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North Carolina $7½ bill issued at Halifax on April 2, 1776, featuring the Continental Union Flag fully hoisted. The North Carolina Provincial Congress was an extralegal representative assembly patterned after the colonial lower house that existed in North Carolina from 1774 to 1776.
North Carolina Provincial Congress: Jurisdiction: North Carolina, United States: Meeting place: Halifax, North Carolina: Term: 1776: Members: 153 Delegates (35 counties, 8 Districts) President: Samuel Johnston [1] Vice-President: Allen Jones [2] Secretary: James Green Jr. [3] [4] Assistant Secretary: James Glasgow [4] [5] Clerk: John Hunt [4 ...
The constitution of North Carolina vests the state's legislative power in the General Assembly; [85] the General Assembly writes state laws/statutes. [63] [62] Legislation in North Carolina can either be in the form of general laws or special/local laws. General laws apply to the entire state, while local laws apply only to specific counties or ...
The North Carolina General Assembly 2021–22 session was the state legislature that first convened in January 2021 and concluded in December 2022. Members of the North Carolina Senate and the North Carolina House of Representatives were elected in November 2020.
Ben Clark is an American politician who served in the North Carolina Senate from the 21st district (representing constituents in Hoke and Cumberland counties) from 2013 to 2023. [1] [2] He also served as secretary of the Senate Democratic caucus. [3] On September 20, 2021, Clark announced he wouldn't seek re-election in 2022. [4]
Budget bills have swelled, with those in 2021 and 2023 exceeding 600 pages. An N&O review of budgets going back to 2001 shows only two others exceeded 400 pages, in 2015 and 2017.
The North Carolina Senate is the upper chamber of the North Carolina General Assembly, which along with the North Carolina House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprises the state legislature of North Carolina. The Senate has 50 members, and the term of office for each senator is two years.
The North Carolina House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The House is a 120-member body led by a Speaker of the House, who holds powers similar to those of the President pro-tem in the North Carolina Senate. Representatives serve two-year terms.