North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1–24 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Hugh Blackwell
This comprehensive election law bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's election administration, ballot counting procedures, voter registration processes, and campaign finance reporting requirements. Key changes include extending the deadline for processing certain ballots and voter registration issues from three to five business days after elections, establishing new procedures for challenging and auditing ballots, requiring signature verification capabilities study, changing municipal election dates, increasing compensation for county election board members, and implementing new campaign finance reporting thresholds and foreign national contribution restrictions.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Steve Tyson
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.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill makes numerous technical changes to North Carolina's court system and estate planning laws. The changes include updating adoption and estate procedures to allow electronic filing, clarifying rules for eviction appeals and rental payments during appeals, modifying bond requirements for estate administrators and guardians, adjusting jury commission procedures, and making various other procedural clarifications in family law, juvenile court, and civil litigation.
Local Government
Introduced by Kelly Hastings
This bill appropriates over $1 billion in additional capital funding for state infrastructure projects across multiple agencies and universities for fiscal year 2025-2026, including $100 million specifically designated for repairs and renovations at North Carolina Central University, and $5 million for the State Bureau of Investigation to purchase radios, vehicles, and a case management system.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill requires North Carolina's Wildlife Resources Commission to offer voter registration forms and organ donor registry information to anyone applying for a hunting or fishing license. For online applicants, the Commission must work with the State Board of Elections to mail voter registration forms to those who request them.
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill adjusts Medicaid funding by $690 million, requires managed care organizations to transfer $18 million to the state, reduces mental health and substance use funding by $30-44 million, eliminates vacant DHHS positions to save $34 million, and redirects $208.5 million from state capital reserves to fund UNC Children's Hospital and health clinics.
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
This bill makes multiple regulatory changes across environmental, education, business, and public safety areas. It repeals a fisheries reporting requirement, moves Arbor Week to November, increases penalties for water theft, allows emergency liquefied petroleum gas refills during emergencies, changes vesting plan duration from 2 to 5 years for development projects, allows accessory dwelling units in certain cities, permits residential use in commercial zones in larger cities, and makes various other regulatory adjustments including changes to concealed carry permit requirements, littering fines, and telephone solicitation rules.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill changes how school board members are elected in Columbus, Gaston, and Johnston counties by switching from nonpartisan elections to partisan elections (where candidates run with party labels). Board members will continue to be elected from residency districts, but starting in 2026, candidates will be nominated and elected through the same partisan process used for other county offices.
Introduced by William Rabon
This comprehensive criminal law bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina statutes effective December 1, 2026. It increases penalties for strangulation and indecent exposure offenses, creates new crimes related to approaching first responders and possessing theft tools, expands protections for sexual assault victims and children, increases penalties for crimes affecting critical infrastructure, and modifies procedures for juvenile justice facilities and law enforcement certification.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill makes two main changes to North Carolina law: it requires courts to document in writing their reasoning when placing children in out-of-home care, particularly regarding community placement decisions and efforts to prevent placement; and it freezes NC IOLTA (Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts) funds from being used for grants during the 2025-2026 fiscal year, limiting their use to administrative costs only.
Social Services & Welfare
This education omnibus bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina education law, including expanding automatic enrollment in advanced courses to include English Language Arts, allowing parents to choose nursing service providers for students with IEPs, restructuring charter school governance, establishing a meal incentive program, modifying teacher licensing requirements, and updating various education reporting requirements.
Education
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill makes three changes to local government in North Carolina: it modifies how Haywood County fills board vacancies, changes Jackson County Board of Education elections from nonpartisan to partisan starting in 2026, and eliminates the City of Jacksonville's planning authority over areas outside its city limits.
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill creates a new regulatory framework for nonconsensual booting and towing of vehicles on private property in North Carolina. It establishes the Towing and Recovery Commission to issue permits, set maximum fees, maintain a public database of towed vehicles, and enforce requirements for signage, vehicle storage limits, and payment methods.
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill makes various spending adjustments to North Carolina's state budget for fiscal years 2025-2027. It appropriates $500 million for Medicaid, funds for State Auditor and State Board of Elections positions, $713 million for capital improvement projects across state agencies and universities, adjusts state employee benefit contribution rates, and allocates $162 million in disaster relief funding for agricultural losses and waterway restoration.
Introduced by Bill Ward
This bill removes three specific parcels of property from the corporate limits of Elizabeth City and the City of King, meaning these areas will no longer be subject to municipal taxes from those cities starting July 1, 2025. The bill allows the cities to continue collecting any existing tax liens or special assessments on the removed properties.
This bill adjusts North Carolina's Medicaid funding and administration by increasing funding by $90 million, eliminating vacant state positions to reduce costs, discontinuing coverage for obesity management medications, requiring local mental health organizations to transfer $18 million to the state, and establishing new standards for how quickly and accurately counties must process Medicaid applications and eligibility reviews.
Healthcare
Introduced by John Bell
Introduced by Allen Buansi
Introduced by Kyle Hall
This bill amends the Town of Rural Hall's charter to establish a process allowing unaffiliated candidates (those not affiliated with a political party) to run for local municipal office by petition. It adjusts the petition filing deadlines to align with state election law requirements, with a special deadline of noon on July 6, 2026 for the upcoming election and new procedures taking effect January 1, 2027.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill creates a regulatory system for hemp-derived consumable products (like delta-8 and delta-10 THC products) sold in North Carolina, requiring licenses for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers; setting testing and labeling requirements; restricting sales to adults 21+; and banning the sale of kratom as a controlled substance. The bill takes effect July 1, 2026, for hemp regulations and December 1, 2025, for the kratom ban.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Heather Rhyne
This bill creates two main policies: (1) establishes drug-free zones around homeless service facilities where drug offenses become Class E felonies, and (2) bans unauthorized public camping on government property statewide, though local governments may designate specific areas for temporary camping if they meet safety and service requirements and receive state approval.
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill makes administrative, technical, and clarifying changes to North Carolina state laws related to the Department of State Treasurer, retirement systems, state health plans, the NC Investment Authority, unclaimed property, local government finance, and capital facilities. The changes include reinstating military service credit for state employees, clarifying death benefit rules, allowing Legislative Retirement System members more work flexibility, modernizing investment authority responsibilities, and updating various procedural and definitional provisions across multiple state programs.