North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1897–1920 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill appropriates $2.178 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $4.542 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to fund 50 additional Adult Protective Services (APS) workers at county departments of social services across North Carolina. The new workers would investigate reports of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with funds distributed to counties based on their caseload and elderly population.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill requires North Carolina day camps to have certified lifeguards present when children participate in aquatic activities like swimming or water park visits. The bill sets specific requirements including lifeguard-to-child ratios, lifeguard chair heights, mandatory swim tests, and life jackets for non-swimmers, while prohibiting certain water activities like hot tubs and portable pools.
Introduced by John Bell
This bill repeals Section 2 of S.L. 2024-31 (a previous law from 2024) and dismisses any charges filed under that section before this bill takes effect. The repeal applies retroactively to December 1, 2024.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill adds a 'conscientious objection' exemption to North Carolina's vaccination requirements for students in public schools, colleges, and universities. The exemption allows students or parents to opt out of immunizations by submitting a written statement explaining their conscience-based or religious objections, without needing medical documentation. The bill takes effect for the 2026-2027 school year.
This bill updates North Carolina's Professional Employer Organization (PEO) law by clarifying financial definitions, adjusting financial requirements for PEO licensing, allowing more flexibility in financial documentation, and modifying reporting requirements. It implements recommendations from the Department of Insurance to streamline the regulatory process.
Introduced by William Rabon
This Senate resolution confirms Eddie M. Buffaloe, Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Public Safety, a cabinet-level position overseeing the state's public safety operations. The confirmation was adopted by the Senate on March 13, 2025.
Introduced by Jarrod Lowery
This bill strengthens protections for subcontractors in North Carolina construction projects by making 'pay if paid' and 'pay when paid' clauses unenforceable, requiring contractors to pay subcontractors within 7-30 days of receiving payment themselves, and imposing 1% monthly interest on late payments. The bill does not apply to residential construction projects with 12 or fewer units.
This is a Senate resolution confirming Pamela Brewington Cashwell as Secretary of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The confirmation was adopted by the North Carolina Senate on March 13, 2025, and requires no further action to take effect.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill amends North Carolina's Business Corporations Act to modernize corporate governance rules. It allows corporations to limit director and officer liability through their articles of incorporation, clarifies emergency procedures for board meetings and shareholder meetings during catastrophic events, establishes forum selection rules for internal corporate disputes, prohibits bearer-form share certificates and scrip, refines derivative lawsuit procedures, clarifies board committee authority, and updates merger rules for parent entities and subsidiaries.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill increases the vehicle registration fee for private passenger vehicles by $6.25 per year, effective July 1, 2025. The revenue from this fee increase would be transferred to the Department of Public Safety to fund salary increases for State Highway Patrol officers, with the bill also appropriating $40.4 million annually from the General Fund for SHP pay raises based on experience and rank.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to develop cardiac emergency response plans and install at least one automatic external defibrillator (AED) in each school. Schools must train staff in CPR and AED use, conduct annual practice drills, and coordinate with local emergency services. The state provides $2 million in funding to help schools purchase AEDs and develop these plans.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill appropriates $750,000 in recurring state funding to the NC Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program at UNC Chapel Hill to help recruit, train, and retain medical students and doctors in rural North Carolina. The funds will support convening health centers to share best practices and creating a publicly accessible database of that information.
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill modifies North Carolina insurance law to prohibit certain types of automobile physical damage coverage from being included in credit property insurance policies. Specifically, it bans coverage for repossession costs, skip/confiscation/conversion coverage, deductibles below $250, and coverage broader than minimum state requirements. Insurers can still offer these coverages separately, but cannot charge borrowers for them.
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill makes retirement income from North Carolina state government, local government, and federal government retirement plans exempt from North Carolina state income tax. The exemption applies to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
This bill changes the definition of a boarding kennel in North Carolina law so that only facilities caring for six or more dogs and/or cats require a state permit. Currently, smaller operations that board fewer than six animals would no longer need permitting or comply with state boarding kennel regulations.
This bill repeals North Carolina's existing 'Crime Against Nature' law and creates a new, separate criminal offense specifically for bestiality (sexual acts with animals), classified as a Class I felony. The bill updates related statutes to replace references to the old law with the new bestiality offense.
This bill directs North Carolina's insurance underwriting associations to study two potential options for improving how the state handles property insurance claims from natural disasters: allowing excess property coverage policies and issuing post-event catastrophe bonds. The associations must report their findings and recommendations to the legislature by March 1, 2026.
This bill prohibits North Carolina's Attorney General from participating in lawsuits (as a party, supporting amicus, or other participant) that would result in invalidating presidential executive orders. It also requires the Attorney General to report on convictions for impersonating federal immigration agents between January 2021 and March 2025.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill creates the Baby Bond Program Trust Fund, which provides $2,000 initial deposits into individual savings accounts for infants born in North Carolina to parents earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level. Account holders can access funds at age 18 for education, home purchases, qualified business expenses, or long-term financial investments, with the program administered by a Board of Trustees and funded with $10 million in state appropriations.
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill creates new state laws regulating artificial intelligence and synthetic media in North Carolina. It requires clear labeling of AI-generated or manipulated content in political ads, prohibits deceptive deepfakes of candidates, bans AI-generated child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate images, requires disclosure when regulated professionals use AI, and establishes criminal penalties and civil remedies for violations.
This bill clarifies what insurance companies and agents are allowed to offer customers without it being considered an illegal rebate. It permits insurers and producers to offer value-added products or services (like loss prevention education, financial wellness programs, or health incentives), non-cash gifts up to $250 per policy term, and drawings or raffles, provided these offerings meet specific criteria and are not unfairly discriminatory.
Introduced by Eddie Settle
This bill revises North Carolina's Insurance Guaranty Association Act, which protects policyholders when insurance companies become insolvent. The changes add cybersecurity insurance coverage protections, expand the definition of covered claims to include transferred policies, set a $500,000 cap on cybersecurity claims per insured event, and clarify the Association's authority to contest settlements and defend claims.
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill clarifies North Carolina's laws about how insurance producers (agents/brokers) can exchange and share insurance business with each other. It defines what counts as a proper exchange of business, allows producers to split commissions when exchanging business, and sets requirements both producers must meet including being properly licensed and disclosed to the insurer and customer.
Introduced by Sarah Crawford
This bill expands the Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act to include public safety employees killed while traveling to or from work, rather than only those killed while actively performing duties. It allocates $300,000 annually for the 2025-2027 budget period to cover these expanded benefits.