North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 73–96 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill repeals existing sales and use tax exemptions for data centers in North Carolina, meaning data center operations would become subject to state sales and use taxes starting July 1, 2026. The bill removes multiple exemptions previously granted to data center businesses under state tax code.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Chris Humphrey
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's insurance and civil laws, including updating peer-to-peer vehicle sharing regulations, allowing small cash convenience fees for insurance payments, prohibiting mortgage lenders from requiring reconstruction cost estimates, modifying bail bondsmen requirements, and establishing arbitration procedures for uninsured/underinsured motorist claims.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Charles Miller
This comprehensive bill makes numerous changes to North Carolina's alcoholic beverage laws. Major provisions include authorizing the ABC Commission to obtain a $310 million loan for a new automated warehouse, creating new permit types (service business permit and auction house permit), allowing wine tastings at off-premises locations, expanding where mixed beverage permittees can purchase liquor, and making technical corrections to existing regulations. The bill also makes changes to state government structure and raffle laws.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's cosmetic art licensing requirements. It reduces training hours for cosmetologists (from 1,500 to 1,200 hours), eliminates the apprentice license category and converts existing apprentices to cosmetologists, creates a new hair designer license (900 hours) and hair braider certification (24 hours), reduces training hours for natural hair care specialists and teachers, allows mobile cosmetic art shops to operate, and reduces continuing education requirements for license renewal.
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill allows commercial buildings in downtown areas of Hurricane Helene-affected counties to repair damage using windows with the same fire-protection rating they had before the hurricane, rather than upgrading to current state building code standards. The exemption is temporary (two years to apply), applies only to restoration work that doesn't expand the building, and requires owners to sign a notarized affidavit assuming liability risks.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by David Craven
This bill requires proxy advisory services operating in North Carolina to disclose whether their voting recommendations are based on written financial analyses. If recommendations against company management are not based on financial analysis, proxy advisors must clearly inform shareholders and company boards; if they are based on financial analysis, they must make the analysis available upon request. Violations are treated as unfair and deceptive trade practices.
This bill increases the membership of the General Statutes Commission from 13 to 14 members by adding one representative appointed by the dean of High Point University School of Law. The new member will begin their initial three-year term on September 1, 2026.
Local Government
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
The Regulatory Reform Act of 2026 makes dozens of changes to North Carolina state laws to streamline regulations and reduce compliance burdens across energy, construction, environmental, licensing, and property development sectors. Key changes include reorganizing energy savings contract rules, lowering certain environmental fees, authorizing new construction contracting methods, modifying mining permit procedures, adjusting building code requirements, and establishing timelines for local government permit reviews.
Introduced by Francis Iler
This bill allows the towns of Ocean Isle Beach and Topsail Beach to use money collected from on-street parking fees in the same ways they currently use money from off-street parking facilities (like parking lots). Previously, state law may have restricted how these towns could spend on-street parking revenue.
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This bill updates North Carolina's rules for health care powers of attorney and advance directives (living wills). It clarifies witness requirements, allows certain trained healthcare workers to serve as witnesses in limited situations, and enables people to file these documents electronically with the Secretary of State's Advance Health Care Directive Registry.
Healthcare
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill strengthens oversight of Medicaid providers in North Carolina by establishing a Provider Enrollment Credentialing Committee to review provider applications and eligibility, expanding grounds for denying or terminating provider enrollment based on criminal convictions and licensing actions, and requiring providers to report criminal convictions of their employees. The bill also makes changes to prepaid health plan networks and Medicaid eligibility.
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill makes several local government boundary changes across North Carolina. It removes satellite annexation caps for Bailey, Weaverville, and Cherryville; removes specific parcels of land from seven municipalities' corporate limits (Morehead City, Washington, Kernersville, Red Oak, Vass, Waynesville, and Walnut Creek); and restricts the Village of Walnut Creek from exercising municipal powers beyond its contiguous boundaries.
This bill removes the satellite annexation cap for 30 cities and 54 towns in North Carolina, allowing them to annex noncontiguous land without the standard 10% limit. It also removes the Town of Rural Hall from the Forsyth County Countywide Fire Service District, effective June 30, 2026.
Introduced by Philip Berger
This bill prohibits North Carolina public universities and community colleges from maintaining diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices or programs, requiring employees to affirm certain concepts, or endorsing what the bill defines as 'divisive concepts' related to race and sex. It requires institutions to certify annual compliance and allows instruction on these topics only if the institution makes clear it does not endorse them.
Education
This bill requires North Carolina state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, restricts state-funded benefits and housing assistance to legally authorized residents, verifies immigration status for unemployment benefits, removes liability protections for local governments that adopt sanctuary policies, and prohibits UNC universities from limiting immigration law enforcement on campus.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by John Bell
This is a House Resolution honoring the life and memory of James Michael 'Mike' Clampitt, a former North Carolina House Representative from House District 119. The resolution recognizes his decades of service as a firefighter, law enforcement officer, and state legislator, and expresses the General Assembly's appreciation for his contributions to his community and the state.
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill prohibits North Carolina state agencies and local governments from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, policies, or staff positions. It defines DEI as initiatives that influence hiring or employment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, nationality, country of origin, or sexual orientation outside of merit-based processes, and establishes penalties for violations including fines up to $10,000 and potential removal from employment.
This bill makes changes to local election procedures for multiple North Carolina municipalities and one school board. The changes primarily shift municipal elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years (aligning with general elections), extend some current officials' terms by one year to accommodate the timing change, and modify term lengths and election methods for various town and city offices.
Elections & Voting
This bill prohibits North Carolina public schools from teaching, promoting, or requiring professional development related to what it defines as "divisive concepts" — including ideas that individuals should feel guilt based on race or sex, that meritocracy is inherently racist or sexist, or that character traits should be ascribed to people based on race or sex. Schools must certify annual compliance and cannot maintain offices or employ staff whose primary duties involve promoting these concepts or discriminatory practices.
Introduced by Dudley Greene
This bill modifies North Carolina's telephone solicitation laws to specifically address robocalls. It defines robocalls as artificial or prerecorded voice messages (including soundboard technology and ringless voicemails) and spam/scam text messages, and establishes stricter rules for their use. The bill requires prior express written consent (rather than just invitation or permission) before most robocalls can be made, creates specific penalties for violations, and adds protections against spoofing and impersonating government officials.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill creates protections for children under 16 on social media platforms, requires schools to teach artificial intelligence literacy, and establishes AI policies and training for public schools. The social media portion bans children under 14 from most social platforms and requires parental consent for 14-15 year-olds; it also restricts how platforms can use children's data for recommendations and advertising. The education portions update computer science standards to include AI instruction, create a model AI policy for schools, establish an evaluation framework for AI educational tools, and require teacher training on AI use.
This is a House Resolution that honors the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team for winning the 2026 Stanley Cup championship. The resolution recognizes the team's accomplishments, leadership, and community contributions, and directs that a certified copy be sent to team members, the owner, and head coach.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill prohibits the use of artificial intelligence as the sole basis for denying insurance coverage decisions and claims in North Carolina's Medicaid and commercial insurance programs. It also bars healthcare providers and AI developers from using AI systems designed to promote 'upcoding' (billing for higher-level services than actually provided), and requires healthcare providers to annually attest their compliance with these restrictions.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill changes municipal elections in the Town of Norlina from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years (aligning with general elections) and extends commissioner terms from two years to staggered four-year terms, with the mayor serving four-year terms. The transition skips the 2027 election and begins regular elections again in 2028 with a staggered system.