North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1345–1368 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill strengthens protections for sensitive personal information by establishing minimum financial penalties for computer trespassing crimes involving protected health information and government employee personnel records. Victims of such data breaches can now recover at least $5,000 per violation in civil lawsuits, in addition to actual damages sustained.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by John Bell
This resolution establishes the official operating procedures and rules that govern how the North Carolina House of Representatives conducts its business during the 2025 regular legislative session. The rules cover everything from meeting schedules and debate procedures to committee operations and bill handling processes.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill establishes a grant program to help North Carolina schools transition to competency-based education (CBE), where students progress based on demonstrated mastery rather than seat time. The program will award $330,000 grants to 10 participating schools over a four-year period (2025-2029), provide professional development and resources, and create a statewide network to develop proficiency scales and share best practices.
Education
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill aims to increase the number and quality of school psychologists in North Carolina through six main parts: providing salary supplements to school psychologists, establishing a grant program for schools to recruit psychologists, creating an internship program with stipends, funding virtual training programs, increasing university training program funding, and joining an interstate compact to allow school psychologists to practice across state lines.
Introduced by Robert Davis
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding to the YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina to help expand the Midtown YMCA facility in Wilmington. The expanded 50,000 square foot facility is part of a public-private partnership project with a total cost of $15 million, and is expected to provide fitness, aquatic, youth programs, and child care services to the region.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by John Torbett
This bill creates the Standard Course of Study Advisory Commission, a 18-member committee of teachers, principals, parents, superintendents, and business representatives who will develop and recommend academic standards to the State Board of Education. The State Board must either adopt the Commission's recommendations without changes or reject them with detailed reasons, and the General Assembly gains the ability to disapprove curriculum changes through legislation.
This bill appropriates $2.6 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $5.2 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to give North Carolina Forest Service employees a 7.5% salary increase in each year, beginning July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill requires social media platforms with over 1 million U.S. users to protect North Carolina users' personal data and prohibits using minors' data for targeted advertising or algorithmic recommendations. It establishes privacy requirements, sets protective default settings for minors, creates enforcement mechanisms through the Attorney General, and establishes a Data Privacy Task Force to monitor compliance and study social media's effects on mental health.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting emergency responders, creates new felony charges for intentionally exposing first responders to fentanyl or harmful chemicals, and appropriates $10.35 million in grants for bulletproof vests and backpack plates for paramedics and EMTs.
Introduced by Carl Ford
This bill reorganizes and standardizes death benefit rules across North Carolina's four main retirement systems (Teachers and State Employees, Local Governmental Employees, Consolidated Judicial, and Legislative). It consolidates scattered death benefit provisions into clearer, more consistent sections while making technical updates to language and clarifying eligibility rules.
Introduced by Dennis Riddell
This bill allows North Carolina farmers to sell raw (unpasteurized) milk and raw milk products directly to consumers from their farms or farm stands, provided they meet strict health and safety requirements including annual veterinary inspections, regular bacterial testing, and proper labeling. Currently, North Carolina only permits the sale of pasteurized milk to consumers.
Agriculture
Introduced by Diane Wheatley
This bill appropriates $5 million in state funds to the City of Fayetteville to construct a second entrance into the Kings Grant neighborhood. The project would provide an additional entry and exit point for residents of that neighborhood.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Renee Price
The Second Look Act allows people serving prison sentences (except those with life sentences) to request a judge reduce their sentence if they have served at least 10 years or 50% of their sentence, whichever is longer. A judge must hold a hearing and can reduce the sentence if they find the person is not a danger to the community and that reducing the sentence serves justice, considering factors like the person's age, behavior in prison, rehabilitation efforts, and victim input.
Introduced by Heather Rhyne
This bill appropriates state funds to increase the number of assistant principals in North Carolina public schools. Local school districts must hire more assistant principals each year, with the state providing $23.6 million in the 2025-2026 school year and $57.6 million annually from 2026-2027 onward to support this expansion.
Introduced by Jeffrey McNeely
This bill appropriates $300,000 in recurring funds to the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission to develop or use a secure, technology-driven reporting and response system for human trafficking victims, with initial focus on western North Carolina where anti-trafficking resources are limited. The funds may be used to expand the system, hire a regional coordinator, and launch public awareness campaigns.
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill appropriates $91,000 in nonrecurring funds and $4,000 in recurring annual funds to install and maintain equipment that allows the public to watch North Carolina House committee meetings and floor proceedings live online and access recordings for 10 years. Committee chairs may choose not to record meetings if they provide advance notice and maintain audio recordings and written minutes instead.
Local Government
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding to the Salvation Army of Cape Fear for construction of a Corps Community Center in Wilmington. The facility will provide after-school tutoring, business training, recreational activities, community meeting space, and serve as an emergency shelter during hurricanes.
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill revises North Carolina's Statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE) Act by requiring certain health care providers and entities that receive state funding to connect to and submit patient data through a state health information network. The bill also establishes new civil penalties for violations and creates an annual assessment fee for providers and entities that fail to comply with connection and data submission requirements.
Healthcare
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill increases the buffer zone around voting places where election-related activities are prohibited. It changes the standard buffer zone distance from a range of 25-50 feet to a range of 75-100 feet from the entrance of a voting place, giving county boards of elections authority to set distances within this new range.
Elections & Voting
This bill restricts curriculum content related to gender identity, sexual activity, and sexuality in K-6 grades and requires parental consent for these topics in grades 7-12. It establishes new procedures for selecting health and safety instructional materials and library books, including public hearings and parent review periods. The bill also requires schools to maintain repositories of instructional materials and restricts minors' access to materials deemed harmful in public libraries.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill allows North Carolina law enforcement agencies to destroy certain firearms in their possession, including unclaimed guns, firearms confiscated after convictions for certain crimes, and firearms purchased through or voluntarily surrendered to gun buy-back programs. Currently, state law prohibits police from destroying most seized firearms, leading to large storage backlogs costing departments significant money and creating safety risks.
Introduced by Sarah Crawford
This bill removes a provision in North Carolina law that would automatically end Medicaid coverage for the expansion population if federal funding for Medicaid drops below 90%. Currently, state law requires coverage to be discontinued if federal support falls to that threshold; this bill eliminates that automatic discontinuation requirement.
Introduced by Ray Jeffers
This bill establishes a new Small Farmers Support Grant Program that provides $20 million in state funding to help small farmers (those with gross farm income of $300,000 or less) purchase equipment, build infrastructure, and improve their operations. It also lowers the income threshold for farmers to qualify for sales tax exemptions from $10,000 to $7,500 annually.
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill establishes a two-year Workforce Diploma Program through North Carolina's Community Colleges System to help adults age 21 and older earn high school diplomas while developing job skills. The state will contract with qualified third-party organizations to deliver the program and will provide up to $5 million in funding, paying organizations based on student completion of coursework, certifications, credentials, and diplomas.