NC Legislative Newsletter

The week of March 27-31, the House’s version of the 2023-24 State budget is on track to be passed out of the chamber by the end of next week as Speaker Tim Moore forecasted. Appropriations subcommittees and the full appropriations committee pass the funding bill.

In the coming week, the House will finish up committee work and floor debate and votes are anticipated to be concluded by the end of the week.

Issue Insights

Governor Roy Cooper / North Carolina General Assembly

• House Bill 259, 2023 Appropriations Act (North Carolina General Assembly)
• NC House budget proposal calls for 10% teacher raises, 7.5% for state workers (Raleigh News & Observer)
• Gov. Roy Cooper signs NC Medicaid expansion into law (Raleigh News & Observer)
• Governor Cooper Signs Medicaid Expansion into Law (Press Release)
• Speaker Tim Moore’s response to passage of “Access to Healthcare Options” (Press Release)
• The Republican-controlled General Assembly successfully blocked the governor’s veto Wednesday (Raleigh News & Observer)
• Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of Senate Bill 41 (North Carolina General Assembly)
• Speaker Tim Moore’s response to overriding Governor Roy Cooper’s veto (Press Release)
• Senate Leader Phil Berger’s response to overriding Governor Roy Cooper’s veto (Press Release)
• The North Carolina General Assembly passed House Bill 411, General Assembly Appointments, which appoints persons to various public offices upon the recommendation of the Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate (North Carolina General Assembly)
• The Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 220, confirming Philip A. Baddour, III to the North Carolina Industrial Commission (North Carolina General Assembly)
• The Senate passed Senate Joint Resolution 221, confirming Theresa B. Stephenson to the Board of Review (North Carolina General Assembly)

News Roundup

• President Joe Biden landed in the Triangle on Tuesday to kick off his administration’s Investing in America tour in an effort to revive American manufacturing (WRAL)
• Former three-term U.S. Rep. Nick Galifianakis, once a rising star in the North Carolina Democratic Party, died at age 94 this week (Raleigh News & Observer)
• Former N.C. Sen. David Hoyle died at his Dallas home on Wednesday morning. He was 84 (Business North Carolina)
• New Hanover County Commissioner Deb Hays, who died unexpectedly Saturday, is being lauded as an advocate who put the community first. She was 64 (StarNews Online)
• Robert Ingram, a former pharmaceutical executive who steered North Carolina’s life science industry, died late last week in Durham at the age of 80 (Raleigh News & Observer)
• All U.S. and North Carolina flags at state facilities will be flown at half-staff until sunset Friday in honor of the lives lost in Monday’s school shooting in Nashville (WBTV)
• Interim Superintendent Crystal Hill on Tuesday laid out a budget plan that seeks a $39 million increase in county funding for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (WFAE)
• The N.C. Association of Black Elected Municipal Officials has chosen Rocky Mount as the site of the association’s 2023 summer conference (Rocky Mount Telegram)
• New Bern inches closer to becoming the home of the world’s first Pepsi museum (Sun Journal)
• American Express and other small business grants you can apply for right now (Charlotte Business Journal)