NCAA to review bathroom bill repeal before deciding on NC return

That’s what LGBTQ advocates have been saying since state lawmakers “repealed” House Bill 2 this week – and former North Carolina Gov. Some joined hard-line conservatives in opposing the bill, though their reasons differed: Many Republicans saw no need for any repeal.

ANNOUNCING HIS support for legislation that was sold as repealing North Carolina’s notorious “bathroom bill”, Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said he hoped it would lift the “dark cloud” hanging over the state and begin to fix its reputation.

The Associated Press earlier this week published an analysis showing that HB2 has cost the state $3.76 billion.

Charlotte had hosted the ACC football championship game from 2010 until 2015 and the state of North Carolina is the hub of the conference with four member schools in the University of North Carolina, North Carolina State, Wake Forest and Duke. Businesses nixed plans to move or expand there; conventions and entertainers cancelled events.

“North Carolina appears to be replacing their original law with a new measure that is similar to our state’s SB 6, the Texas Privacy Act”, Republican state Sen. The NCAA board is also considering a return to North Carolina, NCAA President Mark Emmert said on Thursday. “I assume they all had a conversation and a handshake somewhere”.

One element of HB2, as it is called, stated that people could only use a public restroom that corresponded to the gender on their birth certificates.

The governor told reporters the law was imperfect but said Thursday’s action would help begin repairing North Carolina’s damaged reputation.

That provision expires in 2020.

Hours before the state was would have lost the possibility of hosting prestigious national college basketball matches, Republican lawmakers and Democratic Governor Roy Cooper announced a deal.

The ACC decision resets championship agreements the league had made in North Carolina. As for gay rights groups opposing the bill, “I hope that they will see and that they will know my heart and they will see that I will continue to fight for LGBT rights”. Floyd McKissick, a Durham Democrat. “It’s just a total mess of a piece of legislation that’s not gonna solve the problem we face”.

The ACC Football Championship Game was slated to be held in Charlotte in December but had to be moved to Orlando due to the boycott of the state.

“Whenever you have a compromise, you get some of what you’d really like to have and you have to accept some of what you’d prefer not to have”. Essentially the only reason the law was actually revised was to comply with a line in the sand by the NCAA. The legislative settlement means that future events will not be held in the middle of hot debates within state government, so the distraction level will be much lower.

“We are delighted to be informed the ACC will be returning ACC Championships to North Carolina”, a statement from the Greensboro Coliseum read. “I think we’ve kind of side stepped the issue to a degree”, Miller said. “That is a very practical concern”.

Bank of America, the largest North Carolina-based company, said in a news release: “We support this bipartisan measure to repeal HB2 and create the conditions for continued dialogue and progress”.

Walden said the overall impact on the state’s economy was relatively small, although certain sectors bore an outsized portion of the impact.