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State Sen. Pete Brunstetter had been considering a run for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan.
Mark Binker
Lawmakers will include additional funding for Medicaid in the continuing resolution scheduled to be heard Tuesday morning. The temporary spending measure will last for 30 days.
The House and Senate have both offered up tax and spending plans. Now leaders from the two chambers will negotiate over their differences largely behind closed doors.
Senators gave tentative approval Wednesday to a $20.6 billion budget that Republican leaders say will help right North Carolina fiscal ship even as Democrats slammed cuts to schools and economic development programs.
House lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday on a bill that would dissolve the lease for the Dorothea Dix property but offer the City of Raleigh concessions for not fighting a rewrite of the deal.
Senate budget leaders say their $20.58 billion proposal meets the "core functions" of government without raising taxes. It also would make major changes in how existing revenues are directed.
Laura Leslie and Renee Chou
The state Senate plans to unveil its budget plan for the coming fiscal year late Sunday, Appropriations Committee Chairman Sen. Pete Brunstetter said Thursday.
The Senate's senior budget chairman said it will still be two or three weeks before the Senate budget committees are ready to begin work on their draft of the annual spending bill.
Senate leader Phil Berger said this year's budget will not do away with a UNC system campus. A senior budget writer raised that possibility earlier this year.
Lawmakers are considering the possibility of eliminating one or two campuses in the University of North Carolina system, a top Senate budget-writer said Thursday.
Cullen Browder
Gov. Pat McCrory's budget presentation is only the first formal step in a long process. Lawmakers are expected to work on the state's tax and spending plan until June.
Sen. Pete Brunstetter, R-Forsyth, has introduced a bill that would change the law that allowed a man to open fire inside a Walmart without incurring a felony charge.
North Carolina counties could assume ownership of school property under a bill filed by a Wake County senator Thursday.
