North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1225–1248 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Brandon Lofton
This bill appropriates $1,873,863 in state funding to expand Teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) training across North Carolina. tMHFA is an evidence-based course that teaches high school students (grades 9-12) how to recognize and respond to mental health and substance use challenges in their peers.
Healthcare
Introduced by Kanika Brown
This bill appropriates $100,000 in state funds for fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Agency for Families in Distress, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to support the Mind and Heart Haven Project, which addresses mental health needs in Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, and North Carolina. The funds are nonrecurring, meaning they are a one-time allocation rather than an ongoing annual commitment.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill establishes a new system for handling complex family financial cases in North Carolina by creating specialized hearing officers appointed by the Chief Justice. These hearing officers would handle cases involving equitable distribution, alimony, post-separation support, and child support that meet complexity criteria such as business valuations, trust issues, or significant asset complications. The bill sets qualifications for hearing officers, establishes a process for designating cases as complex, and adds a $1,100 filing fee split equally among parties.
Local Government
This bill creates a sales tax exemption for certain nonprofit organizations, including 501(c)(3) charities (with some exclusions), nonprofit hospitals, volunteer fire departments, and university-affiliated nonprofits. The exemption applies to tangible goods, digital property, and services these organizations purchase to carry out their work, with an annual state cap of $31.7 million and a local cap of $13.3 million.
Taxes & Budget
This bill appropriates $100,000 in state funds to Forsyth County for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support two initiatives: mobile units providing health, social services, and nutritional support across seven counties, and a work-based learning program for adults focused on community engagement and economic mobility.
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill creates four new criminal offenses related to boating: death by reckless boating, serious injury by reckless boating, and aggravated versions of each that apply when the operator has a prior reckless boating conviction within seven years. The offenses apply when someone unintentionally causes death or serious injury while recklessly operating a vessel, but not when impaired boating is involved.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to study how local school boards could be given more flexibility in managing their budgets, such as combining or transferring funds between different budget categories. The department will report its findings and recommendations to the legislature by April 1, 2026, with $50,000 allocated to conduct the study.
Education
Introduced by Shelly Willingham
This is a House Resolution urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation creating a National Infrastructure Bank that would invest $5 trillion in infrastructure projects nationwide. The resolution does not create law itself but expresses support for federal action to address what it describes as significant infrastructure needs in North Carolina and across the country.
Transportation & Infrastructure
This bill appropriates $31,000 in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Joyful Soul Treasures, Inc., a nonprofit organization, to support their "Safe Haven for Safe Sex" project. The project provides sexual health education and awareness for teenagers aged 13-18, with goals of reducing stigma and providing young people with health knowledge and skills.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would limit how long the North Carolina General Assembly can meet in regular session: 90 legislative days in odd-numbered years and 45 legislative days in even-numbered years. The amendment would be submitted to voters in November 2026, and if approved, would take effect for future legislative sessions.
Introduced by William Rabon
This bill creates a new Metropolitan Public Transportation Authority that can be established in North Carolina counties with over 1 million residents that border another state and operate a light rail system. It also authorizes local sales tax revenue for public transportation and establishes governance structures, powers, and financial mechanisms for this new authority to finance, operate, and maintain public transportation systems.
Introduced by Mary Belk
This bill prohibits cosmetic products sold in North Carolina from containing certain restricted chemicals—including PFAS, heavy metals, parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde, and others—either as intentionally added ingredients or as unintentional by-products/contaminants above detectable limits. The North Carolina Board of Agriculture can issue notices requiring manufacturers to certify compliance, with enforcement beginning January 1, 2026.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill allows North Carolina to remove federal restrictions that prevent individuals convicted of drug-related felonies from receiving food assistance and temporary aid benefits. Instead of permanent disqualification, eligible individuals could receive benefits after either completing substance abuse treatment in prison or six months after conviction without committing additional drug offenses, provided they participate in required treatment programs.
Introduced by Phil Rubin
This bill repeals North Carolina's scheduled corporate income tax phaseout and instead maintains the corporate tax rate at 2.25% permanently. Previously, the state had planned to gradually reduce the corporate tax rate to 0% by 2030, but this bill stops that reduction and keeps the current rate steady to generate revenue for Hurricane Helene recovery efforts.
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
HB 725, the MOMnibus 3.0 Act, is a comprehensive maternal health bill that addresses North Carolina's high maternal mortality rates, particularly among Black women. The bill establishes grant programs for community-based organizations, requires implicit bias training for perinatal healthcare providers, funds lactation consultant training at historically Black colleges and universities, and creates mobile health initiatives to expand maternal healthcare access in underserved areas.
Introduced by Jarrod Lowery
This bill designates the North Carolina Rice Festival, held annually the first weekend in March at Brunswick Town State Historic Site in Winnabow, as the official state rice festival. The designation is ceremonial and does not require state funding or create new government responsibilities.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill clarifies the rules for red light cameras in North Carolina by defining when a violation occurs and requiring that yellow light intervals and red clearance intervals at intersections with cameras meet or exceed the durations specified in the engineer-approved traffic signal plan and comply with national uniform traffic control standards.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill removes the additional fee that fire department and rescue squad members must pay when obtaining a special registration plate. Currently, these members pay the standard vehicle registration fee plus an extra charge; this bill eliminates that extra charge so they only pay the standard fee.
Introduced by Robert Davis
This bill enacts two uniform model laws in North Carolina: the Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act, which allows courts to issue protective orders and take custody of children when there is a credible risk of parental abduction, and Article 3 of the Uniform Unregulated Child Custody Transfer Act, which requires adoption agencies to provide prospective adoptive parents with comprehensive information about the child's background, health, and needs before placement.
Introduced by Brian Turner
This bill requires North Carolina state departments to translate information about state services into the five most common non-English languages spoken at home by residents, as determined by U.S. Census data. The Department of Administration will contract with translation services to provide these translations in the same format (electronic or print) as the English versions, with implementation beginning January 1, 2027, and $5.4 million in funding allocated for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill protects voters by ensuring their ballots are counted based on election rules and procedures that were in place on election day, preventing ballots from being disqualified due to legal changes made after voting occurred. It also requires courts to expedite lawsuits challenging election procedures that are filed within 90 days before or after an election, and clarifies that technical registration errors cannot be used to invalidate a cast ballot unless the voter was actually ineligible.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Eric Ager
This bill expands the current property tax exclusion for disabled veterans in North Carolina by increasing the excluded home value from $45,000 to the entire appraised value of their primary residence. The state would reimburse local governments and cities for lost tax revenue caused by this expanded exclusion.
Introduced by Cecil Brockman
This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student at no cost. The state would appropriate $144 million in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 school year to cover these meals, with the State Board of Education distributing funds to school districts based on factors like school size, student enrollment, and meal quality standards.
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This bill expands pharmacists' authority to test for and treat certain illnesses (like flu, COVID-19, and strep throat) using FDA-approved simple tests, and requires health insurance plans to reimburse pharmacists for these services the same way they reimburse other healthcare providers for equivalent services.