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The honorables are filing bills like they're going out of style. (What, you want more folksy sayings from my grandmother? Fine: They've filed more bills than Carter has pills.) At any rate, it's a lot to plow through.

Here are some of the more interesting filings from Guilford and Rockingham legislators:

• * The Guilford County delegation has filed a bill to change Greensboro's recall law. It would prevent a recall election from happening in the first six months or last six months of a council member's term in office.

  However, it also adds some other language that voters may or may not be comfy with:

  The grounds for recall must be for cause, misfeasance, malfeasance, nonfeasance, or a violation of the oath of office. A recall petition must be registered with the Guilford County Board of Elections before it is circulated for signatures; however, no recall petition may be registered within six months before a general election involving the members named in the petition.

  Not really sure how someone would litigate that first bit.

• * You already know Rep. Earl Jones (D-Greensboro) wants to "legalize it," and about the bill he filed then didn't. He also says cities and counties should be required to regulate dangerous critters.

• * Rep. Nelson Cole (D-Rockingham) says Wentworth should change back to electing all their council members every two years. He also wants to give the university system $5 million to build a horse park in Rockingham County.

• * Sen. Stan Bingham (R-Davidson and Guilford) wants to make it so drivers licenses for those under 21-years-old to be printed vertically. The idea is that it will be easy for bartenders and liquor store clerks to tell who can get served and who can't.

• * Rep. John Blust has filed a bill that tweaks how Summerfield's council fills vacancies.

• * If you were looking for Rep. Pricey Harrison's plastic bag bill, it's been given a bill number: H 2527. She's also filed a bill disapproving the raw milk rule.