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Bipartisan bills sponsored by U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, a Republican who represents the 8th District, passed the House of Representatives on Friday.
The bills are part of a package of legislation to combat the opioid crisis.
Hudson serves as a leader on the Energy and Commerce Committee, the panel tasked with writing most of the nation’s health care laws. Recently, the committee has worked to learn more about how and why the opioid epidemic happened and what legislative solutions can be pursued.
If a North Carolina congressman gets his way, the families of some special operations troops will have a tax break in their future.
Rep. Richard Hudson, a Republican whose district includes Fort Bragg, is pushing a measure to expand the Combat Zone Tax Exclusion, which protects the income of some deployed troops from federal income tax.
Hudson introduced a bill, the Special Operations Forces Tax Cut Act, earlier this year that would “modernize the law to reflect the current realities of warfare and ensure fairness for service members who serve in combat situations.”
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. House overwhelmingly passed a bill to deal with the opioid crisis Friday and sent it to the Senate.
- House passes opioid crisis bill 396 to 14
- Bill had bipartisan support
- Senate working on its own version
The measure, which passed 396 to 14, is considered the broadest of the bills that have gone through the chamber.
The bill is a package of dozens of individual House bills.
It includes several reforms, including:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed the Stop the Importation and Trafficking of Synthetic Analogues Act of 2017 (H.R. 2851), legislation to combat fentanyl, a synthetic drug that is responsible for twice as many deaths in North Carolina as heroin.
U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC), a leader on the Energy and Commerce Committee and local representative, voted in favor of the legislation.
Gray Stone Day School sent 104 graduates from eight surrounding counties toward life’s next chapter at Friday night’s commencement.
“You’re no longer the boys and girls that entered this school, you are the men and women ready to make your mark on the world,” said U.S. Rep. Richard Hudson, NC-08, who served as this year’s commencement speaker.
A key to their continued success depends on their relationships with other people.
“Relationships depend on the ability to communicate,” Hudson said.