North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 49–72 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill modifies occupancy tax rules for three North Carolina areas: Haywood County, Cherokee County, and the Town of Leland. The changes adjust tax rates, how tax revenue is distributed and used, and the composition of tourism development authorities that oversee these funds.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill updates the laws governing the Pitt County-City of Greenville Airport Authority by clarifying how the airport can be funded and modernizing outdated language. It expands the funding sources available to the airport beyond just operational revenues and land sales, allows bonds to be issued under current state law, and updates references to federal agencies and state statutes.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill requires the Brunswick County Board of Commissioners to make all final decisions on development approvals and mandates that official meeting records show how each commissioner voted on every development approval. The bill repeals a prior 2019 law and overrides certain state development approval procedures for Brunswick County only.
Local Government
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill makes several updates to North Carolina's health and human services laws, including requiring schools to display crisis hotline numbers, establishing a pilot program for magnetic stimulation therapy for veterans and first responders, updating opioid treatment program rules to align with federal standards, and expanding insurance coverage for prosthetic and orthotic devices. The bill also requires healthcare providers to receive information about sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and mandates surgical smoke evacuation systems in hospitals and surgical facilities.
Healthcare
Introduced by John Torbett
This bill strengthens laws protecting minors by amending obscenity and harmful material statutes, requiring courts to consider sex offender registration for certain convictions involving minors, and directing the Human Trafficking Commission to study and develop a statewide human trafficking reporting system. It also adds human trafficking awareness training requirements for vacation rental employees.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by William Rabon
This resolution confirms John Gajda of Wake County to serve on the North Carolina Utilities Commission to fill a vacancy left by Karen M. Kemerait's resignation. The appointment is for a term expiring June 30, 2027, and requires General Assembly confirmation as required by state law.
Introduced by Lisa Barnes
This bill restricts how the City of Rocky Mount and Town of Louisburg can use revenues from their electric and natural gas utility systems. It requires these revenues to be used primarily for operating costs, infrastructure improvements, and debt service, while limiting transfers to other municipal funds and prohibiting Louisburg from using electric revenues for economic development projects.
Introduced by Robert Davis
This bill modifies the Special Separation Allowance program for North Carolina state and local law enforcement officers by clarifying eligibility rules for disability-related service breaks and adjusting reemployment restrictions. Specifically, it allows officers who take disability leave to maintain eligibility if they return to service within 45 days, and it permits retired officers to return to certain state positions without losing their separation allowance benefits.
Introduced by John Bell
This resolution adjourns the North Carolina General Assembly on July 2, 2026, and reconvenes it on July 27, 2026. It specifies which types of bills and matters can be considered during the reconvened session, including budget-related bills, constitutional amendments, bills that already passed one chamber, and various other specific categories.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Mark Brody
This bill addresses water and wastewater affordability and system capacity in North Carolina. It requires local governments seeking to sell public water/sewer systems to private companies to hold public hearings and demonstrate the sale is in the public interest. It also establishes rules for water rate increases to customers outside municipal boundaries, modifies stormwater control requirements for redevelopment, updates on-site wastewater system regulations, and streamlines private drinking water well permitting processes.
Introduced by Thomas McInnis
This comprehensive bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's revenue laws. Key provisions include conforming partnership tax audits to federal standards with partnership-level taxation, expanding the highway use tax to peer-to-peer vehicle rentals, shifting vapor product enforcement to the ABC enforcement division, enhancing tax collection tools, providing tax relief for Hurricane Helene timber casualties, updating credit union regulations, and making various technical adjustments to tax administration.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill authorizes the Town Manager of Garner to settle certain claims against the town without requiring full town council approval, increasing the settlement authority limit from $100 to $10,000 for personal injury and property damage claims, and allowing settlement of eminent domain claims up to budgeted amounts. All settlements must still be reviewed by the town attorney and reported to town council.
This bill creates a voluntary portable benefits plan system that allows independent contractors to build benefit accounts funded by hiring parties. The contributions are not treated as evidence that the worker is an employee, and independent contractors can opt in to have a portion of their pay withheld for these benefits if they choose.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill removes sales tax from five categories of essential items: diapers, baby wipes, over-the-counter children's medication, prenatal vitamins, and feminine hygiene products. The tax exemption takes effect October 1, 2026.
Introduced by Edward Goodwin
This bill officially recognizes The Tuscarora Indians of Kahtenuaka Territories as a state-recognized Native American tribe and grants them representation on the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs and the American Indian Heritage Commission. The bill is based on the Tuscarora's historical treaties with North Carolina dating back to 1712-1717 and their continuous presence as a community in the state.
Introduced by Carl Ford
This bill requires local governments to follow specific notification and public hearing procedures before adopting a property tax rate that exceeds the 'revenue-neutral rate' (the rate that would generate the same total revenue as the previous year despite property reappraisals) during reappraisal years. The bill also increases the late reinstatement fee for real estate appraiser trainees and clarifies that tax refunds can be issued when governments fail to follow these procedures.
This is a commemorative resolution honoring Louis Milford Pate Jr., a former North Carolina state senator and House member who passed away on August 29, 2025. The resolution recognizes his 20-year military service, his terms as Mayor of Mount Olive, and his legislative service representing eastern North Carolina from 1995-2009 and 2011-2019.
Introduced by Blair Eddins
This bill creates a new law regulating consumer legal funding companies in North Carolina. These companies provide upfront cash to people involved in lawsuits by buying a portion of their future settlement or judgment proceeds. The law sets rules for contracts, charges, disclosure requirements, and prohibits certain practices to protect consumers.
This bill creates a task force to study how to protect military personnel, special operations forces, elected officials, and others from doxing and swatting by removing or shielding their personal information from public records. It also immediately allows special operations force members to obtain driver's licenses and identification cards with substitute addresses instead of their home addresses.
Introduced by Amanda Cook
This bill proposes to amend North Carolina's Constitution by modernizing the language of Article I, Section 19, which protects due process and equal protection rights. The change would update outdated legal terminology (such as 'disseized of his freehold') to contemporary language while maintaining the same constitutional protections. The amendment would be submitted to North Carolina voters for approval in the November 2026 general election.
Introduced by David Craven
This bill allows charitable organizations with tax-exempt status to collect nonprobate assets (like life insurance, retirement accounts, and securities) left to them by deceased donors by submitting an affidavit to the asset holder, rather than going through probate court. The bill also prohibits asset holders from requesting personal information about the charity's employees or board members and provides legal remedies if asset holders unreasonably refuse to transfer the property.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would guarantee North Carolina voters the right to early voting in primary and general elections. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would require a minimum of 14 days of early voting with specific operating hours and same-day voter registration at early voting sites.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill repeals existing sales and use tax exemptions for data centers in North Carolina, meaning data center operations would become subject to state sales and use taxes starting July 1, 2026. The bill removes multiple exemptions previously granted to data center businesses under state tax code.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's cosmetic art licensing requirements. It reduces training hours for cosmetologists (from 1,500 to 1,200 hours), eliminates the apprentice license category and converts existing apprentices to cosmetologists, creates a new hair designer license (900 hours) and hair braider certification (24 hours), reduces training hours for natural hair care specialists and teachers, allows mobile cosmetic art shops to operate, and reduces continuing education requirements for license renewal.