June 30 Legislative Bulletin

June 30, 2000 Issue No. 7 The 2000 Short Session
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This Week's Briefing With just two days before the end of the fiscal year, House and Senate leaders compromised on the remaining items in dispute between their spending plans for the budget year starting July 1 and made plans to adjourn soon after the July 4th holiday. It's the second year in a row lawmakers completed a budget on time after a string of missed deadlines. Legislative Actions The state Department of Transportation is struggling to stay ahead of the traffic curve by widening existing highways and building new roads as fast as it can. It all comes at a price, which in this case starts at $3.95 billion, the amount tied up in the 10 largest projects currently under construction. The total rises to more than $5 billion when you add the contracts let last year for resurfacing nearly 1,700 miles of primary and secondary highways, replacing 68 substandard bridges and installing 405 miles of guardrails. Story, pictures, charts Leo Daughtry, the former House majority and minority leader who passed up re-election to the General Assembly for a run at the Governor's Mansion and lost to Richard Vinroot in the GOP primary, may well be back in the legislature next year. He said he will accept an offer by the Republican candidate already on the ballot for his 95th District seat to step aside and let Daughtry take her place. She and others offered Daughtry the spot on the ballot out of a hope that he will be chosen Speaker of the House if Republicans regain the majority in the fall elections. State Government News Four outstanding business and government leaders from Charlotte, High Point and Raleigh will be inducted into the North Carolina Business Hall of Fame this fall. Sponsored by Junior Achievement and NCCBI, the 2000 laureates are James H. Millis Sr.(left), chairman of the Millis Foundation in High Point; R. Stuart Dickson, chairman of the executive committee of Ruddick Corp. in Charlotte; John M. Belk, chairman of the board and CEO of Belk Inc. in Charlotte; and Harlan E. Boyles, State Treasurer in Raleigh. Names in the News With just two days before the end of the fiscal year, House and Senate leaders compromised on the remaining items in dispute between their spending plans for the budget year starting July 1 and made plans to adjourn soon after the July 4th holiday. It's the second year in a row lawmakers completed a budget on time after a string of missed deadlines. Legislative Actions The U.S. House voted 226-199 to block the EPA's new standards on ozone, a key component of smog. Whether the U.S. Senate will follow the lead of the House will be closely watched by 40 counties in North Carolina that stand to lose federal funds because they can't meet the higher attainment standards. In the House vote, North Carolina's seven Republican members of Congress voted to block the new air quality regulations and were joined by Democrat Mike McIntyre. Voting against were Democrats Eva Clayton, David Price, Bobby Etheridge and Mel Watt. Federal News You are NCCBI member to visit this page