North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 985–1008 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill allows telehealth providers who are licensed in North Carolina to become Medicaid providers without needing to have a physical office or location within the state. It applies to both individual providers and provider groups that exclusively offer telehealth services.
Healthcare
Introduced by Neal Jackson
This bill restricts which flags can be flown or displayed on government buildings and property in North Carolina. Only official governmental flags—such as the U.S. flag, North Carolina flag, military branch flags, POW/MIA flag, and flags of recognized nations and tribes—are permitted, while other flags are prohibited. Employees who violate this rule could face disciplinary action or termination.
Local Government
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill allows mobile tattoo parlors to operate in North Carolina vehicles, provided they meet specific health and safety requirements. The bill establishes a permitting process, facility standards (including sterilization equipment and waste management systems), operational restrictions, and enforcement penalties for violations.
Business & Labor
This bill designates 'The Andy Griffith Show' as the official television show of North Carolina. The bill highlights Andy Griffith's birth in Mount Airy, his seven-decade career in entertainment, and the show's 249-episode run from 1960-1968 that became the #1 rated show in America.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to study whether each school district could offer at least one year-round school for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The study will examine costs, logistics, and barriers to implementing year-round schools, with results due to the legislature by January 2027.
Education
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill creates a $40 million grant program to help local governments in western North Carolina recover revenue lost from property damage caused by Hurricane Helene, covering losses in property taxes, sales taxes, and water/sewer fees. It also provides property tax interest relief from January 2025 through December 2026 for property owners in affected areas who received over $42,000 in disaster relief or insurance compensation.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill modernizes North Carolina's debt settlement laws by classifying debt settlement as an unfair trade practice, clarifying definitions of debt adjusting and debt settlement, and expanding legal remedies available to debtors. It reorganizes existing debt adjustment statutes and creates limited exceptions for legitimate credit counseling organizations and certain other entities.
Introduced by Richard Carver
This bill removes the requirement that teacher license applicants in North Carolina pass a standardized examination. It repeals existing testing requirements and prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting new rules that would require standardized tests for teacher licensure.
Introduced by William Rabon
This Senate resolution confirms McKinley Wooten, Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Revenue for North Carolina. The Secretary oversees the state agency responsible for tax collection, revenue administration, and related fiscal operations. This confirmation allows Wooten to officially assume the leadership role.
This Senate resolution confirms Lee Lilley as Secretary of the Department of Commerce, the state agency responsible for economic development, business regulation, and workforce programs in North Carolina. The confirmation requires Senate approval of the Governor's Cabinet appointment.
Introduced by Allen Buansi
This bill directs North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to create rules allowing direct support professionals (DSPs) to live permanently in group homes where they work. Currently, regulations may restrict or prohibit DSPs from residing in the facilities where they provide care to clients.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Julia Howard
This bill prohibits payment card networks, banks, and processors from charging interchange fees (transaction fees) on the sales tax or tip portions of credit and debit card payments in North Carolina. Merchants can avoid these fees by reporting tax and tip amounts during payment processing, or they can request refunds up to 180 days after a transaction if they submit documentation.
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill modifies North Carolina law to allow regional public transportation authorities to operate buspool and vanpool services beyond their territorial boundaries without the current 10-mile distance limitation. The change exempts these specific services from geographic restrictions that apply to other public transportation operations.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by John Bell
This resolution sets a scheduled break in the 2025 legislative session, requiring the North Carolina House and Senate to adjourn on Thursday, April 17, 2025, and reconvene on Monday, April 28, 2025, at noon. The resolution establishes an 11-day recess during the spring legislative period.
Introduced by Jarrod Lowery
This bill lowers the maximum interest rate that lenders can charge on credit card and revolving credit accounts in North Carolina from 1.5% per month to 1.17% per month. It also includes minor technical updates to credit card regulations regarding annual fees, late payment charges, and consumer notices.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill expands insurance coverage for opioid use disorder and overdose treatment by requiring health plans to cover all FDA-approved medications for these conditions without prior authorization, requiring pharmacists' services to be covered like other healthcare providers, and updating language throughout state insurance law to reflect current medical terminology and federal parity requirements.
Introduced by Dudley Greene
This bill allows North Carolina's State Licensing Board for General Contractors to refer violations of contractor licensing laws to law enforcement and district attorneys for criminal prosecution. It also permits the Board to share investigative records with law enforcement and prosecutors to support criminal investigations, and allows the Board to use its resources to assist in prosecutions.
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill updates North Carolina insurance law to align with federal mental health parity requirements and enhance coverage for substance use disorder treatment. It requires health insurance plans to cover mental health conditions with the same terms and conditions as physical health conditions, mandates that substance use disorder treatment decisions use specific clinical criteria from the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and replaces outdated terminology throughout insurance regulations.
Introduced by Brandon Lofton
This bill creates a study commission to examine whether North Carolina should establish a state-owned infrastructure bank that could provide financing for projects like roads, housing, schools, and utilities. The 17-member commission will study how such a bank could work, what it would finance, how it should be organized, and what regulations it would need before reporting back to the legislature by the end of 2026.
Introduced by Jake Johnson
This bill allows sworn law enforcement officers hired as armed security guards at nonpublic (private) schools to carry firearms on school property. It amends North Carolina law to create an exemption for these certified officers from restrictions on carrying weapons in educational settings.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill increases the punishment for assaulting school employees or volunteers from a Class A1 misdemeanor to a Class I felony. It also requires school supervisors to report assaults on employees that result in physical injury to the principal, and prohibits school administrators from intimidating employees who report assaults to law enforcement.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill allows healthcare providers licensed by North Carolina who offer services exclusively through telemedicine (remote video or phone visits) to become Medicaid providers without needing a physical office location or in-state address. Currently, such providers may be required to have a physical presence in the state to enroll in Medicaid.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill modifies laws governing Local Management Entities/Managed Care Organizations (LME/MCOs) in North Carolina. It allows senior management employees at area authorities to receive salaries above normal state salary ranges with proper documentation and approval, and makes a technical change to allow LME/MCOs to contract with entities holding certain licenses for behavioral health and intellectual/developmental disability services.
Introduced by Beth Helfrich
This bill requires large group health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover fertility diagnostic care, fertility treatment, and fertility preservation services. Coverage must include at least three in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles per person, though the requirement does not apply to plans offered by religious institutions or self-insured group plans.