North Carolina budget leaders debate nonmonetary budget provisions

House budget writers were still finalizing North Carolina’s budget, voting Tuesday on more than 40 amendments to the two-year sending plan.

Appropriations leaders made a slew of technical changes, but they also agreed to amendments that would secure the current Medicaid reimbursement rate for prescription drugs, raise cost-of-living Social Security rates for assisted living residents, create a council to oversee the impact of golfing in the state, and expand drug rehabilitation programs in jails.