Access to Health Care

Legislative Status

Budget Status

NCWU
Response

Modify School Health Education Program-Makes honest, realistic sex education part of the core curriculum for North Carolina Public Schools, consisting of age-appropriate, medically accurate health education including both STD and pregnancy prevention. (H879/S1182)

Not passed

N/A

Adult Care Homes Star Rating Authorization/Funds-Rating certification for adult care homes is included in another bill, S56 “Penalty Review/Long Term Care Changes.” (H248/S752)

Passed

N/A

Home & Community Care Block Grant Funds-Increase Home and Community Care Block Grant Funds.  Although the bill asked for $5 million in additional funding to draw down a waiting list of about 11,000 persons, an increase of only $536,000 was provided in the budget bill*. (H98/S59)

N/A

Minimally Funded

Civic Participation & Equality

Legislative
Status

Budget Status

NCWU
Response

Voter-Owned Elections Pilot for Council of State-Expand the current Voter-Owned Public Financing program to include three members of the Council of State. (H1517)

Passed

N/A

Registration and Voting at One-Stop Sites-Allows a person who misses the cut-off for registration to go to a One-Stop voting site, show proper ID, register and vote on the same day. (H91)

Passed

N/A

School Violence Prevention-Requires school systems to adopt strong policies against bullying and harassment. (H1366)

Pending

N/A

Pending

Non-Discrimination in State Employment-Protects state employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation. (H1789/S1534)

Not Passed

N/A

Economic Self-Sufficiency

Legislative
Status

Budget Status

NCWU
Response

Establish Paid Sick Days-Paid sick leave for all employees.  (H1711)

Pending

N/A

Pending

Provide Unpaid Sick Days-Unpaid sick leave for all employees. (S1092)

Not Passed

N/A

Housing Trust Fund Appropriation-Increase the Housing Trust Fund by $50 million for affordable housing. An additional $5 million in recurring funds was provided in the budget bill* for the annual appropriation for the Housing Finance Agency’s Trust Fund. (H182/S459)

Pending

Partially
Funded

Rewarding Work Tax Credit- A refundable Earned Income Tax Credit for low-income workers was passed in the budget bill* to piggyback on the federal EITC at a rate of 3.5%. (H51/S7)

Passed

N/A

Violence Against Women

Legislative
Status

Budget Status

NCWU
Response

Compassionate Care for Victims of Sexual Assault-Ensures that survivors of sexual assault receive emergency contraception on-site in hospital emergency departments. (H961/S968)

Not Passed

N/A

DV Orders/Repeat Violators-Strengthens the enforcement of domestic violence protective orders by reducing the number of prior convictions required from three prior convictions to one prior conviction to charge offenders with a Class H felony. (H44)

Pending

N/A

Pending

VAWA 2005 Compliance-Brings NC into compliance with the Violence Against Women Act of 2005 to prevent loss of federal funding; ensures that criminal justice agencies may not require polygraph examinations of victims of sexual assault; and
mandates that the Administrative Office of the Courts develop a form that notifies criminal defendants of federal firearm laws. (H1810)

Passed

N/A

Violate Order/Possess Deadly Weapon-Creates a Class H felony for violation of a domestic violence protective order while armed with a deadly weapon. (H47)

Passed

N/A

DV Victims/Add Protections-Amends the name-change statute so that a public posting is not required for victims of domestic violence, sexual offense, or stalking who provide appropriate documentation; amends the Crime Victims’ Rights Act so that a violation of a domestic violence protective order is included as a “crime” for the purposes of the Act. (S30)

Passed

N/A

Domestic Violence Appropriations-Increases state funding by $2 million for domestic violence programs funded by the Council for Women/Domestic Violence Commission; reinstates TANF funding in the amount of $1 million to support local domestic violence prevention and awareness initiatives; provides for matching grant funds for the construction of domestic violence shelters in the amount of $2 million; and appropriates $2 million to fund supervised visitation and exchange centers. (H43/S31)

N/A

Pending

Pending