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The legislation is being promoted by Speaker Tim Moore, who said it was a response to a wide-ranging health care access bill backed by GOP Senate leader Phil Berger that contains expansion and received overwhelming bipartisan support earlier this month.
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Senate leader Phil Berger was a longtime opponent of accepting federal funds through the 2010 Affordable Care Act to cover people that make too much money to qualify for traditional Medicaid, but too little to qualify for subsidized private plans.
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The measure would broaden the rights that parents already have in state and federal laws. Additional rights would include the ability to make health care decisions for their children and to be notified if a government agency suspects a crime has been committed against the child.
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The chief job for lawmakers is to approve changes to the second year of the already-enacted two-year budget. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper made recommendations last week.
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The ruling could be appealed. Lee has said he believed he had the authority from the state constitution and the Supreme Court to act. This is the latest chapter in longstanding school funding litigation known as "Leandro."
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The North Carolina Senate’s top Republican, a longtime opponent of expanding Medicaid through the 2010 federal health care law, says he’s now been willing to consider enacting expansion as part of horse-trading with Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper over a state budget.
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North Carolina Republicans are moving forward with a plan to limit how teachers can discuss certain racial concepts in classrooms. State Senate leader Phil Berger says his chamber will advance a measure seeking to ban the promotion of critical race theory in K-12 public school classrooms.
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North Carolina Senate Republicans have unveiled a two-year state budget proposal that sticks to earlier spending limits even with recent news of a massive revenue windfall. The Senate will vote on the spending plan this week. The measure revealed Monday sticks to spending caps agreed to with House counterparts.
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GOP leaders in the two chambers said Tuesday their spending cap would be $25.7 billion. That's several hundred million less than what Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper wants to spend.
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A federal appeals court has ruled a judge didn't step over the line when she refused to let North Carolina's legislative leaders formally defend the state's photo identification voting law with other state government attorneys.