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29 states have already adopted it
Published: Saturday, April 27th, 2024 @ 6:18 pm
By: John Steed
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The NC House: Hospitals are Too Important to Fail, but Taxpayers are Unimportant to Save Them Money
Published: Sunday, May 12th, 2019 @ 9:39 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Notice how completely the hospital lobbyists wanted to remove Treasurer Folwell from anything having to do with the State Health Plan. He wasn't even made a "voting" member of the Committee to study the Plan and to come up with a "recommended design" for it.
Published: Monday, April 22nd, 2019 @ 10:57 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Sorry Carl, but the Folwell Resolution will not happen in Beaufort County, and will not be even heard.
Published: Tuesday, April 2nd, 2019 @ 12:07 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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The "anti-Folwell" bill, HB184 made it out of the Health Committee yesterday, putting it on a course to possibly become law. It is a bill that 2 sides see very differently.
Published: Thursday, March 28th, 2019 @ 4:26 am
By: Diane Rufino
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Tomorrow morning (Tuesday), legislators in the House Health Committee will vote on HB184 - a bad bill that will cost taxpayers and State Health Plan members more than $1 million per day if it's enacted.
Published: Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 @ 8:44 pm
By: Diane Rufino
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Likely North Carolina voters overwhelmingly favor a measure to restrain the growth rate of state spending. According to the April 2011 Civitas Institute poll, 67 percent of respondents support the ideas contained in HB 188 - which would limit the growth rate of the state budget to a formula based...
Published: Monday, August 17th, 2015 @ 1:56 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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Governor Pat McCrory has signed the following bills into law.
Published: Saturday, August 8th, 2015 @ 1:43 pm
By: McCrory Communications
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Last week the NC House voted unanimously to approve a bill (HB 183) that would repeal in its entirety a contentious piece of legislation known as the Map Act. As I explained in a previous newsletter, when the General Assembly passed the Map Act in 1987 its declared purpose was...
Published: Friday, April 24th, 2015 @ 12:15 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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A couple of weeks ago I discussed an excellent NC Court of Appeals decision in which the Court held that development moratoria imposed under the Map Act constitute takings for which just compensation must be paid. Today I'm happy to report that the General Assembly is already responding to that hold
Published: Friday, March 20th, 2015 @ 1:45 am
By: John Locke Foundation
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Well, the effort to bring party disloyalty into the debate on HB 1224 blew up rather unceremoniously. Apparently, some "pain-in-the-ass-teabagger web site" spilled the beans before the plan could get underway.
Published: Monday, September 1st, 2014 @ 9:54 am
By: Brant Clifton
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The Speaker of The House tried to ram through a bill containing a smorgasbord of odds-and-ends spending desired by the governor and various special interests.
Published: Thursday, August 21st, 2014 @ 1:05 am
By: Brant Clifton
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Today, Governor Pat McCrory signed the following bills into law.
Published: Friday, March 29th, 2013 @ 9:23 am
By: Stan Deatherage
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This week’s “Bad Bill of the Week” is House Bill 188, Early Voting on Weekends.
Published: Wednesday, March 27th, 2013 @ 9:30 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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Known as the Youth Skin Cancer Prevention Act, HB 18 would require all North Carolinians under 18 years of age to have a written prescription from a doctor in order to use a tanning bed, essentially banning all minors from indoor tanning.
Published: Monday, February 25th, 2013 @ 11:39 am
By: Civitas Insitute
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The ongoing state budget "crisis" strongly underscores the urgent need for North Carolina to adapt significant state budget reforms.
Published: Saturday, August 25th, 2012 @ 8:30 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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The first decade of the 21st Century for North Carolina was a difficult one. In terms of the state’s economic condition, many may label it a lost decade.
Published: Sunday, February 5th, 2012 @ 3:45 pm
By: Civitas Insitute
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