RALEIGH, N.C. — Talking through webcams - or at least trying to - North Carolina's General Assembly has started screening ways to spend about $3.5 billion that the federal government sent our state for coronavirus relief.
Pages and pages and pages of lawmaker proposals have been submitted so far.The proposal in the Senate is 50-pages, and there are several bills being considered in the House.
Some of the notable suggestions for using the money:
- $300 million for the Department of Transportation since gas tax collections are down now
- $125 million to help small businesses
- $56 million to feed kids
- $20 million to Wake Forest for its COVID-19 research