Lawmakers make sweeping changes
Monday, July 31st, 2006
By Chris Fitzsimon
RALEIGH — When the General Assembly adjourned early Friday morning, the House and Senate left behind stacks of new legislation from a so-called "short session" that was short only in terms of the time spent in Raleigh.
Legislators used their nearly three-month session to make substantial changes in just about every arena in which state government involves itself.
Ten of the most sweeping:
The lottery
This year’s was the first state budget to use money gleaned from the new state lottery to fund education. Democratic budget writers say they made sure lottery money didn’t replace tax dollars but instead boosted overall education spending. That’s a contention Republican leaders dispute.
In the session’s waning days, the General Assembly created a committee that may not settle that argument but will be responsible for tracking how lottery proceeds are spent. The group, a legislative oversight committee, is separate from the commission that runs the lottery and will report to legislators and the public on where lottery money is going. (more…)
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