A bill would study regulating child beauty pageants.
Rep. Annie Mobley, a Bertie County Democrat, introduced the bill to study pageants whose contestants are younger than 13.
The bill was highlighted by the conservative Civitas Institute's "Bad Bill of the Week" feature:
I am excited about the prospect of government forming the North Carolina Agency to Regulate Beauty Pageants for Girls Under Thirteen (they need to come up with a better acronym, though; NCARBPGUT isn’t catchy enough). Good thing there aren’t any real problems the government should be spending time or money on; like double-digit unemployment, a $3 billion budget deficit, or our state’s 70 percent graduation rate.
Speaking of acronyms, Executive Director Francis De Luca suggests calling the bill "Tots in a Regulatory Environment" — or TIARA.

Comments
Re: The Little Miss Sunshine bill?
April 23, 2009 - 4:20am — fxdelucaThat post should have been "TOTS IN A REGULATORY ATMOSPHERE." Let my fingers get ahead of my brain. corrected to spell TIARA!
Francis
Re: The Little Miss Sunshine bill?
April 13, 2009 - 7:28pm — tangozAnd to think North Carolina voters keep putting people like Rep. Mobley back into office, sigh!
Re: The Little Miss Sunshine bill?
April 13, 2009 - 5:27pm — rusty_shacklefordWhy not? NC regulates everything else. I'm sure the pols inside the beltway would tax a fart if they could figure out how to regulate it. ;-)
Re: The Little Miss Sunshine bill?
April 13, 2009 - 1:27pm — awbealUm, "Tots in a Regulatory Environment" spells TIARE.