North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill appropriates approximately $173.6 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support various public infrastructure and emergency services projects in Halifax, Northampton, and Warren counties. The funds are directed to local governments and special districts for purposes including water and sewer system improvements, fire and rescue equipment, detention facilities, and other capital projects, with an additional $300,000 annually allocated for cyanobacteria treatment in Lake Gaston.
Local Government
Introduced by Edward Goodwin
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support the North Carolina Patriot Star Family Scholarship Program, which is operated by the Patriot Foundation under the UNC Board of Governors. The funds are designated as recurring, meaning they would continue annually unless changed by future legislation.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill repeals House Bill 2 (HB2), which was enacted in 2016. The repeal removes HB2's provisions from North Carolina law, including requirements related to bathroom access policies and employment protections.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Wyatt Gable
This bill appropriates $209,000 in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to establish a drug testing laboratory at the Onslow County Sheriff's Office. The funding is a one-time grant intended to enable the sheriff's office to conduct drug testing in-house for law enforcement purposes.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill moves the Advisory Council on Rare Diseases from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to the Department of Health and Human Services, reorganizes its membership structure to include more patients and caregivers, and appropriates $250,000 annually for two years to fund the council's operations.
Healthcare
This bill appropriates $20 million in one-time state funding to Coastal Carolina Community College for renovating its Trades Building. The funds come from the General Fund and become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Erin Pare
This bill changes pay eligibility rules for school social workers in North Carolina. Currently, only school social workers with master's degrees (or higher) can receive education-based salary supplements. The bill removes the master's degree requirement, allowing all certified school social workers to qualify for these supplements. It allocates $500,000 in state funding to cover the cost beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.
Education
Introduced by Celeste Cairns
This bill makes two changes to North Carolina traffic law: (1) it clarifies that drivers must yield to blind or partially blind pedestrians using white canes or guide dogs at all crossings and intersections, and (2) it increases the penalty for failure to yield that causes serious bodily injury to include a $500 fine and 90-day driver's license suspension. The changes take effect December 1, 2026.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across multiple areas including housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, education, and jury service. It adds sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, military/veteran status, and genetic information to the list of protected statuses in existing discrimination laws. The bill also establishes the Human Relations Commission's role in investigating and resolving discrimination complaints in several sectors.
Introduced by Mitchell Setzer
This bill requires North Carolina local governments and school districts to use a competitive bidding process when selecting newspapers to publish required public notices. Instead of using commercial advertising rates, governments must award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder through an informal bid process that considers quality, performance, circulation, and cost.
Introduced by Jerry Branson
This bill creates a state tax credit equal to 40% of qualified rehabilitation expenditures for companies that restore historic corporate campuses in North Carolina. To qualify, a project must involve at least $10 million in rehab spending on a historic structure that was formerly a corporate headquarters, sits on at least 20 acres, has been mostly vacant for two years, and is subject to a preservation agreement.
This bill appropriates $2 million from the state's General Fund to the Town of Swansboro specifically for road maintenance. The funds become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill makes it illegal for crisis pregnancy centers to advertise that they provide abortion or emergency contraceptive services when they do not actually offer those services. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to study crisis pregnancy centers operating in North Carolina, including their funding sources and services offered.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill changes how Jackson County Board of Education members are elected. Instead of nonpartisan elections where party affiliation is not shown on the ballot, candidates will now run on a partisan basis, meaning their political party affiliation will be displayed. The change takes effect after the 2024 election cycle, beginning with 2026 elections.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Matthew Winslow
This bill would require foods containing vaccines to be labeled and regulated as drugs, and would prohibit the sale of foods containing nine specific artificial additives (certain food dyes and preservatives) starting January 1, 2027, with civil penalties up to $5,000 for first violations and $10,000 for subsequent violations.
This bill makes several changes to local government elections in North Carolina. It extends Kittrell's mayor and commissioner terms from two to four years, reduces Asheboro's school board from 11 to 7 members elected on a partisan basis with four-year staggered terms, establishes residency districts for Anson County commissioners, applies statewide vacancy procedures to Caswell County commissioners, and gives Scotland County commissioners discretion over school funding instead of requiring a mandatory minimum funding floor.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill requires health insurance plans that cover fertility treatments to remove annual and lifetime limits on ovulation medication and ovulation induction cycles, and to treat ovulation medication the same as other prescription drugs. It applies these same requirements to North Carolina's State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees, with funding allocated to cover increased costs.
Introduced by Joyce Waddell
This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage from $7.25 to $15 per hour for most employers starting January 1, 2026, with small businesses (fewer than 10 employees) phasing in the increase over three years. Beginning in 2028, the minimum wage will automatically adjust annually based on inflation using the Consumer Price Index.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill restores salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel who hold master's degrees or doctorates, using the pay policy that was in effect on June 30, 2013. The bill appropriates $8 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement these education-based salary increases.
This bill creates a state task force to study and address the disproportionate number of missing and murdered Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) women and girls in North Carolina. The task force will develop policy recommendations, improve data collection, create awareness campaigns, and ensure law enforcement cultural competency over a three-year period.
This bill allocates $250,000 in one-time state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the Council for Children's Rights, Inc. to help cover their operating expenses. The funds come from North Carolina's General Fund and become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's alcohol laws, including: appropriating $309.5 million for an ABC Commission automated warehouse with repayment requirements; creating a new "service business permit" allowing complimentary beer and wine to service business customers; clarifying open container laws for takeout alcoholic beverages in motor vehicles; modifying county mixed beverage election requirements; and making technical corrections to existing alcohol regulations.
Introduced by Warren Daniel
This bill automatically restores driver's licenses after 36 months if the only reason for revocation was failure to pay court fines or fees from motor vehicle offenses. It also forgives unpaid fines and fees from 'Driving While License Revoked' convictions when the original suspension was due to non-payment, and requires data collection on how these changes affect different communities.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill increases child care subsidy payment rates for providers serving low-income families to the seventy-fifth percentile of the 2023 market rate study, establishes a minimum statewide payment floor for child care centers and homes, and appropriates $110 million per year for the 2025-2027 budget period to fund these increases.
Social Services & Welfare