North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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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.
Other / General Government
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.
Education
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill expands the role of pharmacists in North Carolina by allowing them to work under collaborative practice agreements with physicians to manage drug therapy, modify dosages, and order tests. It also requires health insurance plans to cover pharmacist-provided healthcare services when performed within their scope of practice and applies these coverage requirements to third-party administrators and pharmacy benefits managers.
Healthcare
Introduced by Mark Brody
This bill allows developers and others involved in development projects to sue local governments for development approval decisions and recover attorneys' fees and damages. If a court finds a local government intentionally violated the law, intentionally delayed approvals, or acted in a flagrantly unfair or deceptive manner, the local government must pay the developer's legal costs and potentially up to 10 times the actual damages caused by the delay.
Local Government
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill creates a new sentencing consideration for people charged with impaired driving who voluntarily install and use an ignition interlock system (a device that prevents a car from starting if alcohol is detected) for at least six months before their trial. Judges may consider this voluntary action as a mitigating factor when deciding sentencing. The bill also allows people who cannot afford interlock costs to request partial fee waivers from vendors.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill creates two new protections for commercial vehicles and cargo in North Carolina. First, it prohibits the use of immobilization devices (like boots) on commercial motor vehicles for parking enforcement purposes, making violations a Class 2 misdemeanor. Second, it requires towing companies to promptly return commercial cargo to its owner upon request and to exchange damaged trailers with comparable working trailers.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Philip Berger
This bill provides North Carolina local school boards with flexibility in setting school start and end dates while establishing enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance. It allows boards to choose between two calendar options (starting no earlier than August 26 or August 19) and creates reporting requirements, state oversight procedures, and allows private citizens to sue school boards for calendar violations.
Introduced by Dudley Greene
This bill modifies procedures for civil commitment hearings involving individuals charged with violent crimes who were found incapable of proceeding. It allows district attorneys from the county where the defendant was found incapable of proceeding to represent the state's interest and, if they choose to do so, to move that all related hearings be held in that same county rather than where the facility is located.
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's juvenile justice system, including extending probation and post-release supervision terms for youth convicted of serious violent offenses from one year to up to three years, clarifying victim notification rights, allowing secure custody orders for domestic violence protective order violations, creating a new crime for escaping juvenile facilities, and clarifying where youth under 18 sentenced to adult prison must be held.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill replaces North Carolina's current school grading system with a new one that calculates school performance scores based on student test proficiency, growth in learning, English language proficiency, graduation rates, and career/college readiness measures. Schools receive letter grades (A-F) based on these scores, with different scoring thresholds for elementary, middle, and high schools.
Introduced by Ray Pickett
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to create a system of mathematics support for kindergarten through 8th grade, including approved assessment tools, instructional materials, and professional development for teachers. Local school districts must select and implement these approved resources to help students achieve grade-level math proficiency and identify students with math deficiencies.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill requires all North Carolina public schools, charter schools, and participating nonpublic schools to install at least two automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) in each school building and provide training to school staff on how to use them. The State Board of Education will establish rules for installation, maintenance, and training, and the bill appropriates $12 million to help schools purchase AEDs and train personnel.
Introduced by Gale Adcock
This bill creates the North Carolina Work and Save Program, a state-facilitated retirement savings program for small business employees, self-employed individuals, and independent contractors who lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The program uses payroll deduction to help workers save through individual retirement accounts (IRAs), modeled after successful public-private partnership structures like the NC 529 College Savings Program.
Introduced by Bill Ward
This bill allows North Carolinians to carry certain concealed knives (like bowie knives, dirks, daggers, and switchblades) if they meet specific requirements, including being at least 18 years old, having valid identification, and having no felony convictions, domestic violence convictions, or certain other disqualifying conditions. The bill excludes ordinary pocket knives, which are already legal to carry concealed.
Introduced by Gloristine Brown
This bill allows Pitt County Schools to share the $10,000 Advanced Teaching Role (ATR) salary supplement for adult leadership teachers with collaborating teachers who work together in a Community of Practice model. It also makes collaborating teachers eligible to receive and keep the salary supplement as long as they remain in their role.
Introduced by Stephen Ross
This bill authorizes North Carolina's State Treasurer to invest state funds in digital assets like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, but only up to 5% of designated funds and only after independent security review. It also directs the Treasurer to study whether state employees can invest retirement funds in digital assets and requires law enforcement to study creating a state reserve for seized or forfeited digital assets.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill allows emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to provide emergency medical care to injured police K-9 units and certified search and rescue dogs at emergency scenes without needing a veterinary license. It also protects EMS personnel from prosecution when they provide such emergency care in good faith, though this protection does not apply to cases involving gross negligence, wanton conduct, or intentional wrongdoing.
This bill directs the Legislative Research Commission to study North Carolina towns that exist legally but do not provide adequate services to residents. The study will examine towns incorporated since 1995, assess whether they're delivering promised services, and recommend whether the General Assembly should suspend or revoke their charters if they're failing to serve residents properly.
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill designates the fourth Thursday of March each year as Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day in North Carolina. The day honors African-American pilots and support staff trained during World War II at Tuskegee Institute who served with distinction in combat operations.
Introduced by Neal Jackson
The Hunter Robinson Act modifies North Carolina's post-release supervision laws by increasing the time inmates must serve before release and extending supervision periods for certain felony offenses. Specifically, it increases the required prison time served before release eligibility for Class B1-C felonies from 12 to 24 months, maintains 18 months for Class D-E felonies, and keeps 9 months for Class F-I felonies. It also extends post-release supervision periods from 12 to 24 months for Class B1-C felonies while keeping other supervision periods unchanged.
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill allows Haywood County to fill vacancies on its Board of Commissioners using the standard state process outlined in G.S. 153A-27, rather than a different procedure. The change brings Haywood County into alignment with how 38 other North Carolina counties handle commissioner vacancies.
Introduced by Chris Humphrey
This bill updates North Carolina's Insurance Guaranty Association Act, which protects policyholders when insurance companies become insolvent. The changes expand protections for cybersecurity insurance claims, clarify how the Association handles claim settlements and appeals, and establish new rules for recovering payments from wealthy insureds.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill amends North Carolina's Professional Employer Organization (PEO) Act by updating definitions, financial requirements, and licensing procedures. It clarifies terms like 'tangible net worth' and 'working capital,' allows PEOs to meet financial requirements through parent company guaranties, extends timelines for financial statement submissions, and modifies de minimis registration criteria.
This bill creates sentence enhancements in North Carolina that increase criminal penalties in three situations: (1) when a person convicted of a felony has a prior federal conviction for illegal reentry into the U.S., (2) when a felony is committed as part of a conspiracy to benefit criminal activity, and (3) when a misdemeanor is committed as part of a conspiracy to benefit criminal activity. Enhanced sentences raise the felony or misdemeanor one class level higher.