North Carolina.(ACROSS STATE LINES)(regulations on political fund raising)(Brief article)

State legislators are expected to consider an array of campaign finance and lobbying reforms when they return to the capital in May for the 2006 legislative session. An off-session study committee is looking at a proposal that would ban converting unused campaign cash to lawmakers' personal use, while another piece of draft legislation would prohibit some check bundling practices. A year after the legislature approved tougher disclosure requirements for lobbyists' spending on …