As of Sept. 17, members of the North Carolina General Assembly, which includes the North Carolina House of Representatives and the North Carolina State Senate, have passed 15 bills related to election administration since the beginning of the year. Of those 15 bills, legislators passed one during the week of Sept. 11-17. Republicans sponsored the one bill. The bill is:
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NC S169: Local Omnibus Changes, Sen. Steve Jarvis (R).
- As amended, this bill provides that Gastonia City Council members will be elected from single-member districts by the voters in those districts, rather than one member being elected from each district by the voters of the whole city. The bill defines the electoral districts as the wards the city council approved on May 3, 2022.
Of the 15 bills passed this year, 14 have been enacted. Republicans sponsored 11 bills, while Democrats sponsored one. A bipartisan group of legislators sponsored two. Five of the 14 bills are:
