N. Carolina House state budget proposal gets initial OK
1 year, 8 months ago

N. Carolina House state budget proposal gets initial OK

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina House voted on Wednesday for a Republican-backed budget measure that would fund the state government for the next two years, including billions in spending for infrastructure and mental health and attempts to address inflation and job vacancies with pay raises. “This is not a spend-spend reckless plan but an opportunity to build on our successes.” Republican House and Senate leaders previously agreed to spending caps, although Senate GOP budget writers drawing up their own plan later this spring will propose different ways to spend or tax. House Republicans inserted provisions that would block Cooper’s effort to set standards related to new vehicle sales that would mandate sales or purchases of “zero-emission vehicles.” And the state would be barred from entering a “cap-and-trade” program for carbon dioxide emissions. Rep. Julie von Haefen, a Wake County Democrat opposing the bill, called the instructional interference “a pure distraction from the very real issues facing our public schools” like teacher shortages and classroom supply spending.

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Extra private school voucher funding gets initial OK from North Carolina Senate
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Extra private school voucher funding gets initial OK from North Carolina Senate

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina Senate took the first step in clearing the state’s waitlist for private school vouchers Monday after passing a supplemental spending plan that also includes more Medicaid money, rural broadband access and requirements for sheriffs to assist federal immigration agents. The Senate reconvened after Republican chamber leaders announced last week that they reached a spending …

North Carolina GOP leaders reach spending deal to clear private school voucher waitlist
3 months, 2 weeks ago

North Carolina GOP leaders reach spending deal to clear private school voucher waitlist

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Republican House and Senate leaders said Friday that they have agreed with each other on a supplemental spending proposal that includes hundreds of millions of dollars to eliminate the state’s waitlist for private school vouchers. The proposal sets aside an additional $463 million for this school year and next for the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program …

Tax cuts, teacher raises and a few social issues in South Carolina budget compromise
6 months ago

Tax cuts, teacher raises and a few social issues in South Carolina budget compromise

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A budget compromise reached by a small group of lawmakers Friday means South Carolina will accelerate a planned income tax cut, raise the salaries of all teachers and state employees and send more money to adult and juvenile prisons. A conference committee agreed to the more than $13 billion spending plan for next budget year, sending it …

North Carolina House budget gets initial OK as Senate unveils stripped-down plan
6 months ago

North Carolina House budget gets initial OK as Senate unveils stripped-down plan

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A North Carolina budget-adjustment measure penned by House Republicans received initial approval Wednesday in the chamber, legislation that covers a massive increase in private-school voucher demand, locates money for child care centers and raises worker and teacher pay further than already scheduled. Four House Democrats joined all Republicans present to vote 73-36 for the bill, which makes …

North Carolina Senate OKs $500 million for private school vouchers, student accounts
7 months, 3 weeks ago

North Carolina Senate OKs $500 million for private school vouchers, student accounts

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Senate Republicans pushed legislation through their chamber Thursday to set aside roughly $500 million more for now for programs that provide taxpayer money to help K-12 students attend private schools and eliminate their waiting lists. During Thursday’s hour-long floor debate on the issue, Senate Democrats argued it was unfair for the wealthiest families to receive …

North Carolina Republicans seek hundreds of millions of dollars more for school vouchers
7 months, 3 weeks ago

North Carolina Republicans seek hundreds of millions of dollars more for school vouchers

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Addressing a sharp increase in private-school grant applications, North Carolina Republicans advanced legislation on Wednesday to spend hundreds of millions of dollars now to eliminate a large waiting list this fall for Opportunity Scholarships and to permanently meet expected higher demand. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted for legislation that would spend another $248 million in the coming …

North Carolina governor seeks to halt GOP’s favored policies as legislature resumes
7 months, 4 weeks ago

North Carolina governor seeks to halt GOP’s favored policies as legislature resumes

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly returned Wednesday for its budget-adjustment session, receiving a spending plan from Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper that seeks to halt Republicans’ premier policies in recent years on taxes and school choice — proposals that GOP lawmakers are likely to ignore. Cooper’s budget would spend $3.6 billion more for the fiscal year starting July …

North Carolina sees slight surplus this year, $1B more next year
8 months ago

North Carolina sees slight surplus this year, $1B more next year

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s government should collect higher revenues during this fiscal year and next than what is projected in the current two-year state budget, according to a new forecast released Wednesday. Roy Cooper’s state budget office now predict collections will exceed revenue budgeted for the year ending June 30 by $413 million, or a 1.2% increase. The budget …

