North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1081–1104 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Wyatt Gable
This bill requires UNC constituent institutions to adopt a policy prohibiting professors and departments from requiring students to pay for learning management systems (online platforms for coursework) beyond what students already pay in approved student fees. The policy would take effect for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Education
Introduced by Carson Smith
This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to teach emergency preparedness education from kindergarten through high school, with content differentiated by grade level. Elementary students (grade 3+) learn about disasters and school safety plans; middle school students study past disasters and mass casualty responses; high school students receive training based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Community Emergency Response Team manual. Local school boards decide which courses will include this instruction.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill contains several provisions: it prohibits North Carolina law enforcement from assisting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement with immigration enforcement activities; it temporarily suspends sales tax on items that increased in price by over 50% due to 2025 federal tariffs; and it directs state agencies to study federal funding losses and consider alternatives for health research, education, and Medicaid programs.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax break for elderly and disabled homeowners by raising the age requirement from 65 to 70 years old, removing the income limit requirement, and changing the tax exclusion from 50% of the home's value to 100% of the home's value. The changes would take effect for tax years beginning July 1, 2026.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill establishes the Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act, which sets state rules for noncompete agreements, confidentiality agreements, nonsolicitation agreements, and other employment restrictions that prevent workers from competing with their employers after leaving. The law requires employers to provide workers with 14 days' notice before enforcing such agreements, prohibits most restrictions on low-wage workers, and sets specific time limits and conditions for different types of restrictions to be enforceable.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill prohibits North Carolina employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against workers based on pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy-related conditions. It requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations (such as modified schedules or break time for nursing), grant pregnancy-related leave, and allow employees to return to their same or similar position after such leave, unless doing so would cause undue hardship to the business.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill appropriates $1.5 million in state funding for fiscal year 2025-2026 to support Care Ring, Inc., a nonprofit community health clinic in Mecklenburg County that provides primary care services to medically vulnerable residents facing geographic, economic, or other barriers to healthcare access.
Healthcare
Introduced by John Blust
This bill eliminates the independent Office of the State Fire Marshal and returns its oversight to the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance. Current employees and rules would continue under the Commissioner's authority, with the transition occurring October 1, 2025.
Local Government
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment requiring that all state laws address only one subject, which must be clearly stated in the bill's title. The amendment would allow exceptions for general appropriation bills, revenue bills, and technical correction bills. If passed by the General Assembly, voters would decide on this amendment in the November 2026 general election.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill appropriates $124 million to establish artificial intelligence and technology hubs across UNC universities. It designates up to eight UNC institutions as AI Hubs (with at least one being a historically Black college or American Indian university), provides $70 million for technology hubs at all UNC campuses, and allocates $30 million for AI research grants through the NC Collaboratory.
Introduced by James Adams
This bill establishes pathways for more people to become building code inspectors in North Carolina, adds protections for inspectors in disciplinary actions, ensures that approved building inspections remain final, creates a fund to help economically disadvantaged counties hire inspectors after disasters, and allows Level I inspectors to inspect certain small nonresidential buildings.
Introduced by Cecil Brockman
This bill requires North Carolina schools to screen students for dyslexia in kindergarten through 3rd grade and grades 6 and 9, provide dyslexia training for teachers, and align middle school literacy instruction with the science of reading. It also transfers the NC Pre-K program from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Public Instruction.
Introduced by Allen Chesser
This bill requires public schools and charter schools in North Carolina to allow students who attend private schools to enroll part-time in public school courses, programs, or services. Schools would receive state funding based on the amount of instructional time each part-time student attends, with full per-pupil funding for students attending one-third or more of a full school day and half funding for those attending less.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill modifies the ballot language that North Carolina counties must use when asking voters whether to approve a one-quarter cent sales and use tax. It adds language explaining that tax proceeds can be used to increase teacher and education employee pay, and clarifies which items are exempt from the tax (gas, groceries, motor vehicles, and prescription drugs).
Elections & Voting
This bill expands the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program by increasing loan amounts for teacher education students, expanding the program to 14 institutions instead of 10, adding new focus areas like elementary education and social studies, and allocating $10 million in recurring state funding. It also applies previous program improvements retroactively to all current teaching fellows.
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill creates new state authority and procedures to identify, notify owners of, and remove abandoned and derelict vessels from North Carolina waters and public/private lands. It defines 'abandoned vessels' as those left for more than 30 days without permission, and 'derelict vessels' as those in poor condition that pose safety or environmental risks. The bill establishes timelines for owner notification and removal, allows the state to recover removal costs, and limits liability for agencies conducting removals.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill establishes the North Carolina Police Leadership Fellows Program, which provides forgivable loans up to $20,000 to eligible individuals pursuing Bachelor's Degrees in criminal justice and related fields at UNC System universities. Loan recipients must commit to working in law enforcement or corrections for at least eight years after graduation, at which point the loan is forgiven; if they don't fulfill this service requirement, they must repay the loan with interest.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill prohibits schools from requiring teachers to post lesson plans or objectives, guarantees teachers have duty-free lunch periods without assigned responsibilities, and requires schools to compensate teachers who lead professional development training for their peers.
Introduced by Francis Iler
This bill makes it illegal to hold animals or allow them to sit in a driver's lap while driving, or to interact with children or animals in ways that impair safe vehicle operation on public roads. Violations are classified as infractions with a $100 fine and court costs, though law enforcement will issue warnings only during the first six months after the law takes effect on December 1, 2025.
Introduced by Blair Eddins
This bill allows North Carolina public school boards to hire, contract with, or accept volunteer chaplains to serve students. Schools that choose to employ chaplains must adopt a policy requiring certified training, describing the chaplain's services, establishing continuing education and discipline procedures, and conducting criminal background checks reviewed by the State Superintendent.
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill expands North Carolina's automatic enrollment policy for advanced courses to include English Language Arts (ELA) in addition to mathematics. Students who score at the highest level on end-of-grade or end-of-course tests will be automatically enrolled in advanced ELA courses for the next school year, unless parents provide written consent to opt out. The bill also requires the Department of Public Instruction to report data on student demographics and socioeconomic status in advanced course placements.
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to study how hospice care facilities handle patient and family complaints. The study will analyze complaint data, consult with hospice administrators and industry groups, and provide recommendations to the legislature by April 1, 2026, focusing on best practices for complaint procedures, investigations, communication, and family involvement.
Introduced by Bill Ward
This bill creates a study committee to assess infrastructure needs at North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), establishes several new financial aid and scholarship programs for HBCU students, and appropriates approximately $276 million in state funds for capital improvements and academic support at HBCUs and other historically minority-serving institutions across the state.
This bill creates a State Critical Infrastructure and Construction Resiliency Fund administered by the Governor. The fund would be financed by diverting 5% of highway use tax revenue from counties that have experienced gubernatorial disaster declarations in the past three years, and the Governor could use these funds for disaster-related construction, infrastructure, and response activities in affected counties.