North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1729–1752 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill requires state entities—including UNC, principal state departments, courts, and the General Assembly—to publicly report all expenditures of $1.00 or more for property and services on a monthly basis. The Department of Administration and court/legislative websites must publish these itemized reports within 10 days, while protecting records that are confidential under state or federal law.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill creates new criminal penalties for voter intimidation and threats against election officials, requires election certifications to be based on factual evidence, establishes standards for post-election audits, strengthens observer rights at polling places, protects election officials' personal information, and appropriates $2.25 million for election security training and threat monitoring.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill appropriates $4.5 million in state funding to Durham County for one year (fiscal year 2025-2026) to be used for repairs, renovations, and improvements to public school buildings, athletic fields, and facilities, particularly addressing deferred maintenance needs.
Education
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill prohibits licensed mental health professionals in North Carolina from practicing conversion therapy—treatments attempting to change sexual orientation or gender identity—on minors under 18 and adults with disabilities. It also prohibits state and local government funding for conversion therapy services. Violations would be considered unprofessional conduct subject to disciplinary action.
Healthcare
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill establishes a licensing and regulatory system for student loan servicers in North Carolina under the Commissioner of Banks, creates protections for student loan borrowers through a "Student Borrowers' Bill of Rights," and establishes a Student Loan Ombudsman position to assist borrowers and investigate complaints.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill allows hospitals to petition a court to discharge adult patients who lack the ability to make medical decisions and whose authorized decision-makers refuse to consent to discharge. The hospital must have written approval from two physicians before filing the petition, and the court must decide within five business days.
This bill caps the North Carolina State Board of Chiropractic Examiners at $2,000 maximum in costs (including attorney fees and investigation costs) that can be charged to chiropractors in disciplinary cases, and requires the Board to keep detailed, publicly accessible meeting minutes that include names of commenters, vote records, and summaries of discussions.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill modifies North Carolina's marriage and family therapy licensing rules by reducing the required years of out-of-state practice experience from five to two years for reciprocal licensure, requiring applicants to pass North Carolina's jurisprudence exam, and allowing applicants who passed California's clinical examination to qualify instead of the national exam.
Introduced by Bob Brinson
This bill revises North Carolina's child passenger restraint law to require children under 8 years old and under 57 inches tall to use appropriate car seats based on their height and weight, following manufacturer instructions. It specifies that children should start in rear-facing seats as newborns and transition to forward-facing seats according to the car seat's requirements, with rear-seat placement required except in specific circumstances like vehicles without rear seats or without front airbags.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Becky Carney
This bill creates a state licensing system for Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in North Carolina, establishing the North Carolina Council of Midwives to set standards, issue licenses, and oversee midwifery practice. The bill defines the qualifications, responsibilities, and scope of practice for licensed midwives while requiring them to maintain national certification and collaborate with physicians when necessary.
Introduced by Jay Chaudhuri
This bill would make it illegal for most people in North Carolina to manufacture, sell, give away, transfer, use, or possess ghost guns (firearms without serial numbers) or undetectable firearms (guns that don't show up on metal detectors or are made entirely of plastic/3D-printed materials). Licensed federal firearm manufacturers would be exempt from this prohibition. Violations would be charged as Class I felonies.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill restores salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel who hold master's degrees or doctorates by bringing back a 2013 salary policy. It appropriates $8 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to pay these education-based bonuses.
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill makes video evidence from school bus safety cameras admissible as legal proof that a vehicle failed to stop for a school bus, and extends the maximum contract length for private vendors operating these camera systems from three years to five years.
This is North Carolina's biennial budget bill appropriating funds for state government operations from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. It allocates approximately $34 billion in general funds annually, establishes funding for education, healthcare, transportation, corrections, and social services, and includes tax policy changes such as maintaining tax rates and creating new tax credits for working families and school supplies.
Introduced by Danny Britt
This bill creates a new 'licensure by endorsement' pathway that allows physicians, physician assistants, and anesthesiologist assistants licensed in other states to obtain North Carolina licenses more quickly if they meet certain requirements, including 5 years of active licensure elsewhere, a job offer in North Carolina, and a clean disciplinary record. The bill also adjusts various medical licensing fees.
This bill creates a new workplace safety system for the North Carolina General Assembly that includes mandatory annual harassment prevention training, a confidential reporting and investigation process for sexual harassment and improper workplace behavior, clear disciplinary sanctions, and an appeals process. The bill appropriates $250,000 to implement these policies and requires the Legislative Services Commission and Legislative Ethics Committee to adopt the policies by December 31, 2025.
Local Government
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill updates North Carolina's Controlled Substances Act by adding numerous synthetic drugs to the state's list of Schedule I controlled substances, including new opioid derivatives (such as AP-237 variants and U-47700 analogs), nitazene derivatives, fentanyl derivatives, synthetic cannabinoids, and other designer drugs. The bill also makes technical corrections to existing drug classifications.
This bill prohibits the North Carolina Lottery Commission from spending public funds on lottery advertising and redirects $31 million in annual lottery revenues to the Department of Health and Human Services—$1 million for gambling addiction programs and $30 million for foster care services. The bill maintains existing regulations on how lottery retailers can advertise their games.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill removes income and resource limits from North Carolina's Medicaid buy-in program for workers with disabilities, allowing people with disabilities to earn more money and accumulate savings while maintaining health coverage. The bill requests federal approval for these changes and appropriates $165,000 in state funding to support the program.
This bill requires North Carolina local governments and school systems to use a competitive bidding process when selecting newspapers to publish required legal notices. Instead of selecting newspapers based on local commercial rates, governments must solicit informal bids and award contracts to the lowest responsible, responsive bidder while considering quality, performance, circulation, and cost.
This bill adds a new law to North Carolina's General Statutes declaring that individuals have the right to use contraception to prevent pregnancy and that the state has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to contraception. The law becomes effective immediately upon passage.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill legalizes and regulates pari-mutuel wagering on horse races in North Carolina. It creates a licensing system for horse racing tracks and online wagering platforms, establishes taxes on wagering revenue, and creates funds to support the state's equine industry including horse breeding incentives, purses for races, and horse care programs.
This bill modifies North Carolina law to require the state to refund local sales and use taxes that the Global Transpark Authority pays indirectly. The refunds would be credited back to the Authority on a quarterly basis, starting with the first full quarter after the bill becomes law.
This bill prohibits North Carolina health care practitioners from refusing to accept minors as patients solely because the child or their parent/guardian refuses to follow the CDC's recommended vaccination schedule timing or frequency. It allows delays or schedule variances while still requiring vaccines that are mandated by state law, and makes violation of this rule subject to professional discipline.