North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Jordan Lopez
This bill prohibits landlords and rental management companies in North Carolina from using pricing algorithms that share or incorporate competitor rental data to set rent prices. It also prevents landlords from contracting with services that collect and analyze rental pricing information from multiple competitors. Violations are treated as unfair trade practices, and renters can sue for damages.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill creates the North Carolina Commission on Youth Mentoring within the Department of Health and Human Services and provides $1.5 million per year for grants to youth mentoring nonprofits. The 15-member commission will establish grant programs, manage applications, and report annually on how funds are distributed and their social impact.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Eric Ager
This bill directs $11 million annually from sports betting tax revenue to the Department of Public Instruction to provide salary supplements to public school athletic coaches, ensuring each eligible coach receives at least $3,000 total in state and non-state funds. Schools that previously provided non-state funds for coach supplements must continue doing so, and any unused funds go to support youth sports programming through the North Carolina Alliance of YMCAs.
Education
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill revises North Carolina public school discipline policies by defining suspension lengths, limiting their use, creating appeal rights for certain suspensions, requiring clear parental notification, and prohibiting corporal punishment statewide. It also establishes new rules for in-school suspensions, restricts discipline for younger students, and requires early child care settings to report disciplinary data.
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This bill limits the costs that North Carolina's State Board of Chiropractic Examiners can charge chiropractors during disciplinary proceedings to $1,000 for settled cases or $3,000 for cases with full hearings (except in cases of bad faith defense). The bill also requires the Board to keep accurate meeting minutes with specific details and to provide itemized cost descriptions to chiropractors, with refunds if overcharged.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill authorizes and creates a regulated system for video gaming terminals in North Carolina. It establishes licensing requirements for manufacturers, operators, and merchants; sets up a central monitoring system; allocates revenues between the state, operators, and merchants; and creates criminal penalties for unauthorized gaming machines.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill appropriates $25 million in one-time funding and $4 million per year for two years to East Carolina University's College of Engineering and Technology. The one-time funds support building improvements and equipment purchases, while the recurring funds support expanding faculty and staff positions.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Monika Johnson-Hostler
This bill requires programs that train sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) in North Carolina to submit annual reports to the Board of Nursing. These reports must include the total number of graduates and information about where each graduate is employed or plans to work by county.
Healthcare
Introduced by Mary Belk
This bill creates a regulated research program allowing patients to legally possess and use cannabis as part of registered medical research studies in North Carolina. It establishes a database to track research institutions, physicians, caregivers, and patients, and provides legal protections for researchers and participants.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill prohibits corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools statewide, changing current law that allows individual school districts to decide whether to permit it. The bill allows schools to continue using physical restraint and reasonable force for safety purposes, and requires schools to report data on discipline practices to the State Board of Education.
Introduced by John Bell
This bill requires North Carolina school districts to report sexual assault and harassment incidents that occur on school buses separately from other incidents, increases violence reporting to twice per school year instead of once annually, and makes it a Class I felony for school employees or board members to fail to report acts of violence to the state.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Tim Longest
This bill establishes new regulations on towing companies in North Carolina, requiring them to charge reasonable and clearly disclosed fees, ensure vehicles can be recovered within 24 hours, limit storage fees on days when they're closed, accept multiple payment methods, and accept payment processing fees up to 2%. The Utilities Commission would enforce these rules and can impose penalties up to $5,000 per violation.
Introduced by Allen Buansi
This bill appropriates $10 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which will distribute the money to partner organizations like domestic violence centers, rape crisis centers, and child advocacy centers to support victim advocacy services.
Introduced by Joe Pike
This bill allows people who have a concealed handgun permit to also carry other concealed weapons like knives, brass knuckles, and stun guns, as long as these weapons are not carried in places where concealed handguns are already prohibited by law. The bill takes effect December 1, 2025.
This bill appropriates $5 million in state funding to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation for construction of a new main library building. The funds are one-time, nonrecurring appropriations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year and take effect July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill establishes a School Safety Grants Program that provides funding to North Carolina public schools for crisis services, training, and safety equipment. The program is administered by the Center for Safer Schools and funded with $20 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period, with the intent to use recurring funds thereafter.
Introduced by James Dixon
This bill appropriates approximately $15.76 million in state funds for various public projects in Wayne County, including school improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and community organizations, plus funding for additional court staff serving Wayne County and neighboring districts.
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill increases the gross receipts threshold for artisanal bakeries that are exempt from North Carolina's sales tax on prepared food. The exemption threshold would rise from $1.8 million to $2.4 million in annual gross receipts, allowing slightly larger bakery operations to qualify for the tax exemption while still meeting the requirement that over 80% of their revenue comes from bakery items.
Introduced by Dennis Riddell
This bill lowers North Carolina's statutory cap on state General Fund operating budget spending from 7% to 6% of total state personal income. The change takes effect July 1, 2025, and applies to all future state budgets unless lawmakers vote by a two-thirds majority to exceed the new limit.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill prohibits electric utilities from passing costs related to serving large data centers (100+ megawatts) onto regular ratepayers. Instead, data centers must pay rates designed to recover only their own costs. The bill also creates a temporary commission to study data center locations, grid expansion needs, and related planning issues until June 2027.
Introduced by Deb Butler
This bill allows North Carolina to automatically increase the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit from its current amount to $600 when a disaster is declared under state emergency management law. The enhanced benefits would last for the duration of the disaster declaration, with the state maintaining a dedicated reserve fund to pay for these increased benefits.
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill prohibits North Carolina public water systems from adding fluoride to drinking water, effective January 1, 2026. The prohibition does not apply to naturally occurring fluoride in water sources or fluoride used in industrial processes.
This bill requires landlords in North Carolina to provide written notice to tenants before collecting late fees on rental payments. The notice must inform tenants of the fee amount and when it was imposed, and can be delivered by hand, mail, or electronic means as agreed upon in the lease.
Housing
This bill creates a 5-year pilot program allowing the North Carolina Department of Transportation to use automated speed cameras in up to 25 highway work zones to detect speeding violations. Drivers caught speeding in these zones face a $250 civil penalty (with an additional $125 penalty if they don't respond within 30 days), and 75% of collected fines go to a school technology fund while 25% goes to public schools.
Transportation & Infrastructure