About
What Lapel Intelligence is
Lapel Intelligence is a North Carolina lobbying transparency publication. We take the public record maintained by the North Carolina Secretary of State — lobbyist registrations, principal filings, expense reports — and turn it into editions that make the influence economy in Raleigh legible.
We publish analysis, not advocacy. Each edition is built on disclosures that any citizen can request but few have the time to assemble. Our goal is to make it easier for legislators, staff, journalists, and civic institutions to understand who is working on what, for whom.
We are based in North Carolina and focused on it.
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Committee oversight & bills data
Agency detail pages include a Bills Before Overseeing Committees section that shows NC General Assembly bills currently referred to a committee with jurisdiction over that agency.
What “committee oversight” means
A committee oversees an agency when it has legislative jurisdiction over that agency’s enabling statutes, budget appropriations, regulatory authority, or personnel policy. For example, the House Health committee oversees the NC Department of Health and Human Services; the Senate Appropriations on Health and Human Services subcommittee oversees its budget.
How we map committees to agencies
The NC General Assembly does not publish a structured committee-to-agency jurisdiction index. Our mapping is editorially curated based on committee names and NC General Assembly practice. Each mapping carries an oversight type:
- Primary — committee is the principal oversight body for the agency
- Secondary — committee shares or cross-cuts oversight
- Budget — Appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the agency’s budget
- Partial — committee oversees a subset of the agency’s functions
Excluded from mapping: the Rules committees and full Appropriations committees in both chambers. These are procedural or universal-jurisdiction bodies whose oversight is not meaningfully differentiated by agency.
What “currently before a committee” means
A bill is shown as active when its most recent committee referral action points to an overseeing committee. Bills that have been re-referred elsewhere or passed out of committee will not appear. Bill data comes from NC General Assembly session records and is updated periodically.
Limitations
The committee-to-agency mapping is editorially maintained and not exhaustive. Some agencies may not have any committee mapped; some cross-cutting agencies appear under multiple committees. The mapping reflects the 2025–2026 session. We update it as the General Assembly structure changes.
AI disclosure
Lapel Intelligence uses frontier AI that can make mistakes. Please double-check cited sources.
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