Legislative Reporting Service

For more than 70 years, the School of Government’s Legislative Reporting Service has informed local governments, state agencies, and North Carolina citizens about the status and content of North Carolina legislation.

The centerpiece of the Legislative Reporting Service since 1935, the Daily Bulletin is published at the end of each day the General Assembly is in session. The Daily Bulletin contains a summary of every bill introduced and every amendment and committee substitute adopted. At the end of the legislative session, Daily Bulletin subscribers will also receive the Index of Legislation, described below.

School of Government faculty members and professional staff produce materials and summaries concerning legislation enacted by the General Assembly affecting areas of public law and government that are of special concern to state and local government officials. These summaries are organized according to subject area and are all found on the legislative summaries site beginning with the 2009 session. Summaries for the 1955-2008 legislative sessions were previously published as North Carolina Legislation.

A cumulative report of the current status of all public and local bills, the Weekly Status Report organizes local bills by county and organizes public bills by subject categories that include each chapter of the General Statutes, appropriations, constitutional amendments, studies, and joint resolutions. Within each category, the report shows the number and short title of each bill, the most recent action taken with respect to the bill, and the date of the most recent action on the bill. The report also includes a cross-index by bill number. The Weekly Status Report is emailed to subscribers each Monday and includes actions through the previous Friday.

The Index of Legislation, published at the end of each legislative session, includes all of the information in the Weekly Status Report and two additional reports, one indexing all enacted public bills by G.S. Chapter and another listing all enacted legislation in chronological order.