NC General Assembly 02-07-2011 Legislative Calendar

The new session of the North Carolina General Assembly is well underway and here is the schedule for today. No committees are scheduled, just a session of the NC Senate and the NC House.


I will be unable to record these sessions because I will be in the Franklin Townhall recording and providing a Live Videostream of the Franklin Town Board of Aldermen's February 2011 meeting, so I direct you to Voter Radio. I highly suggest that you use your favorite podcast catcher software to capture and download all the sessions they record so that you can listen at your leisure (and share with your friends & neighbors), and act as an informational cache should the need ever arise...

5:30 PM	Session Convenes (Senate) Listen Live SB 34 [PDF] Brock D. Berger Harrington THE CASTLE DOCTRINE. SB 35 [PDF] Kinnaird ORANGE CO./NO DEER HUNTING WITH DOGS. SB 36 [PDF] Dannelly BAN MOBILE PHONE USE. SB 37 [PDF] Jackson EMINENT DOMAIN. SR 38 [PDF] Stevens Hunt Soucek HONOR BOY SCOUTS.	House Chamber
6:00 PM	Session Convenes (House) Listen Live  HB 33 [PDF] Cleveland and Hager (Primary Sponsors) - STATE LAW TO PROVIDE FOR ACCEPTABLE ID'S. HR 34 [PDF] Cleveland, Justice and Bradley (Primary Sponsors) - STATE'S RIGHT TO CLAIM SOVEREIGNTY. HB 35 [PDF] Glazier, Lucas, Parfitt and Brisson (Primary Sponsors) - NC MILITARY BUSINESS CENTER FUNDS.  HB 36 [PDF] H. Warren, Cleveland, and Folwell (Primary Sponsors) - PUBLIC CONTRACTS/ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS. HB 37 [PDF] R. Brown - LEXINGTON ANNEXATIONS REPEALED. HB 38 [PDF] Bordsen and Ingle (Primary Sponsors) - TAX CERTIFICATION - ALAMANCE COUNTY. HR 39 [PDF] Jones, Moffitt, Iler and McComas (Primary Sponsors) - HONOR BOY SCOUTS. HR 40 [PDF] Hastings, T. Moore, Hager and Stam (Primary Sponsors) - HONOR JOHN WEATHERLY. HB 41 [PDF] Stam, Hager, Collins and Brawley (Primary Sponsors) - TAX FAIRNESS IN EDUCATION. HR 42 [PDF] Randleman - HONOR JOHN A. GARWOOD. HB 43 [PDF] Carney, Samuelson and R. Moore (Primary Sponsors) - INCREASE PROPERTY TAX APPEALS EFFICIENCY.	Senate Chamber

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NC General Assembly 02-03-2011 Legislative Calendar

Several committees of the North Carolina General Assembly will be meeting today, and here is the legislative calendar for what is planned...including information on the sessions of the NC House and NC Senate, which are due to convene at 11am.

