North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1465–1488 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill prohibits defendants in homicide and assault cases from using a legal defense based on discovering, perceiving, or believing a victim's sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill clarifies that such discovery or perception cannot negate the malice element of murder or serve as provocation, while still allowing evidence about a victim's conduct or statements if relevant to the case.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill changes North Carolina law regarding minors' medical consent and parental access to records. It narrows the conditions under which minors can consent to treatment without parental permission, requires parental consent for certain vaccines, and establishes new parental rights to access most of a minor's medical records while creating limited exceptions for abuse investigations and court-ordered privacy.
Healthcare
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill allows courts to order individuals delinquent on child support payments to participate in job search or work-specific training as an alternative to incarceration for contempt of court. Participants must pay a minimum of $50 monthly in child support, complete training within six months, and notify the court of their progress or if they fail to meet attendance requirements.
This bill provides $30 million in immediate funding to the North Carolina Housing Trust Fund and creates two ongoing revenue sources for the fund: 1.5% of register of deeds fees and 33% of real property transfer excise tax proceeds. The bill aims to address North Carolina's shortage of affordable housing by ensuring the Housing Trust Fund has sustainable, recurring resources.
Housing
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill increases the maximum group sizes allowed for infants and toddlers in North Carolina child care centers and modifies nap time supervision rules for one-year-olds. It creates two voluntary enhanced requirement tiers that allow larger groups if centers maintain specific staff-to-child ratios, and aligns nap time supervision standards between one-year-olds and two-year-olds.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill expands North Carolina school emergency epinephrine options by allowing nasal spray formulations in addition to auto-injectors for treating anaphylactic reactions. Schools would still be required to stock emergency epinephrine products and train personnel on their use, with the definition updated to include nasal sprays alongside needle-based injectors. The requirement applies to public schools, charter schools, and regional schools.
Education
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill modernizes North Carolina's physical therapy licensing laws by updating educational accreditation standards, clarifying board composition and disciplinary procedures, adjusting renewal timelines, and refining definitions of physical therapy practice and unlicensed violations.
Introduced by Danny Britt
The Ronnie Long No Cap Act removes the $750,000 cap on compensation awarded to people exonerated of felonies in North Carolina, allowing them to receive $50,000 per year of wrongful imprisonment. The bill also directs the state to provide Medicaid coverage to exonerees and requires the Department of Adult Correction to offer transition services (housing, employment, sustenance) up to $25,000 per person upon release.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill appropriates $200,000 per fiscal year to the NC Department of Commerce to conduct analyses of economic progress and well-being in North Carolina every two years. The department must measure and report on specific economic metrics for the state and each county, including poverty rates, job quality, household spending burdens, and concentrated poverty areas, with reports due to the General Assembly by January 31 of odd-numbered years.
Taxes & Budget
This bill establishes a regulatory framework for hemp-derived beverages in North Carolina by defining them as nonalcoholic beverages containing hemp and various cannabinoids, and by giving the ABC Commission authority to set safety and quality standards for these products. Hemp-derived beverages would be treated similarly to alcoholic beverages for regulatory purposes but would not be classified as alcoholic beverages themselves.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Jarrod Lowery
Kayla's Act makes three main changes to North Carolina domestic violence law: it allows courts to admit statements from witnesses who are unavailable because a defendant caused that unavailability; it extends the statute of limitations for certain domestic violence misdemeanors to 10 years; and it permits domestic violence victims to testify remotely (outside the defendant's physical presence) in criminal proceedings if the defendant doesn't object or if the court finds the victim would suffer serious emotional distress from testifying in person.
Introduced by Brad Overcash
This bill creates a new licensing and regulatory framework for debt settlement services in North Carolina under the State Banking Commission. It requires companies that negotiate with creditors to reduce or forgive debts to obtain a license, maintain a $1 million surety bond, comply with specific business practices, and undergo regular examinations. The bill exempts banks, credit unions, lawyers, and nonprofit credit counseling organizations.
Introduced by Monika Johnson-Hostler
This bill modifies North Carolina's domestic violence protection order law to ensure that same-sex couples can obtain protective orders. Currently, the law limits dating relationship protections to 'persons of the opposite sex,' which excludes same-sex couples from this category of protection.
Introduced by Gale Adcock
This bill legally defines the scope of practice for four types of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North Carolina: Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. It establishes a separate APRN license and removes certain requirements for physician oversight of APRN prescribing and medical decision-making, aligning North Carolina with 36 other states that have expanded APRN practice authority.
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill requires the State Auditor to conduct periodic audits of crisis pregnancy centers that receive state funding. The bill adds this auditing responsibility to the State Auditor's duties under state law.
Local Government
Introduced by Eddie Settle
This bill adds definitions to North Carolina's environmental law for advanced recycling processes, specifically defining 'mass balance attribution' (a tracking system for recycled materials), 'recycled products' (products made from recyclable materials using this tracking method), and 'third-party certification system' (the international standards used to verify these processes). The bill clarifies that products labeled as recycled through these methods still must follow all air, water, and hazardous waste regulations.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Donna White
This bill formally defines the scope of practice for four types of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North Carolina: Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. It removes the requirement that APRNs obtain joint approval from both the Medical Board and Nursing Board to perform certain medical acts, instead allowing the Nursing Board to grant prescribing and practice authority directly.
This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's nonprofit corporation laws, including: allowing charitable organizations to use federal tax acknowledgments to satisfy state disclosure requirements; requiring annual reports to the Secretary of State; allowing nonprofits to domesticate (change their governing state); reducing the minimum number of directors from three to one; and clarifying rules for mergers, conversions, and board committees.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill appropriates $15 million to the Department of Environmental Quality to establish a Wetlands Restoration and Protection Fund that supports wetland restoration projects, conservation easements, public education, and enforcement of wetland protection laws. The bill also expands North Carolina's definition of protected wetlands to include "isolated wetlands" that lost federal protection under a 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision, bringing them back under state-level protection.
Introduced by James Dixon
This bill requires cell-cultured meat and poultry products (grown from animal cells in a lab rather than from slaughtered animals) to be clearly labeled with qualifying terms like 'cell-cultured,' 'lab-grown,' or 'fake' in at least 20-point font near the product name if they use meat or poultry terminology. Products that fail to meet these labeling requirements are considered misbranded under North Carolina law.
Agriculture
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
The Children First Act is a comprehensive bill that expands child care affordability through increased subsidies and facility grants, establishes tax credits for employer-provided child care, strengthens child health and safety protections (including regulations on social media, tobacco, vaping, cannabis, and firearms), creates a statewide fetal and infant mortality review team, and funds workforce development programs for child care workers. The bill appropriates over $150 million in funding across multiple initiatives.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill modernizes North Carolina's transportation funding formula by increasing support for public transit, bicycle, and pedestrian projects while adjusting how highway funds are distributed among statewide, regional, and local projects. It also allows local sales tax referendums specifically for public transportation and updates zoning regulations to support multimodal transportation infrastructure.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill establishes the Community Safety Partnership Act, which creates a grant program for community safety projects, offers tax credits and bonuses to residents and police officers who participate in neighborhood watch programs, and sets up a state tracking system to monitor attendance at approved community safety meetings.
This bill creates the Mobile Home Park Act, a comprehensive set of protections for mobile homeowners in North Carolina. It establishes rules governing evictions, rent increases, park rules, security deposits, and homeowner rights to organize and potentially purchase their parks. The bill also creates a registration system and dispute resolution process administered by the North Carolina Human Rights Commission.