Just a few weeks before members of the North Carolina General Assembly are set to return to Raleigh for the start of the short session, the legislature’s Fiscal Research Division and.
A Republican-sponsored state House bill introduced last week would require the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services to send death certificate notices directly to county boards of elections.
The bill is similar to legislation in other states’ consumer-protection laws that seek to protect families from the impact of medical debt on Americans.