What has Gov. Beverly Perdue signed into law?

As of mid-week in crossover, the governor has signed 14 bills into law:

* S.B. 287: Reduces benefits to State Health Plan in effort to keep it solvent.

* S.B. 89: Designates Grandfather Mountain as a state park.

* H.B. 494: Allows Superior Court judges to perform weddings.

* H.B. 613: Says state does not approve of building a Navy landing field in a county that does not already have a military base.

* S.B. 198: Allows the governor to name another public school employee to the State Board of Education.

* S.B. 127: Restricts state management of institutional funds.

Correction: An earlier version of this post incorrectly included local bills and resolutions that do not require the governor's signature. 

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It's hard to measure a legislator's impact.

From the individual votes to the behind-the-scenes support, a state lawmaker can affect a wide variety of issues at the legislature.

As the General Assembly remembers Sen. Vern Malone, we at Dome took a look at a few of the laws and resolutions he wrote in his four terms:  

EDUCATING MILITARY KIDS: A 2008 bill entered North Carolina into an interstate compact to help military children enroll in school.

ALLOWING SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS: A 2006 bill allowed school boards to enter into partnerships with developers to build new schools.

CHANGING BOARD OF EDUCATION: A 2009 bill allowed the governor to name another public school employee to the State Board of Education. 

HONORING WENDELL: A 2003 resolution honored the founders of the town of Wendell on its 100th anniversary.

LIMITING NUTRIENT OFFSETS: A 2006 bill limited certain nutrient offset payments required of developers whose projects may affect rivers.

In addition, Malone was the prime sponsor of another 39 bills still pending.

Gov. Beverly Perdue will sign her first bill tomorrow.

She plans to sign Senate Bill 198, which allows two public school employees to serve on the State Board of Education at the same time.

The bill is necessary to allow her choice for chief executive officer of schools, Dr. Bill Harrison, to also serve as chairman of the state board.

The bill was held up last week after a House member objected to a masculine pronoun referring to the governor. The Senate concurred with a revised version this afternoon.

Perdue will sign the bill at 10:30 a.m. in the Old House Chamber of the Capitol.

Bill Harrison's job may be held up by a pronoun.

The Cumberland County schools superintendent can't start his new position as chairman of the State Board of Education until a state law is changed to allow more than one public school employee to serve on the board at a time.

The Senate passed the necessary bill last week, but when the House took it up in committee, they noticed something amiss.

The governor must send "the names of the persons appointed by him" to legislative leaders for confirmation, the bill read.

Rep. Laura Wiley, a High Point Republican, pointed out that Gov. Beverly Perdue is a woman.

"I looked down and said, 'Hmmm, that needs to change,'" she said. "We need to start using gender neutral language."

The education committee made the change and reported a substitute bill. But since they weren't concurring on the Senate version of the bill, it has to go back to the other chamber.

And since the Senate has left for the weekend, Harrison can't start just yet.

Wiley said that wasn't her intention, but she hoped the hold-up might at least make Senate leaders more aware.