8:30 AM	Finance (Joint) [Listen Live] Information Presentation by Staff Missing 1st ten minutes. Will post link to the Voter Radio version when it becomes available.	544 LOB
9:30 AM	Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate) Joint Regulatory Reform Committee. (S17) Add Program Evaluation Committee. (S21)	1127 LB
9:30 AM	Rules and Operations of the Senate (Senate) Joint Regulatory Reform Committee. (S17) Add Program Evaluation Committee. (S21)	1127 LB
10:00 AM	Judiciary I -- CANCELLED (Senate)	1027 LB
10:00 AM	Judiciary II (Senate) (S4) [PDF] Make Synthetic Cannabinoids Illegal. (S7) [PDF] Ban Mephedrone. (S9) [PDF] Make Synthetic Cannabinoids Illegal.	1124 LB
11:00 AM	Session Convenes (House) [Listen Live] INTRODUCED BILLS HB 28 [PDF] Burr, Guice, Ingle and Randleman (Primary Sponsors) - DHHS TO PROVIDE  LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION. HB 29 [PDF] T. Moore - RETRIEVAL OF DEER. HB 30 [PDF] T. Moore - ALLOW WAGE GARNISHMENT TO SATISFY JUDGMENTS. HB 31 [PDF] Pierce - UNLAWFUL TO USE MOBILE PHONES WHILE DRIVING. HB 32 [PDF] LaRoque, Bradley, Luebke and Farmer-Butterfield (Primary Sponsors) - ELECTORAL FREEDOM ACT OF 2011 CALENDAR- FOR ADOPTION HR 10 [PDF] Committee Substitute - Guice - HONOR TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY'S 150TH.  (Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House) (2nd Edition) SECOND AND THIRD READINGS HB 6 [PDF] Starnes, Howard, Barnhart and Steen (Primary Sponsors) - HOUSE PENSIONS COMMITTEE DUTIES. (Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House) (1st Edition)	House
11:00 AM	Session Convenes (Senate) [Listen Live] SB 27 [PDF] Brock Newton Goolsby INVOLUNTARY ANNEXATION MORATORIUM. SB 28 [PDF] Bingham FUNDS TO PREVENT INFANT MORTALITY. SB 29 [PDF] Gunn TAX CERTIFICATION - ALAMANCE COUNTY. SB 30 [PDF] Mansfield DEFENSE & SECURITY TECHN. ACCELERATOR FUNDS. SB 31 [PDF] Mansfield CONFORM PENALTY UNAUTH. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. SB 32 [PDF] Brunstetter Clodfelter HOSPITAL MEDICAID ASSESSMENT/PAYMENT PROGRAM. SB 33 [PDF] Apodaca Brown Rucho MEDICAL LIABILITY REFORMS. SECOND READING SB 13 [PDF] Stevens, Brunstetter, Hunt 2nd Ed. BALANCED BUDGET ACT OF 2011. Com Sub 2/1 Appro./Base Bud. 2/2 Unfav bill; Appro./Base Bud. Com Sub Adopted	Senate
12:00 PM	Banking (House)	1327 LOB

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NC General Assembly 02-02-2011 Legislative Calendar

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NC General Assembly 02-02-2011 Legislative Calendar

**12.01pm** I'm adding audio of each meeting that I record in the calendars below...





Several committees of the North Carolina General Assembly will be meeting today, and here is the legislative calendar for what is planned...

8:30 AM	Finance (Joint) [Listen Live]	544 LOB
8:30 AM	Joint House and Senate Finance [Listen Live] Informational presentations by staff	544 LOB
10:00 AM	Education/Higher Education (Senate) [Listen Live] (S8) [PDF] No Cap on Number of Charter Schools.	643 LOB
10:00 AM	Judiciary Subcommittee C (House)	415 LOB
10:00 AM	Judiciary Subcommittee B (House) (H3) [PDF] Exclusionary Rule/Good Faith Exception.	421 LOB
1:00 PM	Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House) (H19) [PDF] Permanent House Rules.	1228 LB
2:30 PM	Appropriations/Base Budget (Senate) [Listen Live] (S13) [PDF] Balanced Budget Act of 2011.	643 LOB

The NC House and NC Senate will also be in session at 2.00pm. Here is what they have planned:

2:00 PM	House: Convenes [Listen Live] HB 20 [PDF] Lucas, Floyd, Parfitt and Glazier (Primary Sponsors) - TEXFI CLEANUP FUNDS. HB 21 [PDF] Crawford - COUNTY ADMINISTRATION OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. HB 22 [PDF] Crawford - VANCE-GRANVILLE COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOND FUNDS. HB 23 [PDF] Carney, Dollar, L. Brown and Wilkins (Primary Sponsors) - CREATE GLOBAL  ENGAGEMENT STUDY COMMITTEE. (STUDY COMMISSION) HB 24 [PDF] Carney, Dollar, L. Brown and Wilkins (Primary Sponsors) - EXPAND DUTIES OF  ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE.  (STUDY COMMISSION) HB 25 [PDF] Cotham - LYMPHEDEMA AWARENESS DAY. HB 26 [PDF] McGrady and Guice (Primary Sponsors) - HENDERSON COUNTY FIRE  DISTRICTS.  HB 27 [PDF] Glazier, Stam, Michaux and Jackson (Primary Sponsors) - FORENSIC SCIENCES ACT. (STUDY COMMISSION) Second and Third Readings HB 2  [PDF] Committee Substitute - Stam, Barnhart, Hollo and Murray (Primary Sponsors) -  PROTECT HEALTH CARE FREEDOM. (Judiciary) (2nd Edition)	House Chamber
2:00 PM	Senate: Convenes [Listen Live] SJR 17 [PDF] Brown Rouzer Jackson ESTABLISH JOINT REGULATORY REFORM COMMITTEE. SB 18  [PDF] Vaughan CLARIFY DEFINITION/JUD. DISTRICT/STATE BAR. SB 19  [PDF] Tucker UNION FIRE FEE SUNSET REPEALED. SB 20  [PDF] Tillman Clodfelter STUDENT REFUNDS BY PROPRIETARY SCHOOLS. SR 21  [PDF] Clary ADD PROGRAM EVALUATION COMMITTEE. SB 22  [PDF] Brown Rouzer APA RULES: INCREASING COSTS PROHIBITION. SB 23  [PDF] Clary Rouzer Pate PROTECT HEALTH CARE FREEDOM. SB 24  [PDF] Hunt U.S. NAVY SPECIALTY PLATE CHANGES. SB 25  [PDF] D. Berger ONLY BARBERS TO USE BARBER POLE/ADVERTISEMENT. SB 26  [PDF] Vaughan Stevens Kinnaird NORTH CAROLINA BENEFIT CORPORATION ACT.	Senate Chamber

