The state Senate rejected the House version of a bill that would have made all forms of compensation for public employees public, save for those working public hospitals.
The House's addition of that exception led the author of the bill, state Sen. David Hoyle, a Gaston County Democrat, to urge his colleagues to vote not to concur, Dan Kane reports.
"There was no resemblance to what I sent over," Hoyle said.
The no vote means a conference committee of House and Senate members will try to reach a compromise before the end of the session.
Hoyle had filed the bill after the Carolinas HealthCare System had refused to provide the total compensation paid to its executives to the Charlotte Observer. The system would only provide salaries.
The newspaper sued, but lost at the appellate level.
That court decision has led other government agencies to begin denying requests for the total compensation paid to their officials.
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