The bill received strong support in the General Assembly. Now, the state Senate will consider overturning the veto.
There is still hope for the bill passed by the North Carolina General Assembly banning the American state from testing or accepting a United States central bank digital currency (CBDC) after the state House of Representatives overturned the governor’s veto. If the state Senate follows suit, the bill will go into force.
The bill passed both chambers of the state legislature in overwhelming bipartisan votes on June 26. The state’s General Assembly is dominated by the Republican party, which has shown strong opposition on the state and national levels to the introduction of a US CBDC. The veto override has already been passed to the Senate Committee on Rules.
Democratic Governor Roy Cooper vetoed the bill on July 5. Only two Democratic lawmakers voted in favor of overturning the veto, while 40 reversed their stance in the passage of the bill. Cooper wrote in his veto:
