North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 889–912 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Allen Chesser
This bill modifies how North Carolina calculates unit pricing costs for transportation goods used in highway maintenance and construction. It changes the baseline calculation from using only 2015-2016 fiscal year data to using a rolling average of the three previous fiscal years, and adjusts the enforcement and reporting procedures for Highway Divisions that exceed the 10% variance threshold.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill creates a new Guardianship Assistance Program (KinGAP) in North Carolina that provides financial support to children who leave foster care and are placed with relative or non-relative legal guardians. The program lowers the minimum age of eligibility from 14 to 10 years old and allows youth to continue receiving assistance until age 21 if they are pursuing education, employment, or have a qualifying disability.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill establishes a State Infrastructure Bank Board to provide loans and financial assistance for transportation, water, sewer, and other infrastructure projects in North Carolina. The Board will manage federal, state, and private funds, offer flexible lending terms including below-market interest rates, and use blended financing to attract private investment in infrastructure.
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill establishes the Government Agency Forum Selection Act, requiring North Carolina and local governments to bring civil lawsuits in state courts rather than federal courts when both courts have jurisdiction, and prohibits them from removing cases to federal court when they are defendants. It also restricts the Attorney General from participating in out-of-state litigation that challenges state laws and requires legislative approval before the Attorney General can join class action lawsuits.
Local Government
Introduced by Brad Overcash
This bill makes three main changes to North Carolina land use law: (1) allows public schools to be built in commercially-zoned areas through special use permits; (2) clarifies that approving new land uses doesn't eliminate existing use rights on a property; and (3) eliminates cities' ability to regulate land outside their boundaries (extraterritorial jurisdiction), with the change taking effect between October 2026 and October 2027 depending on county population.
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill creates a 'Know Before You Go' program that provides North Carolina high school sophomores with transparent data about college and career options, including job demand, salary information, graduation rates, and student debt outcomes. It requires state agencies to collect and share this information through a website and local school programs, with $500,000 in grants to help schools implement the initiative.
Education
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill creates a legal presumption that a person littered if litter is found bearing their name on documents or objects such as bank statements, utility bills, or prescription bottles. The presumption can be challenged in court, and the bill excludes advertising and campaign materials from triggering this presumption.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Ray Pickett
This bill authorizes the towns of Blowing Rock and Boone and the counties of Dare, Durham, and Watauga to build and operate affordable housing specifically for their employees. The local governments can construct these units on their own property, partner with other organizations, or contract with private entities, and they can rent or sell units to employees at below-market rates with restrictions on resale.
Housing
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill provides limited immunity from malpractice lawsuits for registered nurses in North Carolina when they act within their scope of practice and follow a supervising health care provider's directions. The immunity does not apply if a nurse acts with gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct, and nurses are protected when they raise safety concerns about a provider's orders in good faith.
Healthcare
Introduced by David Willis
This bill changes North Carolina's execution methods by allowing people sentenced to death to choose between electrocution, firing squad, or lethal injection (if available). It repeals the current law limiting execution to lethal injection only and allows health care professionals to assist with executions without facing professional discipline.
Introduced by Francis Iler
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's condominium and planned community association laws. It protects homeowners by limiting how associations can change rules, restricting managing agent compensation based on fines collected, requiring fair approval procedures for home modifications, and preventing foreclosures without allowing payment plans first. It also establishes mandatory mediation before associations can sue members and requires the Department of Justice to collect and report complaints about association disputes.
Introduced by Kyle Hall
This bill establishes a new legal process for dividing property owned jointly by multiple family members, called 'heirs property.' It requires courts to first try dividing the property into separate parcels (partition in kind) rather than forcing a sale, and allows remaining cotenants to buy out those who want to sell before the property is sold as a whole.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill substantially reforms North Carolina's local land development regulations by limiting local government authority over zoning and building standards, accelerating permit approval timelines, and establishing new requirements for water and sewer capacity allocation. It also increases certain stormwater permit fees and mandates specific housing types in larger cities.
Introduced by Jarrod Lowery
This bill requires all local government entities in North Carolina to publish itemized invoices online showing who was paid, how much, what was purchased, and when. It also requires local governments to publicly display the top three bids received for any project, service, or goods purchased with tax dollars, updated quarterly.
This bill creates consumer protections for people buying resold tickets to live events in North Carolina. It requires ticket sellers to clearly show all fees upfront, prevents price increases during checkout, restricts ticket issuers from blocking resales or punishing resellers, and prohibits secondary ticket websites from using event or venue names in their web addresses.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill clarifies North Carolina's definition of electric-assisted bicycles by establishing three classes based on motor power and speed capabilities, and authorizes cities and counties to regulate where e-bikes can be used and set safety requirements like helmet rules. The bill also requires the Department of Transportation to create educational materials about e-bike safety.
Introduced by Vernetta Alston
This bill creates a new criminal offense for knowingly creating or distributing deepfakes (manipulated media) intended to deceive without consent, particularly when used for harassment, extortion, or election interference. It also grants legal immunity to artificial intelligence developers and online platforms from civil liability when licensed professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) use AI products and experience errors in their professional services.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill allows physician assistants (PAs) with significant experience to practice in team-based settings (like hospitals and clinics) without direct physician supervision, while maintaining some oversight for certain procedures. It also transfers regulation of nurse practitioners and nurse midwives from a joint Medical Board-Nursing Board subcommittee to the Board of Nursing alone, and increases physician assistant representation on the Medical Board from one to two members.
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill requires North Carolina courts to automatically issue a standing order when someone files for equitable distribution (property division) in a divorce. The automatic order prohibits both spouses from selling, transferring, or hiding assets, taking on excessive debt, or changing insurance and beneficiary designations without the other spouse's written consent or court approval. The order remains in effect until the property division case is finalized.
Introduced by Paul Scott
This bill adds certain occupational cancers to the list of firefighter deaths eligible for death benefits under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. Firefighters who die from mesothelioma, testicular cancer, small intestine cancer, esophageal cancer, oral cavity cancer, pharynx cancer, gastric cancer, prostate cancer, or colon cancer are presumed to have died in the line of duty if the cancer is occupationally related to firefighting.
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill creates a Motorcycle Road Guard Certification Program that allows trained and certified motorcycle riders to direct traffic while escorting motorcycle groups along approved public routes. Certified road guards must meet safety standards, hold a valid motorcycle driver's license endorsement, and complete a Division-developed certification course, with routes requiring approval from local police chiefs or sheriffs.
Introduced by James Adams
This bill repeals a 2024 law that restricted local governments' ability to reduce zoning density (down-zoning). It restores municipalities' and counties' authority to initiate down-zoning changes and makes this change retroactive to December 11, 2024, reinstating any ordinances that were affected by the previous restriction.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill designates the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas in Brevard as North Carolina's official state veterans history museum. The museum, which opened in 2016, preserves military artifacts and honors veterans through exhibits, educational programs, and community gathering spaces.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill establishes a pilot program in 12 North Carolina schools where seventh-grade students entering in 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 will develop and annually review Career Development Plans through high school graduation. The plans aim to align students' coursework with college and career goals and help ensure on-time graduation, with involvement from school counselors, parents, and IEP teams for students with disabilities.