Timeline
From our friends at the Associated Press:
RALEIGH (AP) - According to Mike Wilkins, the chief of staff to Speaker Jim Black, the House is working to get its budget passed by June 9. House budget-writers met Monday to set their calendar to pass their spending plan for state government. If the chamber meets its projections, then the budget bill would come out the week after the House and Senate meet the "crossover" deadline the week before. With crossover, House and Senate rules require bills that don't incur spending or adjust taxes and fees to pass at least one chamber by a certain date. Otherwise they can't be considered for the remainder of the two-year session.