North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1057–1080 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill directs the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources to negotiate an agreement with the Town of Fair Bluff by March 1, 2026, to take over management of the River Walk, park, and parking areas as part of Lumber River State Park, and to relocate the park headquarters to Fair Bluff's Lumber River Visitors Center. The agreement must address shared management responsibilities, user fees, rules, and transfer of necessary assets between the town and state.
Local Government
Introduced by Aisha Dew
This bill allows colleges and religious institutions in cities over 50,000 people to build affordable housing on their land without special zoning permits or variances. At least 80% of units must be reserved for low-income residents, and the development must follow standard building codes and avoid historic districts and heavy industrial areas.
Housing
Introduced by James Adams
This bill allows licensed firearms dealers to store firearms temporarily for owners who request it (called a 'safety hold agreement') at no charge. It provides liability protection for dealers against lawsuits related to these agreements, except in cases of negligent storage or unlawful conduct. The bill also keeps these agreements confidential and allows dealers to dispose of firearms if owners don't reclaim them.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Paul Scott
This bill prohibits banks, credit unions, savings institutions, and insurance companies from denying services or discriminating against customers based on political opinions, religious beliefs, firearm ownership, fossil fuel industry involvement, immigration enforcement support, or failure to meet environmental and social governance standards. It requires banks to disclose subjective service standards and file annual compliance reports.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill requires manufacturers of digital electronic products sold in North Carolina to provide repair information, diagnostic tools, and service parts to independent repair providers and product owners on fair and reasonable terms, similar to what authorized repair shops receive. The bill includes protections for manufacturers' trade secrets and trade agreements with authorized dealers.
This bill reinstates North Carolina's film production tax credit, which allows production companies to claim a 25% tax credit on qualifying in-state expenses (minimum $250,000) such as wages, equipment, and services. The credit, which was previously repealed, would apply to feature films, television series, documentaries, and other productions, with a $20 million cap per feature film and a sunset date of January 1, 2015.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Dudley Greene
This bill adds an exemption to allow fire and emergency response agencies to opt out of having their facilities used as voting locations if the fire chief determines that doing so would interfere with emergency response capabilities. The exemption requires the fire chief to appeal to the county board of commissioners, which must make a final determination supporting the exemption.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill updates North Carolina's bingo laws to include instant bingo (scratch-off style tickets) as a legal game option, sets prize limits for instant bingo at $600 per game, restricts instant bingo to certain tax-exempt organizations, and allows bingo fund disbursements to be made by electronic transfer in addition to checks.
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill increases law enforcement and court resources in Mecklenburg County by adding 12 State Troopers and 5 magistrates, increases penalties for failing to stop for school buses, establishes rules for accessing highway camera videos, and funds 24-hour operation of a transportation management center in Charlotte.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Robert Davis
This bill establishes a sentence enhancement for felony crimes motivated by a victim's race, ethnicity, color, religion, nationality, country of origin, or gender. When such motivation is proven beyond a reasonable doubt, the convicted person's sentence would be increased by one felony class level. The bill also updates an existing aggravating sentencing factor to include gender as a protected characteristic.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill strengthens North Carolina's Do Not Call/Do Not Text Registry by reducing the time companies have to remove numbers from their contact lists after being asked to stop calling (from 60 to 30 business days), expanding the definition of who is considered a telemarketer, and making companies jointly liable if they knowingly accept sales leads generated by illegal calls.
Technology & Privacy
This bill appropriates approximately $47.4 million to Durham City and County for various projects including park maintenance, landfill expansion, wastewater infrastructure, court system improvements, and a historical memorial project. It also directs the Department of Transportation to study how road funding policies affect rural and urban areas.
Introduced by Ray Pickett
This bill exempts internet service providers and their contractors from paying sales tax on equipment, parts, and accessories used to provide internet service, including equipment for transmitting data, related infrastructure, electricity to power the equipment, and services to install and maintain it. The exemption takes effect July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Abraham Jones
This bill establishes a permanent 10% pay raise for North Carolina teachers and first responders, funded by $900 million annually for teachers and $700 million annually for first responders over the 2025-2027 fiscal years. The raises take effect July 1, 2025, and become part of employees' base salaries for calculating future increases.
This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction to develop a plan for providing temporary internet service to public schools during emergencies and establishes a funded Emergency Internet Service Fund. The bill appropriates $3.9 million for the 2025-2026 school year to support this emergency internet access program.
Education
This bill appropriates $40.7 million to recruit and retain teachers in North Carolina through multiple programs: funding for alternative teacher pathways like 2+2 programs and Grow-Your-Own initiatives; a grant program to increase recruitment and retention of teachers of color; recruitment bonuses for teachers in low-performing schools; teacher residency programs; expansion of loan forgiveness programs for teachers in critical areas; and enhanced reporting on diversity in educator preparation programs. It also eliminates minimum standardized testing requirements for admission to teacher preparation programs.
Introduced by Sarah Crawford
This bill requires local school boards to establish and publicly report minimum salary schedules for occupational and physical therapists, provides salary supplements for these therapists in the 2025-2026 school year, and mandates annual workforce reporting on therapist employment and vacancies to the state.
Introduced by Neal Jackson
This bill prohibits medical professionals from performing gender transition procedures (including surgeries and hormone treatments) on minors in North Carolina, with limited exceptions only when parents consent to detransition procedures. It establishes civil liability for providers who violate the ban, requires gender clinics to report detailed patient statistics to the state, mandates insurance coverage for detransition treatments, and allows parents access to minors' medical records except in abuse cases.
Healthcare
This bill appropriates $20.3 million in one-time funding and $1 million in recurring funding to the National Institute of Minority Economic Development to support western North Carolina recovery from Hurricane Helene, expand women's business centers, and provide community economic development services across the state.
Introduced by Beth Helfrich
This bill creates the North Carolina Child Care Finance Agency, a new state agency that will provide financing (loans, mortgage insurance, and bonds) to help construct and rehabilitate child care facilities across the state. The agency will be governed by a 12-member board and funded with $20 million in state appropriations and 3.5% of the Innovation Fund.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill appropriates $750,000 in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Triad Cultural Arts, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to support the development of the Shotgun House Legacy Site project in Winston-Salem. The funds are designated as a one-time grant for this multiuse center project.
Introduced by Allen Chesser
This bill eliminates driver's license suspensions for failure to pay court fines, penalties, or costs, and for failure to appear in court for motor vehicle offenses. It requires the Division of Motor Vehicles to reinstate all such suspended licenses without fees, forgives certain outstanding fines related to driving with a revoked license when the underlying suspension was for non-payment or non-appearance, and funds a text reminder system for court appearances.
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill prohibits North Carolina public utilities from recovering certain costs through customer rates, including advertising, lobbying, political contributions, and executive travel expenses. It requires utilities to submit annual reports detailing prohibited expenses and establishes penalties of $50,000 to $150,000 per violation, with collected penalties funding an Energy Equity Fund for disaster relief and low-income energy assistance programs.
Introduced by John Blust
This bill modifies the confidentiality protections for North Carolina legislators' documents by creating specific exceptions to the rule that legislators can keep their documents private. Legislators would now be required to disclose documents in six categories: federal grand jury subpoenas, investigative authority requests, correspondence about state fund appropriations, lobbyist communications, staff compensation records, and correspondence with state agencies about their business interests.