As time dwindles, another ‘bathroom bill’ fix effort fizzles
RALEIGH, N.C. — Efforts among North Carolina leaders to take the state’s “bathroom bill” off the books before a deadline to stem further economic losses evaporated late Tuesday and devolved into more finger-pointing by Republican lawmakers and the Democratic governor.
The NCAA already removed championship events this year from North Carolina for the law known as House Bill 2, which limits LGBT nondiscrimination protections and requires transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to the sex on their birth certificate.
The group has said North Carolina sites also won’t be considered for championship events from 2018 to 2022 “absent any change in the law.” The NCAA said decisions for those events are being made starting this week and will announce them in a few weeks.
House Speaker Tim Moore and Senate leader Phil Berger held an early evening news conference to announce they had agreed in principle on a four-point plan they said was proposed by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, who has been calling for a full repeal. But they said Cooper had backed out of the offer minutes before the news conference.