North Carolina House approves May 15 journal, withdraws bill from calendar and adjourns until May 20

Raleigh — The North Carolina House of Representatives approved its May 15 journal, removed a bill from the calendar and set a date to reconvene, members said during a short administrative session.

Representative Parade moved to approve the journal for May 15 "as written," and the presiding officer called a voice vote. "The ayes have it, and the journal is approved as written," the presiding officer said.

Soon after, at the presiding officer's request that Mister Clark withdraw an item, the chamber removed from the calendar an item read in the transcript as "driver's license examination moratorium, house bill 8 21." The presiding officer announced that the item was withdrawn from the calendar and referred to the Rules Committee; no further debate was recorded.

Representative Perret then moved that the House adjourn. "I move the house do now adjourn to reconvene Tuesday, May 20 at 09:00AM, subject to the standard stipulations set forth in rule 15.1," Perret said. The motion passed on a voice vote and the presiding officer declared the House adjourned.

The presiding officer also announced that there will be no voting session the following day. Rule 15.1 was cited as the procedural standard under which the reconvening was scheduled.

Actions recorded during the session were procedural: approval of the journal, withdrawal and referral of the calendar item described in the transcript as "house bill 8 21," and an adjournment with a set reconvening time. The record does not include roll-call tallies or any floor debate on the withdrawn bill.