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The legislation is being promoted by Speaker Tim Moore, who said it was a response to a wide-ranging health care access bill backed by GOP Senate leader Phil Berger that contains expansion and received overwhelming bipartisan support earlier this month.

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The chief job for lawmakers is to approve changes to the second year of the already-enacted two-year budget. Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper made recommendations last week.

A special master will be chosen by the three-judge panel, which issued an order Tuesday laying out how they'll evaluate substitute congressional and legislative boundaries. They're aiming to follow a Supreme Court ruling last Friday that found maps approved by the Republican-controlled General Assembly in November were illegal partisan gerrymanders.

Wake County Judge Graham Shirley on Tuesday denied motions in litigation from advocacy groups and voters complaining about how the Republican-controlled legislature ignored race-based voter data as part of its process.

Legislators will soon start redrawing boundaries for North Carolina's state legislative and congressional districts with 2020 census data. The hearings are part of the General Assembly's effort to make the process of redrawing the state's legislative and congressional districts more transparent.

House Speaker Tim Moore said his plan will better protect businesses and law enforcement from violence and property damage similar to what he saw take place in Raleigh last year after the death of George Floyd.

GOP leaders in the two chambers said Tuesday their spending cap would be $25.7 billion. That's several hundred million less than what Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper wants to spend.

A federal appeals court has ruled a judge didn't step over the line when she refused to let North Carolina's legislative leaders formally defend the state's photo identification voting law with other state government attorneys.

Governor Roy Cooper preached bipartisanship in his State of the State address Monday night. But many of Cooper's well-worn Democratic policies are not likely to fire up the legislature's Republican majority.