Media accounts suggested the N.C. Senate could have voted as early as this morning to accept the House’s version of a plan to phase out video poker machines in the state.
Senators had scheduled a vote on “concurrence” with the House bill. (For those who try to avoid the jargon, “concurrence” votes are scheduled when one chamber passes a bill, the other chamber changes that bill, then the original chamber must decide whether to accept the changes.)
But Senate leaders have delayed the concurrence vote to Monday night. If they concur, the House plan would head to the governor for his signature. If Senators decide not to concur, they would try to hash out a compromise with the House through the negotiating mechanism known as a conference committee.
In other news about the upcoming legislative calendar, the highly anticipated Video Service Competitition Act appears once again on the House Finance Committee’s agenda for Tuesday morning. It’s listed last among eight bills, so it’s uncertain whether lawmakers will take a vote.
Meanwhile, later that morning the House Judiciary I Committee will consider more legislative campaign reforms.
