North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 169–192 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Stephen Ross
This bill requires North Carolina public schools to allow youth groups designated as patriotic societies (like Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts) to give brief presentations to students about membership and civic education during the school day. Presentations are limited to 10 minutes and do not count toward instructional time requirements.
Education
Introduced by David Willis
This bill modifies North Carolina's Principal Fellows Program, which provides forgivable scholarships to help prepare school leaders, and adds a new stipend for administrative interns. The bill appropriates $5 million to expand the program and creates financial support for people in administrative internship programs.
Introduced by Heather Rhyne
This bill establishes a two-year pilot program in one North Carolina school district to test a data-driven attendance monitoring and intervention system designed to reduce chronic absenteeism. The Department of Public Instruction will select a vendor and school district to implement the system, which includes real-time attendance tracking, automated family communication, and intervention protocols, with $75,000 in state funding allocated for the 2026-2027 school year.
Introduced by Lisa Barnes
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would add a new section to the North Carolina Constitution explicitly protecting the right of people to engage in farming and forestry activities, including crop cultivation, livestock raising, dairy and apiary production, and timber harvesting. The amendment would be subject to voter approval in the November 2026 general election.
Agriculture
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill establishes the North Carolina Infrastructure Investment Commission, a 10-member advisory body tasked with developing a comprehensive 20-year statewide infrastructure plan covering transportation, water, utilities, and resiliency needs. The Commission will evaluate infrastructure priorities and recommend funding strategies, then dissolve after submitting its final plan by March 31, 2028.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill updates North Carolina's regulations for on-site wastewater systems by adding definitions for advanced pretreatment technologies and modifying the approval process for innovative wastewater treatment systems. It allows advanced pretreatment systems tested and certified by nationally recognized bodies to be approved as innovative systems more quickly if they meet specific performance standards, without requiring separate state evaluation.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill expands the highway use tax exemption for volunteer fire departments and rescue squads that are not part of local government and have no more than two paid employees. The exemption now applies to fire trucks, pump trucks, tanker trucks, ladder trucks, four-wheel drive forest fire fighting vehicles, and emergency services vehicles.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Mark Pless
This bill allows Madison County's Sheriff's Office to enter into agreements with three neighboring Tennessee counties (Unicoi, Greene, and Cocke) to conduct joint law enforcement operations across state lines. The agreements must specify how liability for damages will be handled and must be reported annually to the North Carolina Department of Justice.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Keith Kidwell
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment declaring that human life begins at fertilization and is entitled to legal protection from that moment until natural death. If approved by voters in 2026, the amendment would take effect January 1, 2027, and would classify intentional destruction of life at any stage as murder or attempted murder.
Introduced by William Rabon
This is a Senate confirmation resolution that approves Nathaniel Denny's appointment as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Information Technology. The resolution was adopted by the Senate on May 13, 2026, and becomes effective immediately.
Local Government
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill appropriates $2.178 million in state funds to hire at least 25 additional Adult Protective Services (APS) workers at county departments of social services statewide, beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027. The funds will be distributed to counties with the greatest need based on factors like number of APS cases, required staffing levels, senior population, and report volume.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill contains three main parts: (1) the Protect Campus Survivors Act, which keeps student disciplinary records at public universities and community colleges confidential by exempting them from public records requests if they contain personally identifiable information; (2) a $300,000 appropriation to study transitioning K-12 school funding from an allotment-based model to a weighted student funding formula; and (3) a $445,000 pilot program allowing one high school to provide students up to $395 each to use toward approved educational activities like career training, arts, STEM programs, and civic engagement through individual electronic accounts.
Introduced by Brad Overcash
This bill appropriates $3.85 million in recurring funds to expand workforce training programs for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities across up to 25 community colleges, $4.9 million in nonrecurring funds to implement digital credential systems statewide, and directs ApprenticeshipNC to develop an expedited pathway for apprentices to become teachers.
Introduced by Chris Measmer
The HALO Law creates a new crime in North Carolina that makes it illegal to approach within 25 feet of a first responder (police officers, firefighters, EMTs, probation officers, and corrections staff) after being warned not to do so, if the person intends to impede their duties, threaten them, or harass them. The law classifies this violation as a Class 2 misdemeanor and includes $25,000 in state funding for a public awareness campaign.
This bill creates the North Carolina Board of Integrative Therapies and establishes state licensure requirements for art therapists and music therapists. The bill sets up a licensing system with application fees, renewal requirements, and disciplinary procedures, while specifying that only licensed practitioners can be compensated for providing these services.
Healthcare
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill establishes requirements for high-quality mathematics instruction in North Carolina public schools for kindergarten through eighth grade, including mandatory screening assessments three times per year, individualized Mathematics Success Plans for struggling students, and a state-approved list of instructional materials. The bill creates the Office of Learning Research to evaluate math curriculum vendors and appropriates $21 million in recurring funds plus $2.5 million for research and implementation.
This bill eliminates Certificate of Need (CON) requirements for ambulatory surgical facilities and inpatient rehabilitation services in North Carolina. It appropriates $50,000 to the Department of Health and Human Services to implement these changes and develop a plan to phase out remaining CON laws over three years.
Introduced by Howard Penny
This bill appropriates $4 million to expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program, which purchases locally grown food and distributes it free to food-insecure North Carolinians, and $2 million to expand the Double Up Food Bucks Program, which provides matching funds to help nutrition assistance recipients afford fresh produce at farmers markets and food hubs. Both programs require annual reporting on participation, distribution, and outcomes.
Introduced by Sarah Stevens
This bill restructures the North Carolina Board of Dental Examiners by changing it from an elected board to an appointed board with 11 members instead of the previous structure. It adds new consumer protections, voting restrictions, training requirements for board members, and establishes new rules for how occupational licensing boards operate, including requirements for rulemaking, complaint processes, and enforcement procedures.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Allen Chesser
This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct up to $5,000 per year in out-of-pocket prescription drug expenses from their state income taxes, starting in 2026. The deduction covers unreimbursed medication costs and pharmacy co-pays, but excludes amounts already covered by tax-advantaged accounts like Health Savings Accounts or Flexible Spending Accounts.
Introduced by Eddie Settle
This bill increases the criminal penalty for stealing from temporary housing (like tents, trailers, or mobile homes) during a declared state of emergency. Theft from temporary housing becomes a Class F felony instead of a Class H felony, while theft of other property during emergencies remains a Class H felony. The bill also allows victims to sue for triple damages plus court costs and attorney fees.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill directs North Carolina's Medicaid program to stop reimbursing facility fees charged by hospitals and health care providers, except when services are provided on a hospital's main campus, at facilities with emergency departments, or at ambulatory surgical centers. The bill defines key terms like facility fees, campus boundaries, and related facilities, and includes a sunset provision allowing the changes to expire after June 30, 2027, unless the state chooses to continue them.
Introduced by Dean Arp
This bill establishes free training academies to help people become child care lead teachers, provides $15 million for mental and behavioral health services in child care settings, allows child care centers to share administrative credentials between two staff members, funds a study on liability insurance for child care providers, and updates bidding requirements for Smart Start contracts.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill prohibits federal or state armed forces from being stationed at voting places for 17 days before through election day, except in emergencies or at the request of election officials, and it restricts state and county election boards from disclosing voters' personal information (like Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers) to the federal government without a court order.
Elections & Voting