North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill eliminates the requirement that audiologists, audiology technicians, and audiology assistants hold dual licenses (both an audiology license and a hearing aid dealer license) to fit or sell hearing aids in North Carolina. It also requires hearing aid sellers and audiologists to disclose to customers in writing that locked hearing aids can only be serviced at specific facilities, and establishes record-keeping requirements for these sales.
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill restricts how physicians can practice medicine in North Carolina by prohibiting shared ownership between medical practices and management services organizations (companies that provide administrative support), and requires that physicians maintain control over medical decisions without interference from non-physicians or outside entities. It limits which types of employers can hire physicians and establishes enforcement mechanisms through the North Carolina Medical Board.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill allows small businesses in North Carolina (those with gross receipts under $10 million) to deduct a portion of revenue from their state income taxes if they deposit that money into a dedicated capital improvement account for property upgrades. The deduction percentage decreases as business income increases: 5% up to $1 million in deposits, 2% from $1-2 million, and 1% from $2-3 million. If money is withdrawn from the account without being used for qualifying property improvements, it must be added back to taxable income.
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
This bill gives licensed professional land surveyors the legal right to enter private property to conduct surveys for locating property corners, boundary lines, rights-of-way, and easements, without this entry being considered trespass. The surveyors must make reasonable efforts to notify landowners and cannot damage property or enter critical infrastructure facilities or railroad property.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill appropriates $40.48 million annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to increase salaries for North Carolina State Highway Patrol officers. The law establishes new experience-based pay scales for troopers ranging from $56,000 to $105,000 and rank-based salaries for supervisory officers ranging from $120,750 to $224,612, effective July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill appropriates $20.3 million in one-time funds and $1 million in recurring annual funds to the National Institute of Minority Economic Development for disaster recovery in western North Carolina following Hurricane Helene, women's business center support, and community economic development services across the state.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill expands North Carolina school emergency epinephrine options by allowing nasal spray formulations in addition to auto-injectors for treating anaphylactic reactions. Schools would still be required to stock emergency epinephrine products and train personnel on their use, with the definition updated to include nasal sprays alongside needle-based injectors. The requirement applies to public schools, charter schools, and regional schools.
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill increases the maximum group sizes allowed for infants and toddlers in North Carolina child care centers and modifies nap time supervision rules for one-year-olds. It creates two voluntary enhanced requirement tiers that allow larger groups if centers maintain specific staff-to-child ratios, and aligns nap time supervision standards between one-year-olds and two-year-olds.
This bill provides $30 million in immediate funding to the North Carolina Housing Trust Fund and creates two ongoing revenue sources for the fund: 1.5% of register of deeds fees and 33% of real property transfer excise tax proceeds. The bill aims to address North Carolina's shortage of affordable housing by ensuring the Housing Trust Fund has sustainable, recurring resources.
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill creates a Study Committee on Automation and the Workforce to examine how automation technologies—including artificial intelligence, robotics, and software—affect North Carolina workers, with special focus on low-income and minority workers. The 11-member committee will review current and future impacts of automation, education and training needs, and recommend strategies to help workers adapt and find new economic opportunities.
This bill allows courts to order individuals delinquent on child support payments to participate in job search or work-specific training as an alternative to incarceration for contempt of court. Participants must pay a minimum of $50 monthly in child support, complete training within six months, and notify the court of their progress or if they fail to meet attendance requirements.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill changes North Carolina law regarding minors' medical consent and parental access to records. It narrows the conditions under which minors can consent to treatment without parental permission, requires parental consent for certain vaccines, and establishes new parental rights to access most of a minor's medical records while creating limited exceptions for abuse investigations and court-ordered privacy.
Introduced by Paul Newton
This bill restricts how local government water and sewer utilities can allocate service to new housing developments. It prohibits utilities from imposing certain conditions (like impact fees or design requirements) or using scoring systems based on building design, minimum square footage, or parking specifications when deciding which projects receive water and sewer connections. The bill also requires utilities receiving public funds to publish quarterly capacity reports, develop expansion plans, and explain any capacity constraints.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill creates North Carolina's Consumer Privacy Act, giving residents new rights over their personal data held by large companies. It allows consumers to access, delete, and port their data, and to opt out of targeted advertising and data sales. The law applies to businesses earning at least $25 million annually that collect data from 100,000+ NC residents, with many exemptions including healthcare, financial institutions, and government entities.
Introduced by Gladys Robinson
This bill repeals a 2013 law change and requires the Commission for Public Health to readopt an earlier rule (from August 22, 2013) regulating leaking solid waste transport vehicles. Until the new rule takes effect, state agencies must enforce the older regulations that were in place before 2013.
Introduced by Norman Sanderson
This bill requires North Carolina public elementary schools (kindergarten through grade 5) to include instruction in critical thinking as part of their standard curriculum, starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The instruction would teach students to evaluate information rather than simply memorize it.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship grants. It requires these schools to comply with state academic standards, administer standardized tests, undergo financial audits, limit tuition increases to 5% annually, maintain racial/ethnic diversity, and report detailed performance data to the state. The bill also modifies scholarship funding levels for fiscal years 2025-2032.
This bill creates an Office of Artificial Intelligence Policy within the Department of Commerce and establishes an AI Learning Laboratory program. The Office will inventory how state agencies use AI, identify regulatory gaps and barriers, and run a laboratory where AI companies can test new technologies under temporary regulatory flexibility in exchange for reporting data and safety monitoring.
This bill modernizes North Carolina's physical therapy licensing laws by updating educational accreditation standards, clarifying board composition and disciplinary procedures, adjusting renewal timelines, and refining definitions of physical therapy practice and unlicensed violations.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill appropriates $5 million in state funds to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation for construction of a new main library building. The funds are one-time nonrecurring appropriations that become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill allows military veterans who become teachers in North Carolina to receive up to four years of service credit toward their teachers' retirement pension based on their active duty military service. The employer must pay a lump sum to cover the full cost of this additional retirement benefit plus an administrative fee.
Introduced by Michael Garrett
This bill creates new protections for children on social media and online platforms by establishing an Online Safety Division in the Attorney General's office, a Cyberbullying Unit in the State Bureau of Investigation, and an independent Online Child Safety Commission. It requires large platforms (with over 5 million NC users and $25 million+ annual revenue) to implement parental controls, restrict manipulative design features, protect children's data, and submit annual safety assessments. The state would appropriate $5 million initially to implement these new protections.
This bill changes how many health insurance contracts North Carolina awards to manage Medicaid coverage. For future contract cycles after the initial round, it reduces the number of regional contracts available to Provider-Led Entities (PLEs) from up to 12 down to up to 4, while keeping 4 statewide contracts for commercial insurance plans. It also adds a rule that if fewer than 4 PLEs apply, all qualified applicants get a contract; if 4 or more apply, only 4 contracts are awarded.
This bill changes how courts handle criminal charges filed by private citizens (non-law enforcement). When a citizen files a charge, courts must issue a summons instead of an arrest warrant, unless the case involves domestic violence or meets certain exceptions like corroborating witness testimony or substantial burden on the complainant.