"NCInnovation shall transfer back to the State, after consultation with, and in conformity with direction received from, the State Controller, the sum of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000)," the legislation reads.
"The land we stand on today sits in the heart of a county that has meant so much to me," said Eric Church.
Following the firing of a FEMA worker for alleged political discrimination in disaster aid distribution after Hurricane Helene, North Carolina lawmakers have moved to ensure such bias never influences emergency relief efforts again.
“It'll be six years from the day of the grant agreement. I'm happy to agree to an earlier date. I think that’s too long,” said McGarrah. “But I also know from managing grants that you run into problems.”
Rep. Brenden Jones, R-Columbus, said that Gov. Josh Stein has pledged the funds will be sufficient to complete all remaining recovery projects in eastern North Carolina.
NC House Oversight Committee co-chairs Reps. Harry Warren, R-Rowan, and Jake Johnson, R-Polk, are among the primary sponsors of a bill to clawback half a billion dollars in state taxpayer funds from NCInnovation (NCI), a private nonprofit founded to help commercialize more public university research in the state.
North Carolina House Speaker Tim Moore, R-Cleveland, has announced the creation of the House Select Committee on Helene Recovery, in which legislators will work to continue helping the people of Western North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene. The committee will be co-chaired by Reps. Dudley Greene, R-McDowell, and Majority Leader John Bell, R-Wayne, and will...
On Friday, Sens. Thom Tillis and Ted Budd, as well as Reps. Virginia Foxx and Chuck Edwards, Republican lawmakers representing North Carolina, sent a letter to President Biden urging him to waive regulations and provide temporary housing to the victims of Hurricane Helene.
The actual debt that the North Carolina Office of Recovery and Resiliency faces has unraveled into $319 million in a matter of days, now standing over 80% higher than Gov. Roy Cooper’s staff first disclosed, according to the General Assembly.
The third round of disaster relief funding was introduced this week and will increase the total state aid to over $1 billion in just over one month.
Foxx is expected to introduce “The Disaster Recovery and Resilience Act” and “The Helene Recovery Act” this week. Both bills would amend the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (the Stafford Act).
