North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 769–792 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill creates criminal penalties for filing fraudulent deeds and implements identity verification requirements for property deed recordings. It allows property owners to sue in civil court to clear fraudulent recordings from their titles, requires source-of-title documentation on deeds, mandates tax certification checks, and directs a study of a statewide fraud alert system.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by James Dixon
This bill strengthens protections for farmland in voluntary agricultural districts by requiring government agencies to wait longer before taking land through condemnation or rezoning. Agencies must now wait 120 days after receiving the local agricultural advisory board's recommendation before proceeding, up from the previous requirement. The advisory board also gets 45 days instead of 30 days to hold a public hearing and submit its findings.
Agriculture
Introduced by John Bell
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's building and construction regulations. It streamlines inspection processes (allowing cancellations without fees, exempting certain HVAC replacements from inspections), modifies street design requirements for developers, exempts certain small construction services from licensing, updates contractor board rules and disciplinary procedures, clarifies exemptions for certain pools and flotation systems, and increases the threshold for formal bidding on public construction contracts.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill allows military families to enroll their children in North Carolina public schools before they officially move, if the parent is on active duty and receiving transfer orders to the state or separating from military service within 12 months. Families can register remotely and begin attendance while living in temporary housing, with up to one year to provide proof of residency documentation.
Education
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill removes seven specific parcels of land (identified by tax identification numbers) from the Town of Maggie Valley's municipal boundaries, effective June 30, 2025. Property owners in these parcels will no longer be subject to Maggie Valley municipal taxes starting July 1, 2025, though any outstanding town tax liens from before the change remain collectible.
Local Government
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This is a nonbinding House Resolution that honors the historical friendship and alliance between the United States and France, recognizes France's significant economic contributions to North Carolina (including $429 million in investments and 15,500 jobs), and urges the U.S. Congress to strengthen trade relations and cooperation with France. The resolution celebrates French cultural heritage in North Carolina and commits the state to further developing ties with France.
Other / General Government
Introduced by William Jackson
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina agricultural laws, including updating water protection plans, creating a feral swine control working group, allowing denial of special use permits that harm agricultural production, repealing a violation points system for swine farms, modifying composting rules, allowing school absences for agricultural events, increasing penalties for crop theft and aquaculture violations, and making various technical updates to pesticide registration, public weighmaster licensing, and propane assessments.
Introduced by Jake Johnson
This bill establishes limits on how much money contractors can be held liable for when they have state contracts. Liability is capped at two times the contract value by default, but can be increased to three times the value if the state completes a risk assessment showing the higher amount is necessary. The bill excludes intentional misconduct, property damage, and personal injury from these limits.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This House Resolution expresses North Carolina's support for strengthening economic and cultural ties with the United Kingdom and urges the U.S. Congress to work more closely with the UK on trade relations. The resolution recognizes the historical friendship between the two nations, acknowledges British cultural influence on North Carolina, and highlights the economic significance of UK investment and trade to the state.
Introduced by Julia Howard
This bill updates North Carolina's credit union laws by modernizing language, clarifying regulatory procedures, and expanding the powers and membership options available to credit unions. It updates definitions, streamlines the appeals process, allows credit unions to offer additional financial services, permits membership for underserved populations, and clarifies record-keeping and examination procedures.
Introduced by Michael Lazzara
This bill allows Onslow County to delegate rezoning decisions from the county's governing board to its planning board. The planning board would conduct hearings and make final decisions on zoning map changes, though people can appeal planning board decisions to the governing board within 15 days.
Introduced by William Rabon
This bill amends the City of Wilmington's charter to authorize the city to sell, exchange, or transfer real property with covenants, conditions, and restrictions attached. The bill allows the city to conduct these transfers either through public sale or private negotiated sale, provided the city council approves the transaction by resolution and gives at least 10 days' public notice of the proposed terms.
Introduced by Jeffrey McNeely
This bill requires social media platforms with over 1 million U.S. users to protect North Carolina users' data privacy and prohibits using minors' personal information in algorithmic recommendation systems. The bill sets default privacy protections for minors, requires clear data disclosures, allows users to control how their data is used, and creates a state task force to monitor compliance. Violations become enforceable as unfair business practices starting January 1, 2027.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill authorizes Rutherford County to construct, renovate, and repair buildings on Isothermal Community College's campuses within the county. The county can finance these projects using county bonds, state appropriations, or other funding sources, and will lease completed buildings to the college under mutually agreed terms.
Introduced by Charles Smith
This bill requires all applicants for athlete agent registration or renewal in North Carolina to undergo a criminal background check using fingerprints and consent forms. The bill also increases athlete agent registration fees from $200 to $250 to help cover the costs of these background checks.
This bill authorizes Henderson County to construct, renovate, or repair buildings on Blue Ridge Community College's campuses within the county. The county can finance these projects using local bonds, state appropriations, or other funding sources, and would lease completed buildings to the college. The bill exempts the county from certain state procurement and construction requirements that normally apply to community college projects.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill modernizes North Carolina's locksmith licensing laws by requiring locksmith businesses (in addition to individual locksmiths) to obtain licenses, modifying apprenticeship rules to allow a three-year renewal period instead of a one-time term, clarifying licensing requirements and exemptions, and strengthening enforcement through disciplinary procedures and court injunctions.
Introduced by Vernetta Alston
This bill allows judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and other judicial officials to request that state, county, and city websites remove their personal identifying information such as home addresses, phone numbers, and birth certificates. Public agencies must comply with these requests and keep the requests confidential, while the removed information remains a public record if otherwise required to be disclosed.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill requires North Carolina community colleges to develop and offer comprehensive firearm safety instruction courses to adults 18 and older, starting in fall 2025. The state allocates $1 million annually to community colleges to establish and run these courses as noncurricular extension programs.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill has three main parts: (1) requires health care practitioners to clearly identify their license type in advertisements and prohibits using misleading titles like 'doctor' or 'surgeon' if not licensed to practice medicine; (2) requires health insurance plans to cover prosthetic and orthotic devices for people with limb loss or limb differences, including custom devices and replacements without lifetime limits; and (3) requires all North Carolina public schools to implement medical condition action plans for students at risk of medical emergencies and establishes medical emergency response procedures.
Healthcare
Introduced by Dean Arp
This bill updates North Carolina's licensing and regulation of professional engineers and land surveyors by clarifying definitions of surveying practices, modifying licensure requirements and procedures, updating disciplinary processes, and granting land surveyors limited right of entry onto private land to perform surveys.
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill reauthorizes a special registration plate for the Turtle Rescue Team at NC State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. The plate, which expired in 2016, would become available again for vehicle owners to purchase at an additional $30 fee beyond regular registration costs.
Introduced by Stephen Ross
This bill creates a new independent North Carolina Investment Authority to manage the state's retirement systems and other funds. The Authority will be governed by a Board of Directors, led by a Chief Investment Officer, and will have independence from standard state budget controls while maintaining fiduciary duties to protect invested assets.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill gives state and local law enforcement officers with at least 30 years of service who retire before age 62 a choice between two ways to calculate their special separation allowance. Officers can either receive 0.85% of their current salary for each year of service, or 0.85% of their salary at the time they reached 30 years of service multiplied by 30—whichever they choose provides more benefit.