North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 265–288 of 2,338 bills
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.
Technology & Privacy
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.
Education
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 fiscal notes to be prepared for all bills and resolutions introduced in the North Carolina General Assembly before they are considered in committee. Currently, fiscal notes are only required for certain types of bills. The bill provides $50,000 to fund the Fiscal Research Division's work in preparing these analyses.
Taxes & Budget
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.
This bill adds a legal definition for license-exempt family, friend, and neighbor (FFN) child care providers in North Carolina law. The definition clarifies the status of informal caregivers like relatives and close family friends who provide child care outside the licensed system, and allocates $30,000 to update state materials and data collection systems to reflect this definition.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Laura Budd
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.
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.
Business & Labor
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.
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.
Healthcare
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
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.
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.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
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.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill creates a new regulatory framework for home equity investment loans in North Carolina, classifying them as residential mortgage loans and imposing consumer protections including mandatory legal counsel, housing counseling, required disclosures, and limits on the amounts companies can charge. It also prohibits mandatory arbitration clauses in covered mortgage transactions and applies to companies making, brokering, purchasing, or servicing these loans.
Housing
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill appropriates $1 million in recurring state funding annually to expand the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program, which provides coaching and mentoring to beginning teachers in public schools. The expanded funding aims to increase embedded instructional support within local school districts and connect it more closely with teacher preparation programs.
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.
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 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.
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.
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill allows the North Carolina Department of Transportation to mow highway roadsides within a 5-mile radius of major sporting events during May, which is normally prohibited. Local governments can request this mowing if the event expects at least 5,000 attendees, with mowing occurring 2-7 days before the event. The bill appropriates $10,000 to cover administrative and operational costs.
Introduced by David Willis
This bill requires all school buses and activity buses purchased, leased, or rented by public schools, charter schools, private schools, and regional schools in North Carolina to be equipped with seat belts at all designated seating positions. The requirement applies to new bus contracts signed after June 30, 2030, with exceptions for child safety restraint systems, students with disabilities, and federally approved alternative restraint systems.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill requires bars and other establishments with on-premises alcohol permits to provide free drinking water to customers who request it. The water must meet federal and state purity standards and be served in a container holding at least 6 fluid ounces, and the requirement applies during hours when alcohol can be sold.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
House Bill 1183 'Defend NC' contains multiple provisions: it prohibits North Carolina law enforcement from assisting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement with immigration enforcement; temporarily suspends sales tax on goods that increased in price by 50% or more due to 2025 federal tariffs during fiscal year 2026-2027; directs state agencies to study and report on federal funding losses and consider replacement funding for health research, Medicaid programs, and education; and appropriates $50,000 to establish a potential North Carolina Institute of Health to support biomedical research.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill speeds up housing development in North Carolina by streamlining environmental reviews for residential construction, setting 60-day decision deadlines for state agencies, exempting certain small housing projects from extended reviews, and requiring local housing authorities to publicly track permit processing times and project backlogs.