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North Carolina's constitution still includes outdated language from a literacy test used to disenfranchise Black voters. Rep. Terry Brown, D-Mecklenburg, is leading a bipartisan group of lawmakers calling for a constitutional amendment.

The N.C. Senate voted along party lines Monday to put two proposed constitutional amendments before voters.

The legislature adjourned its 鈥渟hort session鈥� Thursday without approving a budget plan for the state鈥檚 billion-dollar revenue surplus.

Dozens of bills are moving at the N.C. legislature on Wednesday, as lawmakers consider putting constitutional amendments on the ballot in November, overriding Gov. Roy Cooper's vetoes and other matters before taking a summer break.

A state Senate committee approved three constitutional amendments Thursday to add to the ballot in November. All three of the proposed amendments wouldn't have any immediate practical effect, because the proposals match the current state law.

Republicans in the state House want an amendment to the state constitution that says non-citizens can't vote in North Carolina 鈥� even though that prohibition is already in state law.

A North Carolina House committee voted Wednesday to give voters a chance to remove the Jim Crow-era literacy test requirement from the state鈥檚 constitution.

North Carolina's highest court has rescheduled oral arguments for next month in a case over whether two amendments to the state constitution should be voided because legislators who approved the ballot referendums were elected from racially biased districts.

North Carolina voters sent two of six constitutional amendments backed by the North Carolina General Assembly's Republican majority to defeat by wide鈥�

With Election Day just around the corner, 吉彩网网站 is highlighting and explaining each of six proposed constitutional amendments that will appear on the鈥