North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill prohibits North Carolina state government and local government agencies from purchasing drones (unmanned aircraft) manufactured or assembled by certain foreign entities, specifically those connected to China or Russia, or those on U.S. government screening lists. The prohibition applies to any purchase using state funds, including through contracts and grants, and makes violating contracts void.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill creates a joint legislative committee with 6 senators and 6 representatives to study ways to modify North Carolina's Medicaid program if federal funding decreases. The committee will explore options like reducing optional services, adjusting provider payments, and improving managed care efficiency, then report findings and recommendations by April 30, 2026.
Healthcare
Introduced by Donna White
This bill doubles most licensing fees charged by the North Carolina Board of Nursing for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and related services. The fee increases will take effect October 1, 2025, and apply to new applications, renewals, and reinstatements, with a cap preventing year-to-year increases of more than 20%.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill allows North Carolina pharmacists to test for and treat influenza and streptococcal infections using FDA-approved tests, and requires health insurance plans to cover pharmacist-provided services that would be covered if performed by other healthcare providers. The bill also requires insurers, pharmacy benefits managers, and third-party administrators to reimburse pharmacists fairly for services within their scope of practice.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill updates how North Carolina's Medicaid program selects health insurance companies to serve Medicaid recipients. For future contract renewals, it limits statewide contracts to no more than four companies and gives preference to certain types of bidders—particularly Provider-Led Entities (PLEs) and companies with higher provider satisfaction ratings.
Introduced by Charles Smith
This bill expands North Carolina's employment preference policy for military personnel by removing the requirement that service occur during wartime and extending preference to active duty service members, Armed Forces Reserve members, and their spouses and dependents. The expanded preference applies to state job applications, hirings, promotions, reassignments, and transfers.
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill strengthens protections for private property owners by revising trespass laws related to hunting, fishing, and trapping. It creates different penalties depending on whether property is posted with no trespassing signs, requires written permission to be carried at all times, and increases fines for unlawfully taking deer from posted property.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Abraham Jones
This bill prohibits sheriffs from firing deputy sheriffs or other employees in their office because those employees refuse to make campaign contributions to the sheriff or the sheriff's campaign committee. It adds this restriction to existing North Carolina law governing sheriff hiring and firing authority.
Introduced by Cynthia Ball
This bill appropriates $100,000 per year for the 2025-2027 biennium to the North Carolina Teacher Cadet Program, a high school program that encourages high-achieving students to pursue teaching careers. The funds will support curriculum training workshops, expansion into economically distressed counties, and recruitment of male teachers and teachers of color.
Education
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill establishes the Emergency Citizen Pilot Training Program within North Carolina's Division of Emergency Management to train and certify private pilots to assist with disaster response and recovery operations. The program will set standards, maintain a registry of certified pilots, require continuing training, and provide job protection for certified pilots called to emergency service.
Introduced by Julia Howard
This bill establishes the Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability Division within the North Carolina General Assembly. The division will have access to state agency data and databases to conduct analyses, and will receive reports from various state departments and authorities. The bill appropriates $2 million annually to operate this new division starting July 1, 2025.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill appropriates $1 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the North Carolina Community Health Worker Association to support training, certification, and workforce development for community health workers in North Carolina. The funds are one-time (nonrecurring) and are directed through the Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health.
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill directs the Legislative Research Commission to study whether North Carolina should eliminate its contributory negligence law and adopt a different legal framework. The study would examine how abolishing contributory negligence affects citizens, evaluate financial impacts across different sectors, and provide recommendations to the General Assembly by 2026.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill creates multiple initiatives to expand child care access in North Carolina by allowing state-owned buildings to house child care facilities, requiring large state construction projects to include child care centers, establishing pilot programs for state employee and first responder child care, and studying child care feasibility at community colleges and universities. The bill also creates a workgroup to streamline licensing requirements for child care facilities.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Mike Colvin
This bill establishes a Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) within the Division of Emergency Management to respond to disasters and mass fatality incidents in North Carolina. DMORT would consist of licensed professionals such as funeral directors, medical examiners, dentists, and forensic specialists who would identify victims, recover and transport remains, and assist families during disaster recovery operations.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill clarifies that voting places are included in North Carolina's disorderly conduct law that applies to public buildings. It adds voting places to the definition of 'public building or facility' so that disruptions at polling locations during voting hours can be prosecuted as disorderly conduct misdemeanors.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill establishes the Free to Learn – Library Bill of Rights Act, creating legal protections for library users' rights to access information, intellectual freedom, and privacy. It requires libraries statewide to develop policies protecting these rights, establishes a legal resource center in the Attorney General's office, and appropriates $3 million over two years for implementation and enforcement.
This bill requires businesses in North Carolina to display the full total price of goods and services upfront in advertisements, including all mandatory fees that cannot be avoided. It applies to short-term lodging providers, telecommunications services, ticket sellers, and entertainment venues, and allows the Attorney General to enforce the law with civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill restructures the system of volunteers who advocate for residents' rights in North Carolina nursing homes and adult care homes. It changes community advisory committees into a volunteer ombudsman representative system under direct oversight of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman office, with clearer accountability, training requirements, and designation procedures.
This bill implements multiple changes to support North Carolina citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It increases Medicaid rates for direct care workers to at least $18/hour, expands waiver programs, improves Medicaid coverage for workers with disabilities, studies new community services, creates housing assistance programs, increases education funding for students with disabilities, and restricts use of prone restraints in schools.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would add environmental protections to the North Carolina Constitution, guaranteeing all people the right to clean water, clean air, and a preserved environment. The amendment would require the state and its agencies to serve as trustees of natural resources and protect these rights equally for current and future generations. If passed by the legislature, the amendment would go to voters in November 2026 for final approval.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Dean Arp
This bill creates a grant program through the Department of Commerce to help Western North Carolina residents affected by Hurricane Helene obtain commercial drivers licenses (CDLs). The program provides $4,000 per trainee to approved CDL training providers and up to $1,500 per trainee for housing costs, with $2.5 million in state funding allocated for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
This bill establishes a one-time $1,500 bonus program for first responders and teachers in North Carolina for fiscal years 2025-2027. The state would appropriate $130 million annually for first responders (law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs, dispatchers, and public hospital nurses) and $165 million annually for teachers, with bonuses distributed through their employing agencies by December 31 each year.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Francis Iler
This bill requires homeowners associations (HOAs) in North Carolina—both condominium unit owners' associations and planned community lot owners' associations—to incorporate or organize as corporations or limited liability companies and submit annual reports to the Secretary of State. The reports must include contact information for board members, management agents, and links to recorded covenants, with requirements taking effect October 1, 2026.
Local Government