(RALEIGH) -- The state House voted 69-49 to allow North Carolina to become part of the challenge of the 2010 federal health care reform law.  The bill now goes to the governor's desk.

Gov. Perdue has said she will not veto the measure and he is also not expected to sign the bill. Even if the governor does not sign the bill, it would still become law 10 days after she received it.

Democrat Rep. and former House Speaker Joe Hackney said he feels the GOP is playing politics.  "You are all going to incur health care costs whether you want to or not and what this bill urges the Attorney General to go fight for is that you don't have to either pay a fee or buy health insurance to cover it.  And I that's unfortunate," said Hackney.

Cleveland County Republican Rep. Tim Moore said the measure gives North carolinians a choice. "At the end of the day it's about whether you want a large federal bureaucracy micro-managing and telling you the things you have to do in the most private decisions in your life, mainly your health care," said Moore.

Gov. Perdue has called the House bill a distraction.