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into law this week a small stack of bills 包括 a disaster recovery measure
and one to thin the backlog of untested rape 包 in North Carolina. 与此同时,
a few other bills presented to the governor this week await consideration,
包括
SB 691 Emergency Operating Funds for Utilities.
那块,
sent to 政府ernor Cooper's desk
周三, is meant to help small towns whose aging water and sewer
systems need stability under market, environmental and population-change
pressures on 他们 today. 该法案 would allow the use of emergency state
reserve funding for deficits. Systems eligible would have to have been taken
over by the Local 政府ernment Commission or had their operating authority or
government lose its charter.
州长签署了
HB 29 Standing Up for Rape Victims Act of 2019
on Wednesday to, per the bill's longer title, "require testing of all
sexual assault examination 包." It provides $3 million in nonrecurring
funds for this and next fiscal year for a $6 million total to move on those
未经测试的测试包. 政府ernor Cooper also signed
SB 429 Disaster Recovery - 2019 Budget Provisions,
which makes transfers, appropriations, reversions and reallocations to the
state's Hurricane Florence recovery fund and other relief or resiliency work.
"As we push for federal changes to streamline disaster recovery money
coming from Washington, our state disaster funding is more important than
ever," 政府ernor Cooper commented.
In other news, Medicaid
expansion -- something 政府ernor Cooper demanded in the state budget --
又回到了谈判中,
though in a different form.
HB 655 NC 健康 Care for Working
家庭 is a Republican-sponsored bill to "provide health
coverage to residents of North Carolina" and "to establish the North
Carolina Rural Access to 健康care Grant Program.该法案包括
"whereas" clauses that point out the number of North Carolinians
without health insurance (more than 1 million), which they may not be able to
afford, and 这一 state is incurring the costs of caring for 他们. 该法案
is in the 房子 Rules Committee after a favorable report from the chamber's
健康 Committee this week.
WRAL has more details
about the bill's functions.