Immigration Debate Emerging in State Senate

By Michael WhiteleyWorkCompCentral CorrespondentThe North Carolina state Senate on Wednesday is expected to discuss legislation filed by a Republican lawmaker that would prohibit medical care and indemnity benefits for undocumented workers, rekindling a debate that claimants' attorneys say was settled by the state Court of Appeals in 2002.The Senate is scheduled to take up House Bill 369, a measure introduced in 2013. As originally written, HB 369 would outlaw the use of drug paraphernalia and establish a new system for deferred prosecution of conditional discharge of persons charged with ...