FILE - North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper speaks, May 2, 2024, in Wilmington, N.C.Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper on Friday, June 21, 2024, vetoed North Carolina’s masking bill that previously removed a pandemic-era exemption that allowed people to mask in public for health reasons. FILE - Gov. Roy Cooper talks during a press conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 24, 2024. Democratic Gov.
It’s Cooper’s third veto of the year, and GOP lawmakers have yet to take up override votes on his previous two this session — although they may come soon.prompted significant criticism over its removal of an exemption to public masking laws passed in 2020 that allowed people to wear a mask for health purposes. The exemption’s removal would have technically made masking for health reasons illegal in the state.
But another brand-new provision that caused outrage among Democratic legislators was the addition of a campaign donations clause that would allow wealthy donors to give money to special federal political organizations that can then send the money to state and county parties.