Legislative update for the week ending 7-28-06
ecthompsonmd
July 28, 2006
Legislators made more progress last week on dozens of bills as we tried to finish our remaining work and adjourn for the year. As you know by now, we are back in Raleigh again for this week as members of the House and Senate try to resolve differences over ethics and lobbying reform bills, strengthening our sex offender laws, establishing a lottery oversight committee, creating a “first-in-the-nation” innocence commission for our judicial system, strengthening our state’s DWI laws, among others. At least 10 pieces of legislation were sent to conference committees this week, which are made up of members of the
