Members of the North Carolina General Assembly are migrating to Raleigh on Monday for the convening of the legislative short session, although the legislature has been in the national spotlight over the last month after a special session was called to pass House Bill 2.

Local representative from House District 50 Graig Meyer was one of a group of lawmakers who filed a bill on Monday asking for a full repeal of HB2.

“There are at least two other Democratic members in the House who are working on other versions of bills to either repeal or amend House Bill 2,” Meyer told WCHL on Friday. “So there might be a few plans out there on the Democratic side.

“What I’m most curious about is whether any Republicans will introduce any type of bill or even just amendment to change any pieces of the law at all. That’s really where the action will happen is if they open that door.”

Meyer also reiterated a point he has previously made on WCHL, saying that he expects a large teacher pay increase to be put out during the session ahead of the election cycle in November.

“I believe that the Republican leadership will try to give a pay package for teachers that they’ll be able to use as a campaign tool,” Meyer said.

Meyer said he didn’t know exactly what to expect from that pay plan.

“My fear is that they’ll do something that appears to be a very important step forward for teachers, and there will be a lot of us who want to do anything we can for teachers,” Meyer said. “But I also believe that most teachers and most people in the public will recognize that anything they do as an election-year push will be too little too late.”

Meyer said he expects to see several long-serving Republicans who are retiring after this session to attempt to push through pieces of legislation that they have had on their “to-do list.”

Listen to Meyer’s conversation with WCHL’s Blake Hodge about what he is expecting in the short session.