Thursday marked the “crossover” deadline – an agreed date by which all non-budget bills must have passed either the House or Senate to remain alive for the rest of the session.
“A late night,” the speaker tweeted moments after adjournment, “but a productive one.”
And one of disappointment for both Democrats and Republicans who left Raleigh for the weekend with dimmed hopes about proposals they’d spent weeks or months developing. House and Senate leaders say the deadline is a practical one, necessary to generate a focus on what will move and what won’t.
Of more than 1,500 bills filed so far, only 11 have been written into law.
