North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 793–816 of 2,338 bills
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 Larry Potts
This bill establishes the Social Work Licensure Compact, an interstate agreement allowing licensed social workers to practice in multiple member states through a single multistate license issued by their home state. The compact creates a commission to oversee implementation, maintain a shared database of licensure and disciplinary information, and establish uniform standards while preserving each state's right to regulate social work practice within its borders.
Business & Labor
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.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill makes various administrative and operational changes to the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, including protecting information about rare species and sensitive habitats, allowing longer lease terms for state recreation areas, establishing free school group admission to state sites, and updating historical publication and symphony management statutes.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax relief programs for elderly and disabled homeowners. It eliminates the deferred tax liability system under the Property Tax Homestead Circuit Breaker, meaning qualifying homeowners would become exempt from paying certain property taxes rather than deferring payment. The bill also makes related changes to income eligibility definitions and tax record disclosure rules.
Introduced by Mark Brody
This bill authorizes private commercial inspectors and firms to conduct building inspections for commercial structures in North Carolina, creates a certification and registration system for these private inspectors under the State Fire Marshal's office, allows permit holders to use private inspectors instead of local government inspectors, and repeals the state marketplace pool of code-enforcement officials.
Local Government
Introduced by Ray Jeffers
This bill creates a Commercial Motor Vehicle Towing and Recovery Commission to oversee towing fees and practices for commercial trucks. It requires tow operators to obtain permits from the Division of Motor Vehicles, establishes training and background check requirements, and sets rules for how towed vehicles and cargo are handled and returned to owners.
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
This bill makes two major changes to North Carolina law. First, it prohibits local health boards from regulating private residential swimming pools and creates exemptions for pools shared through online platforms if they meet certain safety standards. Second, it significantly reforms local government zoning and development regulations by limiting local authority to powers explicitly granted by state law, establishing faster approval timelines for development applications, restricting design requirements, and expanding property owners' legal rights to challenge regulations.
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill allows the sheriff's offices in Mitchell County and Yancey County, North Carolina to enter into agreements with the Unicoi County, Tennessee sheriff's office to conduct joint law enforcement operations across state lines. The agreements must specify how liability for damages will be handled and must be reported annually to the North Carolina Department of Justice.
Introduced by Ted Alexander
This bill authorizes the creation of the South Fork Passage State Trail, a 60-mile hiking and paddling trail in Catawba, Lincoln, and Gaston Counties along the South Fork of the Catawba River. The trail would be added to North Carolina's State Parks System and connect existing parks while passing through areas with historical, ecological, and recreational significance.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill modifies how North Carolina fills District Attorney vacancies when they occur before a term ends. It clarifies the appointment process and requires the Governor to consult with the appropriate political party's district executive committee, which can recommend up to three qualified candidates within 30 days. The appointee serves until an election can be held, with the timing depending on when the original term was set to expire.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill authorizes Hertford County to establish a Rural Development Authority, which is a local government entity that can undertake economic development projects. The bill amends existing state law to add Hertford County to the list of counties eligible to create such an authority.
Introduced by Jake Johnson
This bill allows certain educational organizations and state agencies to more quickly obtain surplus and decommissioned federal materials and property without following standard procedures. Educational nonprofits can access surplus federal property for educational purposes, and state agencies can access it for public safety purposes.
Education
Introduced by Francis Iler
This bill allows North Carolina's Secretary of Environmental Quality to order PFAS manufacturers whose pollution has contaminated public drinking water systems to pay for the costs of removing or treating that contamination. The bill applies to cases where a water system has spent over $50 million on PFAS remediation and can trace the contamination to a specific manufacturer's discharge, and it applies retroactively to costs incurred since January 1, 2017.
Introduced by Thomas McInnis
This bill expands academic transition pathways for sophomore high school students to include career technical education programs in five specific fields: industrial and engineering technologies, agriculture and natural resources, transportation technology, construction, and business technologies. It also allows qualified freshman and sophomore students to pursue college transfer pathways if they meet academic requirements and receive proper consent and advising.
This bill makes changes to local election schedules and term lengths for three North Carolina towns. For Madison, the mayor's term extends from two to four years. For Faith, municipal elections move to even-numbered years and aldermen terms extend to four years. For China Grove, municipal elections shift from odd-numbered to even-numbered years.
Elections & Voting
This house resolution expresses North Carolina's support for Israel and urges the U.S. Congress to take steps to criminalize antisemitic acts and violence against Jewish citizens and Israel supporters. The resolution cites a recent terrorist attack in Colorado and references previous legislative actions by North Carolina supporting Israel.
Introduced by Philip Berger
This is a Senate Resolution that honors Elizabeth Hanford Dole, a North Carolina native and former U.S. Senator, for her decades of public service in federal government, the American Red Cross, and her foundation supporting military caregivers. The resolution recognizes her pioneering role as a woman in leadership and her contributions to transportation safety, labor policy, and veteran support.
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill modernizes North Carolina's alarm security systems licensing laws and makes changes to private protective services regulations. It updates licensing requirements, increases application and licensing fees, enhances background check procedures, and clarifies regulations for security businesses, alarm monitoring companies, and security guard services.
Introduced by Vickie Sawyer
This bill codifies and restructures the Lake Norman Marine Commission, which manages the lake spanning Catawba, Iredell, Lincoln, and Mecklenburg Counties. It updates the commission's governance structure, membership requirements, regulatory authority, fee policies, and enforcement procedures to improve coordination on water quality, recreation safety, and regional economic health.
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill enacts the Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act in North Carolina, which establishes rules for how property acquired as community property (in marriages where community property law applies) is divided when one spouse dies. The bill specifies that the surviving spouse automatically receives half of the community property without it being subject to the deceased spouse's will, while the deceased spouse's half can be disposed of through their will.
This bill clarifies the legal effects of property transfers between spouses in North Carolina. It specifies that when one spouse transfers real property to the other spouse, the receiving spouse automatically acquires the property, but the transferring spouse retains certain marital rights (like a potential life estate claim or equitable distribution rights) unless they explicitly waive those rights in the transfer document. The bill also makes technical corrections to related property and family law statutes.
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill temporarily allows Buncombe County to use sales tax revenue for both school building projects and operating expenses (like teacher salaries and supplies) for two years, instead of only building projects. It also makes organizational changes to the School Capital Fund Commission that oversees these funds.
Introduced by Carl Ford
This bill changes when the town of China Grove holds its municipal elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years. It skips elections in 2025 and extends current officials' terms by one year, with regular elections resuming in 2026 on an even-year schedule.