{"id":19752,"date":"2013-06-10T16:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T20:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raleighpublicrecord.org\/?p=19752"},"modified":"2013-06-12T09:35:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-12T13:35:05","slug":"garner-red-route-goes-to-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/news\/ncga\/2013\/06\/10\/garner-red-route-goes-to-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Garner Red Route goes to Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><!--\nP { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }\n--><\/style>\n<p><strong>Red Route Bill Presented to Governor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The General Assembly handed House Bill 10 over to Gov. Pat McCrory Friday. The legislation would remove restrictions on studies of N.C. 540\u2019s proposed \u201cRed Route.\u201d It would also scrap some other turnpike projects planned for other parts of the state. The bill passed in the Senate 44 to 5, with Democrat Dan Blue and Republican Chad Barefoot the only local dissenters. The House passed it 98 to 12, with local Democrats Rosa Gill, Yvonne Lewis-Holley, and Darren Jackson voting \u201cno.\u201d Local Republican Chris Malone had an excused absence. This particular route has become controversial due to its conflict with Garner\u2019s development plan and its encroachment onto parks and recreation spaces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/Sessions\/2013\/Bills\/House\/PDF\/H10v4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read a copy of the approved House bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Capital Punishment Divides NCGA along Party Lines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A new Senate bill would protect medical professionals who oversee executions, stating they could not be penalized or looked upon unfavorably by their professional boards. Senate Bill 306 would protect doctors or any other health care workers from receiving disciplinary or corrective measures from organizations such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncmedboard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">North Carolina Medical Board<\/a>. It also states that administering or helping to administer a lethal injection (the state\u2019s only method of capital punishment) is not considered the practice of medicine nor a surgical procedure. Furthermore, the sentencing judge would no longer have to specify a date for execution; it would be handled by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncdps.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Public Safety<\/a>. The bill passed its third reading in the house 77 to 39, right along party lines. It is also divided across the aisle in the Senate, 33 to 14, with more discussion to take place Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncleg.net\/Sessions\/2013\/Bills\/Senate\/PDF\/S306v3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Review the Senate\u2019s third reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Assembly is set to hand Gov. Pat McCrory the controversial Red Route Bill to study options for a highway through Garner, while legislation concerning capital punishment is now on this week\u2019s calendar. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1256],"tags":[1869],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}