Legislative Updates
Legislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – February 18, 2019
Last week at the North Carolina General Assembly was our third week of the regular session. It featured many meetings, many new bills, and a celebration of a youth organization over 100 years old. Monday night is usually a quiet session with no floor votes. However, last Monday, February 11th, was a celebration of 109…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – Feb. 11, 2019
Last week at the North Carolina General Assembly was our second week of the new 2019 – 2020 session. It started slowly, but picked up speed on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Tuesdays are going to be committee days this session, and most of our floor votes will be on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Last week only…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – Feb. 4, 2019
Last week at the North Carolina General Assembly included committee assignments for the 2019 – 2020 session and some early bill filings. There were two floor sessions, but only one procedural vote. After missing the January 9th swearing in ceremony in Raleigh due to medical reasons, I had been sworn in on January 18th at…
Read MoreLegislative Update for Rep. Frank Iler – Dec.10, 2018
Each week in the North Carolina General Assembly this month feels like it should be the last for this session, but we keep coming back. When we adjourned the short session in late June and set a date of November 27th to return, most of us assumed it would be for a week. Then,Hurricane Florence happened. After…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – Oct. 22, 2018
Last week in the North Carolina General Assembly began and ended on Monday the 15th. We expanded the legislation for Hurricane Florence recovery that we had begun two weeks earlier before returning to our districts in time for early voting, which started Wednesday. A lot of work had gone on for two weeks, along with close…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – Oct. 8, 2018
Last week at the North Carolina General Assembly could be described as “short and sweet”. It was short due to the large amount of work done in advance by the bill drafters and the legislative leaders. It could be called “sweet” due to the preliminary agreement by those leaders and the Governor that something had…
Read MoreSpecial Report on Hurricane Florence – Sept. 17, 2018
Although all meetings were cancelled in Raleigh during the past week as Hurricane Florence made her way through North Carolina, the communications among elected officials at every level has never been more urgent. We had daily and hourly phone calls and texts among every concerned official and emergency management leader. I had one or two…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – July 3, 2018
Last week in the North Carolina General Assembly: we passed historic constitutional amendments for the voters to decide, we had a record override votes of the Governor’s vetoes, and we finished our work for the short session. On last Monday afternoon we had an unusual early session. The first item of business was to finish…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler – June 25, 2018
Last week in the North Carolina General Assembly we overrode the Governor’s veto on two election bills, we moved local bills through committees and both chambers, and we learned about constitutional amendments to be voted on shortly. Many of our votes in the N.C. House last week were votes to concur with bills that had…
Read MoreLegislative Update from Rep. Frank Iler — June 18, 2018
Last week at the North Carolina General Assembly we handled well over 100 bills in the House and Senate, we overrode the Governor’s veto of the state budget, and we passed several bills of local interest. Last Monday, June 11th, we reported for a night session at 7:00 p.m. While many weeks there are no…
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