North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1177–1200 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Edward Goodwin
This bill requires state institutions and political subdivisions in North Carolina to purchase only U.S. and North Carolina flags that are 100% manufactured in the United States using domestically-grown or produced materials. The requirement applies to all purchases made with public funds beginning October 1, 2025.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill creates a Teacher Apprenticeship Program that allows people with bachelor's degrees to work as paid apprentices in classrooms while earning teaching credentials, removes the exam requirement for converting limited teaching licenses to continuing professional licenses for teachers with positive student growth data, and directs university and community college systems to develop an expedited pathway for high school students to enter teaching.
Education
Introduced by Paul Scott
This bill creates an annual fee for individuals required to register on North Carolina's sex offense registry. The fee equals 1.25% of the federal poverty level for a single person (approximately $161 in 2025) and would be collected by sheriffs' offices to help fund registry maintenance, verification, and record-keeping. Sheriffs have discretion to decide whether to collect the fee in their county each year, and registrants deemed indigent or currently incarcerated can request a waiver.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill modifies North Carolina's laws governing Research and Production Service Districts (RPSDs) and Urban Research Service Districts (URSDs), which are special taxing districts that allow counties to provide enhanced services to specific areas like research parks. The changes clarify procedures for multi-county districts, expand the authority of private developers to act as agents for service provision, increase the property tax rate limit in these districts from 10 cents to 20 cents per $100 of property value, and allow URSD tax revenues to support certain county debt service for capital projects benefiting the district.
Local Government
Introduced by James Roberson
This bill creates two programs to help North Carolinians save for education: a matching contribution program where the state matches $100 for every $50 contributed to a 529 college savings plan (up to $1,500 per student), and a state tax deduction of up to $2,000 per person (or $4,000 for married couples) for contributions to these savings accounts. The matching program is limited to households earning up to 250% of the federal poverty level and students age 14 or younger.
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill prohibits state, city, and county government agencies from promoting or requiring employees to affirm certain ideological concepts related to race, sex, religion, and ethnicity in hiring, training, and promotion. It also prevents government agencies from using public funds for programs teaching these concepts and restricts requiring job applicants to express positions on contemporary political or social issues.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This comprehensive bill proposes multiple democratic reforms in North Carolina, including establishing a nonpartisan redistricting commission, converting judicial elections to nonpartisan processes, extending cooling-off periods for legislators-turned-lobbyists, implementing online and automatic voter registration, requiring live-streaming of legislative meetings, reducing absentee ballot witness requirements, ensuring voting places on college campuses, limiting voter roll purges, and reestablishing public campaign financing for judicial candidates with various campaign finance transparency requirements.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill clarifies the process for removing precinct election officials who fail to perform their duties, allows county election boards to prohibit removed officials from serving in future elections, establishes a minimum of six emergency election-day assistants per county, and requires specific training topics for all precinct officials.
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill makes it illegal to sell tobacco products, vaping products, and alternative nicotine products within 1,000 feet of public or nonpublic school buildings in North Carolina. The restriction does not apply to businesses where such sales are incidental to their primary operations, and it excludes home schools and colleges. Violations would be classified as Class 2 misdemeanors.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill directs state agencies to study the effectiveness of North Carolina's child care programs (NC Pre-K and Smart Start) and propose improvements. It also appropriates $10 million per year for a pilot program that automatically qualifies full-time child care teachers for child care subsidies for their own preschool-age children, provided they enroll in early childhood education courses.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Dante Pittman
This bill renames 'multiunit assisted housing with services' facilities to 'registered residential facilities' and clarifies they are not equivalent to licensed adult care homes. It updates registration requirements, expands restrictions on which residents can live in these facilities, allows the Department of Health and Human Services to pursue legal action against facilities operating without approval, and directs the Medical Care Commission to adopt rules for registering and inspecting these facilities.
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship vouchers. It requires these schools to submit annual reports on student test scores, graduation rates, financial audits, staffing credentials, and safety plans, and directs the State Auditor to review at least three such schools' audits each year.
This bill would provide North Carolina state employees, public school employees, and community college employees with up to 40 hours of paid bereavement leave when an immediate family member dies and 8 hours of paid leave when a colleague dies. The leave would be available immediately upon hire, usable within 180 days of death, and the state would appropriate $2 million annually to fund this benefit beginning July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Cynthia Ball
This bill expands eligibility for North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) and increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept these vouchers. It broadens who can receive scholarships, increases scholarship amounts for low-income students, and requires participating private schools to meet standards including criminal background checks, standardized testing, financial audits, and teacher qualifications.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill appropriates $14.525 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to provide grants to nine different organizations and entities in the Triad region (Greensboro, Winston-Salem, and High Point areas). The grants support various projects including medical clinics, sports facilities, fire department equipment, historic site restoration, park construction, and community violence prevention programs.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Jeff Zenger
This bill modifies North Carolina's wire transfer fraud laws to require banks to verbally verify payment orders with customers and beneficiaries, and to refund a portion of unauthorized payments more quickly. It also adds protections for large deposits made to newly opened accounts by delaying payment for 10 business days.
This bill changes how North Carolina sheriffs receive mental health information when processing concealed handgun permit applications. Instead of requiring doctors and mental health providers to disclose full medical records, they would only submit a 'Yes' or 'No' answer about whether they have records of a mental illness diagnosis, with detailed records provided only if 'Yes' and only if they document an actual diagnosis.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill establishes legal definitions of biological sex and gender throughout North Carolina law, creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act requiring single-sex facilities in prisons, detention centers, schools, and shelters that receive state funds, allows private lawsuits against facilities that fail to enforce these rules, and requires driver's licenses and birth certificates to reflect biological sex as defined at birth.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill appropriates $1.72 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the Department of Health and Human Services to create a grant program that funds municipalities and nonprofit organizations in establishing or expanding temporary emergency shelters for homeless individuals during severe weather. The Division of Aging will manage the program with selection criteria based on applicant needs and local poverty rates, with individual grants capped at $215,000 annually.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill expands North Carolina school policies to prohibit nicotine, hemp, and vapor products (including delta-8, delta-9, and CBD) on school property and at school events. It requires schools to provide evidence-based prevention materials to students, establish a discipline policy for students found in possession of these products, and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to approve educational materials and maintain a list of cessation resources.
This bill directs the North Carolina State Highway Patrol to conduct a comprehensive study of its staffing levels and salary scales, including overall patrol size, regional troop needs, and compensation for different ranks. The Highway Patrol must report its findings and recommendations to legislative committees by March 1, 2026.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill requires clear labeling of manufactured-protein food products—including cell-cultured meat and insect-based proteins—sold in North Carolina. Products using meat or poultry terminology must display qualifying terms like 'cell-cultured,' 'lab-grown,' or 'insect-based' prominently on packaging and restaurant menus to distinguish them from traditional animal-derived meat and poultry.
Introduced by Abraham Jones
This bill expands eligibility for retired judges to serve as emergency judges by allowing judges who previously served on both superior court and district court to be recalled as emergency judges on either court, rather than only the court from which they most recently retired.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill requires public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools in North Carolina to print three mental health crisis helpline numbers on student identification cards issued to grades 6-12 students: the 988 Lifeline, Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and the NC Statewide Warmline (1-855-733-7762). Nonpublic schools are encouraged but not required to do the same. Schools must verify these numbers are accurate and current annually.