Along
with the quickened end-of-session pace of this legislative week, lawmakers took
提出了许多应对COVID-19的账单,其中许多账单影响到城市.
Emergency declarations. No local declaration of emergency
would take effect until it had been published on the local government’s website
and submitted to the N.C. Department of Public Safety’s WebEOC critical
incident management system. This new requirement would come under a provision
included in
HB 374 Regulatory
Reform Act of 2020 (Section 20). It came at the request of the N.C.
Retail Merchants Association, which had long pushed for a centralized database
of local declarations of states of emergency. Though the House advanced this
尽管该法案本周已经通过了几个委员会,但它仍面临众议院的额外批准
在送交参议院之前,委员会和全体议院进行审议.
Budget bills. Both chambers continued to
考虑一下本周的法案,这些法案将花掉政府剩余的20亿美元
之前未从《365体育足彩》中挪用的联邦资金. (Cities have
requested direct allocation of a separate pot of CARES Act funding, as detailed
elsewhere in this Bulletin.) Notably for cities, the House held a
discussion-only hearing of
HB 1200
Foreclosure Prev.Grants/Rental & Utility Asst Tuesday. This
由NCLM和许多其他利益相关者团体支持的法案将
appropriate $200 million for assistance to qualifying renters, homeowners, and
utility customers so they can pay their bills. Action on
another CARES Act
appropriations bill detoured yesterday when the full House voted to
send the bill back to committee, with instructions to consider adding two items
这相当于对地方政府雇主的无资金授权
firefighters special separation allowance and automatic worker’s compensation
coverage for employees that contracted COVID-19. The League is closely
following this development.
Legal immunity. All N.C. private businesses and
政府部门将免于起诉某一行为或
omission that led to contraction of COVID-19 under
HB 118 COVID-19
Liab. Safe Harbor. The immunity would not apply in instances of
严重疏忽、故意或肆意的行为或故意的不法行为. The
bill, backed by numerous interest groups, passed the Senate this week and awaits
House consideration.
Reopening orders. Both legislative chambers
本周继续他们的法案,凌驾于州和地方
declarations of emergency related to the terms of how businesses must operate
during the pandemic. Building on prior bills that would allow all restaurants,
bars, and gyms to reopen in accordance with certain operational regulations,
legislators this week took up similar bills to allow the reopening of skating
rinks and bowling alleys (
SB 599 Open
Skating Rinks/Bowling Alleys); amusement parks, water parks, and
event centers (
SB 258 Open
Amusement Parks/Arcades/Venues); and privately-organized
Independence Day celebrations and fireworks displays (
HB 686 Freedom to
Celebrate the Fourth of July). Gov. Roy Cooper signaled his
他打算否决这类法案,他告诉罗利新闻 & Observer
“我对这些立法授权感到担忧. It’s pretty easy
to vote for a bill that lifts restrictions when you don’t have to deal with the
consequences.”