
Grace Vitaglione
Legislative and Aging Health Reporter at North Carolina Health News
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5 days ago |
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Grace Vitaglione |Rose Hoban
North Carolina state lawmakers will probably leave Raleigh without passing a budget before the new fiscal year starts on July 1. Likely sticking points are the two chambers’ different approaches to taxes and funding for a new children’s hospital to be built in the Triangle, among other issues. The Senate and House of Representatives each passed their own proposed spending plan earlier this spring.
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5 days ago |
buff.ly | Grace Vitaglione |Rose Hoban
North Carolina state lawmakers will probably leave Raleigh without passing a budget before the new fiscal year starts on July 1. Likely sticking points are the two chambers’ different approaches to taxes and funding for a new children’s hospital to be built in the Triangle, among other issues. The Senate and House of Representatives each passed their own proposed spending plan earlier this spring.
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1 week ago |
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Grace Vitaglione |Rachel Crumpler
State lawmakers at the North Carolina General Assembly are pondering another bill that would affect transgender people — the latest in a string of legislation targeting this population that has been introduced in recent years. Some of it has become law. Senate Republicans added language to House Bill 805, which was originally written to regulate online pornography, that would recognize only two sexes in state government rules and public policies. The language echoes President Donald Trump’s Jan.
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1 week ago |
buff.ly | Grace Vitaglione |Rachel Crumpler
State lawmakers at the North Carolina General Assembly are pondering another bill that would affect transgender people — the latest in a string of legislation targeting this population that has been introduced in recent years. Some of it has become law. Senate Republicans added language to House Bill 805, which was originally written to regulate online pornography, that would recognize only two sexes in state government rules and public policies. The language echoes President Donald Trump’s Jan.
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3 weeks ago |
northcarolinahealthnews.org | Grace Vitaglione
The health plan that covers some 750,000 current and former state employees and their families has hit a stone wall in negotiations with its pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark, and is pondering legal action against the company, the Office of the State Treasurer announced on June 5. The company owes the state tens of millions of dollars and is trying to rewrite their contract to get out of having to pay it back, State Treasurer Brad Briner claimed in an exclusive interview with NC Health News.
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