NC lawmakers set record with long session. None like it, but what's the solution?

Never in North Carolina has a legislative long session been so long.

The first session of North Carolina’s two-year legislative cycle is called the “long session,” and the 2021 one lived up to its name. It is the longest long session in state history and, though the House and Senate are not planning to do more business during brief meetings in early April and early May, the final tally is not yet set.

“I hope it is a record that we don’t try to break. I certainly won’t,” House Speaker Tim Moore told the chamber Thursday after completing work on its 198th legislative day.

The previous record holder in the House, by legislative days, was in 2001 with 179 legislative days. The Senate held its 196th legislative day on Thursday, far eclipsing its record of 173 set in 2001. The legislature keeps detailed records on session statistics from 1965 to present.

The House, which held a brief non-voting session on Friday morning for its 199th day, will reach at least 201 legislative days before the beginning of the second-year session, or the “short session.”

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