North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 25–48 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill prohibits entities controlled by adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, leasing, or holding agricultural land or property within 50 miles of North Carolina military installations. It requires existing foreign owners to register with the Secretary of State, allows the Attorney General to enforce violations through forced sales, and establishes penalties for non-compliance.
Agriculture
Introduced by Heather Rhyne
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's nonprofit corporation laws. It allows charitable and religious nonprofits to merge with certain limited liability companies, requires all nonprofits to file annual reports with the Secretary of State, permits nonprofits to change their state of incorporation (domestication), allows nonprofits to have just one director instead of three, and aligns state disclosure rules for charitable organizations with federal tax requirements.
Other / General Government
Introduced by James Adams
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's wildlife laws, including protecting sensitive information about rare species locations, authorizing new wildlife-themed vehicle registration plates, adjusting recreational boating safety rules, and allowing the Wildlife Resources Commission to issue elk hunting permits through raffles and auctions to raise conservation funds.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Neal Jackson
This bill creates a new regulatory framework for virtual currency kiosks in North Carolina. It requires kiosk operators to be licensed as money transmitters, implement consumer protections like fraud warnings and transaction limits, provide detailed disclosures about risks, and comply with oversight by the Commissioner of Banks.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina Department of Public Safety operations, including granting signature authority for a 50-year airport land lease, allowing donation of emergency management vehicles to local governments and disaster survivors, modifying victim compensation amounts and eligibility rules, authorizing tribal police chiefs to enter mutual aid agreements with other law enforcement agencies, and changing the Adjutant General confirmation process.
Local Government
Introduced by Philip Berger
This bill adjusts which counties must delay using updated property values from 2026 reappraisals for tax purposes. For the 2026-2027 tax year, affected counties must use older property values instead of the new ones. The bill also prevents public service company property values from decreasing in these counties during the moratorium period.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Buck Newton
This bill updates North Carolina's ski area safety laws by defining new winter sports terms, clarifying duties for ski area operators and skiers, establishing penalties for unauthorized ski area access and hit-and-run collisions, and providing liability protections for ski area operators who follow safety requirements. The bill also exempts volunteer ski patrollers and instructors from certain wage and labor laws.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill reorganizes and updates North Carolina's funeral service regulations by restructuring the Board of Funeral Service statutes and adding new definitions and licensing categories for funeral professionals, embalming facilities, and transportation services. It also makes conforming changes to Department of Insurance licensing programs and allows alkaline hydrolysis as an alternative final disposition method for human remains.
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill makes several changes to support the Department of Adult Correction's operations. It expands tuition waivers for survivors and disabled family members of fallen probation officers, clarifies technical requirements for electronic and satellite-based monitoring devices, allows a three-member panel to handle post-release supervision decisions, modifies sexually violent predator evaluation procedures, increases purchase limits from prison enterprises, and makes various administrative and technical adjustments to state corrections operations.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Francis Iler
This omnibus transportation bill requires a state audit of the Ferry Division's operations and finances, directs a study on changing the Division of Motor Vehicles' funding model, and makes numerous changes to vehicle registration, driver licensing, toll operations, and traffic laws. The bill also addresses special registration plates, electric-assisted bicycles, commercial driver training school refunds, and various highway and transportation management provisions.
Transportation & Infrastructure
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.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill appropriates $46,375,508 in recurring state funds annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to North Carolina's public universities to help cover costs associated with increased student enrollment at UNC constituent institutions.
Introduced by John Bell
Jaleeyah's Law makes several changes to North Carolina's criminal gang statutes and court costs. The bill increases court costs for criminal cases, tightens the definition of criminal gang membership, creates new felony offenses related to gang activity (including recruiting minors and gang members possessing firearms), and enhances sentencing for crimes committed as part of gang activity. The law takes effect December 1, 2026.
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill replaces North Carolina's current human resources system (Chapter 126) with a new modernized system (Chapter 126A) that applies to state employees in the executive branch, judicial branch, and legislative branch. The new system aims to simplify hiring, compensation, and personnel management by decentralizing some authority to individual agencies while maintaining standards for employee protections, leave benefits, and nondiscrimination policies.
Introduced by William Jackson
This is North Carolina's biennial budget bill for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027. It appropriates billions in state funding across all major agencies and departments including education, health, transportation, courts, corrections, and more. The bill also includes numerous changes to state laws and regulations affecting everything from education policy to business operations.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's involuntary commitment (IVC) process and mental health procedures. It directs various state agencies to study and develop plans for improving how people in mental health crises are evaluated, treated, and moved through the justice and mental health systems. It also creates new capacity restoration programs for defendants found mentally unable to stand trial and modifies procedures for outpatient commitment orders.
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill restricts local governments' authority to regulate off-street parking by prohibiting minimum parking space requirements and limiting parking space size standards. It also modifies stormwater control requirements so that property owners redeveloping existing sites only need to manage stormwater from new impervious surfaces, not from areas that existed before redevelopment.
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill modifies occupancy tax rules for three North Carolina areas: Haywood County, Cherokee County, and the Town of Leland. The changes adjust tax rates, how tax revenue is distributed and used, and the composition of tourism development authorities that oversee these funds.
Introduced by William Rabon
This resolution confirms Floyd McKissick's appointment to the North Carolina Utilities Commission, a position required by law to be approved by the General Assembly. McKissick will serve the remainder of Charlotte Mitchell's term, which expires June 30, 2029.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill makes several updates to North Carolina's health and human services laws, including requiring schools to display crisis hotline numbers, establishing a pilot program for magnetic stimulation therapy for veterans and first responders, updating opioid treatment program rules to align with federal standards, and expanding insurance coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices. The bill also requires healthcare providers to receive information about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and mandates surgical smoke evacuation systems in hospitals and surgical facilities.
Healthcare
Introduced by Thomas McInnis
This comprehensive bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's revenue laws. Key provisions include conforming partnership tax audits to federal standards with partnership-level taxation, expanding the highway use tax to peer-to-peer vehicle rentals, shifting vapor product enforcement to the ABC enforcement division, enhancing tax collection tools, providing tax relief for Hurricane Helene timber casualties, updating credit union regulations, and making various technical adjustments to tax administration.
This bill authorizes the Town Manager of Garner to settle certain claims against the town without requiring full town council approval, increasing the settlement authority limit from $100 to $10,000 for personal injury and property damage claims, and allowing settlement of eminent domain claims up to budgeted amounts. All settlements must still be reviewed by the town attorney and reported to town council.
This resolution adjourns the North Carolina General Assembly on July 2, 2026, and reconvenes it on July 27, 2026. It specifies which types of bills and matters can be considered during the reconvened session, including budget-related bills, constitutional amendments, bills that already passed one chamber, and various other specific categories.
This joint resolution confirms Melanie Bush as Director of the Division of Health Benefits in the Department of Health and Human Services, a position that requires General Assembly approval under state law. Bush will serve until June 30, 2029, filling the unexpired term of the previous director.