North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 721–744 of 2,338 bills
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.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
The P.A.V.E. Act creates a new metropolitan public transportation authority for Mecklenburg County and authorizes a 1% local sales tax to fund roadway and public transportation projects, with 40% of revenues going to road maintenance in municipalities and 60% to transit operations, including a planned Red Line rail project. The sales tax requires voter approval through a referendum before implementation.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill updates North Carolina's Uniform Commercial Code to govern emerging technologies, including controllable electronic records, electronic money, and other digital financial assets. It creates new rules for securing and transferring digital assets, updates existing commercial law to address electronic transactions, and makes conforming changes to other commercial code provisions.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill authorizes Johnston County to construct, renovate, or repair buildings on Johnston Community College campuses and to finance these projects using county funds, loans, or state appropriations. The county would then lease the completed buildings to the college. The bill exempts the county from certain state building code requirements while requiring compliance with other standards and consultation with the college's board of trustees.
Education
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina local government laws. It temporarily freezes municipal extraterritorial jurisdiction expansion in Wake County through 2028, removes a specific property from Asheville's city limits, restricts commercial development moratoria in Taylortown to a single 60-day period, extends airport lease terms from 10 to 40 years for Asheboro and RDU airports, adjusts the county boundary between Catawba and Lincoln Counties, and addresses related administrative matters.
Local Government
Introduced by John Blust
This bill removes three specific properties (identified by tax identification numbers) from the City of Greensboro's corporate limits, effective June 30, 2025. Properties in the deannexed area will no longer be subject to municipal taxes beginning July 1, 2025, though the City retains the right to collect any outstanding tax liens from before the effective date.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill makes various local changes to North Carolina law, including establishing a new rural development authority for Transylvania County, updating municipal charters and procedures for several towns, allowing county law enforcement cooperation across state lines, and changing board of education elections in five counties from nonpartisan to partisan elections.
Introduced by William Rabon
This bill appoints specific individuals to numerous North Carolina public boards and commissions, including universities, community colleges, state agencies, and professional licensing boards. The appointments are based on recommendations from the President Pro Tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
This resolution confirms the Governor's reappointment of Kenneth L. Goodman from Richmond County to the North Carolina Industrial Commission for a six-year term beginning May 1, 2025. The confirmation is required by state law before the appointment becomes official.
Introduced by Larry Potts
This bill makes technical and organizational changes to North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services. It adjusts school nurse responsibilities, extends a Medicaid enrollment option through 2028, clarifies coverage rules for people released from incarceration, increases penalties for unlicensed adult care homes, aligns various health regulations with federal standards, and establishes pilot programs for mental health capacity restoration.
Healthcare
This bill appropriates $500 million in emergency funding from the Hurricane Helene Disaster Recovery Fund to help North Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Helene and 2025 wildfires. The funds support disaster recovery programs including agricultural assistance, infrastructure repair, local government grants, fire department equipment, university repairs, and a new disaster recovery information portal, while also extending certain regulatory flexibilities and emergency declarations through October 2025.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Kyle Hall
This omnibus bill makes multiple amendments to North Carolina labor laws, including limiting when Department of Labor employees can be subpoenaed in occupational safety cases, streamlining OSHA rule adoption, allowing prehearing discovery in labor commission proceedings, improving fatal injury reporting between medical examiners and the Labor Department, and renaming the Elevator and Amusement Device Division to a Bureau with updated language throughout relevant statutes.
Introduced by Robert Davis
This bill enacts technical and grammatical corrections to North Carolina law recommended by the General Statutes Commission. It updates outdated language in family law, business regulations, professional licensing, public employee rules, and commercial law provisions. The bill also adopts several uniform laws—including the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, the Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act, and expanded Uniform Commercial Code provisions on electronic transactions.
Other / General Government
This Senate resolution confirms Jocelyn Mitnaul Mallette as Secretary of the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. The Secretary leads the state agency responsible for supporting North Carolina's military members, veterans, and their families.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill creates a new state licensing board and licensing system for medical imaging professionals (radiographers, sonographers, nuclear medicine technologists, radiation therapists, and related specialists) to ensure they meet education and certification standards. Starting January 1, 2026, most people performing medical imaging or radiation therapy procedures in North Carolina must be licensed by the new Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Board of Examiners.
Introduced by Dana Jones
This bill prohibits the sale of hemp-derived consumable products (such as gummies, edibles, or inhalable products containing cannabinoids) to anyone under age 21 and makes it illegal for people under 21 to possess these products. Violations are classified as Class 2 misdemeanors. The bill does not apply to topical hemp products or FDA-recognized safe seed products.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill adds the United States Space Force to the definition of 'Armed Forces' throughout North Carolina state law to reflect the military branch's creation in 2019. It also extends the lookback period for religious property tax exemption applications from the current timeframe to up to five calendar years, allowing property owners to file late applications and potentially receive tax relief for the prior five years.
Introduced by Allen Chesser
This comprehensive bill makes several changes to North Carolina's child welfare and social services systems. Key provisions expand the Guardianship Assistance Program to include youth as young as 10 years old, establish procedures for judges to issue permanent no-contact orders against defendants convicted of violent offenses, make it a felony when caregivers commit or allow sexual acts against children under 16, and require cities and counties to conduct criminal history background checks for any applicant offered a position working with children.
Social Services & Welfare
This bill authorizes North Carolina counties to establish local Adult Protection Multidisciplinary Teams composed of social services, law enforcement, legal, mental health, and other professionals to review cases of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of disabled adults and older adults. These teams can share confidential information between members to coordinate services and make recommendations to address systemic gaps in protecting vulnerable populations.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill establishes a Genetic Counselors Licensure Board in North Carolina and creates a new licensing system for genetic counselors. Genetic counselors would need to be certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling and meet additional qualifications to practice in the state. The Board would regulate genetic counselors' practice, set ethical standards, investigate complaints, and enforce disciplinary actions.
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill updates North Carolina's underground utility safety laws by clarifying definitions, extending notification timelines, expanding safe excavation methods, and revising the enforcement process through the Underground Damage Prevention Review Board. It introduces soft dig technologies (air and water pressure excavation), adjusts work notice periods from 3-12 days to a minimum of 3 days with a 28-calendar-day validity period, and modifies liability protections and penalty procedures for violations.
Introduced by Hugh Blackwell
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's information technology and broadband programs. It adds the State Highway Patrol to entities that can opt out of Department of Information Technology oversight, modifies the Broadband Pole Replacement Program to include underground facility placement, allows more flexibility in using broadband funds for emergency repairs and satellite internet grants, updates BEAD Program definitions, and allows mobile service providers to offer Lifeline service.
Introduced by John Bell
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's disaster response and recovery procedures. It prohibits discrimination based on political affiliation in state disaster recovery assistance, increases penalties for theft of temporary housing during emergencies, automatically adopts certain federal health care waivers during emergencies, provides building code exemptions for Hurricane Helene-damaged downtown commercial structures, allows temporary reconstruction flexibility in flooded areas, and streamlines permits for processing hurricane debris into mulch and compost.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would add an exception to North Carolina's emoluments clause (which prohibits special privileges from government) to allow disaster relief assistance for restoring privately-owned structures damaged by federally-declared natural disasters. The amendment would be submitted to North Carolina voters in the March 2026 primary election.