2017 Updated Federal Summary This report includes an updated list of Federal Legislation The NC General Assembly adjourned in the early morning of Friday, June 30th. While we were successful on several issues, there were numerous issues taken up in either chamber that were not addressed in the … [Read more...] about 2017 Legislative Session
2018 Legislative Session
Legislative ACTION During the 2018 legislative session the Agriculture and Forestry Awareness Study Commission was tasked with studying a reduction of taxing values on agricultural land, forest, and timberlands that may negatively affect funding of rural fire districts, many of which are small … [Read more...] about 2018 Legislative Session
2019 Legislative Session
2019/2020 legislative Session Update #28 2019 As of Tuesday morning, November 5th, 2019. Current bill status as it stands now are listed below. There was not a lot of activity related to the fire service last week, but we are following bills on our list as movement is … [Read more...] about 2019 Legislative Session
2020 Legislative Session
LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVE TO ALLOW PARTICIPATION OF NON-PROFIT FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN LOCAL GOVERNMENT RETIREMENT UPDATE BILL NUMBER As an update, the Ways and Means Secure Retirement Act is HR 8696 for reference. Last week I sent out another notice concerning introduction of HR 8538 in … [Read more...] about 2020 Legislative Session
2021 Legislative Session
2021 legislative Session Update #28 2021 Fire Service Legislation Budget Update The budget bill, SB 105, as previously released in draft includes several major fire service provisions. There is discussion that the Bill may be voted on this week … [Read more...] about 2021 Legislative Session
