North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1393–1416 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Edward Goodwin
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support the North Carolina Patriot Star Family Scholarship Program, which is operated by the Patriot Foundation under the UNC Board of Governors. The funds are designated as recurring, meaning they would continue annually unless changed by future legislation.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill moves the Advisory Council on Rare Diseases from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the Department of Health and Human Services, reorganizes its membership structure to include more patients and caregivers, and appropriates $250,000 annually for two years to fund the council's operations.
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill makes it illegal for crisis pregnancy centers to advertise that they provide abortion or emergency contraceptive services when they do not actually offer those services. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to study crisis pregnancy centers operating in North Carolina, including their funding sources and services offered.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill appropriates $7.5 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2027 from the ARPA Temporary Savings Fund to the North Carolina Partnership for Children to expand mental and behavioral health services for children, families, and staff in child care facilities and after-school programs. The bill also establishes a special fund to hold and manage these allocations, allowing unspent funds to carry over year to year rather than revert to the state.
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill modifies North Carolina laws governing Research and Production Service Districts (RPSDs) and Urban Research Service Districts (URSDs)—special taxing districts that fund services in designated research and development areas. The changes allow these districts to span multiple counties, clarify how developers can serve as agents for service provision, increase the property tax rate limit from 10 cents to 20 cents per $100 of value, and adjust advisory committee appointment procedures.
This bill changes pay eligibility rules for school social workers in North Carolina. Currently, only school social workers with master's degrees (or higher) can receive education-based salary supplements. The bill removes the master's degree requirement, allowing all certified school social workers to qualify for these supplements. It allocates $500,000 in state funding to cover the cost beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.
Introduced by Wyatt Gable
This bill appropriates $2 million from the state's General Fund to the Town of Swansboro specifically for road maintenance. The funds become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill changes the rules for how many health insurance contracts North Carolina awards to manage Medicaid coverage in future renewal cycles. After the initial round of contracts, the state would award up to 4 contracts to provider-led organizations (instead of up to 12) and would guarantee contracts to all qualified applicants if fewer than 4 apply.
Introduced by Joyce Waddell
This bill appropriates $6.5 million in state funds to Discovery Place, Inc. for capital improvements at the Charlotte Nature Museum. The money will be used for $1.5 million in infrastructure projects (sidewalks, parking, EV charging stations) and $5 million for the Tree Canopy Walk project, which includes construction, safety features, accessibility improvements, and educational exhibits.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill modifies North Carolina's domestic violence protective order law to ensure that same-sex couples have the same access to protective orders as opposite-sex couples. Currently, the law limits dating relationship protections to opposite-sex couples; this bill removes that gender restriction so same-sex couples can obtain protective orders in dating relationships.
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill establishes the AI Academic Support Grant Program, which provides funding to North Carolina public school units in grades 6-12 to contract with Khan Academy for use of Khanmigo, an AI tool that helps teachers develop lesson plans and supports students with comprehension. The bill appropriates $10,060,560 in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year and requires schools to evaluate the program's effectiveness annually.
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill prohibits defendants in homicide and assault cases from using a legal defense based on discovering, perceiving, or believing a victim's sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill clarifies that such discovery or perception cannot negate the malice element of murder or serve as provocation, while still allowing evidence about a victim's conduct or statements if relevant to the case.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill appropriates $500,000 to establish a grant program that provides up to $20,000 per community college to upgrade equipment and facilities for producing student ID cards that can be used as valid photo identification for voting. The State Board of Elections must approve applications from participating community colleges by September 1, 2025.
Introduced by Gale Adcock
This bill clarifies which health screenings schools can conduct without parental consent and requires schools to notify parents about screenings at the beginning of the school year and when results are available. The bill defines health care screenings as limited to vision, hearing, dental, and developmental screenings, and requires schools to provide parents with notice and access to their child's results.
Introduced by Ted Alexander
This bill reduces the required waiting period before retired Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs) and Assistant Public Defenders (APDs) can return to work for the state from six months to 30 days. Current law requires a six-month separation from any state employment before retirees can return, but this bill creates a specific exception for these legal professionals.
This bill appropriates $30,000 per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Aging to support the North Carolina Senior Tar Heel Legislature. The funding becomes available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill establishes the Lasting Economic and Academic Prosperity (LEAP) Endowment Program to fund early childhood development and education initiatives in North Carolina. The program creates an endowment managed by an independent investment manager, uses investment earnings to support child development programs, and establishes a reserve fund that receives matching state dollars for private donations raised by the Division of Child Development and Early Education.
This bill adds an exemption to North Carolina's state law that prohibits viewing pornography on government networks and devices. The exemption allows Department of Adult Correction (DAC) employees to access such content when investigating matters involving incarcerated offenders or misuse of DAC-owned devices, as part of their official duties.
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This bill updates North Carolina's Controlled Substances Act by adding dozens of newly synthesized drugs to the state's Schedule I and Schedule II controlled substance lists. These additions include synthetic opioids (such as U-47700 variants and nitazene derivatives), fentanyl derivatives, synthetic cannabinoids, and other designer drugs, while also making minor corrections to existing drug names in the statute.
This bill requires Local Management Entities (LMEs) and Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) to reimburse private facilities for inpatient mental health treatment services that last longer than 30 days for patients who are under a court commitment order. Currently, reimbursement policies may not cover extended stays beyond this timeframe.
Introduced by Val Applewhite
This bill creates two programs: the LIFT Program, which provides $1,000 monthly cash payments to homeless high school seniors, young adults aging out of foster care, expectant and new mothers, and disaster survivors from 2026-2035; and the Healthy Start NC Program, which provides $1,500 to pregnant women and $500 monthly for one year after birth to new mothers. The bill funds these programs by reducing the corporate income tax rate from 2.25% to 0% by 2030.
This bill requires large medical facilities in North Carolina to adopt financial assistance policies for patients and restricts aggressive debt collection practices. It limits interest rates on medical debt to 2% annually, prohibits certain collection actions like wage garnishment and property liens, requires facilities to post pricing information online, and establishes eligibility requirements for free or discounted care based on household income levels.
Introduced by Ben Moss
This bill designates the Freedom Flag as an official state symbol of remembrance for the lives lost in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It allows the Freedom Flag to be displayed alongside U.S. and North Carolina state flags on public buildings, institutions, and county courthouses on September 11 each year, and permits public officials to accept donated Freedom Flags for this purpose.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting utility workers in North Carolina. It makes simple assault against a utility worker (such as an electric company or water company employee) a Class A1 misdemeanor, and makes assault with a deadly weapon against a utility worker a Class E felony.