The Arc of North Carolina Policy Blog

Late last evening HB 344: Tax Credit for Children with Disabilities passed the House with a vote of 73 in favor to 39 opposed. This bill wil...

HB 344: Tax Credit Bill for Children with Disabilities will be voted on this evening by the NC House. Herre is what the bill does: 1. Provid...

The NC Senate will release its budget proposal today. It cuts 500 million more than what was included in the governor's budget and from ...

Today the Senate Mental Health committee will take up Senator Fletcher Hartsell's Behavioral Health Management bill. This proposed legis...

Word spread like wildfire today that the Senate budget targets will be substantially lower than the House targets. Looks like the Senate is...

Today's marathon session of the House is all about the budget. Overall, the health and human services budget writers in the House were c...

We have received word that the budget in the House will roll out between 4:00-5:00pm.

Issue The NC General Assembly and the State DHHS are developing a plan to require all developmental disability services to be managed with m...

HB 234: Juror Qualifications/Disabilities was on the calendar yesterday for third reading. There was a debate about the age section of the ...

This week the House and Senate Appropriation Subcommittee on Health and Human Services will continue to hear presentations on key budget top...

Today the House took up HB 234: Juror Qualifications/Disabilities . This bill was hotly debated, similar to last years debate. Although this...

Bills: Two bills of importance to the disability community made it out of their respective committees today and are on the calendar tomorrow...

This week will be mostly about the budget. Joint Appropriation Subcommittee on Health and Human Services will meet Tuesday, Wednesday and T...

We are about to head straight into the state budget debate. This year the House of the North Carolina General Assembly gets first crack at c...

Today The Arc of North Carolina formally releases our organization's position statement on a system design that will clearly address the...

Today the Joint Appropriation Subcommittee on HHS is hosting a public hearing to receive input from the community on issues of the budget. D...

Governor Bev Perdue has completed her second state of the state speech this evening. The governor stated that the budget she will be present...

Governor Bev Perdue has entered the chamber to give her state of the state address. This is her second address. The governor is currently be...

Tonight, Governor Bev Perdue will give her state of the state address. This is an opportunity for her to give us some clues regarding what m...

After discussing the budget and the deficit for over three months, the actual legislative work on the budget for FY 2011 begins this week. A...

Committee meetings start in earnest this morning. Of interest today is the House floor debate and vote on HB 2: Protect Health Care Freedom...

Here we go with the budget. There will be a joint budget overview starting Tuesday at 8:30AM and again on Wednesday at 8:30AM. This is when ...

Today Representative Verla Insko held a press conference at the General Assembly to give the Democratic response to HB 2: Protect Health Car...

This week kicks off the first full schedule of meetings at the NC General Assembly. So far not much in announced committee meetings but ther...

The contrast between yesterday and today could not have been clearer. If yesterday was all about pomp and pageantry then today was all about...

We are just a few days away from the beginning of the 2011 North Carolina legislative session. This session will begin with a historic trans...

Tomorrow will be, most likely, the last of the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee meetings for this interim. Here is the new agenda. (Ple...

Facing a growing budget deficit (current estimates are a 3.7 billion dollar budget gap) Governor Beverly Perdue released today her plan to r...

Today the National Conference on State Legislators released a report detailing that budget problems will persist over the next three years f...

On Wednesday, the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services will meet....

As we begin to prepare for the upcoming legislative session new leaders are beginning to emerge. In the House, the GOP leadership met before...

On the Wednesday before the Thanksgiving holiday, the N&O Under the Dome reported that the U.S. DOJ will be investigating the North Caro...

Longtime abuses feared at state home for disabled RALEIGH Investigators probing the abuse of residents of a state-run home for people with m...

9 fired after abuse report at state home Nine workers at a state home for people with developmental disabilities in Morganton have been fire...

National Council on Disability Celebrates 35 Years of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2010 /PRNewswire...

State could shift health plan oversight RALEIGH Oversight of the financially strapped North Carolina health insurance plan for 665,000 state...

A start of a new week of interim meetings is happening this week. Of interest, is the fact that these interim committees are currently chair...

On Tuesday, November 9th the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on MH, DD, SAS will meet. Here is the proposed agenda: Joint Legislative ...

WRAL Article: GOP warning of impending budget cuts alarms some Posted: 5:43 p.m. yesterday Updated: 6:34 p.m. yesterday Top Republican lawm...

Election 2010: Results Wrap Up The 2010 Election is over and now we know who will lead North Carolina during the next legislative session. A...

We will be reporting all election results as they become available on our Election 2010 Blog. Please visit us tonight! Here is where we will...

Good Morning North Carolina! Today is Election Day!! The polls have been open for over an hour now and we encourage you to Go Vote!!! Polls...

If you did not take the opportunity to early vote, we encourage you to make plans to VOTE tomorrow, Tuesday November 2. November 2, 2010 is ...

Hotline Number: N.C. Justice for Sterilization Victims Foundation. 1-877-550-6013 (toll free in North Carolina) or 919-807-4270. The hotline...

The Winston Salem Journal has an excellent break down on the $3.5 million Medicaid settlement. N.C. Medicaid to get $3.5M By RICHARD CRAVER...

This week members of the Government Operations committee received an updated report from fiscal staff on the state of the budget deficit for...