Career
In 2016,Bell was a business development employee for North Carolina Community Federal Credit Union in Goldsboro,North Carolina. [5] He later joined Sentinel Risk Advisors as a client executive. [4]
In January 2016,Bell endorsed Senator Marco Rubio in the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries. [6]
Bell was elected by the state House Republican Caucus to the position of state House majority whip in 2014, [7] and to the position of majority leader in 2016. [5] Bell was also chairman of the House Regulatory Reform Committee and the House Select Committee on Wildlife Resources. [5]
In the state House,Bell has been a supporter of restricting wind energy development,taking the position that wind farms are a threat to military bases in North Carolina because they could obstruct low-level military training flights. [8] Bell sponsored legislation in 2013 to increase wind-energy regulation, [8] and in 2019 helped negotiate a bill to require the state to consult military commanders as part of the state permitting process for wind farms. [9]
Bell and other General Assembly Republicans have opposed Democratic Governor Roy Cooper on the issue of expanding Medicaid. Cooper and other Democrats support the expansion of Medicaid,and Republicans oppose it. [10]
Bell introduced legislation in 2019 to allow the sale of beer and wine at North Carolina public universities during athletic games. [11] The bill passed later that year,and seven University of North Carolina System institutions took advantage of the law by opting to allow alcohol sales on game days. [12]
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