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struggle4progress

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Fri Feb 1, 2013, 08:14 AM Feb 2013

More amendments ahead? [View all]

By Laura Leslie
Posted: 11:51 a.m. Wednesday
Updated: 3:14 p.m. Wednesday

... House Bill 6, "NC Right to Work/Secret Ballot Amendments," would add the state's "right to work" law to the constitution, as well as a provision forbidding "card check" union elections ...

... House Bill 8, "Eminent Domain," would add the following language to the constitution: "Private property shall not be taken by eminent domain except for a public use. Just compensation shall be paid and shall be determined by a jury at the request of any party." ...

... House Bill 9 would limit the speaker of the House and the president pro tem of the Senate to no more than two terms in their respective leadership positions. Speaker Thom Tillis advocated for this idea last session, but the Senate didn't take it up ...

http://www.wral.com/more-amendments-ahead-/12043046/

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