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Deal to repeal North Carolina's 'bathroom bill' clears key hurdle

CNN: The deal, announced Wednesday night, would eliminate the law created by last year's House Bill 2. It requires that -- in schools and other government-run facilities -- people must use public bathrooms and locker rooms that correspond to the gender on their birth certificate. The year-old law effectively forbids transgender people from using restrooms at government facilities that match the gender they identify with. It also prevents local governments from passing their own non-discrimination ordinances, like the one in Charlotte that prompted Republican state lawmakers to introduce HB2 last year. But the compromise bill being considered Thursday also effectively maintains a key feature of HB2 by leaving regulation of bathroom access solely in control of the state legislature. And it stipulates that local governments can't pass their own anti-discrimination laws until December 2020. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the state's two top Republican legislators struck the deal Wednesday night after several other failed attempts over the past year. State leaders faced considerable economic pressure, because companies and organizations that opposed the law, like the NCAA, withdrew events from the state and called off job-expansion plans. "l support the House Bill 2 repeal compromise," Gov. Roy Cooper said. "It's not a perfect deal, but it repeals House Bill 2 and begins to repair our reputation."

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