NC budget, immigration bills finalized as session ends
Associated PressRALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly wrapped up its chief work session for the year on Friday by finalizing proposed state budget adjustments for the new fiscal year, crossing off other must-do legislation but leaving some big policy matters unresolved or thwarted. The Republican-penned spending measure, which alters the second year of a two-year budget plan enacted last November, received strong bipartisan support again, like it did while securing initial House and Senate approval on Thursday. A measure approved Friday that Cooper’s likely to veto would tell local sheriffs to determine the immigration status of jail inmates and assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who want to pick them up. “I believe the overwhelming majority of this House would support and support that with those parameters and those guidelines.” Two other pieces of Senate legislation that passed the chamber — one that would authorize and regulate sports betting and another to legalize marijuana for medical use — didn’t succeed in the House this session.
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