Steve Tyson
Election Day: November 3, 2026 · Register to vote at ncsbe.gov
Sponsored Bills (33)
Patriotic Youth Group Access
This bill requires North Carolina public schools to allow youth groups designated as patriotic societies (like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts) to give brief presentations to students about membership and civic education during the school day. Presentations are limited to 10 minutes and do not count toward instructional time requirements.
New Bern Unfit Dwelling Enforcement Options
This bill allows the City of New Bern to impose civil penalties (fines) on property owners or entities who fail to comply with city orders declaring a dwelling unfit for human habitation. Currently, the city can issue such orders but has limited enforcement tools; this bill adds financial penalties as an additional enforcement option.
UNC Enrollment
This bill appropriates $46,375,508 in recurring state funds annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to North Carolina's public universities to help cover costs associated with increased student enrollment at UNC constituent institutions.
Charges for Credit & Charge Cards
This bill caps the amount merchants in North Carolina can charge customers for credit or charge card payments at 2% of the transaction total, requires clear disclosure of these fees at points of sale, and prohibits charging card fees when no other payment method is available. The bill also increases the filing fee for nonprofit corporation articles of incorporation from $60 to $65.
Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons
This bill creates a fast-track legal process allowing property owners to remove people occupying their residential property without a valid lease or payment, with hearings held within 48 hours and removal ordered within 4 hours. The bill also prevents local governments from restricting pet shop operations beyond state regulations.
Timeshare Foreclosure/Paternity Matters
This bill creates a streamlined foreclosure process for timeshare associations to collect unpaid assessments without going to court, and makes changes to how paternity is established for children born outside of marriage. The timeshare foreclosure process allows associations to sell a delinquent owner's timeshare through a trustee sale, while owners can object to use this process and demand a traditional court foreclosure instead.
Study Alternative Methods for Highway Funding
This bill directs the North Carolina General Assembly to hire a consultant to study alternative ways to fund highway construction and maintenance, potentially replacing or supplementing the current gas tax system. The study will examine fees on electric and hybrid vehicles, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fees, and a flat annual highway access fee for non-diesel vehicles, with findings due by May 1, 2026. The study will cost $125,000 from the Highway Fund.
Neighbor State License Recognition Act
This bill allows people who move to North Carolina and are already licensed in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia to get an NC license in most occupations without retaking exams, provided they meet certain conditions like being in good standing and having at least one year of experience. The law excludes certain regulated professions like healthcare, law, accounting, engineering, and architecture.
Motor Vehicle Dealers
This bill makes three changes to North Carolina motor vehicle dealer regulations: it extends the grace period for license renewal from 30 days to 60 days after expiration, changes dealer license plate validity from one year to two years to match dealer license renewal cycles, and extends the mandatory replacement period for dealer plates from three years to four years.
Cosponsored Bills (26)
NC Farmland and Military Protection Act
This bill prohibits entities controlled by adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, leasing, or holding agricultural land or property within 50 miles of North Carolina military installations. It requires existing foreign owners to register with the Secretary of State, allows the Attorney General to enforce violations through forced sales, and establishes penalties for non-compliance.
Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on DEI
This bill prohibits North Carolina state agencies and local governments from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, policies, or staff positions. It defines DEI as initiatives that influence hiring or employment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, nationality, country of origin, or sexual orientation outside of merit-based processes, and establishes penalties for violations including fines up to $10,000 and potential removal from employment.
Make E-Verify Great Again
This bill requires state and local government employers to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm employee work authorization. It creates a 30-day cure period for first-time violations, allows the Department of Labor to conduct random compliance checks, increases civil penalties for repeated violations, and protects employees who report E-Verify violations from retaliation.
Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act
This bill expands the highway use tax exemption for volunteer fire departments and rescue squads that are not part of local government and have no more than two paid employees. The exemption now applies to fire trucks, pump trucks, tanker trucks, ladder trucks, four-wheel drive forest fire fighting vehicles, and emergency services vehicles.
Lower Healthcare Costs
This bill aims to lower healthcare costs and increase price transparency in North Carolina through multiple measures: requiring hospitals and surgical facilities to publicly report pricing information on common procedures, mandating clear billing disclosures to patients about out-of-network providers, establishing good-faith cost estimates for scheduled procedures, limiting facility fees charged by hospitals, and strengthening prior authorization and appeals processes for health insurance.
Back the Blue Pay Act
This bill provides salary increases and bonuses to state and local law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and related personnel. It also increases pension benefits for firefighters, rescue squad workers, and National Guard members, and raises death benefits for public safety employees killed in the line of duty. The total state investment across the 2025-2027 fiscal years is approximately $103.7 million in recurring and nonrecurring funds.
Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs
This bill requires state agencies to obtain legislative approval before implementing rules that cost $20 million or more over five years, and requires higher voting thresholds (two-thirds for $1+ million costs, unanimous for $10+ million costs) when agency boards or commissions adopt costly rules. It also allows the public to request legislative review of rules if 10 or more people object within one day of Commission approval.
Various Disaster Recovery Reforms
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's disaster response and recovery procedures. It prohibits discrimination based on political affiliation in state disaster recovery assistance, increases penalties for theft of temporary housing during emergencies, automatically adopts certain federal health care waivers during emergencies, provides building code exemptions for Hurricane Helene-damaged downtown commercial structures, allows temporary reconstruction flexibility in flooded areas, and streamlines permits for processing hurricane debris into mulch and compost.
Fostering Care in NC Act
This comprehensive bill makes several changes to North Carolina's child welfare and social services systems. Key provisions expand the Guardianship Assistance Program to include youth as young as 10 years old, establish procedures for judges to issue permanent no-contact orders against defendants convicted of violent offenses, make it a felony when caregivers commit or allow sexual acts against children under 16, and require cities and counties to conduct criminal history background checks for any applicant offered a position working with children.
Voting Record (735)
- Yea2025-03-18
Town of Mooresville/Property Conveyance
- Yea2025-03-18
Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation
- Yea2025-03-18
Continuing Budget Operations
- Yea2025-03-18
Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I
- Yea2025-03-18
Drivers License Designation/Autism
- Yea2025-03-18
Define Armed Forces/Religious Prop. Tax Excl
- Yea2025-03-18
Establish Military Appreciation Month
- Yea2025-03-12
Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse
- Yea2025-03-11
Local Bd. of Ed. Election Changes
- Yea2025-03-11
Designate State Balloon Rally
- Yea2025-03-11
Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I
- Yea2025-03-11
Protect Those Who Serve & Protect Act of 2025
- Yea2025-03-11
Town of Faith/Even-Yr. Elect./Four-Yr.Terms
- Yea2025-03-11
Gaston Co. Bd. of Ed. Elect. Partisan
- Nay2025-03-11
Protect Those Who Serve & Protect Act of 2025
- Yea2025-03-05
House Budget Technical Corrections
- Yea2025-03-05
Entry Fees for Interscholastic Sports Events
- Yea2025-03-04
House Budget Technical Corrections
- Nay2025-03-04
House Budget Technical Corrections
- Nay2025-03-04
House Budget Technical Corrections