North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1969–1992 of 2,329 bills
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill creates a two-year pilot program that provides grants to North Carolina public schools to fund field trips to the Legislative Building, with up to $2,000 per school available for transportation costs. The program prioritizes funding for schools in economically disadvantaged counties and requires the Department of Public Instruction to manage applications and report on participation.
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill appropriates $88.395 million in state funds to Madison County for repairs and rebuilding of public infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Helene. The funds cover repairs to wastewater treatment plants, town halls, fire departments, housing facilities, libraries, parks, emergency communication systems, and waterway debris removal across Marshall and Hot Springs.
Introduced by Beth Helfrich
This bill restores the authority of three North Carolina towns—Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville—to initiate down-zoning (reducing property density or permitted uses) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill reverses a restriction that was imposed in December 2024 and applies retroactively to that date.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $150,000 per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium from the state's General Fund to the Town of Pinetops to help cover staffing costs for its fire department. The funding becomes available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill allocates $800,000 in one-time funding from the state Highway Fund to the Greensboro Transit Agency for two purposes: $500,000 for the North/South Crossmax Orange Bus Route and $300,000 for a pilot program to transport high school juniors and seniors to Guilford Technical Community College campuses. The funding takes effect on July 1, 2025.
This bill gives Guilford County Schools flexibility to start the school year earlier than the current state requirement. Currently, North Carolina schools cannot start before the Monday closest to August 26, but this bill allows Guilford County Schools to start as early as the Monday closest to August 19 if the State Board of Education approves their request.
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill enacts the Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act in North Carolina, which clarifies how community property acquired in other states is handled when a spouse dies. It establishes that the surviving spouse automatically receives half of community property without going through probate, while the deceased spouse's half can be distributed through their will or estate.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill creates a faster legal process for property owners to remove squatters (unauthorized persons) from residential property in North Carolina. Property owners can file a sworn affidavit with a clerk of court or magistrate for a $25 fee, and law enforcement must remove the unauthorized person within 24 hours if conditions are met.
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill reinstitutes the North Carolina child tax credit for families with child care expenses, expands the NC Pre-K program to serve 32,000 additional eligible 4-year-olds, increases subsidized child care funding, requires public schools to provide free lunches to all students, funds child care programs at community colleges, and directs a study on creating high school child care apprenticeships.
Introduced by Ray Pickett
This bill allows the State Board of Education to waive the requirement that school years begin no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, permitting schools in Ashe, Allegheny, and Watauga counties to start as early as August 12 if they meet 'good cause' criteria. Good cause is defined as schools in a county being closed at least 8 days per year due to severe weather, energy shortages, power failures, or other emergencies during any 4 of the last 10 years.
Introduced by Michael Garrett
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation to study the feasibility and costs of building a commuter rail system connecting Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point in the Piedmont Triad region. The study must examine ridership projections, operating costs, land acquisition costs, and provide recommendations by December 29, 2025, with $100,000 allocated for the research.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill revises how North Carolina allocates state funding to help students with limited English proficiency (LEP) by establishing new distribution guidelines based on the percentage of LEP students in each school district, requiring the State Board of Education to study whether current funding is adequate, and appropriating $16.2 million in new recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill appropriates $134 million in state funds for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $357.3 million for 2026-2027 to add 10,000 new slots to North Carolina's Medicaid Innovations Waiver program, which serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The new slots would be distributed to local managed care organizations based on existing formulas, prioritizing people who have waited longest on the current 19,000-person waiting list, with a requirement that direct care workers be paid at least $20 per hour.
Introduced by Garland Pierce
This bill appropriates $231,000 in state funds to the Town of Gibson for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support infrastructure and equipment projects, including generators, water meters, lift station repairs, ditch work, and town vehicles.
Introduced by Dennis Riddell
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to restrict eminent domain (government power to take private property) to only situations of genuine public use, and to guarantee that property owners can request a jury to determine fair compensation. The bill also updates state law to align with this stricter standard.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill redirects $6.25 million annually from state funding for crisis pregnancy centers to evidence-based maternal and infant health programs. It also requires the State Auditor to audit Carolina Pregnancy Care Fellowship and establishes detailed reporting requirements for crisis pregnancy centers that receive state funds, including information about services offered, staffing qualifications, and client demographics.
This bill appropriates $530,000 to Edgecombe County Public Schools and $1,675,000 to Pitt County Schools to fund at least one full-time school nurse in every public school in each county, starting July 1, 2025. The funds are recurring, meaning they continue beyond the initial fiscal year, and are meant to supplement existing school nurse funding rather than replace it.
Introduced by Stephen Ross
This bill adds one new member to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, bringing the total from 35 to 36 members. The new member would be a full-time sworn law-enforcement officer selected by the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill expands the Town of Franklinton's corporate limits by adding specific North Carolina Department of Transportation rights-of-way (road corridors) to the town's boundaries. The additions include portions of US Highway 1, NC 56, and several local roads, becoming effective July 1, 2025.
This bill aims to increase wages for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) who work with Medicaid beneficiaries under North Carolina's Innovations waiver by $5 per hour in each of two fiscal years (2025-2026 and 2026-2027). Providers must use at least 90% of the rate increase to raise DSP wages, and the state will appropriate over $115 million in state funds and $210 million in federal funds for the first year to cover these costs.
Introduced by John Torbett
This bill allows Gaston County Schools to start the school year earlier than the current state requirement of no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26. With State Board of Education approval for good cause, Gaston County Schools could begin as early as the Monday closest to August 19, provided the calendar includes enough days to accommodate potential weather-related closures.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill would repeal a 2021 law that was phasing out North Carolina's corporate income tax. If passed, it would stop the phaseout process and maintain the corporate income tax at its current or higher rates going forward.
Introduced by Carl Ford
This bill increases the income eligibility limit for North Carolina's elderly and disabled property tax homestead exclusion from $25,000 to $48,000, effective July 1, 2025. After 2026, the limit will adjust annually based on Social Security cost-of-living adjustments.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill repeals a 2021 law that was gradually phasing out North Carolina's corporate income tax. By repealing the phaseout, the bill would maintain the current corporate income tax rate instead of allowing it to continue declining toward zero.