North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 817–840 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by John Sauls
This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to request federal approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend Medicaid coverage for personal care services to certain low-income individuals living in adult care homes. The coverage would apply to people whose income is between the current limit and 180-200% of the federal poverty level, but only if the new services are paid for through savings or cost avoidance and the federal government approves the request.
Healthcare
Introduced by William Rabon
This joint resolution confirms Christopher J. Ayers as Executive Director of the Public Staff of the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a six-year term beginning July 1, 2025. Under state law, the Governor's appointment to this position requires confirmation by the General Assembly.
Local Government
This joint resolution confirms Regina Smith Adams of Durham County to serve on North Carolina's Board of Review as the employee representative for a four-year term starting July 1, 2025. State law requires the General Assembly to approve gubernatorial appointments to this board through joint resolution.
This Senate resolution confirms Teena Piccione as the State Chief Information Officer and Secretary of the Department of Information Technology. The confirmation was adopted by the Senate on May 22, 2025, following the standard confirmation process for this cabinet-level position.
This resolution confirms Don van der Vaart's appointment to the North Carolina Utilities Commission for a six-year term beginning July 1, 2025. Under state law, the State Treasurer's appointments to this commission require approval by the General Assembly through joint resolution.
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill changes how Gaston County Board of Education members are elected by making elections partisan (candidates run with party affiliation) instead of nonpartisan. It maintains the nine-member board structure with seven members elected from residential districts and two elected county-wide, with elections held every even-numbered year as terms expire.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Grant Campbell
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 so that regular elections resume in 2026 and continue in even-numbered years thereafter, while maintaining the existing staggered system for aldermen and mayor terms.
Introduced by James Adams
This bill temporarily allows North Carolina Class C driver's licenses to remain valid for up to two years after their expiration date, with exceptions for suspended/revoked licenses and Real IDs older than eight years. The moratorium is intended to address a backlog of people unable to renew licenses in person and expires December 31, 2027.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill changes municipal elections for the Town of Faith from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years and extends aldermen terms from two years to four years. No elections will be held in 2025, current aldermen's terms will be extended by one year, and regular four-year term elections will begin in 2026.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
House Bill 74 makes various technical corrections and clarifications to North Carolina's budget and existing laws. It extends deadlines for certain grant spending, adjusts disaster relief programs and agricultural assistance timelines, modifies UNC reporting requirements and employment policies, reallocates water and infrastructure funding between communities, transfers the Missing Persons Center to the State Highway Patrol, updates conservation tax credit rules, and makes other administrative changes across multiple state agencies and programs.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Brian Echevarria
This bill requires referendums in four Cabarrus County municipalities (Concord, Harrisburg, Midland, and Mount Pleasant) on November 3, 2025, asking voters whether to change local elections from nonpartisan to partisan. If voters approve, the change would take effect in December 2027. The bill also modifies how vacancies are filled on the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill modifies North Carolina laws related to child welfare, foster care, and adoption by adding protections for parents and caregivers who raise children consistent with their biological sex. It specifies that such parenting decisions—including the use of pronouns and related medical or mental health choices—cannot be the sole basis for abuse or neglect allegations, and prevents adoption and foster care agencies from denying placements based on prospective parents' refusal to support gender transition.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Stephen Ross
This bill has two main parts: Part I strengthens protections against financial exploitation of older adults (65+) and disabled adults by giving financial institutions authority to delay transactions for up to 30 days (extendable to 60 days) when they suspect fraud, and requires them to report suspected exploitation to law enforcement and social services. Part II updates North Carolina's savings bank laws to align more closely with commercial banking regulations, including changes to branch approval processes and application of existing banking confidentiality rules.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill prohibits local governments in North Carolina from allowing unauthorized camping or sleeping on public property, with limited exceptions. Local governments may designate one property for up to one year as a camping site only if they meet strict state requirements including adequate shelter beds elsewhere, proper sanitation, health services, and departmental certification.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill prohibits state and local government employees, contractors, and other users from downloading or using TikTok and WeChat on government-issued devices and networks. It requires removal of these apps within 30 days if already installed, with exceptions for law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies using them for official investigations.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by David Willis
This bill removes the NC Math III requirement for high school graduation, replacing it with a fourth math course aligned to each student's career plan. It also modifies social studies requirements to include four specific courses (World History, US History, Founding Principles, and Economics), adds a US History graduation test based on civics questions, and requires UNC institutions to align college math admissions standards with the new high school requirements.
Education
Introduced by Lisa Barnes
This bill prohibits banks, savings and loans, savings banks, and credit unions from denying or canceling services to farmers based on their greenhouse gas emissions, use of fossil-fuel fertilizers, or use of fossil-fuel powered machinery. The state Commissioner would enforce this rule during regular bank examinations.
Introduced by Celeste Cairns
This bill designates the osprey as North Carolina's official state raptor. The osprey is a fish-eating bird of prey found throughout North Carolina in coastal and inland waterways.
Other / General Government
Introduced by John Bell
This bill establishes rules for North Carolina legislators who would serve as commissioners to an interstate convention for proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution under Article V. It specifies how commissioners are selected (7 total: 3 from Senate, 3 from House, 1 at-large), sets qualification requirements, limits their authority to the scope of state applications, and makes it a felony for commissioners to vote on matters outside their authorized scope.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill eliminates separate subbasin designations for the Haw River, Deep River, and Contentnea Creek, allowing water transfers within the Cape Fear and Neuse River basins without requiring interbasin transfer certificates. It also revises how nutrient offset credits are calculated for wastewater permits in the Neuse River Basin by expanding the applicability of transport factor rules and directing the state to conduct new watershed modeling to potentially update these factors.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill transfers the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons from the Department of Public Safety to the State Highway Patrol, consolidating it as a division within the Highway Patrol. The Center will continue its functions of maintaining missing persons information, operating alert systems (AMBER, Silver, Blue, Ashanti, and weather-related alerts), and coordinating with law enforcement agencies, but under Highway Patrol leadership instead of a separate departmental structure.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill establishes May 17th as an official annual state holiday in North Carolina called Lafayette Day, honoring the Marquis de Lafayette's contributions to American independence and his advocacy for human rights. The date was chosen because North Carolina renamed Campellton to Fayetteville in honor of Lafayette on May 17, 1783, making it the first state to do so.
Introduced by Neal Jackson
This bill directs state agencies to verify that applicants for certain state-funded benefits, housing assistance, in-state tuition, financial aid, and unemployment benefits are legally authorized to reside in the United States. Agencies must develop plans to restrict these benefits to U.S. citizens and noncitizens with legal permission, and report on implementation by January 15, 2026.
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill strengthens North Carolina's requirements for businesses offering automatically renewing contracts (like subscriptions or memberships). It requires clearer disclosure of renewal terms, easier cancellation methods, and advance notice before renewal—with specific formatting rules to make this information stand out to consumers.