Using the Women's Agenda
Did you miss Women's Advocacy Day? Here are the bills that were included
in the Women's Agenda with links to the ncleg.net status of the particular
bills. You may use this to find the current status of these bills. You can
find out if your legislator was a co-sponsor and get information about
how your legislators voted (for those issues where votes were recorded).
NCWU member organizations have provided talking points to assist you in writing
to your legislators on these issues. Make your views known!
ACCESS
TO HEALTHCARE
H879/S1182,
Modify School Health Education Program. Make honest, realistic sex education
part of the core curriculum for North Carolina Public Schools, consisting
of age-appropriate, medically accurate health education including both STD
and pregnancy prevention.
Talking Points on H879/S1182
H248/S752,
Adult Care Homes Star Rating Authorization/Funds. Create a star-rating system
for adult care homes.
H98/S59,
Home & Community Care Block Grant Funds. Increase Home and
Community Care Block Grant Funds.
Talking points for rating system and block grants.
CIVIC PARTICIPATION & EQUALITY
H1517/S1205 & S1261, Voter-Owned Elections for Council of State and
Legislative Candidates. Expand the current Voter-Owned Public Financing program
for statewide judicial candidates.
Talking points for voter-owned elections.
H1366, School
Violence Prevention. Requires school systems to adopt strong
policies against bullying and harassment.
Talking points for school violence prevention.
H1789/S1534, Non-Discrimination
in State Employment. Protects state employees
from discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Talking points for non-discrimination in state employment.
H91/S195,
Registration and Voting at One-Stop Sites. Allows a person who misses the
cut-off for registration to go to a One-Stop voting site, show proper ID,
register and vote on the same day.
Talking points for same day voter registration.
ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY
H1711,
Establish Paid Sick Days. Paid sick leave for all employees.
S1092,
Provide Unpaid Sick Days. Unpaid sick leave for all employees.
Talking points for providing sick
days .
H182/S459, Housing
Trust Fund Appropriation. $50 million for the Housing
Trust Fund for affordable housing.
H51/S7,
Rewarding Work Tax Credit. North Carolina Earned Income Tax Credit a rate
of 10%.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
H961/S968, Compassionate
Care for Victims of Sexual Assault. Ensure
that survivors of sexual assault receive emergency contraception on-site
in hospital
emergency departments.
Talking points on H961/S968
H44, DV
Orders/Repeat Violators. Strengthens the enforcement of domestic
violence protective orders by reducing the number of prior convictions
required from
three prior convictions to one prior conviction to charge offenders with
a Class H felony.
Talking points on DV proective orders.
H1810, VAWA
2005 Compliance. Brings NC into compliance with the Violence
Against Women Act of 2005 to prevent loss of federal funding; ensures that
criminal
justice agencies may not require polygraph examinations of victims of sexual
assault;
and mandates that the Administrative Office of the Courts shall develop
a form that
notifies criminal defendants of federal firearm laws.
H47, Violate
Order/Possess Deadly Weapon. Creates a Class I felony for
violation of a domestic violence protective order while armed with a deadly
weapon.
S30, DV
Victims/Add Protections. Amends the name change statute so that
a public
posting is not required for victims of domestic violence, sexual offense,
or stalking who
provide appropriate documentation; amends the Crime Victims’ Rights
Act so that a
violation of a domestic violence protective order is included as a “crime” for
the
purposes of the Act.
H43/S31, Domestic
Violence Appropriations. Increases state funding by
$2
million for domestic violence programs funded by the Council for Women/Domestic
Violence Commission; reinstates TANF funding in the amount of $1 million
to support
local domestic violence prevention and awareness initiatives; provides
for matching
grant funds for the construction of domestic violence shelters in the amount
of $2
million; and appropriates $2 million to fund supervised visitation and
exchange centers.
Talking points on funding for DV
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