North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1513–1536 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill creates the Mobile Home Park Act, a comprehensive set of protections for mobile homeowners in North Carolina. It establishes rules governing evictions, rent increases, park rules, security deposits, and homeowner rights to organize and potentially purchase their parks. The bill also creates a registration system and dispute resolution process administered by the North Carolina Human Rights Commission.
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill automatically restores driver's licenses after 36 months if the only reason for revocation was failure to pay court fines or fees from motor vehicle offenses. It also forgives unpaid fines and fees from 'Driving While License Revoked' convictions when the original suspension was due to non-payment, and requires data collection on how these changes affect different communities.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill allocates $250,000 in one-time state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the Council for Children's Rights, Inc. to help cover their operating expenses. The funds come from North Carolina's General Fund and become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill prohibits North Carolina employers from paying employees different wages based on gender when they perform comparable work, unless pay differences are based on seniority, merit, production, location, relevant education/training, or travel requirements. It also prohibits employers from asking about job applicants' salary histories, requiring employees to keep wages confidential, or retaliating against employees who discuss pay.
Introduced by Norman Sanderson
This bill appropriates $11 million in state funds to the Town of Edenton for downtown development projects known as the TEAPOT Project. The funds can be used for building renovation and other downtown development activities, and the money becomes available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Michael Garrett
This bill creates a state income tax credit for investors who put money into small businesses focused on community infrastructure and resilience projects like transportation, utilities, disaster preparedness, and sustainable energy. Investors can claim a 35% tax credit on their investments, up to $100,000 per person per year, with a statewide cap of $5 million in credits annually.
This bill modernizes North Carolina's transportation funding formula by increasing support for public transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects while adjusting how highway funds are distributed among statewide, regional, and local projects. It also allows local sales tax referendums specifically for public transportation and updates zoning regulations to support multimodal transportation infrastructure.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill creates a state task force to study and address the disproportionate number of missing and murdered Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) women and girls in North Carolina. The task force will develop policy recommendations, improve data collection, create awareness campaigns, and ensure law enforcement cultural competency over a three-year period.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill creates two separate systems for measuring economic distress in North Carolina counties. The Department of Commerce will continue using 'development tier' rankings for economic development programs, but all other state departments and programs (such as tax incentives, housing assistance, water infrastructure, and health services) must stop using these rankings by July 1, 2027, and instead develop their own criteria tailored to their specific program goals.
Introduced by Thomas McInnis
This bill prevents local governments in North Carolina from enacting environmental regulations that are stricter than state or federal standards, unless the General Assembly specifically approves them. Local governments would have until December 1, 2025 to review and change any ordinances that exceed state or federal requirements, after which non-compliant rules would become unenforceable.
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill creates a new state review process for hospital mergers and acquisitions valued at $5 million or more. The State Auditor, Attorney General, and State Treasurer must review proposed transactions, hold public hearings, and can object if they determine the deal would harm healthcare competition, access, affordability, or quality in North Carolina.
This bill appropriates $15 million to the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a Wetlands Restoration and Protection Fund that supports wetland restoration projects, conservation easements, public education, and enforcement of wetland protection laws. The bill also expands North Carolina's definition of protected wetlands to include "isolated wetlands" that lost federal protection under a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision, bringing them back under state-level protection.
This bill restores salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel who hold master's degrees or doctorates, using the pay policy that was in effect on June 30, 2013. The bill appropriates $8 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement these education-based salary increases.
This bill requires North Carolina local governments to allow at least one accessory dwelling unit (a smaller residential structure on the same lot as a single-family home) in residential areas zoned for single-family homes. It sets statewide standards for how these units can be regulated, such as minimum size requirements and restrictions on parking and fees, while allowing local governments some flexibility on placement and other rules.
This bill removes the sales tax from menstrual products including tampons, pads, menstrual cups, and panty liners in North Carolina. The exemption would take effect October 1, 2025, and apply to all future sales of these products.
Introduced by Brad Overcash
This bill amends North Carolina law to allow people to appeal certain agency decisions to superior court, rather than having those decisions be final and non-reviewable. Specifically, it permits judicial review of agency determinations regarding claims for funding assistance under relocation and displacement assistance programs, provided the person has first exhausted all available administrative remedies and files within 30 days of the agency's decision.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill formally defines the scope of practice for four types of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North Carolina: Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. It removes the requirement that APRNs obtain joint approval from both the Medical Board and Nursing Board to perform certain medical acts, instead allowing the Nursing Board to grant prescribing and practice authority directly.
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill would protect access to abortion in North Carolina by codifying the standards from Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey into state law. It would prohibit the state from placing substantial obstacles to abortion before fetal viability, allow restrictions after viability except when necessary to preserve the pregnant person's life or health, expand which healthcare providers can perform abortions, and remove certain state funding restrictions on abortion coverage in public health plans.
Introduced by Eddie Settle
This bill adds definitions to North Carolina's environmental law for advanced recycling processes, specifically defining 'mass balance attribution' (a tracking system for recycled materials), 'recycled products' (products made from recyclable materials using this tracking method), and 'third-party certification system' (the international standards used to verify these processes). The bill clarifies that products labeled as recycled through these methods still must follow all air, water, and hazardous waste regulations.
This bill requires health insurance plans that cover fertility treatments to remove annual and lifetime limits on ovulation medication and ovulation induction cycles, and to treat ovulation medication the same as other prescription drugs. It applies these same requirements to North Carolina's State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, with funding allocated to cover increased costs.
Introduced by Gale Adcock
This bill legally defines the scope of practice for four types of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North Carolina: Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. It establishes a separate APRN license and removes certain requirements for physician oversight of APRN prescribing and medical decision-making, aligning North Carolina with 36 other states that have expanded APRN practice authority.
This bill creates a new licensing and regulatory framework for debt settlement services in North Carolina under the State Banking Commission. It requires companies that negotiate with creditors to reduce or forgive debts to obtain a license, maintain a $1 million surety bond, comply with specific business practices, and undergo regular examinations. The bill exempts banks, credit unions, lawyers, and nonprofit credit counseling organizations.
This bill increases the authority of the North Carolina Charter Schools Review Board by requiring it to approve all state rules related to charter schools, allowing it to hire its own legal counsel, and giving it oversight of federal funding decisions for charter schools. It also provides regulatory flexibility for charter schools regarding teacher evaluations and class rank reporting, streamlines approval processes for remote charter academies, and grades remote academies separately from their parent schools.
This bill appropriates $14 million in state funds to Pamlico County for engineering and constructing a new Department of Health and Social Services building. The current facility has been abandoned due to moisture and mold problems, and this grant would help the county build a replacement on county-owned property.