North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1945–1968 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill increases pay for school psychologists, creates grant and internship programs to recruit and train more of them, funds university training programs, and establishes an interstate compact allowing school psychologists licensed in one state to practice in other member states more easily.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill creates a beverage container deposit and refund program in North Carolina. Consumers pay a 10-cent deposit when purchasing drinks in bottles or cans, which they can reclaim by returning empty containers to retailers or redemption centers. The bill sets recycling and redemption targets and creates a fund from unredeemed deposits to support litter reduction and recycling programs.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill appropriates $8.3 million in nonrecurring state funds to Guilford County Schools for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds are designated for two programs: $5 million for high dosage tutoring (hiring tutors, expanding subjects, and increasing tutoring sessions) and $3.3 million for learning hubs that provide flexible, individualized programs for at-risk students to help them graduate.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $10 million in state highway funds to the Pitt-Greenville Airport for constructing a new general aviation terminal designed to address flood mitigation concerns. The funds would be made available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill appropriates $380,000 for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $397,000 for fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Department of Health and Human Services to create four new full-time ombudsman positions. These ombudsmen will advocate for residents in nursing homes, adult care homes, and family care homes, with the goal of bringing North Carolina's long-term care ombudsman program into alignment with national standards.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill creates a new category of funeral service agreements called 'transportation protection agreements' and excludes them from existing preneed funeral contract regulations and life insurance requirements. Transportation protection agreements are defined as agreements that arrange professional services for preparing and transporting human remains or cremated remains.
Introduced by Kyle Hall
This bill establishes a Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program administered by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to help employers support employees in recovery from substance use disorders. Employers can voluntarily participate at two levels—as a participant or as a certified workplace—by completing orientation, adopting recovery-supportive policies, and maintaining annual reviews. The bill appropriates $300,000 from the Opioid Settlement Fund for fiscal year 2025-2026 to implement the program.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
The Economic Security Act would increase North Carolina's minimum wage to $22 per hour (adjusted annually for inflation), require paid sick leave and family medical leave, strengthen wage protections, expand unemployment insurance benefits, and provide cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees. It also includes provisions on equal pay for equal work, workplace safety, criminal history screening in hiring, and tax credits for working families.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill requires North Carolina's State Board of Education to develop or purchase a screening assessment for gifted students and administer it to all sixth-graders in middle schools. The state would allocate $7 million in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement this universal screening program.
This bill appropriates $5 million in state funds to the City of Greenville to replace an aging bulkhead in Town Common park. The replacement is intended to address flooding problems, structural deterioration, and improve the area's resilience to future flood events.
Introduced by John Bell
This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct overtime compensation, tips, and up to $2,500 in annual bonus pay from their state income tax. The deductions apply to income that would normally be taxed, effectively reducing the amount of state income tax owed by workers who receive these forms of compensation.
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill expands the investigatory powers of North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation and State Fire Marshal by clarifying their authority to supervise fire investigations in certain cases (deaths, serious injuries, arson, and government/educational/religious buildings) and requiring insurance companies to share fire loss investigation information with state officials. The bill also grants investigators broader access to buildings, witness testimony powers, and protections for insurance companies that cooperate.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill expands North Carolina's Medicaid Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP) to include freestanding psychiatric hospitals alongside existing acute care hospitals. It funds increased reimbursements to these psychiatric hospitals through new hospital assessments levied on all freestanding psychiatric hospitals in the state.
Introduced by Laura Budd
This bill allows the Town of Pineville to establish a reserve police division and compensate reserve officers when they are called to work active duty shifts. Previously, the town could only have auxiliary police under state law, but this amendment creates a separate reserve division with the ability to pay these officers for their service.
Introduced by Frances Jackson
This bill appropriates $16.564 million in state funds to the Town of Hope Mills for two capital projects: $13.134 million to construct a new community center and $3.430 million to design and renovate the Senior Center to meet ADA accessibility requirements. The funds are nonrecurring and designated for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
This bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to study ways to increase teacher planning time or reduce teacher obligations that interfere with planning time. The department must report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by February 15, 2026, including cost estimates. The state will provide $5,000 in funding for the study.
This bill revises North Carolina's bail bondsman licensing regulations to establish clearer rules for supervising new bondsmen, require out-of-state sureties to use licensed NC bondsmen for arrests, extend the new bondsman supervision period from 12 to 24 months, establish qualifications for supervising bondsmen, add grounds for license denial based on felony convictions, and adjust renewal deadlines and business address requirements.
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill authorizes the Town of Tabor City to participate in state and federal railroad revitalization programs and allows the town to use local property tax funds (up to 10% of project costs) as matching funds to support these rail service improvements.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill appropriates $500,000 in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Hispanic Grassroots, a nonprofit organization that provides education and outreach services to Hispanic communities in North Carolina. The funds would support programs including education scholarships, small business assistance, healthcare education, and civics classes.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill legalizes the sale and use of certain consumer fireworks in North Carolina starting January 1, 2026. It establishes a permitting system for fireworks retailers, sets safety requirements and restrictions on where and when fireworks can be used, and imposes a 5% excise tax on consumer fireworks sales, with 25% of proceeds funding firefighter education and training.
Introduced by Amos Quick
This bill restores the City of High Point's authority to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed development density or permitted uses on property) without needing written consent from all affected property owners. The change applies retroactively to December 11, 2024, and reverses a restriction that was added in a previous 2024 law.
This bill allows the Town of Tabor City to transfer excess money from its wastewater system fund to its general fund if the wastewater fund has more money than needed for operations and future costs. The transferred funds would be used to support other town services.
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill appropriates $80 million in state funds to Madison County to help relocate its courthouse, which was severely damaged by Hurricane Helene, to a location outside the floodplain. The funds would be available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill increases public access to General Assembly records by requiring legislative records to be retained for at least 10 years before destruction and repealing previous exemptions that allowed the General Assembly to destroy records without following standard archival procedures. It also makes changes to campaign finance laws regarding federal political committees.