Current:Home > ContactNorth Carolina’s GOP-controlled House overrides Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes -ProfitPioneers Hub
North Carolina’s GOP-controlled House overrides Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes
View
Date:2025-04-16 18:40:35
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina’s Republican-led House quickly overrode three of Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper’s vetoes on Wednesday.
The House votes, largely along party lines, sent the overrides to the Senate, which does not meet this week. Veto overrides require supermajorities from both legislative chambers to become law. Since gaining supermajorities last year, GOP lawmakers have blocked all of Cooper’s vetoes.
The first bill allows the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles to issue title certificates for all-terrain and utility vehicles, and expands the types of roads accessible for modified utility vehicles to include all roads with speed limits of 55 mph or less. Cooper said in his veto statement that the law would endanger people on state highways because off-road vehicles don’t have as many safety features.
The second piece of legislation changes several laws involving tenancy, notaries and small claims court. What mostly prompted Cooper’s veto was a prohibition against local ordinances that aim to stop landlords from denying tenancy to people whose rent money comes mostly from federal housing assistance programs.
The last bill, among other things, blocks state agencies from taking payments in central bank digital currency, which is similar to cryptocurrencies, but with value determined by a country’s central bank. In the U.S., the Federal Reserve would be liable for the currency’s value, and the agency is still studying whether it can manage its risks to the cost and availability of credit, the safety and stability of the financial system, and the efficacy of monetary policy.
Cooper called the legislation “premature, vague and reactionary,” and urged the Legislature to wait to see how it works before passing laws to restrict it.
There are two more vetoes that still require action from both chambers. Lawmakers are scheduled to reconvene in early September.
veryGood! (4185)
Related
- The company planning a successor to Concorde makes its first supersonic test
- Dodgers win NL West for 10th time in 11 seasons
- An explosion hits an apartment in northern Syria. At least 1 person was killed with others wounded
- Fulton County judge to call 900 potential jurors for trial of Trump co-defendants Chesebro and Powell
- Why Sean "Diddy" Combs Is Being Given a Laptop in Jail Amid Witness Intimidation Fears
- What is UAW? What to know about the union at the heart of industry-wide auto workers strike
- Timeline leading to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s acquittal in his impeachment trial
- Activists in Europe mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran
- Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September
- Thousands expected to march in New York to demand that Biden 'end fossil fuels'
Ranking
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
- Celebrate National Cheeseburger Day on Sept. 18 as McDonald's, Wendy's serve up hot deals
- Turkey cave rescue survivor Mark Dickey on his death-defying adventure, and why he'll never stop caving
- What is UAW? What to know about the union at the heart of industry-wide auto workers strike
- Intellectuals vs. The Internet
- $245 million slugger Anthony Rendon questions Angels with update on latest injury
- Shedeur Sanders sparks No. 18 Colorado to thrilling 43-35 win over Colorado State in 2 OTs
- Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica, California organizes books by emotion rather than genre
Recommendation
Juan Soto to be introduced by Mets at Citi Field after striking record $765 million, 15
US: Mexico extradites Ovidio Guzmán López, son of Sinaloa cartel leader ‘El Chapo,’ to United States
Incarcerated students win award for mental health solution
Coach for Tom Brady, Drew Brees has radical advice for parents of young athletes
McConnell absent from Senate on Thursday as he recovers from fall in Capitol
Low Mississippi River limits barges just as farmers want to move their crops downriver
California lawsuit says oil giants deceived public on climate, seeks funds for storm damage
Twins manager Rocco Baldelli is going on leave to be with his wife for the birth of twins