North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 409–432 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Laura Budd
This bill exempts menstrual hygiene products (tampons, pads, menstrual cups, and similar items) that are certified as free of intentionally added PFAS chemicals from North Carolina's state sales tax. It also creates a certification program through the Department of Commerce to verify which menstrual products meet PFAS-free standards, and appropriates $100,000 to the Department of Revenue for implementation.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Monika Johnson-Hostler
This bill appropriates $200 million in annual state funding to expand the NC Pre-K program so that all income-eligible four-year-old children in North Carolina can participate, beginning in the 2026-2027 fiscal year. Currently, the program serves some eligible children but cannot accommodate all who qualify.
Education
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill restores North Carolina's state Earned Income Tax Credit, which expired in 2014. The credit would provide eligible low- to moderate-income working individuals a tax refund equal to 5% of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit they receive, with the credit becoming refundable starting in 2026.
Introduced by David Willis
This bill appropriates $31.5 million in state funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to improve government website accessibility through artificial intelligence tools, provide job training grants for veterans and formerly incarcerated individuals, and support career planning resources for working adults.
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill appropriates $7.5 million to help counties provide vocational training and employment services to people participating in accountability and recovery courts. The funding covers training costs, transportation, and support services like childcare and licensing fees, with grants capped at $150,000 per county per year.
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill appropriates $2 million in recurring annual funding to the Department of Health and Human Services starting in fiscal year 2026-2027 to help recruit, train, and support foster care families. The money will be distributed to county social services departments based on their documented needs.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Val Applewhite
The Ciji Graham Act establishes four interconnected programs to improve maternal health outcomes in North Carolina: a care navigation program using licensed nurses in six Medicaid regions, a statewide hotline providing clinical consultation to healthcare providers, a digital information hub with clinical guidelines and provider directories, and standardized referral pathways for high-risk pregnancies. The bill appropriates $10 million in recurring annual funding to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027.
Healthcare
This bill makes multiple changes to improve teacher compensation and working conditions in North Carolina public schools. It reinstates education-based salary supplements, increases base teacher salaries significantly, creates a forgivable loan program for National Board certification fees, establishes a one-year sabbatical program for experienced teachers, provides additional planning time and workdays for teachers, and gives school districts more flexibility with calendar scheduling and remote instruction days.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
The Safe Camps Act establishes a statewide permitting and safety program for youth camps in North Carolina. It creates minimum health and safety requirements for youth camps, generally prohibits cabins in floodplains with limited exceptions, requires comprehensive emergency planning and warning systems, and mandates regular inspections. The bill also applies similar floodplain and emergency planning requirements to campgrounds.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
This bill appropriates $15.5 million in state funds to renovate, repair, and modernize two hangar facilities at Smith Reynolds Airport in Forsyth County. The money comes from the General Fund and is designated for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill allows North Carolina residents and tenants to install small portable solar panels (up to 1.2 kilowatts) that plug into standard electrical outlets to offset their own electricity use. The bill requires customers to notify their electric utility and meet safety standards, but prohibits utilities from charging fees or requiring approval before installation. It also protects tenants' rights to install these devices on rental properties.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill transitions North Carolina's spirituous liquor (hard liquor) sales from state-operated ABC stores to private package stores by July 1, 2029. It allows local voters to decide whether to permit off-premises spirituous liquor sales, sells existing ABC store properties to private bidders, establishes a new liquor wholesaler permit system, and includes franchise protections for liquor wholesalers.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill requires the Center for Safer Schools to develop an interactive presentation about the legal, medical, and emotional consequences of gun possession, gun violence, and gun safety for 7th and 9th grade students in North Carolina public schools. Local school districts must provide this presentation to all students in these grades, with parents given at least 14 days' notice and the option to opt their child out. The bill allocates $900,000 in state funding to support the program.
This bill appropriates $250,000 in nonrecurring state funds to Smart Start of Forsyth County for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to expand early childhood education and family support services in Forsyth County.
Introduced by Larry Potts
This bill makes various changes to North Carolina's Medicaid program, health and human services, and state budget operations. Key provisions include modifications to Medicaid eligibility verification and work requirements, changes to hospital funding mechanisms through assessments and intergovernmental transfers, establishment of a Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education, increased funding for veterans scholarships, and appropriations for various state agency operating needs.
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill adds enforcement tools for the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office to address cable service complaints. It allows the state to pursue civil actions to recover revenue from cable providers who commit repeat violations of federal customer service requirements or their own customer agreements, and requires cable companies to include complaint resolution information on customer bills.
Introduced by Kanika Brown
This bill appropriates $100,000 in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to Wakaboomee, a nonprofit organization, to expand science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (S.T.E.A.M.) programs into Johnston and Wayne Counties, targeting rural and underserved communities.
This bill establishes a two-year pilot program for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to test hovercraft ferries on the Hatteras-Ocracoke route. The program will study whether hovercraft can reduce travel times, cut dredging costs, replace aging diesel ferries, and generate revenue through visitor fees while keeping rides free for residents. The bill allocates $25 million and requires progress reports to the legislature by March 2027 and December 2027.
Transportation & Infrastructure
This bill expands insurance coverage for fertility care in North Carolina by requiring health insurance plans to cover fertility diagnostic care and treatment (including up to four egg retrievals and unlimited embryo transfers), directs the state to seek Medicaid coverage for basic fertility services, appropriates $45 million for Medicaid implementation, establishes a fertility care resource hub, requires medical provider training on LGBTQ+ family building options, and protects the right to access assisted reproductive technology and contraceptives.
Introduced by William Jackson
This is North Carolina's budget bill for the 2026-2027 fiscal year. It appropriates approximately $35.4 billion in General Fund spending for state operations, includes tax policy changes, sets employee salaries and compensation, funds K-12 and higher education, and authorizes capital improvement projects. The bill also modifies existing tax rates and creates new tax credits.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill increases law enforcement staffing in Mecklenburg County, increases penalties for traffic safety violations (school bus stops, move-over law, street takeovers), restricts public access to highway camera recordings, expands 24-hour operation of a Charlotte traffic management center, creates new criminal offenses for reckless boating deaths/injuries, and increases penalties for assaults on public transit operators.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill appropriates $250,000 to help counties advertise North Carolina's property tax relief programs and modifies the Property Tax Homestead Circuit Breaker program by raising the income eligibility limit to $45,000 (with an additional allowance for married couples) and adjusting it annually for cost-of-living increases.
This bill creates a Rural Commuter Microtransit Pilot Grant Program that provides $30 million in funding to help rural North Carolina counties (defined as having 250 or fewer people per square mile) establish public transportation services. Counties, regional councils, municipalities, and transit authorities can apply for grants to operate shuttle and car services during peak commuting hours and off-peak hours for elderly, disabled, and other vulnerable populations.
Introduced by Eric Ager
This bill modernizes North Carolina's DWI enforcement and prevention laws by requiring written explanations when judges find no probable cause in DWI cases, increasing restoration fees for license revocation ($250 for DWI offenses), allowing oral drug screening tests as evidence of probable cause, establishing the same alcohol rules for ride-share drivers as bus drivers, giving repeat offenders a path to conditional license restoration through treatment programs, and making it a felony to provide alcohol to minors whose drinking causes serious injury.