North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 673–696 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Warren Daniel
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 Sarah Stevens
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina law by defining sex in state policies as biological sex only, establishes requirements for age verification and consent documentation on websites hosting pornographic images, restricts state funding for gender transition procedures, allows parents to control their children's library book access, permits students to opt out of classroom activities based on religious objections, and requires students to sleep in quarters separated by biological sex on school trips.
Education
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill requires state agencies to obtain legislative approval before implementing rules that cost $20 million or more over five years, and requires higher voting thresholds (two-thirds for $1+ million costs, unanimous for $10+ million costs) when agency boards or commissions adopt costly rules. It also allows the public to request legislative review of rules if 10 or more people object within one day of Commission approval.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by John Bell
This bill establishes a new special fund called the Disaster Readiness and Response Fund within the Office of the State Treasurer, separate from the state's General Fund and other existing funds. The bill does not specify funding amounts, how money enters the fund, or how it will be used.
Introduced by Lisa Barnes
Harrison's Law makes two main changes to North Carolina law. First, it strengthens penalties for hazing by making it a Class 2 A1 misdemeanor for students who haze and a Class I felony for school staff who engage in or enable hazing, while expanding the definition to include serious psychological injury. Second, it requires local school boards to publish detailed compensation and position information for central office employees on their websites by August 15, 2025, and annually thereafter.
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill directs a study on water and wastewater system regionalization to address financially struggling local systems, eliminates subbasin designations for three river areas to allow more flexible water transfers within their major river basins, and modifies how nutrient offset credits are calculated for certain wastewater permits in the Neuse River Basin.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by David Craven
The Law and Order Act makes multiple changes to North Carolina criminal law, including increasing penalties for assaults on utility workers and street racing, creating new offenses for possessing explosives, stealing gift cards, and possessing embalming fluid, enhancing burglary sentences when firearms are involved, and establishing workplace protections against mass picketing. The bill also adds a mitigating factor for impaired driving cases where defendants voluntarily install ignition interlock systems before trial, and shortens the waiting period for misdemeanor expunction from five to three years.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Danny Britt
This comprehensive public safety bill creates new criminal offenses and increases penalties for existing crimes including exposing children to controlled substances, peeping/voyeurism, child exploitation online, and fentanyl trafficking. It also modifies procedures for autopsy records confidentiality, domestic violence protections, firearm surrender/retrieval in protective orders, and victim compensation timelines.
Introduced by Michael Lazzara
This bill makes multiple changes to support military service members and veterans in North Carolina, including reducing concealed handgun permit fees for honorably discharged veterans, allowing military families more time to provide proof of residency for school enrollment, prohibiting universities from discriminating against applicants based on military service, providing in-state tuition to qualifying veterans, regulating compensation for veterans' benefits services, allowing remote driver's license renewals for active duty military stationed out-of-state, adjusting scholarship awards for children of wartime veterans, and authorizing sheriffs to send concealed handgun permit expiration notices by email.
Other / General Government
Introduced by James Adams
This law pauses the approval of large water transfers between river basins in North Carolina until March 1, 2027, while a study reviews and updates the state's 30-year-old water transfer rules. The study will examine whether current environmental reviews adequately protect downstream communities, consider economic impacts, account for climate change, and encourage water conservation measures.
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill comprehensively updates North Carolina's funeral service regulations, including adding alkaline hydrolysis as an alternative to cremation, creating new rules for transporting human remains separately from funeral contracts, reorganizing the Board of Funeral Service composition, and making various administrative changes to licensing and record-keeping requirements.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Celeste Cairns
This bill creates a streamlined foreclosure process for timeshare associations to collect unpaid assessments without going to court, and makes changes to how paternity is established for children born outside of marriage. The timeshare foreclosure process allows associations to sell a delinquent owner's timeshare through a trustee sale, while owners can object to use this process and demand a traditional court foreclosure instead.