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges lawmakers to pass budget as session kicks off
8 months, 1 week ago

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges lawmakers to pass budget as session kicks off

Associated Press  

Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass her $6.3 billion budget proposal that boosts spending on a new school voucher program. “That’s because as revenues climb and costs slow, we’ll have room to cut taxes.” Sanders has not proposed tax cuts during this session, and legislative leaders have said they don’t expect to look at any reductions until …

South Carolina House passes state’s $13B budget as Republicans argue what government should do
9 months, 1 week ago

South Carolina House passes state’s $13B budget as Republicans argue what government should do

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina House gave key approval Tuesday to the state’s $13.2 billion spending plan, including raises for teachers and state employees, $500 million in property tax relief, $200 million for bridges and $100 million to continue long-term income tax cuts. Unlike other debates dominated by the Freedom Caucus during this year’s House session, the discussion remained …

Arkansas governor proposes $6.3B budget as lawmakers prepare for session
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Arkansas governor proposes $6.3B budget as lawmakers prepare for session

Associated Press  

Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday proposed a $6.3 billion budget for the coming year, with most of the increase in spending going toward a school voucher program. Sanders’ budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1 increases state spending by 1.76% over the previous year, with nearly all of the $109 million increase going toward education. “I am …

Tennessee governor’s budget plan funds more school vouchers, business tax break, new state parks
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Tennessee governor’s budget plan funds more school vouchers, business tax break, new state parks

Associated Press  

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — As Tennessee’s recent boom years fade with slower tax revenues, Gov. Bill Lee is forging ahead on some big-ticket items in his state budget proposal — among them, a dramatic expansion of taxpayer-funded vouchers to help kids attend private schools, a big tax break for businesses, and growth of state parks and natural areas. The Republican’s spending …

With state budget talks extending, North Carolina Democrats criticize GOP for delay
1 year, 5 months ago

With state budget talks extending, North Carolina Democrats criticize GOP for delay

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — With a budget deal already a couple of weeks late, North Carolina Democrats complained on Wednesday that the absence of a state government spending deal by Republicans is delaying the expansion of Medicaid and setting up more obstacles to hire and retain teachers and law enforcement. “There’s nothing on our side to stop anything from going through …

Pennsylvania to begin new fiscal year without budget plan in place
1 year, 5 months ago

Pennsylvania to begin new fiscal year without budget plan in place

Associated Press  

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Republicans who control Pennsylvania’s Senate passed spending legislation hours ahead of Saturday’s start of a new fiscal year, but they lacked agreement with the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives to keep state government’s full spending authority intact. The main budget bill in the Senate GOP’s $45 billion spending plan passed 29-21, a couple hours after it emerged Friday. …

South Carolina Senate and House reach budget deal 1 day after tense meeting
1 year, 6 months ago

South Carolina Senate and House reach budget deal 1 day after tense meeting

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolina House members and senators reached an agreement on the state’s $13 billion budget Thursday, barely 24 hours after a tense meeting where both sides appeared to be out of patience. The key sticking point — how much money to give Clemson University to make significant progress on the state’s first veterinary school — went to …

South Carolina House, Senate say they’re still working on budget
1 year, 6 months ago

South Carolina House, Senate say they’re still working on budget

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The first public meeting in 18 days of a conference committee trying to work out a budget deal between the South Carolina House and Senate showed no sign of getting closer to a deal on the state’s $13 billion spending plan set to start July 1. If the budget isn’t passed before then, things like raises for …

North Carolina Senate votes on state government budget
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina Senate votes on state government budget

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — A state government budget proposal from North Carolina Senate Republicans received initial approval in their chamber on Wednesday, outlining a plan that spends the same amount as a competing House measure but differs on priorities, tax details and a host of policy prescriptions. “But that’s not to say at the end of the day we can’t pull …

North Carolina Senate unveils state budget with deeper tax cuts, lower raises than House proposal
1 year, 7 months ago

North Carolina Senate unveils state budget with deeper tax cuts, lower raises than House proposal

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Senate Republicans revealed their proposed two-year state government budget proposal Monday, one that would further reduce personal income taxes but offer less generous pay raises for workers compared to what their House counterparts sought. The Senate budget proposal would raise average teacher pay by just 4.5% over the next two years, compared to a 10.2% …

$13B budget quickly OK’d in harmonious South Carolina Senate
1 year, 8 months ago

