Carolina University Brody Medical Sciences Building Division of Health Sciences Room #2E-92 600 Moye Blvd Greenville, NC 27834	Pitt
		Fayetteville Technical Community College 142 Health Technologies Center 2201 Hull Road Fayetteville, NC 28303	Cumberland
		UNC-Wilmington Education Building Room 266 601 S. College Road Wilmington NC 28403	New Hanover