North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 217–240 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Shelly Willingham
This bill changes the Town of Everetts' municipal election cycle from its current schedule to elections held every four years, with the mayor and three board commissioners all serving four-year terms. The change takes effect beginning in 2027.
Local Government
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill changes how North Carolina punishes child care facility licensing violations. First-time violations become Class A1 misdemeanors instead of Class I felonies, while prosecutors gain discretion to charge repeat violations or those posing substantial risk of harm as felonies based on specific factors.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill removes the 10% satellite annexation cap for the City of Dunn and Town of Erwin, allowing them to annex noncontiguous areas of land without the size limitations that apply to most other North Carolina municipalities. The change is added to an existing list of cities and towns already exempt from this annexation restriction.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill restores and increases funding for the Emergency Pension Fund for sworn law enforcement officers in Mecklenburg County by raising a court fee collected in criminal cases. The fee charged at conviction or guilty plea increases from $1.00 to $2.00 in most criminal cases, with the collected money going to support the pension fund. The change takes effect October 1, 2026.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by William Jackson
This is a local bill that applies only to North Carolina's 9th Senatorial District. The bill text does not specify what changes or policies it establishes—it only states that the act relates to the district and takes effect when signed into law.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to expand access to the federal Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) to family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care providers who are legally operating but currently excluded from the program. The bill appropriates $150,000 for planning and $500,000 in recurring funds to support implementation, and requires annual reporting on participation and barriers.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill requires the salaries of North Carolina General Assembly members to be held in escrow (set aside) if the legislature does not pass a budget for fiscal year 2026-2027 by June 30, 2026. The withheld pay would be released once a budget is ratified or the legislative session ends.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill increases healthcare price transparency and protects consumers from unexpected medical bills by requiring hospitals to publicly disclose pricing for common procedures, mandating advance notice of out-of-network providers, limiting facility fees, and establishing good-faith cost estimates for scheduled procedures. It also strengthens insurance appeals processes and removes requirements for certificate-of-need approval for rehabilitation facilities.
Healthcare
This bill increases funding for child welfare, foster care, and child care services in North Carolina by redirecting $104 million annually from sports wagering and lottery revenues. It also establishes a $250,000 secure communication platform for child welfare cases and requires a study on implementing statewide child care subsidy rates.
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill allows the City of Winston-Salem to delegate rezoning decisions to the joint City-County Planning Board, while keeping appeal rights and final review authority with the City Council. The bill also clarifies zoning procedures and permits density bonuses for affordable housing development.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill eliminates multiyear rate plans (MYRPs) that allow electric utilities to raise rates automatically over multiple years without annual review, and instead requires all rate changes to go through individual general rate cases. It also directs the Utilities Commission to study whether current performance incentives (capped at 1% of utility revenue) are effective at controlling costs and aligning utility decisions with consumer interests.
Environment & Energy
This bill increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for two types of home healthcare services in North Carolina: personal care services (PCS) to $7.50 per 15-minute increment and private duty nursing (PDN) services to $16.25 per 15-minute increment. The state would allocate $120.8 million and $20.1 million respectively from the General Fund, with matching federal funds, beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill makes four changes related to college sports at North Carolina universities: it keeps revenue-sharing payment details confidential from public records, allows graduate student-athletes with full scholarships to be counted as North Carolina residents for tuition, permits alcohol sales at university sports venues if approved by the Board of Trustees, and removes restrictions on raffles conducted by universities and their affiliated nonprofits.
Education
Introduced by David Craven
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation to conduct a study on improving commuter transportation in the Piedmont Triad region (Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem). The study will evaluate commuter rail, bus rapid transit, regional bus systems, and roadway expansion options, along with governance structures, funding mechanisms, and land use impacts, with results due by December 2026. The state will allocate $250,000 to fund this study.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $3 million in state funds to the Town of Ayden for stormwater management projects designed to reduce flash flooding in the Kennedy Estates subdivision. The funds are nonrecurring and available for the 2026-2027 fiscal year, becoming effective July 1, 2026.
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill removes the 10% satellite annexation cap for the towns of Cleveland and Spruce Pine, allowing them to annex noncontiguous land areas without being limited by the percentage restriction that applies to most other municipalities. The bill adds these two towns to an existing list of cities and towns already exempt from this cap.
This bill allows Harnett County to adopt land-use planning overlays for a jetport by modifying state airport zoning regulations. It exempts airport zoning regulations from certain planning requirements and specifies that regulations within 6 miles of cargo airport sites are governed by the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority.
Introduced by Bob Brinson
This bill restores the ability of local governments in five military-host counties (Craven, Carteret, Onslow, Jones, and Lenoir) to reduce zoning allowances on property without requiring permission from all affected property owners. A 2024 state law had required unanimous property owner consent for such 'down-zoning' changes, and this bill creates an exception for these specific counties.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill transfers $50 million in unspent education funds to support housing initiatives: $10 million goes to the Housing Finance Agency to provide low-cost financing for developers building affordable housing, and $40 million goes to the Department of Health and Human Services for its Transitions to Community Living program. Both agencies may use up to 3% of their funds for administrative costs.
Housing
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
The Make Enf. Liable & Transparent (MELT) Act would require judicial warrants (rather than administrative warrants) for federal immigration enforcement in North Carolina, repeal a 2025 law expanding jail cooperation with immigration authorities, provide $4 million in grants to immigrant legal services organizations, establish transparency requirements for law enforcement (facial coverings, identification, body cameras), prohibit immigration enforcement in courthouses, schools, hospitals, and places of worship, and create penalties for impersonating federal officers.
Introduced by Eric Ager
This bill prohibits North Carolina public colleges and universities from reducing a student's institutional financial aid (grants and scholarships) when the student receives a private scholarship from outside sources like foundations or alumni groups. The bill requires both the UNC system and community colleges to adopt policies preventing this practice and appropriates $740,000 annually to help institutions offset lost financial aid funds.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill requires the North Carolina Utilities Commission to obtain approval from the General Assembly before allowing electric utility rate increases that would raise a utility's authorized rate of return on equity. The bill also directs the Utilities Commission to study the cost of equity capital for electric utilities and report findings by January 1, 2027.
This bill reforms North Carolina's behavior analysis practice by creating new oversight requirements for registered behavior technicians, including mandatory supervised hours before independent work and limits on telehealth services in certain areas. It also restricts the number of hours licensed behavior analysts can work with minors without a parent or guardian present and appropriates $50,000 for the Behavior Analysis Board to develop new regulations.
This bill establishes a one-year grant program to help North Carolina public schools create Parent-Teacher Associations (PTAs). The Department of Public Instruction will distribute up to $1.25 million in grants, providing up to $2,000 per school without a PTA (capped at $30,000 per school district), which must be matched with local funds at a 2-to-1 ratio.