North Carolina State General Assembly
N. Carolina bill ending extra $300 benefits heads to Cooper
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 23, 2021 06:25 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina would end offering supplemental benefits from the federal government to the state's unemployed in roughly a month under...
Panel OKs NC Senate budget bill; Dems pan policy provisions
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 22, 2021 03:20 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Senate Republicans pushed their North Carolina government budget proposal through the chamber's largest committee Tuesday, rejecting...
Senate budget uses NC revenue boon on more tax cuts, capital
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 21, 2021 03:45 PM EDT
NC election bills unlikely to become laws after Senate votes
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 16, 2021 07:56 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Senate Republicans pushed a trio of election measures through their chamber on Wednesday, including one that would prohibit...
NC Senate's tax-cut plan gets initial approval by chamber
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 09, 2021 06:39 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Individual income taxes would fall again, the corporate rate would be eliminated over time and $1 billion in federal aid would be...
Bill moving up absentee deadline in NC clears Senate panel
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 09, 2021 05:08 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Mail-in absentee ballots in North Carolina would have to be received by the day of the election, under a Republican-backed bill that...
NC House votes to do away with extra jobless benefits early
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 03, 2021 04:25 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina would do away with the $300-per-week supplemental benefits for the unemployed provided by the federal government during the...
Extra federal jobless benefit would end in NC in House bill
Jun. 02, 2021 07:24 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's unemployed would no longer receive the pandemic-related $300-a-week federal unemployment supplement under legislation...
Bill to give NC returning workers bonuses approved by Senate
By Gary D. Robertson Jun. 01, 2021 07:00 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Giving bonuses to North Carolina's unemployment benefit recipients who get a job soon would help both business struggling to fill...
$750M in virus aid for NC broadband expansion OK'd by House
May. 26, 2021 06:27 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina House unanimously approved legislation on Wednesday that aims to spend $750 million in federal coronavirus relief funds...
Tax-cut package with COVID-19 grants pass NC Senate panel
May. 26, 2021 05:43 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A massive tax bill written by Republicans in the North Carolina Senate that cuts the individual rate further next year and eliminates the...
Reemployment bonus idea advanced by NC Senate committee
By Gary D. Robertson May. 26, 2021 01:04 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With employers struggling to fill positions as post-pandemic restrictions end, North Carolina state senators advanced a proposal Wednesday...
NC Senate tax cut plan includes virus aid for businesses
By Gary D. Robertson May. 25, 2021 01:05 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A broad tax cut proposal from North Carolina Senate Republicans that began its advance in the chamber on Tuesday also contains federal...
NC legislature considers bonuses for unemployed who get jobs
May. 20, 2021 04:20 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina unemployment benefit recipients could get bonuses of $1,500 if they return to work soon under a measure unveiled Thursday...
NC lawmakers finalize distributing $6.4B more in virus aid
May. 20, 2021 03:34 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly on Thursday finalized legislation distributing another portion of federal coronavirus relief aid, with...
Bill giving temporary break to young NC drivers finalized
May. 17, 2021 08:07 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Young drivers whose attempts to get their North Carolina provisional license were stymied by COVID-19 pandemic delays in the past year...
House passes bill to bar Cooper from mandating COVID shot
By Bryan Anderson May. 10, 2021 08:04 PM EDT
House OKs doing away with purchase permits to buy handgun
By Gary D. Robertson May. 05, 2021 08:45 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina's long practice of county sheriffs granting permits to local residents before they can buy a handgun would end under...
House GOP takes different tack in NC absentee deadline bill
By Gary D. Robertson May. 05, 2021 04:56 PM EDT
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Some North Carolina Republicans are taking a different tack on legislative efforts to move up mail-in absentee balloting deadlines by also...
N.C. lawmakers advance bill barring mandatory COVID-19 shots
By Bryan Anderson May. 05, 2021 01:39 PM EDT