North Carolina may have special problems. The normal difference of opinion between them has been dramatically increased and complicated by the overlay of partisan competition and the genuine difference of opinion about the role of government. Some of these differences just can't be settled on a certain timetable. There is something else that hangs over the heads of the legislators when they start thinking that the people back home would rather have them at home, rather than wasting time in Raleigh. The legislature adjourned.
Legislators remember that experience.
Most of them learned that the criticism about staying too long is easier to take than condemnation for quitting early. I know of only one way. Let's give our legislators a big bonus if they finish on time. Here is the way it would work. Establish the goal of finishing the legislative session by July 1 of each year.