North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1345–1368 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by David Willis
This bill permits residents of nursing homes and adult care homes to install electronic monitoring devices (cameras, audio recorders, etc.) in their own rooms at their own expense. Facilities must provide power sources and mounting space for these devices, cannot refuse admission or discharge residents for requesting monitoring, and recordings are admissible as evidence in court proceedings.
Introduced by Ray Jeffers
This bill establishes a new Small Farmers Support Grant Program that provides $20 million in state funding to help small farmers (those with gross farm income of $300,000 or less) purchase equipment, build infrastructure, and improve their operations. It also lowers the income threshold for farmers to qualify for sales tax exemptions from $10,000 to $7,500 annually.
Introduced by Heather Rhyne
This bill appropriates state funds to increase the number of assistant principals in North Carolina public schools. Local school districts must hire more assistant principals each year, with the state providing $23.6 million in the 2025-2026 school year and $57.6 million annually from 2026-2027 onward to support this expansion.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill requires social media platforms with over 1 million U.S. users to protect North Carolina users' personal data and prohibits using minors' data for targeted advertising or algorithmic recommendations. It establishes privacy requirements, sets protective default settings for minors, creates enforcement mechanisms through the Attorney General, and establishes a Data Privacy Task Force to monitor compliance and study social media's effects on mental health.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill appropriates $91,000 in nonrecurring funds and $4,000 in recurring annual funds to install and maintain equipment that allows the public to watch North Carolina House committee meetings and floor proceedings live online and access recordings for 10 years. Committee chairs may choose not to record meetings if they provide advance notice and maintain audio recordings and written minutes instead.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill increases the buffer zone around voting places where election-related activities are prohibited. It changes the standard buffer zone distance from a range of 25-50 feet to a range of 75-100 feet from the entrance of a voting place, giving county boards of elections authority to set distances within this new range.
Introduced by John Torbett
This bill restricts curriculum content related to gender identity, sexual activity, and sexuality in K-6 grades and requires parental consent for these topics in grades 7-12. It establishes new procedures for selecting health and safety instructional materials and library books, including public hearings and parent review periods. The bill also requires schools to maintain repositories of instructional materials and restricts minors' access to materials deemed harmful in public libraries.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting emergency responders, creates new felony charges for intentionally exposing first responders to fentanyl or harmful chemicals, and appropriates $10.35 million in grants for bulletproof vests and backpack plates for paramedics and EMTs.
Introduced by Carl Ford
This bill reorganizes and standardizes death benefit rules across North Carolina's four main retirement systems (Teachers and State Employees, Local Governmental Employees, Consolidated Judicial, and Legislative). It consolidates scattered death benefit provisions into clearer, more consistent sections while making technical updates to language and clarifying eligibility rules.
Introduced by Robert Davis
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding to the YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina to help expand the Midtown YMCA facility in Wilmington. The expanded 50,000 square foot facility is part of a public-private partnership project with a total cost of $15 million, and is expected to provide fitness, aquatic, youth programs, and child care services to the region.
Introduced by Sarah Crawford
This bill removes a provision in North Carolina law that would automatically end Medicaid coverage for the expansion population if federal funding for Medicaid drops below 90%. Currently, state law requires coverage to be discontinued if federal support falls to that threshold; this bill eliminates that automatic discontinuation requirement.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill appropriates $10 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to fund grants for Disabled American Veterans (DAV) chapters. The grants, capped at $1 million per chapter per year, will help DAV organizations repair and expand their facilities and provide additional resources to disabled veterans.
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill establishes a grant program to help North Carolina schools transition to competency-based education (CBE), where students progress based on demonstrated mastery rather than seat time. The program will award $330,000 grants to 10 participating schools over a four-year period (2025-2029), provide professional development and resources, and create a statewide network to develop proficiency scales and share best practices.
Introduced by John Bell
This resolution establishes the official operating procedures and rules that govern how the North Carolina House of Representatives conducts its business during the 2025 regular legislative session. The rules cover everything from meeting schedules and debate procedures to committee operations and bill handling processes.
Introduced by Renee Price
The Second Look Act allows people serving prison sentences (except those with life sentences) to request a judge reduce their sentence if they have served at least 10 years or 50% of their sentence, whichever is longer. A judge must hold a hearing and can reduce the sentence if they find the person is not a danger to the community and that reducing the sentence serves justice, considering factors like the person's age, behavior in prison, rehabilitation efforts, and victim input.
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding to the Salvation Army of Cape Fear for construction of a Corps Community Center in Wilmington. The facility will provide after-school tutoring, business training, recreational activities, community meeting space, and serve as an emergency shelter during hurricanes.
Introduced by Jeffrey McNeely
This bill appropriates $300,000 in recurring funds to the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission to develop or use a secure, technology-driven reporting and response system for human trafficking victims, with initial focus on western North Carolina where anti-trafficking resources are limited. The funds may be used to expand the system, hire a regional coordinator, and launch public awareness campaigns.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill allows North Carolina law enforcement agencies to destroy certain firearms in their possession, including unclaimed guns, firearms confiscated after convictions for certain crimes, and firearms purchased through or voluntarily surrendered to gun buy-back programs. Currently, state law prohibits police from destroying most seized firearms, leading to large storage backlogs costing departments significant money and creating safety risks.
This bill creates a new regulatory framework for hemp-derived consumable products (like edibles and vapes containing cannabinoids such as delta-8 and delta-10 THC) in North Carolina. It requires manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to obtain licenses from the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division, establishes testing and labeling requirements, restricts sales to adults 21+, and sets penalties for violations ranging from civil fines to criminal charges.
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill establishes a state fund to reimburse owners of retired police, fire, and correctional canines for veterinary care costs. Eligible dogs must have been certified and retired after July 1, 2024, and owners can receive up to $1,500 per fiscal year in reimbursements for covered veterinary expenses. The bill appropriates $400,000 in recurring state funds to support the program.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill aims to increase the number and quality of school psychologists in North Carolina through six main parts: providing salary supplements to school psychologists, establishing a grant program for schools to recruit psychologists, creating an internship program with stipends, funding virtual training programs, increasing university training program funding, and joining an interstate compact to allow school psychologists to practice across state lines.
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill updates the mileage reimbursement rates and per diem (daily allowance) for North Carolina legislators to match the 2025 federal rates, effective when the 2027 General Assembly convenes. It replaces outdated federal rate references from 1993 with current 2024 federal rates for travel and meal expenses.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill provides a 2% cost-of-living increase to retirement payments for state employees, teachers, judges, and legislators who retired through the state retirement systems. The bill appropriates $106.2 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to cover this increase, which takes effect July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill makes changes to North Carolina's Principal Fellows Program, which helps prepare school leaders. It adds a new grant program for universities and colleges to develop innovative principal training methods, allows the program to fund statewide professional development activities for school leadership, and establishes reporting requirements to track how well graduates perform as school principals.