North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 553–576 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill bans food retailers from using dynamic pricing (varying prices within the same day based on demand or personal data) and prevents anti-competitive mergers in the food industry. It also caps credit card surcharges at 2% and creates a Price Transparency Team in the Department of Justice to track and publicly report prices of groceries and utilities quarterly.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Kanika Brown
This bill appropriates $72,000 in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to support the annual Winston-Salem HIV/AIDS Awareness Walk, a nonprofit event designed to raise public awareness, reduce stigma, and provide education about HIV/AIDS.
Healthcare
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill establishes minimum wage requirements for five direct care and health care support occupations in North Carolina, ranging from $18 to $24 per hour depending on the role. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to adjust Medicaid and state-funded program rates to help employers meet these new wage floors, and appropriates $500,000 for implementation beginning January 1, 2028.
Introduced by William Rabon
This bill changes the Town of Bolivia's municipal elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years. Current town officials' terms are shortened by one year so elections can align with the new even-year schedule beginning in 2026.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill regulates large-scale data centers in North Carolina by requiring them to obtain operating certificates, generate at least 25% of their electricity on-site from clean energy, pay utility rates based on their full infrastructure costs, and prohibiting them from receiving state and local tax incentives or subsidies. The bill also establishes water use standards for data centers and repeals existing sales tax exemptions for the industry.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Amos Quick
This bill appropriates $28.6 million in state funding for the 2026-2027 school year to increase classroom materials and instructional supplies for North Carolina public schools. It also expresses the General Assembly's intent to provide additional funding of $15.1 million in 2027-2028 and $22.6 million in 2028-2029, though these future amounts require separate appropriation.
Education
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill aims to increase housing supply and affordability in North Carolina through multiple strategies: allowing residential development in commercial zones, eliminating parking minimums, creating a program to reimburse local governments for faster housing permit processing, limiting large-scale corporate purchases of single-family homes to 25 or fewer per company, establishing a loan program for workforce housing development costs, and appropriating $160 million to the Housing Finance Agency.
Housing
Introduced by Daniel Blue
This bill increases the authority of Garner's town manager to settle certain claims against the town without town council approval. It raises the limit for personal injury and property damage claims from $100 to $10,000, adds authority to settle eminent domain claims up to budgeted amounts, and adds authority to settle claims for debts owed to the town up to $10,000.
Local Government
This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage to $15 per hour (with a lower $11 per hour rate for small businesses under $400,000 annual revenue) and automatically adjusts it yearly for inflation. It creates a Wage Board to study wage standards, allows local governments to set higher minimum wages, and establishes a Short-Time Compensation program to help employers reduce hours instead of laying off workers.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill establishes protections for all students in North Carolina public schools regardless of immigration status, based on the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision Plyler v. Doe. It prohibits schools from denying enrollment based on citizenship status, requires schools to protect student information from immigration authorities, establishes procedures for handling immigration enforcement requests on school grounds, and restricts school resource officers from cooperating with immigration enforcement.
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill establishes the Frontline Mental Health Support Program to provide free, confidential mental health counseling services to teachers and first responders (including police officers, firefighters, paramedics, 911 dispatchers, and correctional officers) in North Carolina. The bill appropriates $10 million to run the program and $3 million in grants to expand the behavioral health workforce to support it.
This bill appropriates $31,000 in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to Joyful Soul Treasures, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to conduct a marketing campaign and eight-week workshop for teenagers ages 13-18 focused on sexual health education and awareness.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill appropriates $1.8 million in state funds to Guilford Technical Community College for expanding its Aviation Center and related capital expenses, effective July 1, 2026. The funds are nonrecurring and will remain available until spent.
Taxes & Budget
This bill appropriates $1 million in one-time funding from the state's General Fund to Forsyth County for a Cure Violence Program aimed at addressing violence in the Triad region. The funds become available starting July 1, 2026.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Ralph Hise
Rio's Law requires law enforcement officers, emergency medical services personnel, and firefighters/rescue workers in North Carolina to receive training on recognizing and appropriately interacting with people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have autism spectrum disorder. The bill also establishes a special autism spectrum disorder vehicle registration plate and requires state agencies to adopt rules implementing this training by October 2027-2028.
Introduced by Phil Rubin
This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Commerce to prepare and publish a biennial report measuring economic opportunity, affordability, and family economic security across the state and by county. The report will track metrics like poverty rates, job quality, housing affordability, education costs, and regional economic opportunity using existing public data sources.
This bill increases salaries for public school employees (teachers, principals, and staff), state employees, and community college workers effective July 1, 2026. It provides a 7% salary increase for most state-funded employees, enhances sick leave benefits for state workers, and provides a 3% cost-of-living adjustment to certain retirees. The bill appropriates approximately $939.8 million for salary increases and $250 million for retiree adjustments.
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill directs the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC Chapel Hill to study microplastics (tiny plastic particles) in North Carolina's waterways and develop strategies to reduce their harmful impacts. The Collaboratory will research where microplastics come from, how they affect ecosystems and human health, and recommend policy solutions, with a comprehensive report due by July 1, 2027. The bill provides $150,000 in funding for this research.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill prohibits businesses in North Carolina from using surveillance pricing—charging different prices to different customers on the same day based on personal data like browsing history or income—for essential goods and services such as food, water, toiletries, and diapers. The bill allows exceptions for loyalty programs, group discounts, shipping cost differences, and pricing errors. It designates violations as unfair trade practices and allocates funding for the Department of Justice to enforce the law.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This is a local bill that applies only to North Carolina's 12th Senatorial District. The bill text does not specify what changes it makes to the district, stating only that it relates to the 12th Senatorial District and becomes effective upon passage.
This bill makes three main changes to North Carolina family law: it shortens the separation period required for divorce from one year to six months (with exceptions), allows domestic violence victims to divorce immediately without a separation period if they provide evidence, and eliminates the civil lawsuits for 'alienation of affection' and 'criminal conversation.' The bill also appropriates $3 million to expand family planning education programs.
This bill appropriates $250,000 in one-time state funding to Triad Cultural Arts, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to support improvements to a restored Shotgun House museum in Winston-Salem. The funds are intended to help the museum serve as an educational and community gathering space for students and visitors.
Tyler's Law requires that all apparent suicide deaths in North Carolina undergo a full investigation before being officially classified as suicide, including interviews, gunshot residue testing (when applicable), and completion of medical examiner duties. The bill also increases the fee paid to medical examiners for each investigation from $200 to $400 and appropriates $579,000 in state funding to cover the increased costs to counties.
Introduced by Vickie Sawyer
This bill prohibits the use of bots to purchase tickets, bans the sale of speculative tickets (those not yet owned by the seller), and requires ticket sellers to clearly disclose total prices and seat locations. It also prevents deceptive marketing practices like using entertainer names or logos without permission, and establishes enforcement through the Attorney General with civil penalties up to $15,000 per day of violation.