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NC General Assembly 12-08-2010 Legislative Calendar

Only one committee is scheduled to meet today and I am unsure that I will be available to record the meeting.

10:00 AM

Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse, Joint Legislative Oversight Committee

643 LOB

Here are the supporting documents for this meeting that I have been able to locate. I still don't know why the morons don't make these things easier to find, and post links to the docs in the meeting notices. If I didn't know any better, I'd think they didn't want the general public to be able to follow along with what they are trying to accomplish...

Progress Report from the Dept of Health and Human Services


Community Systems Progress Report for the 1st Quarter of Fiscal Year 2011. 69 pages.

Agenda December 8, 2010

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Fiscal Year 2011 1st Quarter Progress Report

Community Systems Progress Rpt q1

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The Appendices for the Progress Report. It includes Data Tables, LME Populations, Medicaid Enrollees, Urban and Rural Designations and formulas used for calculating Performance. 39 pages.

Community Systems Progress rpt q1 appendices

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Matrix for the Progress Report. It includes 21 critical measures in a chart and is 2 pages.

Community Systems Progress rpt q1 Matrix

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NC General Assembly 11-18-2010 Legislative Calendar

Here are the committees that are scheduled to meet today, along with links to committee websites and agendas, if there are any available. I will not be covering any of these meetings live because they are not being held in rooms that have been wired to webcast audio to the Internet. 

10:00 AM	Child Fatality Task Force - Perinatal Health Committee [PDF of Agenda]	1027/1128 LB
10:00 AM	Subcommittee on Domestic Violence Funding	1425 LB
10:00 AM	Childhood Obestity Taskforce Planning Meeting	415 LOB
2:00 PM	Urban Growth Study Committee	1027/1128 LB

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NC General Assembly 11-17-2010 Legislative Calendar

**4.29pm** Here is the audio of the Joint select committee on Global Engagement:


There was no documentation available for this meeting. The committee will be meeting again on December 9, 2010.


**8.52am** I've decided to cover the meeting of the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee live this morning. I'll be using #NCLEG and you can see the agenda of this meeting by scrolling down. You can also follow along by listening to the live audio and following along on the twitter widget below or by using your favorite twitter client with the hashtag #NCLEG. So far, they've not uploaded any of the supporting documents to their webserver. I'll post those documents when/or if that occurs. I'll also be recording, so I'll be adding the audio of that meeting to this article.  --TP 


**12.24pm** Here is the audio for that committee meeting:










Here is the legislative calender for today in the North Carolina General Assembly. These are the last weeks of activity for the Democrats before the Republicans take over control of both houses in late January 2011. This will be the first time that has happened in more than 100 years.


If the meetings listed below take place in a room that has been wired for live sound, I've added a link to the audio player on the room number that you can click on and listen to the meeting as it happens. 

9:00 AM	Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee	544 LOB
1:30 PM	Global Engagement, Joint Select Committee on	544 LOB
6:00 PM	Public Hearing of the Joint Legislative Commission on Dropout Prevention and High School Graduation - Asheville	N/A LOB

I'm also trying out a search widget that will display tweets by people who use the hashtags #NCGA or #NCLEG. Just be aware that #NCGA is also a hashtag that is used by other people, too. Most notably for the National Corn Growers Association. I'll be using the alternate tag #NCLEG so that I can use widgets during the next session and not have to worry about off-topic tweets appearing.


Agenda for the Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee meeting:

Joint Legislative Program Evaluation Oversight Committee Agenda Nov. 17, 2010

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