North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 649–672 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Michael Lazzara
This bill expands remote driver's license services in North Carolina by allowing additional remote renewals, authorizing remote issuance of full provisional licenses for 16-17 year-olds, and eliminating the driving log requirement for obtaining a full provisional license. The bill also includes appropriations for court technology, cybersecurity, and state law enforcement administrative positions.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill establishes the Interstate Massage Compact, which creates a multistate licensing system allowing massage therapists licensed in one member state to practice in other participating states. The compact creates an Interstate Massage Compact Commission to oversee licensing, maintain a database of licensees, and coordinate enforcement across states while preserving each state's regulatory authority.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill requires criminal history checks for charter school board members and public school employees before hiring, modifies reporting rules for school employee misconduct, strengthens reporting requirements for threats and assaults on teachers, and encourages the State Board of Education to align its licensure system with a national educator database.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill creates enhanced criminal penalties for acts of violence motivated by a victim's political beliefs, viewpoints, or affiliations. It allows courts to increase felony sentences by one class level, makes offenders ineligible for parole or early release, and permits consideration of political motivation as an aggravating factor in capital cases.
Introduced by William Rabon
This joint resolution confirms Stephanie Lynch's appointment to the North Carolina Investment Authority Board of Directors for a three-year term beginning July 1, 2025. Under state law, the State Treasurer's appointments to this board require confirmation by the General Assembly.
Other / General Government
This joint resolution confirms the Governor's appointment of Sallie Shuping-Russell from Orange County to the North Carolina Investment Authority Board of Directors for a four-year term beginning July 1, 2025. State law requires the General Assembly to confirm such gubernatorial appointments through a joint resolution.
This bill appoints individuals to various North Carolina state boards, commissions, and authorities based on recommendations from the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House. It also makes corrections to the terms and appointees from previous appointment legislation.
Local Government
This resolution modifies the 2025 legislative session schedule by shifting adjournment and reconvening dates two days earlier (from Tuesdays to Mondays/Thursdays) and moving the start time from noon to 10:00 A.M. across multiple session breaks from September 2025 through April 2026. The changes maintain the same limited scope of business allowed during each reconvening period, focusing on disaster recovery bills and conference reports filed by the July 31/September 25 deadline.
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill increases the property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans in North Carolina from $45,000 to $61,000 of appraised home value, meaning more of their home's value is not taxed. The state will reimburse local governments for half of the tax revenue they lose from this increase.
Taxes & Budget
This bill caps the amount merchants in North Carolina can charge customers for credit or charge card payments at 2% of the transaction total, requires clear disclosure of these fees at points of sale, and prohibits charging card fees when no other payment method is available. The bill also increases the filing fee for nonprofit corporation articles of incorporation from $60 to $65.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This budget adjustment bill appropriates funds for various state operations and programs during the 2025-2027 fiscal years. It allocates money for education programs at UNC Charlotte, healthcare initiatives including mental health services and electronic health records, natural resources operations, school safety grants, law enforcement equipment, emergency services, veterans home renovations, and other state agency needs.
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill provides salary increases and bonuses to state and local law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and related personnel. It also increases pension benefits for firefighters, rescue squad workers, and National Guard members, and raises death benefits for public safety employees killed in the line of duty. The total state investment across the 2025-2027 fiscal years is approximately $103.7 million in recurring and nonrecurring funds.
This bill has two main parts: it prohibits Planned Parenthood from participating in North Carolina's Medicaid program, and it establishes new billing transparency and collections practices for hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities. The billing provisions require hospitals to provide itemized cost estimates for scheduled services, limit final bills to within 5% of the estimate, and prohibit sending bills to collections without first providing an itemized breakdown.
Healthcare
This law continues North Carolina state government operations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium by appropriating funds for various state agencies and programs. It makes budget adjustments across education, health and human services, economic development, transportation, and other state functions. The bill also addresses disaster recovery funding following Hurricane Helene, adjusts employee compensation and benefits, and establishes new initiatives in broadband access and government efficiency.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill creates an expedited court process for property owners to remove people occupying residential property without legal authorization, such as unpaid squatters. The process requires a court hearing within 48 hours of filing, and if the property owner wins, the unauthorized person must vacate within 4 hours of the court order.
Introduced by John Blust
This bill applies only to Guilford County and makes two main changes: (1) it allows certain small municipalities that don't collect property taxes to receive a share of local sales tax revenue, and (2) it authorizes a quarter-cent sales tax to fund classroom teacher salary supplements, fire protection equipment, and Guilford Technical Community College, with revenues also available for municipal public purposes.
This bill requires state departments, schools, and colleges to purchase recycled, compostable, or recyclable materials when economically practicable, and mandates annual reporting on such purchases and recycling efforts. It also directs a UNC study on food service ware (single-use food containers) and requires the General Assembly and certain state facilities to pilot programs reducing single-use food service products.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by John Bell
This bill appoints individuals to various North Carolina state boards and commissions, including community college boards, regulatory commissions, and advisory agencies. It also makes corrections to prior appointments by fixing names, counties, and removing or modifying previous designations.
This resolution establishes a schedule for the 2025 regular legislative session, with the General Assembly meeting in scheduled blocks from July 2025 through April 2026, with breaks in between. Each reconvening period restricts what bills and matters can be considered, with the final April 2026 session allowing broader legislative activity including budget bills and constitutional amendments.
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill modifies North Carolina's electric utility regulations by removing an interim carbon reduction deadline (keeping only the 2050 goal), creating a new financing mechanism for large power plant construction costs, adjusting how fuel costs are recovered, updating performance-based rate regulation rules, and codifying securitization authority for retiring coal plants.
This bill prohibits North Carolina public agencies from collecting, disclosing, or publicly releasing personal information about members, volunteers, and donors to nonprofit organizations, except in limited legal circumstances like court-ordered warrants or litigation with protective orders. Violations can result in civil lawsuits for damages of at least $2,500 per violation, up to triple that amount for intentional violations, plus attorneys' fees, and can constitute a Class 2 misdemeanor.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Destin Hall
This bill requires North Carolina jail facilities to check whether inmates charged with certain crimes are U.S. citizens or legal residents, and to query Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if their status is unclear. When ICE issues a detention order, facilities must hold the person for up to 48 hours or until ICE takes custody, and must notify ICE before release.
Introduced by Buck Newton
This bill restructures charter school oversight by giving the Charter Schools Review Board greater authority over rules, policies, and operations that were previously controlled by the State Board of Education. It also makes various changes to charter school operations, including allowing more flexibility in teacher evaluations, removing class rank requirements, exempting remote academies from certain accountability measures, and streamlining funding processes.
Education
Introduced by John Torbett
This bill expands the powers of North Carolina's State Auditor by exempting their office from certain state oversight requirements for IT procurement and information systems. It also creates new debt collection tools allowing the Department of Revenue to pursue debts discovered by the State Auditor through levy, sale, attachment, and garnishment procedures, similar to tax collection methods.