North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1249–1272 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Frances Jackson
This bill creates a one-year pilot program that reimburses volunteer firefighters in North Carolina for mileage traveling to emergency calls and for personal equipment used during those responses. The program is funded with $1 million, administered by the Department of Public Safety, and will end June 30, 2026, with a report to the legislature on whether it should be expanded or made permanent.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Cody Huneycutt
This bill requires large electric utility companies (serving at least 150,000 customers) to extend any seasonal or intermittent service rates they currently offer in part of their service area to all eligible customers statewide by September 1, 2025. The utility must file an application for a rate case to make this expansion.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Kanika Brown
This bill restores wetland protections in North Carolina by repealing two sections from previous laws and redefining what qualifies as protected wetlands. The bill expands the state's wetland protections to include isolated wetlands (those not connected to other water bodies) that were confirmed isolated by the Army Corps of Engineers before June 2020, or those classified as basin wetlands or bogs according to a specific state assessment manual.
Introduced by Sarah Crawford
This bill establishes a grant program at North Carolina community colleges to train students as tax preparers through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program and provides funding to United Way of North Carolina to expand VITA services. The bill allocates approximately $2.83 million to help low-income North Carolinians claim federal tax credits they may be missing, with an estimated average benefit of $2,812 per eligible filer.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill directs North Carolina's Commissioner of Insurance to develop and implement a state-run universal healthcare plan with income-based sliding scale premiums for residents. The Commissioner must submit an implementation plan by January 1, 2026, and the bill appropriates $100,000 to begin planning and implementation efforts.
Healthcare
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill allows certain children of parents holding H-1B or L-1 work visas to pay in-state tuition rates at North Carolina public universities if they are lawfully present in the United States and establish domicile in North Carolina. The bill applies to students with H-4 visas or those continuously enrolled who held an H-4 visa at some point during their enrollment.
Education
Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill directs the Office of the State Fire Marshal to conduct a comprehensive study of rural firefighting in North Carolina by March 1, 2027. The study will examine volunteer recruitment and retention, funding gaps, interagency cooperation, firefighter health and wellness, public education, and long-term sustainability, with input gathered through three regional public hearings and a 90-day public comment period.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Grant Campbell
This bill removes PET scanners (Positron Emission Tomography machines used for medical imaging) from North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) review process. Currently, hospitals and medical facilities must obtain state approval before purchasing PET scanners; this bill eliminates that requirement.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill changes Pitt County Board of Education elections from nonpartisan to partisan elections, meaning candidates will be nominated and identified by political party affiliation. Board members will continue to be elected from nine single-member districts in even-numbered years with staggered four-year terms, and the change takes effect with elections in 2026.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by William Rabon
This Senate Resolution confirms Gabriel J. Esparza as Secretary of the Department of Administration, a cabinet-level position. The confirmation was adopted by the Senate on April 3, 2025, and becomes effective immediately upon adoption.
Local Government
Introduced by Monika Johnson-Hostler
This bill appropriates $2.5 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2027 to the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to award grants to nonprofit community health centers. The grant funds must be used to purchase and provide long-acting reversible contraceptives (such as IUDs and implants) to uninsured, underinsured, or low-income patients.
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill authorizes the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission to issue elk hunting permits through a raffle (one permit for the 2026 season) and an auction (conducted by a nonprofit wildlife conservation organization involved in elk reintroduction). Revenue from both methods goes to the Wildlife Resources Fund for elk conservation, after covering administrative costs. The bill allows the Commission to continue these methods in future seasons based on elk management goals.
Agriculture
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill creates two special funds—one for railroad development ($50 million) and one for airport development ($100 million)—to support transportation infrastructure projects in North Carolina. It also appropriates $30 million to construct a roll-on-roll-off facility at the Port of Morehead City.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Dante Pittman
This bill appropriates $61.3 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support various public projects in Wilson and Nash Counties, including water infrastructure, school construction, a new courthouse, fire departments, housing, and other local services.
Introduced by Eric Ager
This bill clarifies North Carolina's public swimming pool regulations by reorganizing definitions and adding new exemptions. It exempts floatation or sensory deprivation systems that meet National Sanitation Foundation safety standards from public pool regulations, and it adds safety requirements for private residential pools shared through online platforms.
Other / General Government
This bill modifies North Carolina's chiropractic licensing requirements by changing the education standard from a specific 4,200-hour requirement to requiring a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from an accredited program, adds acupuncture certification authority for chiropractors, and makes updates to board composition and supervision standards for chiropractic students.
Introduced by Ben Moss
This bill changes the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission so that all members serve two-year terms instead of the current mix of two, four, and six-year terms. It also limits Commission members to a maximum of three consecutive two-year terms (six years total), though current members are allowed to complete their existing terms.
Introduced by Chris Humphrey
This bill modifies North Carolina's bail bond laws by expanding the definition of a defendant's address of record, clarifying when bail bond obligations end, establishing procedures for setting aside bond forfeitures, requiring district attorneys to report failed appearances to a national database, and prohibiting electronic systems from acting as bail bondsmen.
Introduced by John Blust
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would limit the governor's emergency powers during a declared state of emergency. It would require the General Assembly to automatically convene within seven days of a statewide emergency declaration and would cap emergency orders at two weeks unless approved by the legislature. The bill also modifies the Emergency Management Act to shorten timelines for emergency declarations and require Council of State approval.
This bill allows North Carolina high school graduates who meet specific criteria to pay in-state tuition at UNC and community college institutions, even if they are not state residents. Eligible students must graduate from a North Carolina public high school, enroll the following year, have attended NC schools for four consecutive years, and hold a valid NC driver's license or ID and social security number.
This bill appropriates $595 million in one-time state funding for rural North Carolina across eight areas: water and sewer infrastructure ($200M), public safety equipment ($10M), economic development land acquisition ($20M), rural physician placement ($5M), agricultural development ($10M), rural school construction and repairs ($200M), broadband expansion ($50M), and early learning programs ($100M). Each funding area includes guidelines developed by relevant state departments that prioritize projects based on factors like need severity, efficiency, and people served.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill enacts comprehensive firearms regulations in North Carolina, including requiring permits and 72-hour waiting periods for purchasing assault weapons and long guns, prohibiting sales to minors, banning bump stocks and ghost guns, mandating safe storage and firearm liability insurance, limiting magazine capacity, allowing extreme risk protection orders to temporarily restrict firearm access, and repealing stand-your-ground laws.
This bill appropriates $9.818 million in state funds to the City of Greensboro for public safety purposes: $9 million to construct a new fire station on the north side of Piedmont Triad International Airport, and $818,000 to relocate and enhance the Police Department's Real Time Intelligence Center. The funds are designated as nonrecurring (one-time) and become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill establishes a continuing annual appropriation of $100,000 from the state General Fund to the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund specifically for grants to local governments, school units, and public authorities to build or adapt playground and recreational facilities for people with disabilities. Grant awards are capped at $5,000 per recipient, with recipients required to provide local matching funds of $1 for every $5 in state funds.