As a second-term state representative, Beverly Perdue sponsored 10 successful bills.

During the 1989-90 session, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate sponsored bills that added a local government employee to the State Personnel Commission, created a central clearinghouse for information on preserving state historic properties and established an advisory committee on home and community care.

She also sponsored a successful bill declaring that drug- and alcohol-addicted children are not considered "children with special needs," but the state should secure an "appropriate education" for them.

She was not as successful in 11 bills that would have directed funds.

Bills to support education foundations, fire departments, human services and economic development projects, and the arts in Pamlico, Craven and Lenoir counties were all reported unfavorably by committees.

In all, she sponsored 35 bills that session, including several attempts to promote tourism in the state by creating a tourism study commission and research project.

Beverly Perdue's freshman initiatives focused on health care.

As a first-term representative in the state legislature, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate obtained funding for senior citizens' nutrition and education programs, a semiautomated defibrillator for Pamlico County’s rescue squad and Craven County’s board on aging.

In all, she sponsored 33 bills in the 1987-88 session of the state House of Representatives, of which 26 were adopted.

She secured more than $3,000 for three education initiatives, a Lenoir County’s Boys and Girls Club, a drug and alcohol abuse education program and a service pairing children of single-parent families with adult mentors.

Perdue also helped decorate Craven County ambulances. She co-sponsored a successful bill to add the word “Craven” to the side of county ambulances.