North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill creates a new property tax relief program called the Secure Home and Future Property Tax Relief Benefit for homeowners who have owned and occupied their primary residence in North Carolina for at least 15 consecutive years. Under the program, annual property tax increases on qualifying homes are capped at 2% or recalculated based on improvements, with deferred taxes becoming due if the property is sold or ceases to be a primary residence.
Introduced by Val Applewhite
The Home Comfort Act appropriates $49.25 million over the 2025-2027 biennium to help low-income seniors (65+) age safely at home through three main programs: grants up to $10,000 for home modifications like ramps and bathroom improvements, funding for in-home support services and caregiver assistance stipends, and a statewide hotline and resource guide to help seniors navigate available programs.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill waives the renewal fee for North Carolina driver's licenses for people with an active duty military designation or a veteran military designation. The waiver would apply to license renewals on or after July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill requires every public school in North Carolina to have at least one full-time, permanent school nurse starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The bill appropriates $95 million in state funding to help local school districts, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools meet this requirement.
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill repeals certain confidentiality protections for legislators' documents and requests by making some legislative materials public records. Specifically, it allows documents prepared by legislative staff to become public when introduced as bills, offered as amendments, distributed at committee meetings, or released through other public legislative processes, while maintaining confidentiality for initial drafting requests and supporting documents until they are formally presented.
Introduced by Deb Butler
This bill strengthens enforcement of North Carolina's migrant housing standards by requiring operators to submit affidavits certifying they are not barred from agricultural labor programs, restricting post-occupancy inspections to operators with compliance issues, and requiring the Department of Labor to maintain detailed records and cross-reference violations by physical address rather than just operator name.
Introduced by Becky Carney
This bill requires medical equipment manufacturers to provide hospitals, equipment owners, and independent repair providers with access to documentation, tools, and parts needed to repair and maintain medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment. Manufacturers must provide this information at no cost (except actual printing/shipping), cannot require special authorization to use repair tools, and must offer the same parts prices and training to independent providers as they do to authorized repair providers.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill would repeal North Carolina's drug tax, which is a tax imposed on illegal drugs and drug paraphernalia. The repeal would eliminate this tax source entirely, though it does not affect taxes or liabilities that arose before the law takes effect.
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This joint resolution expresses North Carolina's support for admitting Washington, D.C., as a U.S. state and urges members of Congress to pass federal legislation to make this happen. The resolution does not create law in North Carolina but rather communicates the state's position to federal lawmakers.
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill increases funding for North Carolina's small county school systems by raising the dollar allotment each eligible small county receives per student. The bill appropriates $20,961,180 in state funds to support these increased allotments starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Mike Colvin
This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover emergency ground ambulance services without imposing higher out-of-pocket costs than they would for in-network providers, and limits cost-sharing for non-emergency ground ambulance services from out-of-network providers to no more than 110% of in-network costs. The bill also requires insurers to provide clearer information to customers about emergency service coverage and costs.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill prohibits UNC constituent institutions and community colleges from violating state or federal law in order to comply with requirements from accrediting agencies. It allows exceptions for specific professional programs like law, pharmacy, and engineering that have their own accreditation standards.
This bill changes how judges are disciplined in North Carolina by giving the State Bar Council the power to appoint four members to the Judicial Standards Commission (instead of the General Assembly), and it reinstates previous procedures for judicial discipline including the ability to issue public reprimands and defining when such discipline is appropriate.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill modifies North Carolina's income tax rate reduction system by establishing new revenue thresholds that must be met before automatic tax rate cuts occur. Instead of reducing income tax rates on a fixed schedule, tax cuts would only happen if the state's General Fund revenue exceeds specified trigger amounts for each fiscal year, with a minimum tax rate floor of 2.49%.
Introduced by Ben Moss
This bill allows the North Carolina General Assembly to review federal laws, rules, and executive orders to determine if they are constitutional. It prohibits state agencies, local governments, and state-funded organizations from implementing federal actions that restrict rights or that the General Assembly or Attorney General declares unconstitutional in specific areas like health emergencies, natural resources, education, and firearms regulation.
Introduced by Amos Quick
This bill reinstates education-based salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel (including school social workers) based on advanced degrees, using salary policies from 2013, and allocates $8 million in state funding for this purpose. It also requires local school boards to publicly post salary schedules for occupational therapists and physical therapists on their websites.
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill adds a new offense to North Carolina law that makes assaulting a utility or communications worker a Class 1 misdemeanor when the worker is readily identifiable (wearing company uniform or logo) and performing their job duties. The bill groups this offense with other enhanced assault penalties, such as assaults on sports officials, that already carry Class 1 misdemeanor charges.
This bill would require North Carolina employers to provide employees working shifts of six hours or more with at least one paid 20-minute break scheduled near the middle of the workday. Violations would result in civil penalties of up to $100 for the first offense and up to $500 for subsequent offenses.
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill allows North Carolina citizens age 18 and older to carry concealed handguns without a permit, while still permitting people to voluntarily obtain permits for reciprocity when traveling to other states. The bill maintains certain restrictions on who can carry concealed handguns, including those with felony convictions, domestic violence convictions, active criminal charges, and those deemed mentally unfit or addicted to controlled substances.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill directs North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to create an optional autism spectrum disorder designation that can be added to a driver's license upon request. The designation would be stored in electronic records and made available only to law enforcement to facilitate safe interactions, with strict privacy protections and voluntary participation.
Introduced by Julia Howard
This bill increases monthly pension benefits for North Carolina firefighters and rescue squad workers from $180 to $175 (effective January 1, 2026), clarifies pension eligibility rules for disabled and displaced members, provides survivor benefits for members killed in the line of duty, and adds a representative from the North Carolina State Firefighters' Association to the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council.
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill designates November as Military Appreciation Month in North Carolina each year. The designation is a ceremonial recognition with no funding or operational requirements attached.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill requires Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) to submit quarterly reports to the Department of Health and Human Services about emergency department stays, access to mental health and substance use providers, and retained funds from unused approved services. It also establishes minimum service standards requiring LME/MCOs to limit emergency department boarding to fewer than two patients per county and ensure 85% of patients can access approved services within 45 days.
Introduced by Nasif Majeed
This bill allows North Carolina counties to give property owners the option to pay special assessments in semiannual (twice per year) installments in addition to the existing annual installment option. It increases the maximum number of semiannual installments allowed from 10 to 40 and annual installments from 10 to 20, giving counties and property owners more flexibility in how assessments are paid over time.