John Irwin Sauls II (born November 29, 1949) is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.

[12] Sauls voted “no” on H500, an alcoholic beverage control omnibus bill that would ease regulations on North Carolina’s numerous micro-breweries.

[19] Sauls voted for H56, a bill that repealed the Outer Banks plastic bag ban and was called the “junk drawer of environmental laws.”[20] Republican legislators tied funding to monitor GenX in the Cape Fear River to a repeal of the coastal ban on plastic bags.

[21] The bill directs $185K to the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority and $250K to the UNCW to monitor and study GenX despite Gov.

[24] Communities where over half the residents are people of color are 2.8 more likely to be near a solid waste facility, according to research published in Environmental Health Perspectives.

It loosens water quality rules and imposes limitations on local governments power over landfill permits, changes that the Democratic governor called dangerous in his veto message.”[26] In a statement to the Sanford Herald, Sauls said he has “never understood the opposition” to voter ID requirements.