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Legislative Roundup From Close of Session

WUNC | By Laura Lee,
Frank Stasio
Published October 1, 2015 at 12:06 PM EDT
The eight-month long legislative session ended this week with a number of bills crammed into the end, including immigration restrictions and a $2 million transportation bond referendum
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The eight-month long legislative session ended this week with a number of bills crammed into the end, including immigration restrictions and a $2 million transportation bond referendum
The eight-month long legislative session ended this week with a number of bills crammed into the end, including immigration restrictions and a $2 million transportation bond referendum
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The eight-month long legislative session ended this week with a number of bills crammed into the end, including immigration restrictions and a $2 million transportation bond referendum

North Carolina lawmakers passed measures in the middle of the night on Tuesday after an eight-month long session. The final push ended the longest session of the General Assembly since 2001. Among the bills crammed into the session: immigration restrictions, the $2 million transportation bond referendum and a cap on light rail spending.

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC capitol reporter Jorge Valencia about the latest.

WUNC capitol reporter Jorge Valencia tells us the latest from the General Assembly

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Laura Lee
Laura Lee began her journalism career as a producer and booker at NPR. She returned to her native North Carolina to manage The State of Things, a live daily statewide show on WUNC. After working as a managing editor of an education journalism start-up, she became a writer and editor at a national education publication, Edutopia. She then served as the news editor at Carolina Public Press, a statewide investigative newsroom. In 2022, she worked to build collaborative coverage of elections administration and democracy in North Carolina.

Laura received her master’s in journalism from the University of Maryland and her bachelor’s degree in political science and J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Frank Stasio
Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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