North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 2041–2064 of 2,331 bills
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill expands privacy protections for minors' identifying information in local government programs and programs funded by the North Carolina Partnership for Children. It removes the requirement that these privacy rules apply only to certain localities and makes them apply statewide to any county, municipality, or local government program instead.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill revises and consolidates the Town of Pinetops' charter by updating its governing structure, powers, and procedures into a single, modern document. The town will continue operating under a mayor-council form of government with a five-member board elected at-large on staggered four-year terms, and repeals an outdated 1921 charter.
Introduced by Ray Jeffers
This bill appropriates $15.8 million in state funds for three specific projects in Person County: $10 million for wastewater treatment plant repairs in Roxboro, $800,000 for a splash pad in Person County parks, and $5 million for equipment and upgrades at Piedmont Community College's health and trades center. The funds come from the state General Fund and are designated as one-time, nonrecurring appropriations.
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill modifies how North Carolina distributes state funding for educating children with disabilities. It changes the funding formula to include students who receive education scholarship grants (such as education savings accounts) when calculating how much money each school district receives, and appropriates an additional $25 million in state funding for this purpose starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
Introduced by James Roberson
This bill exempts owner-occupied, single-family dwellings with home-based businesses from North Carolina's live/work building code requirements, allowing them to be classified and regulated as standard residential homes instead. The exemption applies only if the owner lives in the home, operates the business directly (not leasing to others), and complies with local zoning laws.
This bill appropriates $30 million in state funds to Durham County for upgrading wastewater infrastructure in the Research Triangle Park area to support economic development. The money comes from the state's General Fund and is designated as a one-time grant for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill appropriates $3.5 million in state funding to Forsyth County for renovating the Smith Reynolds Airport's maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) hangar. The funds will be used for structural repairs, modernization, HVAC upgrades, and infrastructure improvements, with quarterly reporting required to legislative committees.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill prohibits business entities (including corporations, LLCs, and partnerships) from purchasing single-family homes for rental purposes in North Carolina counties with populations over 150,000 if that entity and its affiliates already own 100 or more single-family rental homes. The Attorney General, county commissioners, and affected individuals can enforce the law through civil actions with penalties up to $100 per day per home, plus potential damages and attorney fees.
Introduced by Brad Overcash
This bill exempts student disciplinary records containing personally identifiable information from North Carolina's public records law at public universities and community colleges. The records would remain confidential even if federal law (FERPA) would otherwise permit their release.
This bill updates Winston-Salem and Forsyth County's planning and zoning laws to modernize terminology and procedures. It clarifies the joint City-County Planning Board's role in zoning decisions, allows the city to offer density bonuses and financial incentives to developers who build affordable housing, and updates references from 'Board of Aldermen' to 'City Council' throughout the enabling statutes.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill amends the charter of the Town of Pineville to allow the town to establish a reserve police division and authorize compensation for reserve officers when they are called to perform active duty. Currently, state law allows towns to have auxiliary police but does not explicitly authorize paying reserve officers for their service time.
This bill allows the City of Durham and Durham County to send public hearing notices through electronic means, such as websites, instead of only using traditional methods. The bill specifies that electronic notices cannot replace required mailed notices to specific groups or property sign postings, and publication schedules remain unchanged.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill restores Henderson County's authority to initiate down-zoning (reducing permitted land uses or development density) without property owner consent, but only for two specific purposes: farmland preservation in agricultural districts and floodplain mitigation in federally designated flood hazard areas. The bill applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.
This bill removes the requirement that teacher candidates pass a standardized exam to obtain a teacher license in North Carolina. It repeals existing testing requirements and prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting any new rules that would reinstate such exam requirements for teacher licensure.
This bill allows small employers with fewer than 5 employees (instead of the current 12) to purchase stop loss, catastrophic, and reinsurance coverage. These insurance products help protect small businesses from extremely high medical claims costs. The bill maintains existing safeguards around attachment points and claim thresholds to prevent the coverage from being used as primary health insurance.
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill appropriates $1.25 million in state funding for three projects in Steele Creek, a rapidly growing community in southwest Mecklenburg County. The funds support community wellness programs ($250,000), fire and rescue equipment and facilities ($500,000), and a traffic study on Shopton Road West ($500,000).
This bill appropriates $10,112 to North Carolina State University to run a pilot program in Wake County designed to increase participation in pickleball among people of color. The program will include focus groups, marketing materials, four-week instruction sessions at two Raleigh recreation centers in fall 2025 and spring 2026, and will create a toolkit for other communities to replicate the program.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This is a local bill that applies only to the 42nd Senatorial District in North Carolina. The bill text provided does not specify what changes are being made to the district, only that the act relates to it and becomes effective upon passage.
This bill appropriates $500,000 in state funds to Durham County to repair and improve orphan roads—roads in unincorporated areas that are not currently maintained by the state or local government. The goal is to bring these roads up to standards so the North Carolina Department of Transportation can take over their maintenance.
Introduced by Gladys Robinson
This is a local bill that applies only to the 28th Senatorial District in North Carolina. The bill itself contains no specific provisions—it only establishes that any measures contained would apply exclusively to that district and become effective upon passage.
This bill removes the 10% satellite annexation cap for the Town of Sharpsburg, allowing it to annex noncontiguous areas of land without the size limitation that currently applies to most North Carolina municipalities. The bill adds Sharpsburg to a list of cities and towns already exempted from this annexation restriction.
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill gives Granville County Schools and Vance County Schools additional flexibility to set their school opening and closing dates without needing State Board of Education approval. Currently, these districts must follow state rules requiring schools to open no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and close no later than the Friday closest to June 11, but this bill removes those restrictions for these two counties specifically.
This bill allows contracted law enforcement officers to enforce North Carolina motor vehicle laws on private streets, roadways, and alleys within the Park South Station community in Charlotte. State traffic laws would apply to these private roads as if they were public highways, with speed limits set by Charlotte City Council.
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill appropriates $13,215 in state funds to the Town of Milton during the 2025-2026 fiscal year to repair the town's wastewater pump station. The funds are designated as a one-time grant and become effective July 1, 2025.