North Carolina Legislature

Those measures in part allocate $68 million to replace expired federal child care center grants for the next six months, ensure anticipated teacher raises for this school year are carried out and resume the automatic removal of criminal charges that were dismissed or that resulted in “not guilty” verdicts.

With each legislative chamber uninterested in hearing the other's spending proposal, North Carolina lawmakers look ready to go on hiatus after next week while a stalemate simmers between Republicans over how to adjust the current two-year state budget.

House Bill 166 is titled the American Indians Graduating with Honors Act. The bill would allow any student who is enrolled as a member of a state or federally recognized Indian tribe to wear objects of cultural significance at their public school graduation ceremony.

Public school districts throughout North Carolina are scrambling to meet legislative mandates for smaller elementary class sizes.

Roy Cooper and Josh Stein are both Democrats who won major offices in last year's election. Now they have something else in common - cutbacks courtesy of the Republican-led legislature.

Increased efforts to discourage human trafficking in North Carolina are among one of nearly 30 additional bills that Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law.

The House voted Thursday for legislation directing the State Treasurer's Office to avoid investments in these companies and divest when necessary.

The Senate has unveiled their version of the North Carolina budget, which spends less on operating government than the House proposal and allocates more money for potential fiscal emergencies.