North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1777–1800 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill repeals North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) laws, which currently require healthcare facilities to obtain state approval before making major expansions, purchases of equipment, or new service offerings. The bill removes the requirement for state review and permission before healthcare providers can expand operations, while making technical updates to other state laws that reference the repealed CON requirements.
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill requires private detectives and investigators to obtain a search warrant before installing electronic tracking devices, and requires wildlife protectors to obtain judicial authorization before conducting inspections or investigations on private property, including the areas immediately surrounding homes and vessels.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill requires North Carolina schools to schedule daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance within one hour of the school day's start, display U.S. and North Carolina flags in classrooms, and provide instruction on the flag and Pledge's history. It also requires the State Board of Education and local school governing bodies to begin their meetings with the Pledge. The bill specifies that no one can be compelled to stand, salute, or recite the Pledge.
This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting or threatening elected officials (including state executives, legislators, judges, and local elected officials) by moving offenses to more serious felony classifications. It also requires that pretrial release decisions for these offenses be made by a judge rather than a magistrate, with judges able to impose specific conditions like stay-away orders.
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill allows small sawmills and certain other mills to sell ungraded lumber directly to homeowners for residential construction, provided the mill operator completes a state-approved lumber grading training program, the lumber meets building code standards, and code officials inspect the framing. The bill requires mills to mark and certify their lumber and register with the North Carolina Forest Service.
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill raises North Carolina's legal sales age for tobacco products (including vaping and e-cigarettes) from 18 to 21 years old. It creates a new permitting system requiring retail sellers, delivery sellers, and remote sellers of tobacco products to obtain state permits from the ABC Commission. The bill establishes penalties for illegal sales to minors and rules for how tobacco products can be sold and displayed.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill establishes a supplemental insurance program administered by the Department of Insurance to provide mental health benefits to North Carolina first responders (police, firefighters, EMTs, dispatchers, and correctional officers) diagnosed with work-related mental conditions. Benefits include reimbursement for medical expenses up to $5,000 annually, salary support during required medical leave, and disability payments up to $5,000 monthly for those unable to work.
Introduced by Michael Lazzara
This bill expands North Carolina's Good Samaritan law to provide legal immunity for people who seek emergency medical help during drug and alcohol overdoses. It protects both the person calling for help and the overdose victim from arrest and prosecution for certain drug possession and underage alcohol possession charges, provided they meet specific conditions like calling 911 in good faith and providing their name.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill requires health care practitioners in North Carolina to clearly identify their type of license, certification, or registration in advertisements and prohibits them from using deceptive or misleading information about their credentials. It also prevents unlicensed individuals from using physician titles or similar terms that suggest they practice medicine, and establishes enforcement mechanisms through professional licensing boards.
Introduced by Val Applewhite
This bill prohibits foreign governments designated as adversarial by the U.S. Department of Commerce from purchasing, leasing, or holding interests in North Carolina agricultural land or land within 25 miles of specified military installations. The bill includes a $50,000 appropriation for farmland inventory and becomes effective January 1, 2026.
Introduced by Dudley Greene
This bill appropriates $524 million from North Carolina's disaster relief fund to help communities recover from Hurricane Helene through programs supporting home reconstruction, agricultural losses, private road repairs, and small business infrastructure. It also extends regulatory flexibilities for disaster recovery activities through June 30, 2025, and requires detailed reporting on fund usage.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $3 million in recurring state funding to the Department of Public Safety's Division of Emergency Management to expand the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) program and training. The funds will also support partnerships with local community organizations to conduct training sessions and increase public participation in emergency response preparedness.
This bill appropriates $3 million in state funds to the Town of Grifton during fiscal year 2025-2026 to design and construct flood mitigation and resiliency projects. The funds come from the state's General Fund and are designated as nonrecurring (one-time) spending.
Introduced by Buck Newton
This bill expands public access to government employee personnel records across state agencies, schools, community colleges, hospitals, counties, and cities. It requires these employers to maintain and disclose general descriptions of the reasons for employee promotions, demotions, transfers, suspensions, separations, and dismissals, along with written notices for disciplinary dismissals. The bill protects private health and disability information while making these records available after any administrative appeals are completed.
This bill appropriates $100,000 from the state's General Fund to the Town of Pinetops for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to help its volunteer fire department purchase equipment. The funds are nonrecurring, meaning they are a one-time allocation rather than ongoing annual funding.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill appropriates $34 million in state funds to the Town of Kernersville for the construction or development of an event center in that town. The funds are one-time, nonrecurring appropriations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year and would become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill creates a legal framework allowing hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments to install temperature-controlled 'newborn safety devices' (safe surrender boxes) where parents can anonymously leave newborns up to 30 days old without legal consequences. The devices must have alarm systems, be inspected regularly, and staff must have emergency medical plans to care for surrendered infants.
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill reinstates and modifies North Carolina's Research and Development tax credit, which had been set to expire in 2016. The credit allows businesses to claim a percentage of their research and development expenses against their state income or franchise taxes, with different credit rates depending on business size, research location, and type of research performed.
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill modifies Scotland County's school funding rules by eliminating a mandatory minimum funding requirement for fiscal year 2025-2026. Instead of being required to fund schools at the state average per-student level, the Scotland County Board of Commissioners gains discretion to determine school funding amounts based on various factors. After 2025-2026, standard state budget procedures will apply again.
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill allows new corporations, S corporations, and business entities (like LLCs and partnerships) that are less than five years old and have net income under $5,000 to defer their state income taxes for one year. It also encourages state agencies to hire in-state contractors less than five years old and requires the Department of Administration to track and report data on contracts awarded to these newer contractors.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill appropriates $2.5 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2027 to the Department of Health and Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit community health centers. These centers would use the funds to purchase and distribute long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to uninsured and low-income patients.
This bill requires North Carolina's Division of Juvenile Justice to create a program teaching coding, programming, and computer skills to incarcerated youth in youth development centers. The program would include specialized courses, industry certifications, mentorship, internships, and job placement assistance, with $250,000 in funding and implementation required by January 1, 2026.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill would legalize and regulate cannabis for adults 21 and older in North Carolina, similar to alcohol. It establishes a licensing system for cannabis businesses, allows adults to possess and grow limited amounts for personal use, creates funds to reinvest in communities harmed by prior cannabis prohibition, establishes a medical cannabis program, and automatically expunges past cannabis convictions that would now be legal.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill allows North Carolina legislators to vote through an appointed proxy for up to 16 weeks following childbirth, adoption, stillbirth, or miscarriage. The legislator must watch the session remotely via audio or video stream, file a voting designation form, and a party leader casts the vote on their behalf after other chamber members have voted.