North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1753–1776 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Michael Lazzara
This bill requires individuals and businesses to obtain state licenses and permits from the North Carolina State Fire Marshal before installing, servicing, or inspecting portable fire extinguishers and fire suppression systems. The bill establishes fees ($250 for business licenses, $100 for individual permits), insurance requirements, examination standards, and enforcement penalties for violations.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Brian Echevarria
This bill prohibits North Carolina state and local law enforcement officers from enforcing federal firearms laws, regulations, or executive orders within the state's borders. It establishes that violations could result in $50,000 civil penalties and allows citizens to sue for injunctive relief, with limited exceptions for certain serious criminal investigations and interstate cases.
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This bill protects access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF) by prohibiting the state from limiting or interfering with patients' right to use ART or healthcare providers' right to offer it. The bill also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and appropriates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.
Healthcare
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill protects access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies by prohibiting the state from restricting patients' right to use these treatments or health care providers' right to offer them. It also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and allocates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill provides $16.195 million in new funding to the North Carolina State Auditor's office over the 2025-2027 fiscal period. The money will be used to hire 70 new staff members, increase employee compensation, upgrade technology systems, and support office infrastructure, with the goal of improving the auditor's ability to conduct financial audits and detect fraud and waste in state government.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Ted Alexander
This bill appropriates $1 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to strengthen North Carolina's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. The funding supports nine new Regional Ombudsman positions in Area Agencies on Aging, operational expenses, and directs a study on statutory changes needed to improve the program and its volunteer system.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill appropriates $2.45 million in state funds to Siler City for a downtown streetscape improvement project. The money will be used to underground power lines and widen sidewalks on Chatham Avenue ($2 million in Phase 1) and to implement design plans and hire a main street coordinator ($450,000 in Phase 2), with implementation beginning July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill requires the State Board of Education to revoke the charter of any school that has been designated as continually low-performing for four consecutive years, prohibits low-performing charter schools from expanding enrollment, shortens remote charter academy terms from five to three years, and requires charter schools to display their performance grades on enrollment applications.
Education
Introduced by Kyle Hall
This bill requires North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to play each other regularly in football, basketball, baseball, and softball starting in the 2026-2027 academic year. Specifically, the schools must play at least one game per year in football and basketball, and at least three games per year in baseball and softball.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill makes multiple changes to fire safety and building code enforcement in North Carolina. Key provisions include requiring public schools and state agencies to obtain additional insurance coverage, allowing the State Fire Marshal to contract for specialized services, making school participation in the state property insurance fund mandatory, waiving training course fees for firefighters and emergency responders, clarifying the State Fire and Rescue Commission's authority to conduct hearings, updating terminology and procedures for code officials, and expanding the State Fire Marshal's oversight of local building inspections.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill authorizes North Carolina to create a special vehicle registration plate called 'Birthplace of American Independence' featuring a feather pen design and commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Halifax Resolves signed in Halifax on April 12, 1776. Drivers who choose this plate would pay an additional $30 fee, with revenue split between the Special Registration Plate Account ($10) and the Collegiate and Cultural Attraction Plate Account ($20), with quarterly funds from the latter going to Halifax County Business Horizons, Inc. for commemorative and educational activities.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill requires North Carolina's Commission for Public Health to establish maximum contaminant levels (MCLs) for harmful chemicals in drinking water by October 15, 2025. The bill specifically mandates MCLs for PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, hexavalent chromium, and 1,4-Dioxane, and requires annual reviews to update standards based on the latest science.
Introduced by Mujtaba Mohammed
This bill expands North Carolina's hate crimes laws by broadening the characteristics that qualify a crime as a hate crime (adding gender identity, gender expression, and disability to existing protections), increasing criminal penalties for hate crimes, creating a state database to track hate crime statistics, and requiring law enforcement and prosecutors to receive training on identifying and prosecuting hate crimes.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across 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 characteristics in state law, and establishes complaint procedures through the Human Relations Commission.
This bill creates a new Class F felony offense for entering someone's premises without permission and damaging, taking, or destroying their temporary housing (such as tents, trailers, or mobile homes) during a declared state of emergency in a county designated as an emergency area. It also allows victims to sue offenders for three times the actual damages plus court costs and attorney fees.
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill appropriates $8 million from the Education Lottery Fund to four private historically Black colleges and universities in North Carolina (Bennett College, Johnson C. Smith University, Livingstone College, and Shaw University) for capital improvement projects. The funds are distributed to each school based on the proportion of their North Carolina resident students who receive federal Pell Grants.
Introduced by Ray Pickett
This bill lowers the age requirement for obtaining a North Carolina special identification card from 17 to 16 years old and establishes a pilot program in four counties (Mecklenburg, Randolph, Union, and Watauga) to issue these cards to high school students on school grounds during scheduled times. The pilot program runs through December 31, 2027.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill increases Medicaid reimbursement rates for two types of in-home health services: personal care services (to $7.50 per 15-minute increment) and private duty nursing services (to $16.25 per 15-minute increment). The bill appropriates approximately $139 million in state funds over two years, which will also unlock approximately $254 million in federal matching funds, with these rate increases taking effect July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Lindsey Prather
This bill declares that North Carolina has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to or use of contraception to prevent pregnancy. It establishes the right to use contraception as state policy by adding new language to North Carolina's General Statutes.
Introduced by Val Applewhite
This bill redirects unspent funds that were previously appropriated to the North Carolina Civil War & Reconstruction History Center to other community projects in Cumberland County. The money will be reallocated: 40% to Fayetteville for mental health programs and infrastructure, 30% to Hope Mills for a community center, and 30% to Cumberland County for water/sewer infrastructure, youth services, and emergency equipment.
This bill appropriates $10 million in state funds to the Town of Pittsboro for emergency fire services, including $7 million for a new fire station, $1.8 million for a ladder truck, and $1.2 million for a fire engine. The funds are designated as nonrecurring and become available on July 1, 2025.
This bill eliminates mandatory pre-licensing training course requirements for insurance producers in North Carolina. Instead of requiring applicants to complete a specific number of instructional hours before licensure, the bill allows the Commissioner to determine if an applicant has sufficient competence through other means, while still requiring applicants to pass an examination.
Business & Labor
This bill appropriates $5 million in state funds to Siler City for constructing a new fire station. The funds are designated as a one-time grant and become available on July 1, 2025.
This bill requires every public school in North Carolina to have at least one full-time, permanent school nurse starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The bill applies to traditional public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools, and appropriates $95 million in state funding to help schools meet this requirement.