North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1153–1176 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Chris Humphrey
This bill authorizes the Town of Maysville to levy a room occupancy tax of up to 6% on hotel and short-term rental receipts. Revenue from the tax would be managed by a Tourism Development Authority, with at least two-thirds used for tourism promotion and the remainder for tourism-related projects in the town.
Introduced by Edward Goodwin
This bill designates May 1st of each year as Women Veterans Day in North Carolina. The day would be officially recognized by the state to honor women who have served in the military.
Introduced by Brian Echevarria
This bill requires North Carolina district courts to video and audio record all criminal trials, pretrial motions, pleas, sentencing hearings, and infraction hearings. It also requires courts to collect and publish detailed annual reports on how impaired driving cases are resolved, including information about charges, dismissals, evidence suppression, and sentencing factors.
Introduced by Beth Helfrich
This bill requires state agencies and local government entities to install water safety rescue equipment—primarily ring life buoys with attached lines—at public piers and water access points across North Carolina. The bill sets specific standards for the equipment, including size, visibility, placement, and maintenance requirements, and provides $25,000 in state grants to help economically disadvantaged local governments comply.
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill shifts the financial responsibility for relocating utility facilities (like phone lines, broadband, water pipes, and wireless infrastructure) from utility companies to the government entities requiring the relocations. When state, city, or public authorities require utilities to move their infrastructure due to road construction or public projects, those government entities would now pay the relocation costs instead of the utility companies.
This bill clarifies how North Carolina schools must notify parents about health screenings (vision, hearing, dental, and developmental screenings) and establishes that schools may conduct these screenings without prior parental consent, though parents must be informed at the beginning of the school year and notified of results.
Introduced by Jake Johnson
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's broadband programs under the Department of Information Technology. It redirects satellite broadband grant funding to disaster relief in Hurricane Helene-affected counties, allows up to $50 million in broadband funds to be used for repairing damaged broadband infrastructure, expands the Broadband Pole Replacement Program to include underground facility placement, and creates flexibility for mobile carriers to provide Lifeline service.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill creates a new grant program allowing school districts to apply for state funding to cover extraordinary costs of educating students with disabilities, including placements in private schools. The state will reimburse 75% of qualifying costs for students whose total service costs exceed four times the state average per-pupil spending on special education, and requires annual monitoring reports on homebound, modified day, and hospital placements.
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill allows retired Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs) and Assistant Public Defenders (APDs) with at least 5 years of service to return to work for the Judicial Branch after a 2-month waiting period instead of the standard 6-month separation required for other retirees. The bill requires the State Treasurer to obtain IRS approval to ensure the change does not jeopardize the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation and Department of Environmental Quality to jointly study the state's vehicle safety and emissions inspection program. The study will examine whether inspection frequency can be reduced or eliminated, analyze the program's efficiency in light of modern vehicles, and provide recommendations to the General Assembly by March 1, 2026.
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill requires the UNC School of Medicine's Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) to compile and share evidence-based information about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) with all North Carolina healthcare practitioners. NC AHEC must work with medical boards and professional organizations to create standard information materials and report completed materials to the state legislature by September 1, 2025.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill prohibits proposition bets (wagers on individual statistics or actions that don't affect the final outcome) on college and amateur sports in North Carolina. It also prevents in-person sports betting at facilities hosting college sports events for eight hours before and during those events.
This bill makes four changes to North Carolina elections: it prohibits ranked choice voting statewide, clarifies rules about where election-related activity can occur near polling places, reduces the early voting period from the third Thursday before an election to the second Thursday, and modifies the identification requirements for voters requesting absentee ballots.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill protects employees who are legally required to report suspected abuse, neglect, fraud, or other threats to vulnerable persons from being fired, demoted, or otherwise punished by their employers for making those reports. It allows employees to file complaints with the North Carolina Commissioner of Labor and pursue legal action if they face retaliation, with potential remedies including reinstatement, back pay, and civil penalties up to $5,000.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill modifies North Carolina's laws governing Research and Production Service Districts (RPSDs) and Urban Research Service Districts (URSDs), which are special taxing districts that allow counties to provide enhanced services to specific areas like research parks. The changes clarify procedures for multi-county districts, expand the authority of private developers to act as agents for service provision, increase the property tax rate limit in these districts from 10 cents to 20 cents per $100 of property value, and allow URSD tax revenues to support certain county debt service for capital projects benefiting the district.
This bill requires state institutions and political subdivisions in North Carolina to purchase only U.S. and North Carolina flags that are 100% manufactured in the United States using domestically-grown or produced materials. The requirement applies to all purchases made with public funds beginning October 1, 2025.
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill creates a Teacher Apprenticeship Program that allows people with bachelor's degrees to work as paid apprentices in classrooms while earning teaching credentials, removes the exam requirement for converting limited teaching licenses to continuing professional licenses for teachers with positive student growth data, and directs university and community college systems to develop an expedited pathway for high school students to enter teaching.
Introduced by Paul Scott
This bill creates an annual fee for individuals required to register on North Carolina's sex offense registry. The fee equals 1.25% of the federal poverty level for a single person (approximately $161 in 2025) and would be collected by sheriffs' offices to help fund registry maintenance, verification, and record-keeping. Sheriffs have discretion to decide whether to collect the fee in their county each year, and registrants deemed indigent or currently incarcerated can request a waiver.
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill appropriates funds to increase teacher salaries, support special education services, provide free breakfast and lunch to all public school students, establish a device refresh program for student computers, and freeze enrollment in the Opportunity Scholarship program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) while reducing its future funding.
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship vouchers. It requires these schools to submit annual reports on student test scores, graduation rates, financial audits, staffing credentials, and safety plans, and directs the State Auditor to review at least three such schools' audits each year.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill requires local school districts that operate NC Pre-K programs to count pre-kindergarten students in their average daily membership (ADM) calculations. Average daily membership is used to determine state funding allocations to school districts, so counting pre-K students would increase funding for districts with these programs.
Introduced by Jarrod Lowery
This bill appropriates $10 million in state funds to the University of North Carolina at Pembroke to construct a presidential library honoring President Donald Trump. The library may be developed in partnership with the federal National Archives and Records Administration.
Introduced by Aisha Dew
This bill appropriates $14.5 million in state funding for clean energy grants during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The money will be distributed through two programs: $10 million for innovation and research grants administered by the Department of Commerce, and $4.5 million for competitive grants supporting clean energy businesses and entrepreneurs.
Introduced by Abraham Jones
This bill expands eligibility for retired judges to serve as emergency judges by allowing judges who previously served on both superior court and district court to be recalled as emergency judges on either court, rather than only the court from which they most recently retired.