Committee chairs
House Speaker Joe Hackney announced committee appointments and chairmanships this afternoon. I'll post a link to the full electronic version when I get it.
Update: Click here for the full list.
Of interest to Greensboro:
- * Rep. Pricey Harrison gets a bump up as a co-chairman of the NER Appropriations Subcommittee. That subcommittee oversees a section of the budget that pays for economic development programs and the commerce department as well as more environmentally-minded departments like Agriculture and DENR.
- * Rep. Earl Jones keeps his gavel as head of the Local Government Committee.
- * Reps. Maggie Jeffus and Alma Adams are still "big chairs" of the Appropriations Committee.
More globally, there were not a lot of big moves. The Appropriations and Finance committees remain in the same hands, as does Rules. Rep. Bill Faison will chair the Ways and Means and Broadband committee.
Comments (5)
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Mark, is the protest petition bill likely to go to the LG committee chaired by Earl Jones, who is not supportive?
Or will Pricey Harrison try to steer it to a different committee in her effort to fast-track it?
Posted on February 11, 2009 4:52 PM
There are two local government committees, so it doesn't necessarily have to go through Jones'. We'll know more when the Speaker reassigns bills that have already been filed to their proper committees.
Posted on February 11, 2009 4:55 PM
You're the man!
Posted on February 11, 2009 5:13 PM
good question Doug , Mark keep us informed.
Posted on February 11, 2009 6:21 PM
it is in local committee 2 , earl jones is chair of local committee 1 and it will go to judiciary 3 as well.
Laura Wiley is on both committees
Posted on February 12, 2009 1:32 PM