(The Center Square) – Senators in North Carolina’s General Assembly on Wednesday will have a chance to implement legislation requiring sheriffs to cooperate with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and wipe out the waiting list for universal school choice.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives made it one of two successful overrides of Gov. Roy Cooper vetoes. The other, for a bill known as Recording of Court-Filed Documents, became law immediately.
The bill known as Require ICE Cooperation & Budget Adjustments would become law immediately and have impacts on the 2023-24 academic year retroactively and for coming years.
House votes passage was 72-44; a breakdown by individuals was not available at time of publishing. On the documents bill, the House vote was also 72-44 and the Senate was 27-17.
Cooper’s 103 vetoes are a record and former Gov. Bev Perdue’s one term netted the second most at 20. During his two terms when Republicans have three-fifths majorities in each chamber and attempt to override, the score is 50-for-50 for lawmakers; when without three-fifths majorities and trying to override, as is the case for one chamber starting in January, the General Assembly is 0-for-13 against the governor.
The new law, as described, will “allow certified copies of court-filed documents to be recorded without meeting certain conforming requirements of the register of deeds,” modifies “various provisions regarding summary ejectments and other small claims matters,” and modifies “provisions regarding property crimes.”
Along the way to Cooper’s veto, one proposed amendment had a no vote; otherwise, the bill passes both chambers unanimously. The 61 lawmakers changing their votes was among the higher totals by this two-year cycle of lawmakers.