NC bill banning discrimination from emergency relief passes in House

The legislators of the North Carolina State adopted the legislation that prohibits those who have enabled the ambulance from discriminating those who help on the basis of political affiliations or political speech.

HB 251 also adds “the provision that no applicant for any state aid in the form of scholarships is obliged to provide any personal demographic data, unless the data is required for support or the law in other ways.”

“It came after an incident that happened after Helena, and the word revealed that FEMA actually discriminates against people based on their political speech,” Republican state envoy Kelly Hastings, R-Gaston said on Thursday Carolina magazine. “And so we decided that we might want to send a clear message about the discrimination of someone based on their political speech, as if political speech under our Constitutional case law – perhaps the highest protected speech we have.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) found itself under fire last year when the agency supervisor allegedly instructed workers to avoid reaching for homeowners with Trump’s signs in their yards after Hurricane Milton, who hit the US about two weeks after the Hurricane of Helene devastated areas in six countries. Helene was the most deadly hurricane from Katrina.

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The Law Bill brought a house on April 1 with a vote of 106-10-10 but votes coming from Democrats, as The northern state reported.

Former FEMA supervisor who issued the instructions, Marn’i Washington, appeared on “Fox News @ Night” on November 14 and said that she “simply performed” the commands of her superiors to avoid political encounters that could be hostile.

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“Why does it go down to me? I’m a person who wrote down notes from my superiors and my note [Microsoft] The chat teams were exposed to their search team, “said Washington, who was then discharged.

FEMA -IMMINISTRATOR FOR EMPLOYEE NON -NEVERSE, Deanne Criswell, confirmed Fox News Digital over the weekend that the supervisor was fired and that her actions were “humiliating”. Another spokesman for FEMA -told Fox that the Washington actions were “isolated incident”.

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But Washington insisted that this was not true, telling the host Fox News, Trace Gallagher that the orders had come from someone above her.

Former Fem employee claimed that the team had already avoided the homes of Trump’s voters before her work.

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“It was a culture. They had already avoided these homes based on the trends of the community from enemy political encounters. It has nothing to do with the campaign sign. It just happened that it was part of the community trend,” she explained at the time.

The Bidana Administration announced in a press release from January 22 that FEMA has approved more than $ 860 million, including $ 507 million in individuals and communities affected by over $ 351.5 million to remove waste and life -saving activities after Helena. He also distributed more than 8,500 staff to the area.

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In February, Fema said that 153,000 families were receiving the help of FEMA North Carolina.

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Despite the efforts of the agency last year, many northern Carolines still live in trailers all winter, after losing their home in Storm expressed frustration with the Government’s reaction to the disaster, which left 107 dead in Tar Heel.

The proposal of the Law on North Carolina, which amends the Law on Management in Emergency Situations in North Carolina, will now move to the Senate.