As a first-term state senator, Beverly Perdue's bills focused on marine resources and the elderly.

During the state legislature's 1991-92 session, Perdue sponsored 23 successful bills, including three that created a Division of Human Resources grant to care for the elderly, allowed the division to charge fees for in-home services and funded a study commission on aging.

Other successes included sales tax refunds for regional solid waste management authorities and the repeal of a previous act to build a beach access facillity at Emerald Isle.

Perdue also sponsored several marine resources bills, including one that increased the fee for fisheries licenses. Related attempts to create a shellfish enhancement program and restrict leases for gathering shellfish were unsuccessful.

She also sponsored failed legislation that would change state election cycles so that statewide contests and presidential elections did not coincide.