by NCCEP Editor | Sep 20, 2019 | Front Page, Legislative Updates
After a couple of contentious weeks at the legislature, both chambers have decided to take a break from Raleigh to return to normal business on Monday, September 30th. With the Senate out of town, the fate of the veto override is still up in the air, but we can expect...
by NCCEP Editor | Sep 13, 2019 | Front Page, Legislative Updates
At an 8:30 a.m. session on Wednesday morning, the House voted to override the Governor’s veto of the state budget, as well as his veto of House Bill 555: Medicaid Transformation. The votes were 55-9 and 54-10 respectively, with nearly half of the membership absent....
by NCCEP Editor | Aug 30, 2019 | Front Page, Legislative Updates
As the State budget stalemate stretches past day 50, the Republican leadership in the General Assembly has clearly shifted gears on strategy. A number of “mini budgets,” legislation dealing with small portions of the budget (some taken out word for word) dealing with...
by NCCEP Editor | Aug 30, 2019 | Front Page, Legislative Updates
After nearly two months of trying to find the votes to override the Governor’s veto of the budget, it appears Republican leadership has changed their strategy. Last week and this week, Republican leadership has pushed House Bill 74, which was amended to be a bill that...
by NCCEP Editor | Aug 22, 2019 | Front Page
Telephone scammers are getting more sophisticated. Recently the North Carolina Medical Board (NCMB) learned scammers are spoofing the Board’s main telephone number to make their calls appear legitimate. Scammers typically threaten loss of the target’s professional...
by NCCEP Editor | Aug 22, 2019 | Front Page, Legislative Updates
We find ourselves in a sort of legislative limbo with session still officially underway but very few committees meeting and just a handful of bills being finished up here or there. The Senate has been absent a great deal and the House has been stripping bills or...
