Legislative session, by the numbers

3,644:

Bills filed this year.

337:

Bills passed this year

68:

Joint resolutions, mostly acknowledgements and commemorations, passed this year. Among those honored:

* UPS on its 100th anniversary.

* The Mitchell County courthouse on its 100th anniversary.

* Tweetsie Railroad on its 50th anniversary.

* Mars Hill College on its 150th Anniversary.

* Songwriter Don Gibson, bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs and NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson.

0:

Bills vetoed by Gov. Mike Easley

3:

House members who resigned during the session.

* Jim Black, a Democrat from Mecklenburg County, was indicted.

* David Almond, a Republican from Stanly County, quit after a personnel complaint was lodged against him.

* Ed Jones, a Democrat from Hertford, became a state senator.

5:

Years in federal prison sentence for former House Speaker Jim Black

1 million:

Amount, in dollars, Black was fined in state court

2:

State Board of Elections hearings into campaign finance irregularities involving legislators

* Rep. Thomas Wright, Wilmington Democrat

* Rep. Mary McAllister, Fayetteville Democrat

20.7:

Amount, in billions of dollars, in budget approved by legislature

1:

Republican senators and House members who voted for the state budget

3:

Democratic senators and House members who voted against the state budget

61:

House members who voted down a bill that would have prohibited smoking

in public places