North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 241–264 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Kanika Brown
This bill establishes a one-year pilot program called the Mindset Advantage Pilot Program at three Forsyth County high schools (West Forsyth, Ronald Wilson Reagan, and Mount Tabor) to support student-athletes' mental health and wellness. The program will provide mandatory mindset sessions led by mental health professionals, coordinate support services, and measure outcomes through anonymous surveys, with $180,000 appropriated for implementation.
Education
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 Cynthia Ball
This bill creates a Municipal Winter Road Operations Cost Share Program that reimburses North Carolina municipalities for up to 75% of costs related to snow and ice removal, including equipment purchases, staffing, and contracted services. The state would provide $10 million annually plus $20 million upfront for equipment, with municipalities required to contract with private snow-removal providers and maintain GPS tracking and public plowing maps.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill requires NC State University's Board of Trustees to study whether a new veterinary medicine college should be established at another North Carolina university. The study must examine the need for additional veterinarians in the state, the costs and benefits of creating a new vet school, and potential locations, with results due to the legislature by March 15, 2027. The bill appropriates $300,000 in state funds to conduct this study.
Introduced by Garland Pierce
This bill requires that patients receive an in-person examination by a licensed dentist before receiving orthodontic devices or services in North Carolina. The dentist must examine the patient's teeth and mouth, review diagnostic imaging, and issue a prescription after counseling the patient about treatment options and risks. All relevant records must be kept for at least seven years.
Healthcare
Introduced by Laura Budd
This bill creates two new firearm restriction mechanisms in North Carolina. First, it requires people subject to civil no-contact orders to surrender firearms to the sheriff if the court finds certain risk factors (such as threats of violence or suicide). Second, it establishes Individual Risk Protection Orders (IRPOs) that allow law enforcement, judges, doctors, and family members to petition courts to temporarily restrict a person's firearm access if they pose a danger to themselves or others, with safeguards including hearings and the ability to retrieve weapons after the order expires.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill authorizes North Carolina local governments to use inclusionary zoning policies to increase affordable housing availability and appropriates $10 million annually to the state Housing Finance Agency's Workforce Housing Loan Program starting in fiscal year 2026-2027. Inclusionary zoning allows municipalities to require or encourage affordable units in new residential developments.
Housing
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill aims to improve food allergy safety in North Carolina schools by requiring at least one full-time nurse in every school, establishing statewide training programs for staff on recognizing and treating anaphylaxis, requiring medical action plans for students with diagnosed medical conditions, and prohibiting food at school celebrations (with limited exceptions). The bill allocates $92 million in recurring funds for school nurses and $300,000 for developing training materials.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill prohibits utility companies and landlords from disconnecting electric and water service to residential customers during periods of extreme heat, extreme cold, or poor air quality. It also allows tenants to install portable cooling and air filtration devices in rental units unless specific safety or structural concerns apply, and requires landlords to offer deferred payment plans to customers affected by extreme weather events.
Introduced by Chris Measmer
This bill allows Cabarrus County to publish notices of public hearings and meetings through electronic means, such as the county's website, instead of only using traditional newspaper publication. The bill maintains that electronic notice cannot replace state-required mail notices or property postings, and does not change the timing requirements for publishing notices.
Local Government
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
The Workforce Act of 2026 appropriates approximately $8.85 million to expand North Carolina's workforce development programs, including apprenticeships, industry-recognized credentials, short-term training grants, and career information resources. The bill also funds technology improvements to make it easier for students to transfer credits between colleges and universities.
Business & Labor
This bill establishes a $25 million Tropical Storm Chantal Mitigation Fund within the North Carolina Division of Emergency Management to help homeowners in seven counties (Alamance, Caswell, Chatham, Durham, Moore, Orange, and Person) with buyouts, relocations, and home repairs. Each eligible homeowner can receive up to $500,000 in assistance, with funds distributed fairly across the affected area.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill directs North Carolina's Department of State Treasurer to study whether the state could accept digital asset payments (like certain cryptocurrencies) for state fees, and to study costs associated with residents sending money internationally. The bill appropriates $50,000 for these studies and requires reports back to the legislature by January 2027, but does not require the state to actually accept digital assets.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Jonah Garson
This bill changes North Carolina's high school math graduation requirements by allowing students to follow one of four different math pathways (college prep, career and technical education, quantitative reasoning/statistics, or STEM) after completing NC Math 1 and NC Math 2. It requires the State Board of Education to establish rules for these pathways by July 2027, mandates that career development plans include pathway information, and provides $1 million in funding for implementation beginning with students entering 9th grade in 2028-2029.
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill establishes a two-year moratorium (August 1, 2026 to August 1, 2028) on permits for new datacenters in North Carolina while a university study examines their impacts on electricity grids, water supplies, air quality, and property values. It also requires existing datacenters to annually report detailed operational and financial information to receive sales tax exemptions, and directs the state to report on lost tax revenue from datacenter exemptions.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill establishes the North Carolina Small Business Capital Access Program, a comprehensive initiative to help small businesses and companies in underserved communities access funding through loan guarantees, direct investments, technical assistance, and other support mechanisms. The bill creates a new Office of Small Business Capital Access within the Department of Commerce, an oversight board, and a $50 million fund to implement six main program components. It also modifies state tax credit laws to provide incentives for investments in eligible businesses that receive assistance from the program.
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill increases financial support for North Carolina's Teaching Fellows Program by raising forgivable loans from $5,000 to $10,000 per academic year, applies recent program improvements retroactively to all current participants, establishes new standards for selecting partner institutions, and funds a $50,000 study to understand why some loan recipients choose to repay loans in cash rather than through teaching service.
This bill requires North Carolina public schools to teach firearm safety and conflict de-escalation instruction annually starting in kindergarten, allows parents to opt out of either or both programs, and creates a statewide system for courts to search mental health records during concealed handgun permit applications. It also expands judicial authority to issue involuntary commitment orders and funds a pilot program to pair mental health professionals with law enforcement.
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.
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill makes sweeping changes to North Carolina's child care system by increasing subsidy payment rates to the 75th percentile, establishing a $110 million recurring funding stream, creating multiple pilot programs for child care access, establishing a new North Carolina Child Care Finance Agency to help fund child care facility construction, and providing tax exemptions and subsidies for certain worker categories including child care employees.
Social Services & Welfare
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.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill appropriates $7.118 million in recurring state funds to expand reentry services for formerly incarcerated individuals across North Carolina's 17 local reentry councils. The funding supports new staff positions (housing and support specialists), rental assistance, transportation vouchers for those on post-release supervision, education navigators at community colleges, and professional development training for agencies serving people with criminal records.
This bill appropriates $8.4 million in recurring state funding to create and support specialized courts that serve people in the criminal justice system with substance use disorders and mental health conditions. These drug treatment courts and mental health courts would provide court-supervised treatment plans and monitor participants' progress as an alternative to traditional criminal prosecution.
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill establishes a temporary pilot program through the Department of Health and Human Services to place high-need youth in lower-level care settings with support services instead of psychiatric residential treatment facilities, and directs the department to study reforms to licensure requirements and youth placement practices. The study is due by October 1, 2026, and the program receives $100,000 in funding.