North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1777–1800 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill prohibits licensed mental health professionals in North Carolina from practicing conversion therapy—treatments intended to change sexual orientation or gender identity—on minors under 18 and adults with disabilities. The bill also prohibits state funding from being used for conversion therapy services or referrals.
Healthcare
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill amends North Carolina's Administrative Procedure Act to create a rebuttable presumption that trade and business associations, organizations, and similar groups have legal standing to request declaratory rulings from state agencies on behalf of their members. An agency can only overcome this presumption by providing specific written findings that the group's interests are not substantially similar to the individuals they represent.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Kandie Smith
The Senior Care Assurance Act expands healthcare access for North Carolina seniors aged 65 and older through increased Medicaid coverage for preventive and chronic disease management, telehealth services, home-based care, and caregiver support. The bill appropriates approximately $44.15 million in recurring annual funds (2025-2027) for grant programs, navigation services, home safety modifications, and a caregiver assistance program that provides monthly stipends up to $500.
Introduced by Julia Greenfield
This bill restores North Carolina's low-income housing tax credits program, which had been scheduled to expire in 2015, by reenacting it with a new sunset date of January 1, 2030. The program provides state tax credits to developers and investors who build or rehabilitate housing for low-income residents, with credit amounts varying based on the area's income level and the percentage of units made affordable.
Housing
Introduced by Dudley Greene
This bill appropriates $524 million from North Carolina's disaster relief fund to help communities recover from Hurricane Helene through programs supporting home reconstruction, agricultural losses, private road repairs, and small business infrastructure. It also extends regulatory flexibilities for disaster recovery activities through June 30, 2025, and requires detailed reporting on fund usage.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Amos Quick
This bill reinstates education-based salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel (including school social workers) based on advanced degrees, using salary policies from 2013, and allocates $8 million in state funding for this purpose. It also requires local school boards to publicly post salary schedules for occupational therapists and physical therapists on their websites.
Education
Introduced by Allison Dahle
This bill creates a temporary one-year sales tax exemption for firearm storage equipment, including gun safes, lockboxes, and devices that prevent unauthorized access to firearms. The exemption applies to sales made between October 1, 2025, and October 1, 2026, but excludes display cabinets designed primarily to showcase firearms.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill increases criminal penalties for online solicitation of minors, requires sex offender registration petitions to be placed on the criminal docket for court hearings, and creates two new felony offenses for people with multiple indecent exposure convictions who must register as sex offenders.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill prohibits law enforcement agencies from sharing booking photographs with websites that charge fees to remove them, and requires such websites to delete booking photos within seven business days if the person was not convicted. Websites that charge fees to remove photos or fail to delete them can face civil liability including $100 per day in damages.
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill repeals North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) laws, which currently require healthcare facilities to obtain state approval before making major expansions, purchases of equipment, or new service offerings. The bill removes the requirement for state review and permission before healthcare providers can expand operations, while making technical updates to other state laws that reference the repealed CON requirements.
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill requires private detectives and investigators to obtain a search warrant before installing electronic tracking devices, and requires wildlife protectors to obtain judicial authorization before conducting inspections or investigations on private property, including the areas immediately surrounding homes and vessels.
Introduced by Buck Newton
This bill expands public access to government employee personnel records across state agencies, schools, community colleges, hospitals, counties, and cities. It requires these employers to maintain and disclose general descriptions of the reasons for employee promotions, demotions, transfers, suspensions, separations, and dismissals, along with written notices for disciplinary dismissals. The bill protects private health and disability information while making these records available after any administrative appeals are completed.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Mike Colvin
This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover emergency ground ambulance services without imposing higher out-of-pocket costs than they would for in-network providers, and limits cost-sharing for non-emergency ground ambulance services from out-of-network providers to no more than 110% of in-network costs. The bill also requires insurers to provide clearer information to customers about emergency service coverage and costs.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill modifies North Carolina's income tax rate reduction system by establishing new revenue thresholds that must be met before automatic tax rate cuts occur. Instead of reducing income tax rates on a fixed schedule, tax cuts would only happen if the state's General Fund revenue exceeds specified trigger amounts for each fiscal year, with a minimum tax rate floor of 2.49%.
Introduced by Ben Moss
This bill allows the North Carolina General Assembly to review federal laws, rules, and executive orders to determine if they are constitutional. It prohibits state agencies, local governments, and state-funded organizations from implementing federal actions that restrict rights or that the General Assembly or Attorney General declares unconstitutional in specific areas like health emergencies, natural resources, education, and firearms regulation.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill increases North Carolina's Medicaid reimbursement rates for two types of home-based care services: personal care services (PCS) would increase to $7.50 per 15-minute increment, and private duty nursing services (PDN) would increase to $16.25 per 15 minutes. The state would spend approximately $139 million annually with federal matching funds totaling approximately $254 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period.
This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting or threatening elected officials (including state executives, legislators, judges, and local elected officials) by moving offenses to more serious felony classifications. It also requires that pretrial release decisions for these offenses be made by a judge rather than a magistrate, with judges able to impose specific conditions like stay-away orders.
This bill revises North Carolina's law against obstructing health care facilities by adding a new restriction on protesting near health care entrances. The bill creates a new offense that prohibits people from approaching within 8 feet of another person (without consent) to hand out leaflets, display signs, or engage in protest, education, or counseling within 100 feet of any health care facility entrance. The bill also increases criminal penalties for repeat violations of obstruction laws.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill creates a legal framework allowing hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments to install temperature-controlled 'newborn safety devices' (safe surrender boxes) where parents can anonymously leave newborns up to 30 days old without legal consequences. The devices must have alarm systems, be inspected regularly, and staff must have emergency medical plans to care for surrendered infants.
This bill requires North Carolina schools to schedule daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance within one hour of the school day's start, display U.S. and North Carolina flags in classrooms, and provide instruction on the flag and Pledge's history. It also requires the State Board of Education and local school governing bodies to begin their meetings with the Pledge. The bill specifies that no one can be compelled to stand, salute, or recite the Pledge.
Introduced by Donnie Loftis
This bill raises North Carolina's legal sales age for tobacco products (including vaping and e-cigarettes) from 18 to 21 years old. It creates a new permitting system requiring retail sellers, delivery sellers, and remote sellers of tobacco products to obtain state permits from the ABC Commission. The bill establishes penalties for illegal sales to minors and rules for how tobacco products can be sold and displayed.
Introduced by Michael Lazzara
This bill expands North Carolina's Good Samaritan law to provide legal immunity for people who seek emergency medical help during drug and alcohol overdoses. It protects both the person calling for help and the overdose victim from arrest and prosecution for certain drug possession and underage alcohol possession charges, provided they meet specific conditions like calling 911 in good faith and providing their name.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill appropriates $34 million in state funds to the Town of Kernersville for the construction or development of an event center in that town. The funds are one-time, nonrecurring appropriations for the 2025-2026 fiscal year and would become available starting July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Caleb Theodros
This bill reinstates and modifies North Carolina's Research and Development tax credit, which had been set to expire in 2016. The credit allows businesses to claim a percentage of their research and development expenses against their state income or franchise taxes, with different credit rates depending on business size, research location, and type of research performed.