North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1369–1392 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by David Willis
This bill makes several changes to how charter schools are regulated and operated in North Carolina. It gives the Charter Schools Review Board approval power over state rules about charter schools, allows the Review Board to hire its own legal counsel, and makes various operational changes including exempting charter schools from reporting class rank on transcripts, allowing alternate teacher evaluations, and creating a separate grading process for remote charter academies.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill creates a Tobacco Use Prevention Fund within the Department of Health and Human Services and directs $17 million annually from North Carolina's Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds toward youth tobacco prevention programs. The fund would support local health departments, media campaigns, military readiness initiatives, community college tobacco-free programs, and evaluation of prevention efforts.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop a statewide plan for reimbursing Clubhouse model programs—psychosocial rehabilitation day programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. It allocates $2.5 million in recurring funds starting in fiscal year 2026-2027 to implement the plan, support accreditation, expand services, and provide training, with a report due to the legislature by June 1, 2026.
Introduced by Julia Howard
This bill makes various changes to North Carolina's tax laws, including adjustments to personal income tax rules, conforming state partnership tax treatment to federal standards, updating sales tax definitions, making technical changes to excise taxes, and extending highway use taxes to peer-to-peer vehicle rentals (like Airbnb for cars).
Introduced by Larry Potts
This bill revises North Carolina law regarding abortion-inducing drugs sent by mail or through remote means. It allows such drugs to be provided if a physician conducts an in-person informed consent meeting at least 72 hours beforehand, the drugs are FDA-approved, and standard informed consent requirements are met. The bill also establishes civil liability and enforcement mechanisms, including private lawsuits and potential criminal penalties.
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill appropriates $200,000 per fiscal year to the Department of Commerce to conduct biannual analyses measuring North Carolina's economic progress and well-being. The department must report findings to the General Assembly every odd-numbered year, measuring metrics like poverty rates, job quality, household cost burdens, and education affordability across the state and each county.
Introduced by Jordan Lopez
This bill would make it illegal for most people in North Carolina to manufacture, sell, transfer, or possess ghost guns (firearms without serial numbers) and undetectable firearms (guns that can't be detected by metal detectors or are made entirely of plastic or 3D-printed materials). Licensed federal firearms manufacturers would be exempt from this prohibition. Violation would be a Class I felony.
Introduced by Wyatt Gable
This bill appropriates $20 million in one-time state funding to Coastal Carolina Community College for renovating its Trades Building. The funds come from the General Fund and become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill would require foods containing vaccines to be labeled and regulated as drugs, and would prohibit the sale of foods containing nine specific artificial additives (certain food dyes and preservatives) starting January 1, 2027, with civil penalties up to $5,000 for first violations and $10,000 for subsequent violations.
Introduced by Jerry Branson
This bill creates a state tax credit equal to 40% of qualified rehabilitation expenditures for companies that restore historic corporate campuses in North Carolina. To qualify, a project must involve at least $10 million in rehab spending on a historic structure that was formerly a corporate headquarters, sits on at least 20 acres, has been mostly vacant for two years, and is subject to a preservation agreement.
Introduced by Monika Johnson-Hostler
This bill appropriates $700,000 in state funding to establish Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training programs at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and Wake Technical Community College. Each college receives $350,000 to hire staff, purchase equipment, and develop the certification programs for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill repeals House Bill 2 (HB2), which was enacted in 2016. The repeal removes HB2's provisions from North Carolina law, including requirements related to bathroom access policies and employment protections.
Introduced by John Blust
This bill requires North Carolina local governments to set property tax rates at a 'revenue-neutral' level in years when they conduct a general reappraisal of property values. A revenue-neutral rate means the tax rate is adjusted so that the total tax revenue collected stays the same despite changes in property values from the reappraisal.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across multiple areas including housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, education, and jury service. It adds sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, military/veteran status, and genetic information to the list of protected statuses in existing discrimination laws. The bill also establishes the Human Relations Commission's role in investigating and resolving discrimination complaints in several sectors.
Introduced by Cynthia Ball
This bill appropriates $4 million in recurring state funds to the University of North Carolina's New Teacher Support Program (NTSP) to help new teachers participate in support services at no cost to local school districts. The funding prioritizes teachers in economically disadvantaged counties and covers services like instructional coaching, professional development, and teacher summits.
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill requires North Carolina local governments and school districts to use a competitive bidding process when selecting newspapers to publish required public notices. Instead of using commercial advertising rates, governments must award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder through an informal bid process that considers quality, performance, circulation, and cost.
This bill makes several changes to local government elections in North Carolina. It extends Kittrell's mayor and commissioner terms from two to four years, reduces Asheboro's school board from 11 to 7 members elected on a partisan basis with four-year staggered terms, establishes residency districts for Anson County commissioners, applies statewide vacancy procedures to Caswell County commissioners, and gives Scotland County commissioners discretion over school funding instead of requiring a mandatory minimum funding floor.
This bill appropriates $209,000 in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to establish a drug testing laboratory at the Onslow County Sheriff's Office. The funding is a one-time grant intended to enable the sheriff's office to conduct drug testing in-house for law enforcement purposes.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill appropriates approximately $173.6 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support various public infrastructure and emergency services projects in Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties. The funds are directed to local governments and special districts for purposes including water and sewer system improvements, fire and rescue equipment, detention facilities, and other capital projects, with an additional $300,000 annually allocated for cyanobacteria treatment in Lake Gaston.
Introduced by Celeste Cairns
This bill makes two changes to North Carolina traffic law: (1) it clarifies that drivers must yield to blind or partially blind pedestrians using white canes or guide dogs at all crossings and intersections, and (2) it increases the penalty for failure to yield that causes serious bodily injury to include a $500 fine and 90-day driver's license suspension. The changes take effect December 1, 2026.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill changes how Jackson County Board of Education members are elected. Instead of nonpartisan elections where party affiliation is not shown on the ballot, candidates will now run on a partisan basis, meaning their political party affiliation will be displayed. The change takes effect after the 2024 election cycle, beginning with 2026 elections.
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill requires employers in North Carolina to provide employees with paid sick leave, accruing at one hour per 30 hours worked, capped at 32 hours per year for small businesses (10 or fewer employees) and 56 hours per year for other employers. Employees can use this time for their own illness, family member care, medical appointments, and situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The bill takes effect January 1, 2026.
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill appropriates $27.85 million in state funds for public infrastructure projects in Chatham County during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds support downtown streetscape improvements and a main street coordinator in Siler City ($2.45 million), a new recreational facility and stadium improvements in Siler City ($10.4 million), a new fire station in Siler City ($5 million), and fire station construction and equipment purchases in Pittsboro ($10 million).
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill allows North Carolina political parties to optionally use a ranked-choice voting method in primary elections where no candidate receives 30% of the vote. Instead of holding a separate runoff election, voters would rank up to three candidates by preference on the same ballot, and if needed, second and third choices would be counted to determine a winner. The bill appropriates $410,000 annually for two years to develop ballot designs and voter education materials.