Senate Bill 37, the school reopening bill, is not dead yet.
Both the state House and state Senate passed the bill requiring public schools in North Carolina to offer in-person instruction to students and sent it to Gov. Roy Cooper on Feb. 17.
Cooper had 10 days to make a decision on signing or vetoing the bill before it became law without his signature, and on Feb. 26 Cooper vetoed the bill.
On March 1, the Senate voted to override that veto and the override failed on a 29-to-20 vote. In the Senate, 30 votes are needed to override a veto. The bill had originally passed the Senate on a 31-to-19 vote, but only one of the three Democrats who had originally voted for the bill voted for the veto override.
Sen. Ben Clark (D-Hoke), one of the bill’s co-sponsors who voted for the bill originally, was not present for the override vote.
On Wednesday, March 3, according to President Pro Tem of the Senate Phil Berger (R-Rockingham), the Senate will vote to reconsider the override vote.
To bring a bill up for reconsideration takes a motion from someone who voted in the majority, which is usually the winning side. In this case the Democrats won because the vote failed to override Cooper’s veto, but the 29 senators who voted in favor of the override were in the majority, so any Republican senator or Sen. Kirk deViere (D-Cumberland), who voted for the override, can make the motion to reconsider the bill. The reconsider motion only needs a simple majority to pass.
Senate rules require that senators be given 24-hours notice before a veto override vote can be taken. Berger said that if the reconsideration passes then the override vote will be scheduled in accordance with Senate rules, which means it could take place as early as Thursday, March 4.
In a press release Berger said, “Sen. Ben Clark cosponsored Senate Bill 37 and voted for its passage the first time around. He was absent from yesterday’s veto override attempt, and if he voted ‘yes’ then the override would have been successful. We intend to provide Sen. Clark the opportunity to advance the bill that bears his name.”
Have any of these politicians given any thought to what the people want, or are they all playing party politics as usual and trying to make their own name stand out during the next election cycle?
Where did Ben Clark/Hoke and Kirk deViere/Cumberland go when the had a chance to get schools opened!!!!! That has to be just about the Biggest Forest Gimp decision of the year (Forest ‘s expression “stupid is as stupid does” ).Why start something you don’t intend to complete?Do you and the other Democrats including King Coop that the curt children from the first grade through the eleventh grade have lost one whole year of school?Thanks to both of you they just may lose a second year ..This will just slow them down more .These children need all the exposure they can get and it normally is at school.All our private schools have been in session since last fall.With soccer and basketball being played.This goes to show how stupid and out of touch all Democrats are .The say how much they care about middle class of Amicans.They are all LIARS,LIARS and more .The only reason the care about Minorities,the people who read People Magazine is so they (Democrats)can lie to you and tell you what they are doing for you which happens to be Nothing.These Dem politicians only want power with you providing the votes to keep them in power.Then you are forgotten until the next election they call you to vote them in again ,and most of the time you fall in line and put them in again .Good person to follow Joe Biden .He said that he wouldn’t ban fracking .Well what do you know one of the first E Orders was to ban fracking.Number 2 he closed down the Canada to Houston pipeline that supplant variety of jobs with up to 100000 people out of a job .Plus look at the south border illegals are pouring over the border with no regard for The Virus .Already in Texas there are 109 cases not noted by the govt.They may be coming to where you live.Watch out!!!!!!
What was in this bill to support Schools reopening? We should learn from the elementary schools that are already opened and provide the other school better resources this go round.
In ten years as the consequences of using our children as a political football bears fruit, we will certainly have deep regrets. Many students will graduate at age 20 and a GED diploma will be the norm, not the exception. Private and Catholic school alums. will become the educated elites. So much for enlarging the middle class. The private schoolers’ will have an extra year, or more education. It is not just book-learnin’ either. Discipline and structure are incredibly important. When these lay around the house, public school grads wash over the work places, they will wear pajama bottoms to work, be chronically late and expect everyone be their mommy and pick up after them. Perpetual teenage slobs. They will believe liberal political BS (conservative media may be just a sneered upon memory) and insist on a fast food starting wage of $25(or more) an hour by then or not bother with any job atall and stay home with their computer games collecting a government supplied monthly cheque.
I hope and pray I am wrong, but that is what I see as our future. The inmates will soon be running the insane asylum. The politicians of today think that is the thing to do.