North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1177–1200 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill appropriates approximately $8.025 million in state funds to the City of Fayetteville for five specific projects: a $5 million Innovation District to promote economic growth, a $2.5 million 911 dispatch center consolidation, a $25,000 community center repair grant, $400,000 annually for fire station funding, and $100,000 annually for park maintenance and trail development. All funds are directed grants to be spent during the 2025-2027 fiscal period.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill appropriates $14.525 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to provide grants to nine different organizations and entities in the Triad region (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point areas). The grants support various projects including medical clinics, sports facilities, fire department equipment, historic site restoration, park construction, and community violence prevention programs.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill requires public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools in North Carolina to print three mental health crisis helpline numbers on student identification cards issued to grades 6-12 students: the 988 Lifeline, Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and the NC Statewide Warmline (1-855-733-7762). Nonpublic schools are encouraged but not required to do the same. Schools must verify these numbers are accurate and current annually.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill directs state agencies to study the effectiveness of North Carolina's child care programs (NC Pre-K and Smart Start) and propose improvements. It also appropriates $10 million per year for a pilot program that automatically qualifies full-time child care teachers for child care subsidies for their own preschool-age children, provided they enroll in early childhood education courses.
Introduced by James Roberson
This bill creates two programs to help North Carolinians save for education: a matching contribution program where the state matches $100 for every $50 contributed to a 529 college savings plan (up to $1,500 per student), and a state tax deduction of up to $2,000 per person (or $4,000 for married couples) for contributions to these savings accounts. The matching program is limited to households earning up to 250% of the federal poverty level and students age 14 or younger.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill establishes legal definitions of biological sex and gender throughout North Carolina law, creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act requiring single-sex facilities in prisons, detention centers, schools, and shelters that receive state funds, allows private lawsuits against facilities that fail to enforce these rules, and requires driver's licenses and birth certificates to reflect biological sex as defined at birth.
Introduced by Cynthia Ball
This bill expands eligibility for North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) and increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept these vouchers. It broadens who can receive scholarships, increases scholarship amounts for low-income students, and requires participating private schools to meet standards including criminal background checks, standardized testing, financial audits, and teacher qualifications.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill requires clear labeling of manufactured-protein food products—including cell-cultured meat and insect-based proteins—sold in North Carolina. Products using meat or poultry terminology must display qualifying terms like 'cell-cultured,' 'lab-grown,' or 'insect-based' prominently on packaging and restaurant menus to distinguish them from traditional animal-derived meat and poultry.
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill prohibits state, city, and county government agencies from promoting or requiring employees to affirm certain ideological concepts related to race, sex, religion, and ethnicity in hiring, training, and promotion. It also prevents government agencies from using public funds for programs teaching these concepts and restricts requiring job applicants to express positions on contemporary political or social issues.
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill promotes the use of advanced conductors and grid-enhancing technologies in North Carolina's electric transmission system. It streamlines the permitting process for upgrading existing transmission lines with these technologies and requires utilities to evaluate such technologies when planning for grid improvements and carbon emission reductions.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill would provide North Carolina state employees, public school employees, and community college employees with up to 40 hours of paid bereavement leave when an immediate family member dies and 8 hours of paid leave when a colleague dies. The leave would be available immediately upon hire, usable within 180 days of death, and the state would appropriate $2 million annually to fund this benefit beginning July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill clarifies the process for removing precinct election officials who fail to perform their duties, allows county election boards to prohibit removed officials from serving in future elections, establishes a minimum of six emergency election-day assistants per county, and requires specific training topics for all precinct officials.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill expands North Carolina school policies to prohibit nicotine, hemp, and vapor products (including delta-8, delta-9, and CBD) on school property and at school events. It requires schools to provide evidence-based prevention materials to students, establish a discipline policy for students found in possession of these products, and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to approve educational materials and maintain a list of cessation resources.
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill allows enlisted members of the North Carolina Army National Guard and Air National Guard with ranks E-1 through E-5 to deduct their federal basic pay from their state income taxes. It also redirects sports wagering tax revenue by reducing funding to collegiate athletics and the Major Events fund, while increasing the amount going to the state's General Fund.
This bill changes how North Carolina sheriffs receive mental health information when processing concealed handgun permit applications. Instead of requiring doctors and mental health providers to disclose full medical records, they would only submit a 'Yes' or 'No' answer about whether they have records of a mental illness diagnosis, with detailed records provided only if 'Yes' and only if they document an actual diagnosis.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill appropriates $1.72 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the Department of Health and Human Services to create a grant program that funds municipalities and nonprofit organizations in establishing or expanding temporary emergency shelters for homeless individuals during severe weather. The Division of Aging will manage the program with selection criteria based on applicant needs and local poverty rates, with individual grants capped at $215,000 annually.
Introduced by Dante Pittman
This bill renames 'multiunit assisted housing with services' facilities to 'registered residential facilities' and clarifies they are not equivalent to licensed adult care homes. It updates registration requirements, expands restrictions on which residents can live in these facilities, allows the Department of Health and Human Services to pursue legal action against facilities operating without approval, and directs the Medical Care Commission to adopt rules for registering and inspecting these facilities.
Introduced by Larry Potts
This bill requires that new vaccines added to North Carolina's childhood immunization schedule must have been FDA-approved for at least three years, unless both the North Carolina Medical Society and North Carolina Pediatric Society boards recommend adding a newer vaccine. The bill modifies the current process for adding vaccines to the state's required immunizations for children.
This bill prohibits abortion in North Carolina from the moment of fertilization, with a narrow exception only when a licensed physician determines in their medical judgment that the pregnant person's life is at risk or they face serious harm to a major bodily function. Violations are classified as felonies with criminal penalties, civil penalties of at least $100,000, and mandatory license revocation for healthcare providers, though pregnant people themselves cannot be prosecuted.
This bill directs the North Carolina State Highway Patrol to conduct a comprehensive study of its staffing levels and salary scales, including overall patrol size, regional troop needs, and compensation for different ranks. The Highway Patrol must report its findings and recommendations to legislative committees by March 1, 2026.
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This comprehensive bill proposes multiple democratic reforms in North Carolina, including establishing a nonpartisan redistricting commission, converting judicial elections to nonpartisan processes, extending cooling-off periods for legislators-turned-lobbyists, implementing online and automatic voter registration, requiring live-streaming of legislative meetings, reducing absentee ballot witness requirements, ensuring voting places on college campuses, limiting voter roll purges, and reestablishing public campaign financing for judicial candidates with various campaign finance transparency requirements.
This bill creates a fraud detection alert system that allows property owners to monitor their names in land records by receiving email notifications when deeds or mortgages are recorded under their identity. It also strengthens penalties for rental and sale fraud by making fraudulent leasing a Class H felony and fraudulent advertising of property a Class I felony, and allows civil lawsuits with attorney's fees for violations.
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill makes it illegal to sell tobacco products, vaping products, and alternative nicotine products within 1,000 feet of public or nonpublic school buildings in North Carolina. The restriction does not apply to businesses where such sales are incidental to their primary operations, and it excludes home schools and colleges. Violations would be classified as Class 2 misdemeanors.
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill modifies North Carolina's wire transfer fraud laws to require banks to verbally verify payment orders with customers and beneficiaries, and to refund a portion of unauthorized payments more quickly. It also adds protections for large deposits made to newly opened accounts by delaying payment for 10 business days.