US EditionGov. Stein signs 'mini budget' for NC as legislators continue to work toward passing full budget
NORTH CAROLINA, AUG 7 – The mini-budget maintains essential services amid a $319 million Medicaid shortfall and cuts to education funding, reflecting continued budget disagreements between the governor and legislature.
- On Wednesday, Gov. Josh Stein signed the North Carolina General Assembly’s mini-budget into law to keep state operations running during an ongoing budget impasse.
- Amid an impasse, House and Senate negotiators failed to finalize the full two-year budget before the July 1 deadline, leaving it unpassed.
- Under the mini-budget, House Bill 125 allocates $600 million to Medicaid and education, but creates a $319 million shortfall, passing 47-2 in the Senate and 91-23 in the House.
- He criticized it as a `Band-Aid budget` that fails to invest in key areas, warning the $319 million Medicaid cut will be particularly painful.
- Legislators face the vetoed school choice bill returning for override votes as early as Aug. 26, amid ongoing extended negotiations on the full budget.
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Stein signs ‘mini-budget’, squatters bill into law, vetoes school choice bill
Gov. Josh Stein signed the North Carolina General Assembly’s “mini-budget” into law on Wednesday. He once again called it a “Band-Aid” budget in a press release, as he did at Tuesday’s Council of State meeting, because it doesn’t fully cover the state’s needs. “This Band-Aid budget fails to invest in our teachers and students, fails to keep families safe, fails to value hardworking state employees, and fails to fully fund health care,” the gove…
Stein signs stopgap budget bill and vetoes opt-in bill helping school choice
RALEIGH (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein signed into law on Wednesday a stopgap spending measure while lawmakers remain in a state budget impasse. But he vetoed legislation that would direct state participation in a yet-implemented federal tax credit…
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Mini-budget, DAVE Act signed into law; federal school choice vetoed
(The Center Square) – Thirty-seven days late and counting, a two-year fiscal spending plan for North Carolina remains elusive while first-term Democratic Gov. Josh Stein signed a mini-budget sent forward by Republican majorities in the General Assembly.
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