(04-13-2017 08:18 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(04-13-2017 08:03 PM)TerryD Wrote:  This bill died today:

“There are strong constitutional concerns with this legislation given that the U.S. Supreme Court has firmly ruled on the issue, therefore House Bill 780 will be referred to the House Rules Committee and will not be heard,” Moore, the House speaker, said in a statement.

No joke, GOP NC legislators, no damn joke.

It should never have been an issue. But there will be a lingering to the threat. There are some ideas you can't unsay.

The "threat" came from the state (vs. the university), it was generally unenforceable (universities can move significantly faster than state legislatures - and the wording had massive loopholes in it), it didn't make it through committee, and it would have had at least a ~20 year delay.

I get that there are times when the toothpaste is out of the tube, but I have an extremely hard time thinking that this has any significance. This proposed bill was nothing more than empty grandstanding.