North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1729–1752 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill creates a new 'licensure by endorsement' pathway that allows physicians, physician assistants, and anesthesiologist assistants licensed in other states to obtain North Carolina licenses more quickly if they meet certain requirements, including 5 years of active licensure elsewhere, a job offer in North Carolina, and a clean disciplinary record. The bill also adjusts various medical licensing fees.
Introduced by Amos Quick
This bill authorizes the African American Heritage Commission to study the feasibility of creating monuments commemorating North Carolina's role in the civil rights movement and appropriates $500,000 to place markers and signage along the state's Civil Rights Trail. The Commission must hold public hearings and report its findings by May 1, 2026.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill requires all noncertified public school employees in North Carolina to earn a minimum of $17.00 per hour. The State Board of Education must adjust salary grades accordingly, and the bill appropriates $144.7 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support this increase.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill requires North Carolina's Medicaid program to cover doula services during pregnancy and the postpartum period, with doulas meeting specified credentialing requirements in areas like childbirth education, comfort measures, and lactation support. The bill appropriates $1 million in state funds annually for the 2025-2027 biennium to implement Medicaid coverage and an additional $550,000 annually to support the doula workforce.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill revises North Carolina's laws governing transfers of surface water between river basins. It establishes new requirements for water transfer permits, including mandatory environmental impact statements for major transfers (over 30 million gallons per day), detailed public hearing processes, and stricter conditions such as water loss ratio limits and revenue set-asides for source basin infrastructure improvements.
This bill requires all insurance and benefit providers (such as insurance companies, brokers, and administrators) who work with North Carolina counties and cities to submit annual reports disclosing all compensation they receive from those local governments. The disclosure must include commissions, fees, bonuses, and other payments, and must confirm that no compensation has been given to county or city employees or elected officials.
This bill requires the Department of Administration to create a comprehensive system for identifying, cataloging, and disposing of vacant or underutilized state-owned properties. It establishes new procedures for tracking building conditions and usage, mandates annual reporting to the legislature on state property inventories, and allows the state to sell surplus properties with proceeds split between the General Fund and property repair projects.
Introduced by Val Applewhite
This bill reforms North Carolina's prison labor system by requiring fair compensation (at least $5 per hour for most programs, prevailing wage for PIECP-certified programs), prioritizing rehabilitation and workforce training, prohibiting prison labor from displacing agricultural workers, establishing an independent Prison Labor Oversight Board, and requiring regular public reporting on prison work programs and employment outcomes.
This bill requires North Carolina schools to include instruction on the costs of gambling, including sports betting and gambling addiction, as part of mandatory personal financial literacy courses for all students. The instruction would begin in the 2025-2026 school year.
This bill restores longevity payments for North Carolina teachers and instructional support personnel based on years of service, providing annual bonuses ranging from 1.5% to 4.5% of base salary. The bill appropriates $140.3 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement these payments, which would be paid as a lump sum once per year.
Introduced by Terence Everitt
The Main Street Resilience Act allows small business owners to deduct up to $75,000 of net business income from their North Carolina state income taxes (or $150,000 for married couples filing jointly). A small business is defined as independently owned and operated with fewer than 50 employees and annual revenues under $5 million. The tax relief takes effect for the 2026 tax year.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill creates the Improper Action Claims Act, which allows private citizens and the Attorney General to sue public entities in North Carolina for knowingly failing to comply with state laws and regulations. The bill establishes civil penalties between $5,500 and $11,000 for violations, and allows private citizens (called 'qui tam plaintiffs') to bring lawsuits on behalf of the State and receive a percentage of any damages recovered.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill requires local governments to hold a public vote on whether to use a revenue-neutral tax rate during years when properties are reappraised. A revenue-neutral tax rate would keep tax collections the same as the previous year despite property value changes. If the local board votes yes, they must use this rate; if they vote no, they can set rates normally.
Introduced by Ted Alexander
This bill creates a new Class F felony offense for entering someone's premises without permission and damaging, taking, or destroying their temporary housing (such as tents, trailers, or mobile homes) during a declared state of emergency in a county designated as an emergency area. It also allows victims to sue offenders for three times the actual damages plus court costs and attorney fees.
This bill makes multiple changes to fire safety and building code enforcement in North Carolina. Key provisions include requiring public schools and state agencies to obtain additional insurance coverage, allowing the State Fire Marshal to contract for specialized services, making school participation in the state property insurance fund mandatory, waiving training course fees for firefighters and emergency responders, clarifying the State Fire and Rescue Commission's authority to conduct hearings, updating terminology and procedures for code officials, and expanding the State Fire Marshal's oversight of local building inspections.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill appropriates $2.45 million in state funds to Siler City for a downtown streetscape improvement project. The money will be used to underground power lines and widen sidewalks on Chatham Avenue ($2 million in Phase 1) and to implement design plans and hire a main street coordinator ($450,000 in Phase 2), with implementation beginning July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
The Senior Care Assurance Act expands healthcare access for North Carolina seniors aged 65 and older through increased Medicaid coverage for preventive and chronic disease management, telehealth services, home-based care, and caregiver support. The bill appropriates approximately $44.15 million in recurring annual funds (2025-2027) for grant programs, navigation services, home safety modifications, and a caregiver assistance program that provides monthly stipends up to $500.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill protects access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF) by prohibiting the state from limiting or interfering with patients' right to use ART or healthcare providers' right to offer it. The bill also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and appropriates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.
This bill amends North Carolina's Administrative Procedure Act to create a rebuttable presumption that trade and business associations, organizations, and similar groups have legal standing to request declaratory rulings from state agencies on behalf of their members. An agency can only overcome this presumption by providing specific written findings that the group's interests are not substantially similar to the individuals they represent.
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill declares that North Carolina has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to or use of contraception to prevent pregnancy. It establishes the right to use contraception as state policy by adding new language to North Carolina's General Statutes.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill expands North Carolina's hate crimes laws by broadening the characteristics that qualify a crime as a hate crime (adding gender identity, gender expression, and disability to existing protections), increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes, creating a state database to track hate crime statistics, and requiring law enforcement and prosecutors to receive training on identifying and prosecuting hate crimes.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill authorizes North Carolina to create a special vehicle registration plate called 'Birthplace of American Independence' featuring a feather pen design and commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Halifax Resolves signed in Halifax on April 12, 1776. Drivers who choose this plate would pay an additional $30 fee, with revenue split between the Special Registration Plate Account ($10) and the Collegiate and Cultural Attraction Plate Account ($20), with quarterly funds from the latter going to Halifax County Business Horizons, Inc. for commemorative and educational activities.
This bill appropriates $1 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to strengthen North Carolina's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. The funding supports nine new Regional Ombudsman positions in Area Agencies on Aging, operational expenses, and directs a study on statutory changes needed to improve the program and its volunteer system.
This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across 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 characteristics in state law, and establishes complaint procedures through the Human Relations Commission.