North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1561–1584 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill allows North Carolina counties to require developers to post a financial guarantee (such as a surety bond or letter of credit) before transferring newly built subdivision streets to the county for public maintenance. The guarantee ensures roads meet quality standards before acceptance, and any unused funds must be returned to the developer within 30 days of the road's acceptance into the public system.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Julie von Haefen
This bill would protect access to abortion in North Carolina by codifying the standards from Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey into state law. It would prohibit the state from placing substantial obstacles to abortion before fetal viability, allow restrictions after viability except when necessary to preserve the pregnant person's life or health, expand which healthcare providers can perform abortions, and remove certain state funding restrictions on abortion coverage in public health plans.
Healthcare
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill creates a legal process for domestic violence survivors and certain foster youth to be relieved of debts incurred under coercion, duress, or fraud by an abuser. It allows debtors to provide documentation to creditors and requires creditors to stop collection efforts and review the claim, and permits debtors to sue for a court order declaring them not liable for coerced debts while enabling creditors to pursue the person who caused the coercion.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill appropriates $30,000 per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the Department of Health and Human Services' Division of Aging to support the North Carolina Senior Tar Heel Legislature. The funding becomes available starting July 1, 2025.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Norman Sanderson
This bill appropriates $14 million in state funds to Pamlico County for engineering and constructing a new Department of Health and Social Services building. The current facility has been abandoned due to moisture and mold problems, and this grant would help the county build a replacement on county-owned property.
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill increases compensation for school psychologists, creates a grant program to help schools recruit psychologists, establishes an internship program with stipends for psychology students, and funds university training programs to produce more school psychologists in North Carolina. The bill appropriates approximately $21.4 million for these initiatives.
Education
Introduced by Mary Belk
This bill removes the sales tax on menstrual products like tampons, pads, and menstrual cups, and establishes a $750,000 annual grant program to provide these products in schools. The tax exemption would apply to sales made on or after July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Michael Garrett
This bill requires all new school buses purchased starting in the 2026-2027 school year to be electric, with all school buses converted to electric by the end of the 2049-2050 school year. It also establishes a grant program to help small counties purchase electric activity buses, and appropriates $350 million for electric school bus purchases and $50 million for the grant program.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill creates a new state licensing system for Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in North Carolina. It establishes a Council to oversee CPM licensure, sets educational and certification requirements, defines the scope of midwifery practice, and outlines disciplinary procedures for licensed midwives.
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
This bill gives licensed professional land surveyors the legal right to enter private property to conduct surveys for locating property corners, boundary lines, rights-of-way, and easements, without this entry being considered trespass. The surveyors must make reasonable efforts to notify landowners and cannot damage property or enter critical infrastructure facilities or railroad property.
Local Government
Introduced by Gladys Robinson
This bill appropriates $237.5 million in state capital funding for two major building projects: $125 million for an Agricultural Research Classroom at North Carolina A&T State University and $112.5 million for a Health, Physical Education, and Recreation Complex at Winston-Salem State University. The funds come from the State Capital and Infrastructure Fund and become available starting July 1, 2025.
This bill allows banks to deduct interest, fees, and penalties they receive from agricultural loans from their state income taxes. The deduction applies to loans that are secured by agricultural land, beginning in 2025.
Introduced by Ben Moss
This bill increases salaries for full-time magistrates in North Carolina effective July 1, 2025, and appropriates $11.5 million in recurring annual funds for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to pay for these increases. The salary table shows new pay ranges for magistrates at different experience levels, with entry-level positions increasing from $47,228 to $56,674 annually.
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill strengthens North Carolina's animal fighting laws by increasing penalties for cockfighting and dog fighting from Class I to Class H felonies, explicitly prohibiting minors from attending animal fighting events, and creating a new crime for possessing animal fighting equipment (like fighting pits, gaffs, or springpoles) with intent to facilitate fighting. The bill takes effect December 1, 2025.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill appropriates $1.25 million in state funds for three projects in Mecklenburg County's Steele Creek community: $250,000 to a nonprofit for community health and wellness programs, $500,000 to the local fire and rescue service for equipment and facilities, and $500,000 to the Department of Transportation for a traffic study on Shopton Road West.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill requires owners and operators of public motocross facilities in North Carolina to carry liability insurance of at least $1 million per occurrence and $2 million in aggregate. The insurance must be provided by an approved insurer, and facility operators must notify the state insurance commissioner if their coverage is cancelled or not renewed. Private facilities not open to the public and government-owned facilities are exempt.
Business & Labor
This bill would designate the song 'Raise Up' by North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo as the official hip hop song of North Carolina. The bill recognizes the state's significant contributions to hip hop music and the cultural importance of this particular song released in 2001.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill requires North Carolina local governments to allow middle housing types (duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, fiveplexes, sixplexes, and townhouses) in all residential zones served by water or sewer systems. Local governments must use the same permitting process for middle housing as for single-family homes and cannot impose unreasonable restrictions that discourage their development.
Housing
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
The Thrive at Midlife Act expands healthcare access and affordability for North Carolina women ages 40-65 by requiring health insurance plans to cover essential midlife services (menopause care, cancer screenings, mental health services, etc.), establishing grant programs for uninsured women and small businesses, and creating tax credits for individuals and employers paying out-of-pocket midlife healthcare expenses. The bill also funds provider training programs, telehealth infrastructure, regional health hubs, public awareness campaigns, and establishes an advisory council to oversee implementation.
This bill appropriates $150,000 per year for two years to the Town of Pinetops for police department staffing costs, and an additional one-time grant of $100,000 for police equipment purchases. The funds come from the state's General Fund.
MOMnibus 3.0 is a comprehensive maternal health bill that establishes five new programs funded with $20.5 million over two years: grant programs for community organizations serving black women, a required implicit bias training program for perinatal healthcare providers, funding for lactation consultant training at historically black colleges and universities, perinatal education grants for underserved areas, and a mobile maternal health initiative called the Momni-Bus. The bill also establishes patient rights for perinatal care facilities and requires data collection on maternal mortality causes and rates.
This bill requires large medical facilities in North Carolina to adopt financial assistance policies for patients and restricts aggressive debt collection practices. It limits interest rates on medical debt to 2% annually, prohibits certain collection actions like wage garnishment and property liens, requires facilities to post pricing information online, and establishes eligibility requirements for free or discounted care based on household income levels.
This bill requires that any appropriation (spending authorization) included in North Carolina's Current Operations Appropriations Act must be sponsored by a state legislator and include that legislator's name in the bill text. Without a named sponsor, the appropriation would not be legally valid.
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill requires the state to study using empty or underutilized state buildings for childcare facilities for state employees and establishes a pilot program to contract with private childcare providers to operate three childcare centers on state property. It also requires that future state building projects over $5 million with more than 250 employees include an onsite childcare or adult daycare center, unless it would delay the project by six months or increase costs by 10% or more.