2019年8月30日
- 每周回顾
- Regulatory Re为ms Closer to Passage, Include Utility Re为ms
- 纤维NC法案得到更多的媒体播放
- Tillis Floats Bill to Align Federal, Local 政府't on Disaster Aid
- 阿片类药物死亡率多年来首次下降
事情发生的经过: It's the end of August, and with no change in status 为 the budget impasse between 政府. 罗伊·库珀和立法领导人, the latter have rolled out "mini" budget bills to get certain funds moving, 比如政府雇员加薪. 其中一些法案 都在州长的办公桌上吗 撰写本文时.
单词释义: 库珀州长对这一过程持批评态度, seeing it as a way to "skirt" negotiations over the budget he vetoed, but we don't know exactly what he'll do with the spending bills on his desk. He said he'd review everything the legislature sends him. "Let's show people that there are things we agree on," 森ate leader Phil Berger said in WRAL新闻报道.
利用: 一周不投票. The House and 森ate are planning downtime to coincide with Labor Day, 9月当周恢复营业. 9, according to the Insider State 政府ernment News Service. At that point, they'll likely work on more individualized spending bills.
瘦子: 这不全是预算僵局. Other bills continue to move, including a regulatory re为m measure we'll tell you about below. It's meant to help utilities address water and wastewater infrastructure issues. 还有更多. 继续读下去.
旨在协助公用事业的规定 in addressing water and wastewater infrastructure issues appear closer to clearing the legislature this week after being included in the 会议报告 为 sb553 2019年监管改革法案. SB 553 is the legislature’s agreed-to package of numerous unrelated regulatory re为ms. 在本周被释放后, the bill passed the House and awaits one more vote from the 森ate be为e it can go to the governor. The water and wastewater provisions include the creation of a Viable Utility Reserve grant program 为 assisting utilities in becoming self-sustaining, a merger and dissolution process 为 utilities, a process to define and access a distressed utilities, a study of the feasibility of authorizing historical charters 为 units of local government, 以及其他一些最初包含在 SB 536 Water/Wastewater Public Enterprise Re为m 也包括在最终预算中. 关于这些规定的更多背景资料见 以前的通讯报道.
At least two newspaper pieces -- an article and an editorial -- this week touted the positive change HB 431纤维NC法案 would bring North Carolina and communities in need of adequate, 加强业务的互联网服务. “农村社区需要宽带. Our legislators need to make this a priority," stated a 威尔明顿星报社论 about the bill, which has a mass of sponsors from both major parties and, this month, 获得委员会批准 after supporters argued that rural communities are falling behind economically and educationally without adequate broadband connections. The legislation would better enable local governments to partner with private internet services providers in arrangements that could include building out local fiber networks and then leasing that fiber to the private providers. The Smoky Mountain News also examined the bill this week, with a 冗长的文章 引用该地区立法者的话，包括 代表. 凯文·科尔宾他是该法案的发起人之一. "We’ve gotten it through one committee and it’s been in about every news outlet in North Carolina,他对报纸说, “所以压力就在那里, 365体育足彩就在那里....“访问 0412xp.net/broadband 为 in为mation including a report on closing North Carolina's digital divide.
宣布这一消息的同时，也批评了奥巴马州长. Roy Cooper and the state's pace of distributing federal disaster-relief dollars, a bill from U.S. 森. Thom Tillis seeks a more direct pipeline to local government. The Ensuring Disaster Recovery 为 Local Communities Act would set "tangible spending goals 为 grantees (usually state administrations) and allows cities and counties to request HUD to allocate the federal assistance directly to them when the state fails to distribute those funds in a timely manner (after an 18-month period)," a 新闻稿 解释. 森ator Tillis said the state administration's pace of allocation was "unacceptably slow" and has been a roadblock 为 communities waiting on funds. 州参议院领袖菲尔·伯杰说, House Speaker Tim Moore and other state legislative brass joined 森ator Tillis 为 the announcement. 库珀州长办公室 回应 后不久, explaining that his team has allocated nearly $3 billion in state and federal money related to Hurricanes Matthew and Florence and that the state "doesn’t yet have one single penny of CDBG-DR federal housing money that’s specifically 为 Hurricane Florence survivors." WRAL报道详细内容.
北卡罗来纳州有 宣布 the first decline in unintential opioid-related overdose deaths in five years -- a 5 percent decrease in 2018, per numbers gathered by state health regulators. 在前一年，死亡人数上升了34%. 政府. Roy Cooper called the news a "major milestone" with more work ahead. 国家有一个 阿片仪表板 that keeps progress on goals in reference to its 阿片类药物行动计划. “Opioid overdose deaths and emergency department visits are two key metrics set 为th in our Opioid Action Plan, and ef为ts to improve outcomes in those areas are clearly showing a positive impact,N说。.C. Department of 健康 and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen. “虽然这是一项重大成就, we know far too many North Carolina families are still suffering. We must continue to focus on prevention, reducing harm and connecting people to care.“访问 0412xp.net/opioidsolutions 为 a toolbox that local governments can utilitize in the community-level ef为t against opioid abuse.