North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 601–624 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill appropriates $4.4 million in annual funding starting in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Department of Revenue to expand its tax fraud detection and analytics work through a partnership with the Government Data Analytics Center (GDAC). The funds will support software, analytics tools, case management systems, and technical infrastructure used to identify and collect on fraudulent tax claims.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Gladys Robinson
This bill creates a three-year grant program to help North Carolina school districts hire a Development Director who seeks external funding sources like grants and donations. The state would cover 100% of the position's cost in year one, 50% in year two, and 25% in year three, with districts covering the remaining costs through matching funds. The program targets rural, small, and lower-wealth school districts that currently lack dedicated grant-writing staff.
Education
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill protects access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF) by prohibiting the state and its subdivisions from blocking or unreasonably limiting patients' right to use ART or health care providers' right to offer it. The bill also specifies that fertilized eggs or embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and appropriates $500,000 in state funds to expand Medicaid maternal support services.
Healthcare
This bill creates two programs to support public servants in North Carolina. First, it establishes a homebuyers' assistance program through the Housing Finance Agency that provides up to $25,000 in down payment and mortgage insurance assistance to first-time homebuyers who work full-time as teachers, law enforcement officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, active duty military members, or veterans. Second, it allows volunteer firefighters and rescue squad workers to claim an income tax credit of up to $5,000 for unreimbursed expenses related to their volunteer work.
Housing
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill appropriates $1.7 million in state funds to Caswell County for the replacement of the Casville Volunteer Fire Department's facility. The funds would be distributed as a directed grant and become available starting July 1, 2026.
Introduced by Deb Butler
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require North Carolina voters to approve a measure preventing state legislators from receiving their salary and allowances after June 30 if the General Assembly has not passed a comprehensive budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The forfeiture would continue until either a budget is ratified or the legislative session ends, whichever comes first. Voters would decide on this amendment at the November 2026 general election.
Introduced by Ted Alexander
This bill clarifies that North Carolina's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles can enter into reciprocity agreements with foreign nations and directs the commissioner to negotiate an agreement with Taiwan to recognize each other's non-commercial driver's licenses. The bill requires the commissioner to first verify that Taiwan and North Carolina have comparable driver testing standards, and appropriates $5,000 for a public awareness campaign.
Transportation & Infrastructure
This bill clarifies which health screenings schools can conduct without parental consent and which require consent. Schools can perform vision, hearing, dental, and developmental screenings without advance consent but must notify parents at the beginning of the school year and share results. The bill also requires schools to obtain parental consent for other health care services and to notify parents before using student well-being questionnaires in grades K-3.
This bill establishes two statewide awareness initiatives: one through the Department of Justice to educate North Carolinians about consumer finance fraud risks, and another through the Department of Health and Human Services to provide information about reproductive, LGBTQIA+, gender, and racial health issues. Both initiatives include creating websites, toolkits for local communities, and outreach programs, with a combined appropriation of $7 million in recurring funds starting in fiscal year 2026-2027.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Joyce Waddell
This bill restores medical benefits for state employees and teachers who began service on or after January 1, 2021, preventing their elimination under state retirement systems. The bill repeals previous language that would have ended these retiree medical benefits and allocates $2 million in state funding to cover the increased costs of maintaining these benefits.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill requires the Department of Administration to create a system for identifying, cataloging, and disposing of vacant and surplus state-owned properties. The bill establishes criteria for determining which properties are surplus, mandates that surplus properties be sold within six months or auctioned/transferred to local governments, and directs that sale proceeds be split between the state General Fund and property repair projects.
Local Government
This bill requires state government entities—including state departments, UNC, the court system, and the General Assembly—to publicly report all their expenditures of $1 or more each month on their websites. The bill provides $300,000 in funding to help agencies implement these reporting requirements, with the new transparency system beginning in October 2026.
This bill restores the authority for Harnett, Lee, and Sampson Counties to initiate down-zoning (reducing the allowed density or permitted uses of land) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill makes this change retroactively effective to December 11, 2024, potentially reinstating previously adopted ordinances.
Introduced by Gale Adcock
This bill appropriates $80 million in recurring state funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental services, which have not been meaningfully increased since 2008. The goal is to encourage more dentists to accept Medicaid patients and improve access to oral health care for low-income North Carolinians.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $1.237 million to Edgecombe County Public Schools and $1.678 million to Pitt County Schools to ensure that every public school in each county has at least one full-time, permanent school nurse starting in fiscal year 2026-2027. The funds are recurring and meant to supplement existing resources rather than replace them.
This bill requires North Carolina public schools to immediately notify parents when credible threats target their children, school staff, or campus security. It establishes penalties for schools that fail to notify parents, reinstitutes a Task Force for Safer Schools, and creates a $25 million School Safety Fund to help schools purchase safety equipment and provide crisis services to students.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Bob Brinson
This bill creates a special taxing district in Beaufort County (outside the City of Washington) that can levy a room occupancy tax of up to 6% on hotel and rental accommodations. Revenue from this tax would be managed by a Tourism Development Authority, with at least two-thirds used for travel and tourism promotion and the remainder for tourism-related expenditures within the district.
This bill allows small businesses in North Carolina (those with annual gross receipts under $10 million) to deduct a portion of revenue from state income taxes if they deposit that money into a designated capital improvement account for property upgrades. The deduction is tiered: 5% of income up to $1 million, 2% between $1-2 million, and 1% between $2-3 million, with unused funds being added back to taxable income.
This bill modifies how North Carolina taxes 1031 exchanges, which allow property owners to defer federal taxes when exchanging one investment property for another. The bill allows taxpayers to deduct from their North Carolina state income any gains from non-like-kind property received in a 1031 exchange, up to the amount of their original investment basis in the property sold.
This bill creates a new property tax benefit for North Carolina homeowners age 65 and older who have owned and lived in their home for at least five consecutive years. Under this program, eligible seniors can defer paying taxes on the portion of their property tax bill that results from increases in their home's value above the value when they first applied for the benefit, though these deferred taxes become due if the property is sold or no longer used as a primary residence.
Introduced by James Roberson
This bill appropriates $196,760 to North Carolina State University to create and evaluate a pilot pickleball wellness program in eastern Wake, Halifax, and Lenoir Counties. The program aims to increase physical activity, social connection, and mental well-being in communities with limited access to recreational resources through weekly pickleball instruction and gameplay, with results to be used to develop a toolkit for similar programs statewide.
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill creates a new Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority special registration plate in North Carolina and establishes how fees from this plate and other Divine Nine (historically Black Greek letter organization) plates are collected and distributed. Vehicle owners can purchase these plates for an additional $20 fee, with portions going to various state funds and the organizations' national foundations.
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill restores the Town of Woodfin's authority to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed development density or permitted uses on properties) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. It modifies state law to create an exception for Woodfin and applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill removes groceries from North Carolina's local sales tax, reducing the local tax rate from 2% to 1% on food items. Currently, counties can levy up to a 2% local sales tax that includes groceries; this bill would exempt groceries from that tax while keeping the 1% tax on other items.