North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill makes technical corrections and administrative changes to laws administered by the Department of State Treasurer. Key changes include extending the provisional entry period for charter schools joining the teachers' retirement system, shifting responsibility for benefit reversals from the State Treasurer to the Board of Trustees, clarifying fee distribution for out-of-state attorney licenses, modifying ABLE accounts to not automatically claim medical assistance repayment, and correcting various statutory references and formatting issues across retirement system laws.
Education
Introduced by Vernetta Alston
This bill creates a new revolving loan program in the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency that provides short-term loans to developers for preconstruction costs (like surveys, permits, and site preparation) on workforce housing projects. The program allocates $40 million in state funds and reserves 80% of loans for economically disadvantaged counties and 20% for other counties, with individual loans capped at $1 million.
Housing
Introduced by Karl Gillespie
This bill establishes a state fund to reimburse owners of retired police, fire, and correctional canines for veterinary care costs. Eligible dogs must have been certified and retired after July 1, 2024, and owners can receive up to $1,500 per fiscal year in reimbursements for covered veterinary expenses. The bill appropriates $400,000 in recurring state funds to support the program.
Taxes & Budget
This bill appropriates $51 million in state funding to Hertford County for economic development during fiscal year 2025-2026. The money is designated for constructing a public industrial dock and barge facility ($40 million) and road construction ($11 million) at a riverside industrial park site in Hertford County, with unused funds remaining available until June 30, 2027.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill adds stomach cancer to the list of cancers presumed to be occupationally related to firefighting under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. When a firefighter dies from stomach cancer, their death will be legally presumed to have occurred in the line of duty, making their family eligible for death benefits. The bill allocates $500,000 annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to cover these benefits.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Jordan Lopez
This bill appropriates $1.5 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Safe Alliance, Inc. for its Umbrella Center (Family Justice Center) in Charlotte. The money will be used for land acquisition and a deceleration lane to support services for people affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and human trafficking.
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill appropriates $200,000 per fiscal year to the Department of Commerce to conduct biannual analyses measuring North Carolina's economic progress and well-being. The department must report findings to the General Assembly every odd-numbered year, measuring metrics like poverty rates, job quality, household cost burdens, and education affordability across the state and each county.
Introduced by David Willis
This bill makes several changes to how charter schools are regulated and operated in North Carolina. It gives the Charter Schools Review Board approval power over state rules about charter schools, allows the Review Board to hire its own legal counsel, and makes various operational changes including exempting charter schools from reporting class rank on transcripts, allowing alternate teacher evaluations, and creating a separate grading process for remote charter academies.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill makes changes to North Carolina's Principal Fellows Program, which helps prepare school leaders. It adds a new grant program for universities and colleges to develop innovative principal training methods, allows the program to fund statewide professional development activities for school leadership, and establishes reporting requirements to track how well graduates perform as school principals.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop a statewide plan for reimbursing Clubhouse model programs—psychosocial rehabilitation day programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. It allocates $2.5 million in recurring funds starting in fiscal year 2026-2027 to implement the plan, support accreditation, expand services, and provide training, with a report due to the legislature by June 1, 2026.
Healthcare
Introduced by Maria Cervania
This bill creates a Tobacco Use Prevention Fund within the Department of Health and Human Services and directs $17 million annually from North Carolina's Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds toward youth tobacco prevention programs. The fund would support local health departments, media campaigns, military readiness initiatives, community college tobacco-free programs, and evaluation of prevention efforts.
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill updates the mileage reimbursement rates and per diem (daily allowance) for North Carolina legislators to match the 2025 federal rates, effective when the 2027 General Assembly convenes. It replaces outdated federal rate references from 1993 with current 2024 federal rates for travel and meal expenses.
Introduced by Julia Howard
This bill makes various changes to North Carolina's tax laws, including adjustments to personal income tax rules, conforming state partnership tax treatment to federal standards, updating sales tax definitions, making technical changes to excise taxes, and extending highway use taxes to peer-to-peer vehicle rentals (like Airbnb for cars).
This bill would make it illegal for most people in North Carolina to manufacture, sell, transfer, or possess ghost guns (firearms without serial numbers) and undetectable firearms (guns that can't be detected by metal detectors or are made entirely of plastic or 3D-printed materials). Licensed federal firearms manufacturers would be exempt from this prohibition. Violation would be a Class I felony.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill provides a 2% cost-of-living increase to retirement payments for state employees, teachers, judges, and legislators who retired through the state retirement systems. The bill appropriates $106.2 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to cover this increase, which takes effect July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Larry Potts
This bill revises North Carolina law regarding abortion-inducing drugs sent by mail or through remote means. It allows such drugs to be provided if a physician conducts an in-person informed consent meeting at least 72 hours beforehand, the drugs are FDA-approved, and standard informed consent requirements are met. The bill also establishes civil liability and enforcement mechanisms, including private lawsuits and potential criminal penalties.
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill appropriates $27.85 million in state funds for public infrastructure projects in Chatham County during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds support downtown streetscape improvements and a main street coordinator in Siler City ($2.45 million), a new recreational facility and stadium improvements in Siler City ($10.4 million), a new fire station in Siler City ($5 million), and fire station construction and equipment purchases in Pittsboro ($10 million).
This bill modifies North Carolina laws governing Research and Production Service Districts (RPSDs) and Urban Research Service Districts (URSDs)—special taxing districts that fund services in designated research and development areas. The changes allow these districts to span multiple counties, clarify how developers can serve as agents for service provision, increase the property tax rate limit from 10 cents to 20 cents per $100 of value, and adjust advisory committee appointment procedures.
Local Government
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill appropriates $7.5 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2027 from the ARPA Temporary Savings Fund to the North Carolina Partnership for Children to expand mental and behavioral health services for children, families, and staff in child care facilities and after-school programs. The bill also establishes a special fund to hold and manage these allocations, allowing unspent funds to carry over year to year rather than revert to the state.
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill requires employers in North Carolina to provide employees with paid sick leave, accruing at one hour per 30 hours worked, capped at 32 hours per year for small businesses (10 or fewer employees) and 56 hours per year for other employers. Employees can use this time for their own illness, family member care, medical appointments, and situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The bill takes effect January 1, 2026.
Business & Labor
Introduced by John Blust
This bill requires North Carolina local governments to set property tax rates at a 'revenue-neutral' level in years when they conduct a general reappraisal of property values. A revenue-neutral rate means the tax rate is adjusted so that the total tax revenue collected stays the same despite changes in property values from the reappraisal.
Introduced by Monika Johnson-Hostler
This bill appropriates $700,000 in state funding to establish Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training programs at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and Wake Technical Community College. Each college receives $350,000 to hire staff, purchase equipment, and develop the certification programs for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
Introduced by Cynthia Ball
This bill appropriates $4 million in recurring state funds to the University of North Carolina's New Teacher Support Program (NTSP) to help new teachers participate in support services at no cost to local school districts. The funding prioritizes teachers in economically disadvantaged counties and covers services like instructional coaching, professional development, and teacher summits.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill allows North Carolina political parties to optionally use a ranked-choice voting method in primary elections where no candidate receives 30% of the vote. Instead of holding a separate runoff election, voters would rank up to three candidates by preference on the same ballot, and if needed, second and third choices would be counted to determine a winner. The bill appropriates $410,000 annually for two years to develop ballot designs and voter education materials.
Elections & Voting