The legislature ended its short session in break neck speed on June 29th. This quick time frame was met with very creative parliamentary maneuvering and a primary focus of campaigning for the fall elections. Republicans have super majorities in both chambers that they plan on maintaining. In the ...
continued from Page 3 •• Beginning in May, Kay Castillo our Director of Advocacy, Policy and Legislation will be at the North Carolina General Assembly most days of the week representing social workers in the short legislative session. We hope that the Autism Health Insurance Coverage Bill ...
Republican House Speaker Tim Moore said fellow Republicans have expressed interest in taking up anti-DEI legislation in the session opening next Wednesday. He recently told reporters the legislature may allow the university boards to review their diversity policies first before introducing any bills....
As it was in America. Not only could Elisha Coffin get a lawyer to make a deed and have it recorded on Christmas Day, the state legislature of North Carolina, meeting on Christmas Day, 1796, created the new town of “Asheborough,” among other bills on a busy day. Here again, the b...
Equality NC released a statement calling for the North Carolina legislature to repeal HB2 but emphasized that the Charlotte ordinance was never an issue. “The problem has never been Charlotte. Charlotte’s ordinance was a best practice employed in hundreds of cities across the country,” Equality...
Medicaid reform, along with other projects, will ultimately be funded. But when? The legislature is set to convene in late April for the “short session.” Let’s assume for a moment the budget stalemate can be resolved between now and then, something that currently appears unlikely. Any suc...