Shenagans, trickery and monkey business continue today.
The Senate, in a hastily called Finance Committee meeting around a member’s desk this morning brought up Senate Bill 884 in efforts to revive an economic incentive that was defeated last night in the House. It appears Sen. Clark Jenkins, D- Edgecombe stripped SB 884 of it’s original language (Clarifying Inspection Station Responsibilities) and replaced with the language from last night’s Domtar giveaway bill, Senate Bill 825, with changes that bill sponsor, Jenkins says will ease the problems the House had with the bill last night. It takes out contract employees as required jobs and reduces the giveaway by $1 million. The committee gives it a favorable report and moves it along. The bill was defeated last night in the House, as reported here.
During that same hastily called Senate Finance meeting a few minutes ago, Sen. David Hoyle, D-Gaston, said he had changed his Life Science Development Act bill and found another bill he could strip (Senate Bill 530) and replace with language that sets up the Life Science development Loan program and in a way that “the House can use it.” The original LSD bill, Senate Bill 580 is currently on the House Finance Committee schedule for Monday afternoon. I suspect Hoyle’s changes enable the issue to bypass committee review and would go straight to the floor. See notes on this one from yesterday’s discussion. NCICL has weighed in with constitutional concerns on this one too.
With these scoundrels, if at first you don?t succeed, just change
the rules and sneak it in anyway you can. Who cares about those
annoying taxpayers anyway?