$13B budget quickly OK’d in harmonious South Carolina Senate

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina Senate unanimously approved its version of the state’s $13 billion spending plan in an unusually short debate lacking the typical back-and-forth the upper chamber usually has over the budget. The plan raises the salary of nearly every state employee and will build South Carolina’s first veterinary school at Clemson University. The Senate plan spends …

State House budget proposes more for infrastructure, raises
1 year, 8 months ago

State House budget proposes more for infrastructure, raises

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina House Republicans unveiled a two-year state government spending proposal Wednesday that would offer sizeable raises for teachers compared to recent years while earmarking billions of dollars for infrastructure and health care. The House plan would spend almost $29.8 billion in the fiscal year starting July 1, largely in keeping with the spending limit agreed to …

N. Carolina governor’s big budget increase scoffed at by GOP
1 year, 9 months ago

N. Carolina governor’s big budget increase scoffed at by GOP

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina’s Democratic governor released his state government spending plan on Wednesday that would increase spending by 20% over the next two years, double the increase favored by Republican majorities in the House and Senate. Senate leader Phil Berger called Cooper’s budget “an irresponsible, unserious proposal from a lame-duck governor who wants future North Carolinians to pick …

Forecast: North Carolina expects $3B-plus surplus this year
1 year, 10 months ago

Forecast: North Carolina expects $3B-plus surplus this year

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina state government is on track to see a double-digit percentage increase in revenues by the end of the fiscal year compared to the total that legislators used in fashioning this year’s budget, according to a report released Wednesday. Roy Cooper’s state budget office projects that the state will take in $33.76 billion for the fiscal …

NC governor has little wiggle room with legislature in 2023
2 years ago

NC governor has little wiggle room with legislature in 2023

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper described on Wednesday jobs announcements, an emerging clean energy sector and his ability to block “culture-war, business-killing” laws on social issues from the General Assembly among his administration’s accomplishments during 2022. Moore told reporters on Tuesday that he’s “met with several Democrats who have made it very clear to me that …

Cooper signs NC budget; COVID-19 emergency to end Aug. 15
2 years, 5 months ago

Cooper signs NC budget; COVID-19 emergency to end Aug. 15

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — Republican-backed adjustments to North Carolina’s budget were signed into law by Democratic Gov. The signing marks the second year in a row that Cooper has accepted the GOP’s comprehensive state government spending plan after vetoing budget bills in 2017, 2018 and 2019. Cooper said the measure included “critical investments in education, economic development, transportation and the state …

A few SC senators regret $1B tax rebate as$12B budget passes
2 years, 7 months ago

A few SC senators regret $1B tax rebate as$12B budget passes

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Some Republicans in the South Carolina Senate had a little remorse over taking $1 billion out of the state budget to give income taxpayers rebates. The senators took control of the chamber’s $12.6 billion budget debate for several hours Wednesday, unsuccessfully pushing to have that money spent instead on road improvements, building rural schools, providing a $1,500 …

S Carolina House leaders want to just tackle income tax cut
2 years, 10 months ago

S Carolina House leaders want to just tackle income tax cut

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Republican leaders in the South Carolina House appear ready to tackle cutting income taxes in the state before this year’s General Assembly session ends in May. A House subcommittee plans to pass a bill cutting the state’s top income tax rate from 7% to 6% in time to be considered along with the budget later this month. …

House GOP unveils budget bill ahead of governor’s speech
2 years, 11 months ago

House GOP unveils budget bill ahead of governor’s speech

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky House Republicans unveiled a two-year state budget plan Friday that includes increased education spending and pay raises for state employees, deciding not to wait to hear the Democratic governor’s proposals in his budget speech planned next week. “This is not good government; in fact, it’s barely government at all.” The GOP spending blueprint does reflect some …

N Carolina budget gets final OK, quickly signed by Cooper
3 years, 1 month ago

N Carolina budget gets final OK, quickly signed by Cooper

Associated Press  

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina General Assembly gave its final approval to a two-year state budget on Thursday and sent it to Democratic Gov. “I will continue to fight for progress where this budget falls short but believe that, on balance, it is an important step in the right direction.” The series of bipartisan votes for the plan that …

No extra SC worker pay in budget now; but leaders promise it
3 years, 9 months ago

No extra SC worker pay in budget now; but leaders promise it

Associated Press  

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina House gave key approval to the state’s $9.8 billion budget Tuesday, which provides small raises for most teachers and some law enforcement officers, but not for other state employees. Republican leaders promised either a bonus or a raise for most lower-paid state employees if somewhat rosier predictions about the state’s economy recovering from the …

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