North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 481–504 of 2,338 bills
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.
Education
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill appropriates $100,000 in state funds to the Winston-Salem Urban League for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to support programs focused on economic empowerment, education, and workforce development. The funds are nonrecurring, meaning they are a one-time allocation rather than an ongoing annual appropriation.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill establishes a comprehensive framework to address menopause in North Carolina through four main components: funding menopause research and education, providing tax incentives for doctors to take menopause training, requiring health insurance and Medicaid to cover menopause-related care without cost-sharing, and protecting workers from discrimination based on menopause-related conditions.
Healthcare
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill establishes legal protections for children born through artificial insemination and creates civil lawsuits for patients or children harmed when healthcare providers use their own reproductive material without patient consent. It allows patients and affected children to sue for $50,000 in damages plus legal fees, with a five-year deadline to file, and extends this deadline for minors until five years after they turn 18.
Introduced by Sarah Crawford
This bill expands North Carolina's property tax break for disabled veterans by excluding their entire home value from taxation instead of just the first $45,000. The state will reimburse local governments and school districts for the tax revenue they lose from this expanded exclusion.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill exempts the Department of State Treasurer from having to undergo review by the Department of Health and Human Services when establishing, developing, or acquiring new institutional health services in partnership with DHHS. The bill also appropriates $50,000 to the State Treasurer's office to implement these changes, effective July 1, 2026.
Introduced by James Adams
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to allow North Carolina citizens to carry firearms openly or concealed without a permit, provided they have not been convicted of violent crimes or drug offenses and have not been adjudicated mentally incompetent. The amendment would be submitted to voters in the November 2026 general election, and if approved, would remove the current legal prohibition on concealed carry without a permit while maintaining an optional permit system for interstate reciprocity.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
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.
This bill appropriates $10.4 million in state funding to Forsyth Technical Community College for construction and equipment to expand first responder training programs. The funds will support building new facilities, classrooms, training tracks, and fire apparatus equipment for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill reestablishes North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a tax credit to working families based on a percentage of the federal EITC they qualify for. The credit would be set at 20% of the federal credit amount for 2026 and beyond, and any credit amount exceeding taxes owed would be refunded to the taxpayer.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill establishes three healthcare access programs in North Carolina: a $5 million Maternal Care Access Grant Program to fund community-based organizations addressing maternal health disparities, a $2 million Prostate Cancer Control Program providing free or low-cost screenings for uninsured/underinsured men, and insurance coverage requirements ensuring that diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging have the same patient cost-sharing as screening mammograms.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill repeals North Carolina's scheduled phase-out of the corporate income tax and sets a permanent corporate income tax rate of 5% instead of allowing it to reach 0%. Currently, the state reduces the corporate tax rate each year, scheduled to eliminate it entirely after 2029. This bill stops that reduction and locks in a 5% rate.
This bill repeals North Carolina's ban on collective bargaining agreements between public employees and labor unions. Currently, state law declares such agreements illegal; this bill would remove that prohibition, allowing public employees to negotiate collectively with their employers starting July 1, 2026. The bill also appropriates $100,000 to inform public employees about the change.
Business & Labor
This bill creates a High-Skilled Talent Retention Fund within the North Carolina Department of Commerce that would provide grants to immigrant workers to help pay for costs associated with maintaining their employment-based visa status, such as visa renewal fees and legal processing costs. The bill allocates $1 million in recurring state funds to administer the program and cover eligible applicants' immigration-related expenses.
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop a plan for a tiered Innovations waiver program to address the waitlist for individuals needing services. The tiered system would offer three benefit levels ($25,000, $75,000, and full waiver benefits) and requires a report back to the legislature by December 1, 2026, with $100,000 allocated for implementation.
Social Services & Welfare
This bill appropriates $3 million in state funds to the Town of Grifton for designing and building projects to reduce flood damage and improve community resilience. The money is available for the 2026-2027 fiscal year and takes effect July 1, 2026.
Introduced by Steve Tyson
This bill allows the City of New Bern to impose civil penalties (fines) on property owners or entities who fail to comply with city orders declaring a dwelling unfit for human habitation. Currently, the city can issue such orders but has limited enforcement tools; this bill adds financial penalties as an additional enforcement option.
Housing
Introduced by Carl Ford
This is a local bill that applies only to North Carolina's 33rd Senatorial District. The bill text does not specify what changes or provisions it contains, only that it relates to that district and takes effect upon passage.
Local Government
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill appropriates a total of $34.25 million to support North Carolina's life sciences and biotechnology sectors, including funding for small business accounts, the Biotechnology Center, and a new reserve fund for emerging life science technologies. It also reorganizes the Advisory Council on Rare Diseases by moving it from UNC Chapel Hill to the Department of Health and Human Services, expanding its membership, and authorizing water and sewer infrastructure reimbursements for major manufacturing investments.
This bill appropriates $10 million in state Highway Fund money to the Pitt-Greenville Airport for construction of a new general aviation terminal. The funds are classified as nonrecurring and become available July 1, 2025.
This bill appropriates $400 million in state funds to provide grants to North Carolina's economically disadvantaged "Tier One" counties for projects supporting self-sufficiency, infrastructure, education, and workforce development. Counties can receive up to $10 million each and must submit proposals to the Department of Commerce for approval, with annual reporting required to track how funds are used.
This bill reenacts North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which expired in 2014. The credit would provide eligible working individuals a refundable state tax credit equal to a percentage of the federal EITC they claimed, with the credit taking effect for tax years beginning January 1, 2026.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill restores several benefits and compensation for North Carolina educators and state employees beginning in the 2026-2027 fiscal year. It reinstates education-based salary supplements for teachers, restores longevity payments (annual bonuses based on years of service), preserves retiree medical benefits for educators hired after January 1, 2021, and expands the NC Teaching Fellows Program to include one additional higher education institution.
This bill appropriates $6.5 million in state funds to the Department of Health and Human Services for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to help county departments of social services cover increased administrative costs in the Medicaid program. The funds are designated as nonrecurring (one-time) money and are exempted from certain standard funding requirement procedures.