North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 841–864 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Neal Jackson
This bill changes how adopted persons can obtain copies of their birth certificates in North Carolina. Currently, only the State Registrar issues these certificates, but the bill allows county registers of deeds to also issue them. The bill requires these staff to complete training on privacy and proper procedures before issuing adoptee birth certificates.
Local Government
Introduced by James Adams
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's firearms laws, including allowing lifetime concealed handgun permits (in addition to the current 5-year permits), waiving firearms training requirements for permit renewals if permits lapse less than 180 days, allowing people under domestic violence protective orders to store or sell their firearms through licensed dealers, providing liability protection for firearms dealers who hold guns temporarily for safety purposes, and authorizing schools to store non-lethal defensive devices in biometric safes for trained employees.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to study how local school districts could implement open enrollment policies, allowing students to attend any school within their district rather than only their assigned school. The study will examine existing voluntary enrollment plans, consider how mandatory open enrollment could work (including application processes, capacity limits, transportation, and appeals), and report findings and recommendations to the legislature by April 15, 2026.
Education
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill requires coaches and athletic staff at youth sports programs on state or local government property to complete annual training courses on youth sports injury prevention and emergency response. The Department of Health and Human Services will approve courses covering topics like concussions, heat injuries, CPR, and cardiac issues. Medical professionals like doctors, nurses, and athletic trainers are exempt from this requirement.
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to install at least one automatic external defibrillator (AED) in each school building, primarily in athletic facilities, and mandates training for school personnel on how to use AEDs and perform CPR. The State Board of Education will develop rules for installation, maintenance, and training, with all types of public schools (traditional public, charter, regional, and university-run) required to comply by the 2025-2026 school year.
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This bill prohibits North Carolina counties and cities from creating or enforcing guaranteed income programs, which are defined as programs that provide unconditional cash payments to individuals on a regular basis. The prohibition does not apply to programs that require recipients to seek employment, perform work, or attend training as conditions for receiving payments.
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.
Business & Labor
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 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 Mitchell Setzer
This bill gives local school boards more flexibility in setting school calendars by allowing them to start school as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of August 26) if they have experienced significant weather-related closures, and increases the number of remote instruction days schools can use to meet required instructional time when unable to open due to emergencies.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill creates a study committee to examine whether North Carolina should require specialized training on domestic violence and child abuse for judges, guardians ad litem, mediators, and other court professionals involved in child custody cases. The committee will study training content, duration, providers, costs, and implementation models, then report findings to the General Assembly by June 30, 2026.
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill requires the North Carolina General Assembly to approve any agreements between state environmental agencies and the federal EPA before they take effect. It also directs the Department of Environmental Quality to negotiate with the EPA to streamline sedimentation control regulations, request early consultation on federal regulatory changes, and provide the legislature with copies of EPA agreements and funding information.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill revises North Carolina law regarding when minors can consent to medical treatment without parental approval and when parents can access their minor child's medical records. It restricts minors' ability to independently consent to certain treatments (like venereal disease treatment and pregnancy-related care), requires parental consent for emergency-use vaccines, and limits parental access to medical records only in specific circumstances such as abuse investigations or reportable conditions.
Healthcare
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill clarifies the rules for issuing special registration plates for members of civic organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions Club. It specifies that both individual members and the organizations themselves can register vehicles with these plates, and requires a minimum of 300 applications before the Division of Motor Vehicles can issue a new civic club plate design.
Introduced by Paul Scott
This bill clarifies that off-road motorcycles can be registered as 'modified utility vehicles' in North Carolina if they meet specific size and equipment requirements. It creates two categories of modified utility vehicles: four-wheeled vehicles with a minimum 40 mph speed capability, and two-wheeled motorcycles with at least 124cc engine displacement and a 40 mph minimum speed. Both types must have safety equipment like headlamps, mirrors, and seat belts to operate on certain public roads.
Transportation & Infrastructure
This bill creates a distinct category for hospital police officers within North Carolina's company police framework and grants them specific authorities and access to law enforcement databases. Hospital police officers would be authorized to enter mutual aid agreements with local governments, access criminal justice information systems (CJLEADS and DCIN) similar to campus police, receive tuition waivers for specialized training at community colleges, and use the VIPER emergency communications system.
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill establishes a 12-member study committee to examine the pay rates and structures of assistant district attorneys, assistant public defenders, and private assigned counsel in North Carolina. The committee will compare North Carolina's pay and conditions to neighboring states and other factors that influence whether lawyers work in these criminal justice roles, with reports due to legislative appropriations committees by March 2026 and March 2027.
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill requires insurance companies and agents to notify customers in writing and get their written consent before collecting or using vehicle telematics data (driving habit information from tracking devices or apps). Customers can revoke their consent at any time, and companies must stop using the data within 24 hours of revocation. Violations are treated as unfair or deceptive trade practices.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill creates a new Agricultural Manufacturing Investment Grant Account within North Carolina's economic development fund to provide competitive grants up to $500,000 total to agricultural manufacturers. Eligible companies must invest at least $5 million in private funds, maintain at least 25 employees at competitive wages, and may receive up to $100,000 per year for up to five years.
Introduced by Hugh Blackwell
This bill requires all North Carolina schools (public, charter, private, and religious) and community colleges and universities to display the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline phone number (988) and NC Peer Warmline phone number (855-733-7762) in multiple locations, including student IDs, websites, school devices, calendars, and registration documents. Schools must verify these phone numbers are current annually.
Introduced by John Bell
This bill creates a new Small Business Investment Grant Program within North Carolina's One North Carolina Fund, allocating up to $10 million in competitive grants to help small businesses establish new facilities or expand existing ones in the state. It also renames the existing One North Carolina Small Business Account to the Small Business Research and Technology Account.
Introduced by Larry Potts
This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to reimburse out-of-network ambulance services at a minimum rate of 100% of the local government rate (or 400% of Medicare rates if no local rate exists), and caps the patient's cost-sharing for emergency ambulance services at the lesser of $100 or 10% of the reimbursement amount.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill allows local governments in North Carolina to borrow money now against future state transportation funding to accelerate transportation projects that are part of the State Transportation Improvement Program. The borrowed money (through grant anticipation notes) must be repaid once the state funding arrives, and the arrangement requires an agreement with the Department of Transportation.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill requires wind energy facilities to install light-mitigating technology systems (such as aircraft detection lighting) approved by the Federal Aviation Administration and expands public notice requirements by requiring notifications to property owners within 1 mile and counties/municipalities within 20 miles of proposed facilities.