The SCRIPT Act is comprehensive pharmacy legislation with multiple parts that regulate pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), require transparency in drug pricing and rebates, establish pharmacy of choice protections, create licensing requirements for pharmacy service organizations, strengthen pharmacy audit protections, and require consumers receive benefits from prescription drug rebates. The law takes effect gradually between October 2025 and January 2027.
Healthcare
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill increases inspection fees for elevators, amusement devices, and ski lift equipment in North Carolina, and allows these fees to adjust annually based on inflation. It also authorizes the Department of Labor to develop an apprenticeship program for elevator inspectors and expands the timeframe for interim appointments to the Building Code Council and Residential Code Council.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill makes several updates to North Carolina's Medicaid program, including creating services for substance use disorders, implementing work requirements when approved by federal officials, allowing out-of-state telehealth providers to enroll, establishing a specialty plan for children in foster care, extending postpartum coverage to 12 months, including psychiatric hospitals in a hospital payment program, and exploring Medicaid coverage for personal care services in adult care homes.
This bill restores and increases state assistance to counties and municipalities for cleaning up scrap tires by reestablishing the Scrap Tire Disposal Account and increasing the percentage of scrap tire tax revenue directed to local government grants from 50% to 75%. The bill also dedicates more funding specifically to help local governments manage tire disposal problems.
Local Government
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This comprehensive bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina state and local government, including canceling a Stanly Community College culinary program, authorizing heritage trails in Brunswick County and a 60-mile recreational trail in the Piedmont region, transferring state property to the Town of Burgaw, codifying and updating the Lake Norman Marine Commission structure with new governance procedures, renaming three roads and bridges, and amending the state building code to allow certain commercial developments near railroad rights-of-way.
Introduced by Thomas McInnis
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina law: it allows more flexibility for businesses that fail to meet job maintenance agreement requirements, expands how breweries and distilleries can share facilities and sell alcoholic beverages, changes rules for transporting wine and mixed drinks in vehicles to align with federal law, increases the population threshold for which municipalities must pay costs to relocate water and sewer lines during state transportation projects, and makes a technical correction to the megasites economic development program.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill establishes clearer standards for how cemeteries in North Carolina must be maintained, defines what 'care and maintenance' includes, and gives the Cemetery Commission authority to enforce these standards through penalties and fines. It also requires cemeteries to provide annual financial reports showing the maintenance work they performed.
Introduced by Francis Iler
This bill directs the North Carolina General Assembly to hire a consultant to study alternative ways to fund highway construction and maintenance, potentially replacing or supplementing the current gas tax system. The study will examine fees on electric and hybrid vehicles, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fees, and a flat annual highway access fee for non-diesel vehicles, with findings due by May 1, 2026. The study will cost $125,000 from the Highway Fund.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill creates a new category called 'special economic interest owners' for estates and designated agents of deceased or incapacitated LLC members in North Carolina. These special economic interest owners gain the right to receive company information and to petition for judicial dissolution of the LLC, while retaining their financial stake in the company.
Introduced by Dean Arp
This bill creates a new regulatory framework for continuing care retirement communities (CCRCs) in North Carolina, requiring providers to obtain licenses from the Department of Insurance and meet financial, operational, and disclosure standards. The law applies to both for-profit and nonprofit communities that offer housing plus long-term care services like assisted living or nursing care to residents.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill protects parents and caregivers from abuse or neglect charges solely for raising a child consistent with the child's biological sex, including through pronoun use and related medical or mental health decisions. It also prevents adoption agencies from denying placement or adoptive parent opportunities based on refusal to support gender transition. The bill clarifies that such parenting practices do not constitute child abuse under state law.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Ted Alexander
This bill extends certain legal rights and governmental authorities to the Catawba Indian Nation that were previously granted only to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Specifically, it gives Catawba tribal courts the same judicial recognition as Cherokee tribal courts, authorizes Catawba law enforcement and marshals services, and allows access to state probation and parole records for Catawba justice purposes.