North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 697–720 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill reorganizes North Carolina's community college system laws by moving and renumbering existing statutes for clarity, makes technical updates to community college programs including tuition waivers and workforce training, allows certain nonpublic schools to request residency licenses for teachers, and extends the reversion date for school safety grant funds from June 2025 to June 2027.
Education
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill allows people who move to North Carolina and are already licensed in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, or West Virginia to get an NC license in most occupations without retaking exams, provided they meet certain conditions like being in good standing and having at least one year of experience. The law excludes certain regulated professions like healthcare, law, accounting, engineering, and architecture.
Business & Labor
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.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
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 Warren Daniel
This bill modernizes North Carolina's alarm systems licensing regulations, updates private protective services board laws, enhances background check procedures for security-related licenses, strengthens ABC Commission oversight authority, allows law enforcement agencies to review officer personnel records during hiring, and modifies North Carolina National Guard military court procedures.
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
This bill streamlines the water quality certification process for certain coastal development projects by setting strict timelines for the Department of Environmental Quality to review applications, creates a new permitting pathway for upland basin marinas (marinas built above the natural waterline) with specific environmental criteria, and excludes man-made ditches from coastal area management regulations.
Environment & Energy
This bill modifies North Carolina's Brownfields Property Reuse Act by clarifying tax incentives for improvements made to contaminated properties undergoing remediation and revising how the state charges fees to developers participating in the program. The changes adjust the property tax exclusion structure and add requirements for the Department of Environmental Quality to document costs when charging developers unanticipated fees.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill has three main parts: it exempts certain apartment buildings from emergency communication system requirements in the fire code and allows disconnection of existing systems in those buildings; it establishes how vacancies are filled on sanitary district boards in large counties; and it sets specific timelines and procedures for the Department of Environmental Quality to review water quality certification applications for certain federal permit projects.
Local Government
Introduced by David Craven
This bill makes four main changes to North Carolina real estate and business law: it creates an alternative path for real estate appraisers to gain experience through technology-based training programs instead of traditional apprenticeships (expiring in 2030), allows real estate salespersons to register with multiple dealers under common ownership, clarifies what out-of-pocket expenses landlords can recover from tenants in evictions, and permits buyer's agent compensation to be included in purchase offer forms.
Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill allows licensed physical therapists to evaluate student athletes for concussions and clear them to return to play or practice, in addition to the medical professionals already authorized to do so. Previously, only doctors and certain other healthcare providers could evaluate and clear students with suspected concussions.
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill makes numerous modifications to North Carolina court procedures and judicial administration. It adds High Point University School of Law to the list of schools receiving court reports, modifies requirements for accountability courts, strengthens protections for domestic violence victims and name-change applicants, updates guardianship and estate procedures, clarifies judicial authority, and makes various technical corrections to court rules and operations.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This omnibus bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina insurance and related laws. Key provisions include eliminating specific training course requirements for insurance producer licenses, maintaining the state's insurance regulator accreditation by requiring group capital and liquidity stress test filings, modifying professional employer organization regulations, revising the insurance guaranty association process, clarifying permitted insurance rebate practices, allowing insurance producers to exchange business under certain conditions, requiring continuous liability coverage for inexperienced drivers subject to surcharges, limiting landlord authority to mandate renter's insurance providers, and allowing vehicle salesmen to register with multiple dealers under common ownership.
Introduced by Vickie Sawyer
This bill allows parents to choose which nurse provides nursing services to their child if those services are required by the child's Individualized Education Program (IEP), under specific conditions. The school district must use the parent's chosen nurse if the child previously received services from that nurse, the nurse is willing and qualified, the nursing agency meets standard contract requirements, and the cost is competitive with other contracted nurses.
Introduced by Paul Scott
This bill allows emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to carry pepper spray while on duty after completing training and receiving approval from their EMS provider. It also permits EMS personnel to provide emergency medical care and transport to injured police K-9 units and certified search and rescue dogs at emergency scenes, with legal protection from prosecution if they act in good faith.
Introduced by William Rabon
This omnibus bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina transportation laws, including modifications to driver education requirements, vehicle registration rules, toll enforcement procedures, speed enforcement tools, and various Department of Transportation operations.
Transportation & Infrastructure
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina business and estate law. It allows corporations to limit director and officer liability, permits shareholders to bring certain corporate disputes in specific courts, restricts how corporations can issue certain securities, clarifies procedures for shareholder lawsuits against corporations, and updates estate and trust laws regarding wills, electronic will storage by attorneys, spousal and children's allowances, and trust contests.
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill modifies North Carolina's CPA certification requirements by creating two educational pathways: one requiring 150 semester hours with an accounting concentration (needing 1 year of experience) and another requiring only a bachelor's degree with an accounting concentration (needing 2 years of experience). It also renames the State Board of Accountancy to the State Board of Certified Public Accountant Examiners and becomes effective January 1, 2026.
This bill makes three main changes: (1) it creates a legal presumption that someone has died if they disappeared and remained missing for at least 90 days during a declared disaster; (2) it requires the Office of Vital Records to process birth and death certificate amendments within 30 days; and (3) it prohibits Office of Vital Records employees from working remotely except during declared emergencies.
Introduced by Dean Arp
This bill reforms North Carolina's child care regulations in three main ways: it directs the state to study separating quality rating requirements from subsidy eligibility for state-funded child care by May 2026; it modifies staffing rules to allow lead teachers to oversee up to two groups and recognizes five years of work experience as equivalent to credential requirements; and it updates building code standards for family child care homes to align with residential code requirements.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina education and tax laws. It requires schools to evaluate technology costs and report device repair rates; allows community college students under 18 to share education records with parents; expands dual enrollment pathways for high school sophomores; allows uniformed service members to defer UNC enrollment; authorizes UNC capital projects; protects education savings accounts from creditor claims; and creates rules for athlete agents handling name, image, and likeness contracts.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
House Bill 67 is a comprehensive healthcare workforce reform law that includes multiple provisions: allowing interstate medical licensure compacts for physicians and physician assistants, creating an international physician employee license pathway, expanding clinical psychologist scope of practice, enabling pharmacists to test for and treat influenza and establish collaborative practices, and modifying requirements for physician assistants and other healthcare providers to practice in team-based settings. The bill also requires surgical smoke evacuation systems in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, and expands behavioral health workforce eligibility through community college degrees.
Healthcare
This bill strengthens protections for motor vehicle dealers in North Carolina by restricting manufacturers' ability to reject dealership ownership transfers, terminating franchises, or imposing unreasonable conditions. It also requires manufacturers to compensate dealers for over-the-air product sales, warranty work, loaner vehicles, and unsold inventory during franchise terminations, and clarifies definitions related to vehicle sales and dealer succession.
This bill modernizes North Carolina's state hiring system by reducing educational barriers to state jobs, streamlining job applications, simplifying job postings, and giving state agencies more flexibility in recruiting, hiring, and compensating employees. It also allows agencies to hire temporary employees permanently and rehire qualified candidates from previous postings without reposting positions.
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill modernizes North Carolina's mortgage lending laws by updating definitions, requirements, and procedures in the state's S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act, and modifies the maximum fees lenders can charge on second or junior mortgage loans to align with federal qualified mortgage standards. The changes include streamlining licensing procedures, clarifying regulatory authority, and allowing slightly higher fee caps on certain junior lien loans while maintaining consumer protections.