North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill makes multiple changes to support working families in North Carolina. It lowers copayments for subsidized child care from 10% to 7% of family income, restores a state child tax credit, increases the minimum wage to $15/hour starting September 1, 2025 and allows cities/counties to set higher local minimum wages, expands property tax relief for homeowners, creates a down payment assistance program for first-time homebuyers in public service jobs (teachers, police, firefighters, military, medics), and establishes a paid family and medical leave insurance program funded through employer and employee payroll contributions.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill provides tax relief to disabled veterans by gradually increasing the home property tax exemption from $45,000 to $500,000 in appraised value, allowing pre-qualification for this benefit, exempting primary vehicles owned by 100% disabled veterans from property tax, and reimbursing local governments for 50% of resulting tax revenue losses. It also establishes a $10 million grant program for veteran housing, infrastructure, and employment initiatives.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill appropriates $20.44 million in state funds to the Town of Davidson for emergency services, including $17 million for fire station construction, $3 million for an emergency vehicle, $100,000 for police equipment, and $340,000 for breathing apparatus equipment.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill creates two regulatory frameworks for AI chatbots in North Carolina. Part I requires licensing of chatbots that handle health information, with the Department of Justice overseeing safety, security, and effectiveness standards. Part II establishes broader safety and privacy rules for all chatbots serving over 5,000 monthly active users or generating $100,000+ annually, requiring clear disclosure that chatbots are not human, protection against emotional dependence, and strict data privacy practices.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
The North Carolina Survivors' Act allows courts to reduce sentences for people convicted of crimes if they were victims of domestic violence or abuse, and that abuse was a substantial factor in causing them to commit the offense. The law applies to new sentencing hearings and allows people already imprisoned to request resentencing, with specific sentence reductions based on the original sentence length (for example, life sentences reduced to 30 years or less). The law excludes certain serious crimes including sex offenses and crimes against children or people with mental disabilities.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill directs $11 million annually from sports betting tax revenue to the Department of Public Instruction to provide salary supplements to public school athletic coaches. The goal is to ensure each eligible coach receives at least $3,000 total in annual salary supplements from state and non-state combined sources, with any unused funds going to the North Carolina Alliance of YMCAs for youth sports programming.
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill increases compensation for school psychologists, creates a grant program to help schools recruit psychologists, establishes an internship program with stipends for psychology students, and funds university training programs to produce more school psychologists in North Carolina. The bill appropriates approximately $21.4 million for these initiatives.
Introduced by Michael Garrett
This bill requires all new school buses purchased starting in the 2026-2027 school year to be electric, with all school buses converted to electric by the end of the 2049-2050 school year. It also establishes a grant program to help small counties purchase electric activity buses, and appropriates $350 million for electric school bus purchases and $50 million for the grant program.
Introduced by Val Applewhite
This bill appropriates funds to raise salaries for teachers, state employees, community college and university workers, and provides cost-of-living increases for retirees. It also expands the WAGE$ early childhood educator supplement program to all 100 North Carolina counties and creates a tax credit for small businesses with annual receipts of $8 million or less.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill allows mental health clinicians and peer support specialists who work in municipal and county emergency medical services, rescue, or lifesaving departments to receive a waiver of tuition and registration fees when attending community college courses. The waiver applies to specialized courses approved by the State Board of Community Colleges that support these departments' training needs.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill requires owners and operators of public motocross facilities in North Carolina to carry liability insurance of at least $1 million per occurrence and $2 million in aggregate. The insurance must be provided by an approved insurer, and facility operators must notify the state insurance commissioner if their coverage is cancelled or not renewed. Private facilities not open to the public and government-owned facilities are exempt.
This bill creates a new state licensing system for Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in North Carolina. It establishes a Council to oversee CPM licensure, sets educational and certification requirements, defines the scope of midwifery practice, and outlines disciplinary procedures for licensed midwives.
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill expands North Carolina's eligibility for food and nutrition benefits and temporary assistance programs to include individuals convicted of drug-related felonies, removing a federal ban that previously disqualified them. Individuals must complete or participate in substance abuse treatment and meet a six-month crime-free period to qualify.
This bill creates two statewide awareness initiatives: one by the Department of Justice to educate North Carolinians about consumer finance fraud risks (like phishing and identity theft), and another by the Department of Health and Human Services to provide information about health and civil rights issues including reproductive, LGBTQIA+, gender, and racial health topics. Both initiatives will develop websites, toolkits for local communities, and outreach programs, with implementation beginning by July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill establishes a regulatory framework for hemp-derived beverages in North Carolina by defining them as nonalcoholic beverages containing hemp and various cannabinoids, and by giving the ABC Commission authority to set safety and quality standards for these products. Hemp-derived beverages would be treated similarly to alcoholic beverages for regulatory purposes but would not be classified as alcoholic beverages themselves.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill appropriates $474,680 in state funding over two fiscal years to Mecklenburg County municipalities (Matthews, Pineville, and Mint Hill) to establish a pilot program that pairs mental health professionals with police officers to respond to mental health-related emergencies and crisis calls.
This bill establishes the North Carolina Broadband Assistance Program, which provides free broadband service to low-income families at or below the federal poverty level, and monthly credits of at least $15 to families between 100-135% of poverty level who participate in certain assistance programs. The bill appropriates $250 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to operate this program.
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill establishes a 21-member commission to study how quantum computing technology could threaten North Carolina's current computer security systems and infrastructure. The commission will assess vulnerabilities in state IT systems, research quantum-resistant security solutions, and submit recommendations to the General Assembly by July 1, 2026, with $250,000 in funding allocated for the study.
This bill requires North Carolina local governments to allow middle housing types (duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, fiveplexes, sixplexes, and townhouses) in all residential zones served by water or sewer systems. Local governments must use the same permitting process for middle housing as for single-family homes and cannot impose unreasonable restrictions that discourage their development.
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill establishes a Clean Energy Workforce Development Program to train North Carolinians for nuclear energy and small modular reactor jobs through grants to schools, apprenticeships, scholarships, and veteran initiatives. It also directs a study on creating Nuclear Innovation Zones to streamline nuclear energy development and adds tax credits for clean energy manufacturers.
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
This bill eliminates North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) requirements for most counties, keeping them only in counties with populations under 100,000 that have at least one functioning hospital. It also creates a new category of ambulatory surgical facilities that can opt out of CON requirements if they meet certain criteria and maintain minimum charity care standards.
Introduced by Sydney Batch
This bill creates an Individual Freedoms Act that establishes protections against state surveillance, medical privacy requirements, parental authority in education and healthcare, fact-based education standards, and prohibitions on employment/housing discrimination based on political beliefs or medical history. The bill requires that any restrictions on these rights meet a 'compelling state interest' test and use narrowly tailored means.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's nonprofit corporation laws, including: allowing charitable organizations to use federal tax acknowledgments to satisfy state disclosure requirements; requiring annual reports to the Secretary of State; allowing nonprofits to domesticate (change their governing state); reducing the minimum number of directors from three to one; and clarifying rules for mergers, conversions, and board committees.
This bill creates a new Agricultural Manufacturing Investment Grant Account within North Carolina's One North Carolina Fund, allocating up to $5 million to provide competitive grants to agricultural manufacturers. Eligible companies can receive grants up to $100,000 annually (capped at $500,000 total over five years) if they meet requirements including a minimum $5 million private investment, at least 25 full-time employees, and above-average wages.