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Bureaucracy May Last Forever
RALEIGH—A bill that has passed the state House would turn what was intended to be a temporary state authority into a permanent bureaucracy, with expanded responsibilities. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Joe Tolson, D-Edgecombe, preserves the Rural Internet Access Authority, created in 2000 through a bill that was sponsored by Sen. Eric Reeves, D-Wake. The law that established the RIAA required the authority to be dissolved Dec. 31, 2003.