{"content":[{"text":"On Wednesday, Speaker Moore announced that the House will not be holding any votes next week, \n and the Senate has followed suit. The next working session is expected the week of October 21st \n where we expect some additional mini-budgets and a wrap up of the session.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.027862,"width":0.7647059999999999,"height":0.051627000000000006}},{"text":"BILL UPDATES","bbox":{"left":0.428235,"top":0.097559,"width":0.14345400000000003,"height":0.016779000000000002}},{"text":"The House and Senate have filed several “mini-budgets” that contain specific funding provisions \n from the larger State budget. These include: \n • HOUSE BILL 100, DOT Budget for 2019-2021 Biennium, provides funds to the \n Department of Transportation. \n • HOUSE BILL 387, Growing G.R.E.A.T., enacts various changes to the Growing Rural \n Economies with Access to Technology (GREAT) program which provides grants for \n expansion of broadband access in rural areas of the State. \n • HOUSE BILL 1001, Raise the Age Funding, provides funds to the Administrative Office \n of the Courts, the Office of Indigent Defense Services, and the Department of Public Safety \n to cover costs associated with increased staff and other additional resources needed to \n implement the Raise the Age legislation. \n • SENATE BILL 61, Community Colleges Budget/2019-2021 Biennium, provides funding \n for the North Carolina Community College System. \n These bills were approved by the House and Senate and have been sent to the Governor for \n his signature.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.132407,"width":0.764689,"height":0.261022}},{"text":"SENATE BILL 250, Remove Foreign Citizens from Voting Rolls, was amended in the House \n Rules Committee by: (1) adding United States citizenship to the qualifications of prospective \n jurors; and (2) requiring all applications for excuses from jury duty to allow prospective jurors to \n specify the reason for excusal based on disqualification, including lack of United States \n citizenship. The bill as amended was approved by the House Rules Committee and the full \n House; however, the Senate did not agree with the changes by the House and a conference \n committee will be appointed to work out the differences between the versions of the bill.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.411498,"width":0.7647760000000001,"height":0.12117300000000003}},{"text":"SENATE BILL 559, Storm Securitization/Alt. Rates, is the bill being pushed by Duke Energy that \n was amended as a conference report and makes the following changes to the fourth edition: \n • eliminates all provisions of Part II, which required the Utilities Commission to study the \n advisability of authorizing certain alternative methods to fixing rates; and \n • enacts prior language that was removed earlier (the language was in the fourth edition \n before the House replaced it with the study language) and authorizes the Commission to \n approve multiyear rate plans, banding of authorized terms, or a combination thereof, upon \n application by an electric public utility. \n The Conference Report was adopted by the Senate. If the House also approves the \n Conference Report, the bill would be sent to the Governor, who is expected to veto it.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.550741,"width":0.764902,"height":0.1737479999999999}},{"text":"SENATE BILL 690, Modifications to 2019 Appointments Bill, was amended in the House Rules \n Committee to appoint the following persons upon the recommendation of the President Pro Tem \n and the Speaker of the House: \n • Effective January 1, 2020, James Gussler, Jr., of Caswell County is appointed to the North \n Carolina Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council for a term expiring on December \n 31, 2023; \n • Effective January 1, 2020, Dr. Lawrence R. Nycum of Forsyth County, Dr. Costa Andreou \n of Gaston County, and James A. \"Adam\" Sholar of Wake County are appointed to the","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.742559,"width":0.7649790000000001,"height":0.13890000000000002}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.495098,"top":0.938923,"width":0.00980399999999998,"height":0.01677899999999999}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}