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The Legislative Bulletin 
March 16, 2001
Issue
No. 7
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This
week's top stories
Easley
budget predicts stronger economy ahead
 The
good news about North Carolina’s fiscal crisis is that the
bad news is almost over, Gov. Mike Easley says, in so many
words, in the budget he
submitted to the General Assembly on Monday. The governor
is proposing hiking state spending by about $1 billion a year
each of the next two years, supported by his belief that
personal incomes in North Carolina will grow by 5.5 percent
next year and by 6.4 percent in 2003. About half of the new
spending will go to education and the other half to shoring up
Medicaid. Also:
See
a chart of major revenue sources in the governor's
budget proposal
Read
the budget executive summary
Membership
News
We hope to see you at the Annual Meeting on Wednesday!
  Gov.
Mike Easley (right) will be the luncheon speaker and New York
investment manager Julian H. Robertson Jr., the founder and
chairman of Tiger Management LLC, will be the dinner speaker
at NCCBI's Annual Meeting this Wednesday at the Raleigh Civic
and Convention Center. NCCBI's top awards will be presented to
Sen. Jesse Helms (left) and former UNC-Chapel Hill business school
dean Paul Rizzo. A crowd of more than 1,000 is expected
for the event, which will include seminars and a trade show.
We hope to see every NCCBI member at the Annual Meeting. If
you have not already registered, it's
not to late. Call us at 919-836-1400 between now and
Wednesday, or just show up at the door with a credit card or a
checkbook, and we'll make sure you have a good seat.
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us thank our Second Mile contributors
Legislative
Actions
Senator favors sunset over repeal of tax preferences
Gov. Easley's Loophole Closing
Commission wants to wipe out $150 million worth of tax preferences.
But Sen. John Kerr, the powerful Democrat from Wayne County,
believes that most of those same tax credits should continue
but sunset unless reauthorized every three years. Other
bills were filed this week on these issues: State licensing of
trade professionals, health care issues, education issues,
employment issues, tax issues, other bills of general
interest, committee actions and floor votes.
State Government News
You can now pay UI
taxes electronically
Employers
can now use the Internet to pay quarterly unemployment
insurance taxes or accounts receivable via the Employment
Security Commission’s web site. Have your your Mastercard or
Visa card handy. . . . Admission to the N.C. Zoo in Asheboro
is going up two bucks, to $8. . . . Wal-Mart announces plans
to build a huge regional distribution center in Vance County.
Where
does NCCBI stand on the issues?
Learn
what issues your association is advocating in the General
Assembly this year by reading position papers drafted by our
seven public policy committees:
Economic
Development Committee
Education
Committee
Environmental
Concerns Committee
Health
Care Committee
Legal
Issues and Workplace Policies Committee
Tax
and Fiscal Policy Committee
Transportation
Committee
Extra bonus: We've grouped all the legislative positions
together in a 46-page booklet, the NCCBI
Committee Notebook, that's easily downloaded. The document
is in PDF format requiring Acrobat Reader, which is free
software.
NCCBI Membership News
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events to see which ones you should attend.
NCCBI offers a seminar to train business people how
to improve your media relations skills, including how to
conduct yourself during a TV interview.
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