Source: Travis Fain, WRAL, 7/14/21

 North Carolina lawmakers held a midnight session to pass a complex bill that would lay out a decade or more of energy policy. The bill, a major priority for regulated monopoly Duke Energy, passed 59-47 after the House gave the measure preliminary approval Wednesday night on a 57-50 vote. House rules require two votes to move the bill on to the state Senate, and because Democrats objected to holding the votes one after another, the House's Republican leadership opted to satisfy the next-day requirement that objection triggered at 12:01 a.m.

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