North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1897–1920 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill prevents North Carolina cities from banning short-term rentals or imposing certain restrictions on them, while allowing cities to regulate short-term rentals through permitting, occupancy limits, parking requirements, and zoning compliance. The bill aims to protect property owners' rights to rent their homes while maintaining some local oversight through health and safety standards.
Local Government
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill appropriates $2.178 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $4.542 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to fund 50 additional Adult Protective Services (APS) workers at county departments of social services across North Carolina. The new workers would investigate reports of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with funds distributed to counties based on their caseload and elderly population.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill allows North Carolina lottery winners to keep their identity confidential if they request it, with certain exceptions for tax authorities, law enforcement, and court orders. The confidentiality protection applies to winners of $50 million or more for 90 days after claiming the prize, and indefinitely for winners with protective orders or those in the Address Confidentiality Program.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Amber Baker
This bill appropriates $250,000 in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to The Arts Council, Inc. to support the 1Love Festival, a three-day cultural event in Winston-Salem featuring music, arts, and entertainment designed to celebrate diversity and foster unity.
Introduced by Kanika Brown
This bill appropriates $250,000 in one-time state funding to the United Way of Forsyth County to support summer learning programs for students in the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The United Way will distribute these funds through community agencies to provide summer learning opportunities, including programs for students who do not qualify for school district summer programs.
Education
Introduced by Steve Jarvis
The NC REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act) increases legislative oversight of state agency regulations by requiring public objections from 10 or more people to delay a rule's effective date pending potential legislative disapproval, and mandating that rules with an estimated cost of $1 million or more over 12 months must be approved by the General Assembly before taking effect.
Other / General Government
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill establishes a Nursing Fellows Program at Winston-Salem State University that provides forgivable loans to nursing students pursuing Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degrees in nursing education. The bill appropriates $1.4 million for the program and an additional $100,000 for curriculum support services at WSSU.
Introduced by Gloristine Brown
This bill directs a study of affordable housing in North Carolina, makes it illegal to discriminate in housing based on source of income (like government vouchers), provides $45 million to the Housing Trust Fund, prevents credit agencies from reporting unsuccessful eviction lawsuits, and creates an optional program allowing landlords of subsidized housing to report tenants' rent payments to credit agencies to help build credit.
Housing
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill expands death benefits for firefighters who die from cancer by including any cancer that qualified them for the state's Firefighters' Cancer Insurance Program in the definition of deaths 'killed in the line of duty.' It also makes the cancer insurance program permanent and allocates $2 million annually for related death benefits.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill directs North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to develop a statewide plan for reimbursing clubhouse model programs that serve adults with severe mental illness through Medicaid, and appropriates $2.5 million annually for two years to the North Carolina Clubhouse Coalition to fund and expand these programs.
Healthcare
This bill updates North Carolina's Professional Employer Organization (PEO) law by clarifying financial definitions, adjusting financial requirements for PEO licensing, allowing more flexibility in financial documentation, and modifying reporting requirements. It implements recommendations from the Department of Insurance to streamline the regulatory process.
Business & Labor
Introduced by William Rabon
This is a Senate resolution confirming Pamela Brewington Cashwell as Secretary of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. The confirmation was adopted by the North Carolina Senate on March 13, 2025, and requires no further action to take effect.
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to develop cardiac emergency response plans and install at least one automatic external defibrillator (AED) in each school. Schools must train staff in CPR and AED use, conduct annual practice drills, and coordinate with local emergency services. The state provides $2 million in funding to help schools purchase AEDs and develop these plans.
This bill requires North Carolina day camps to have certified lifeguards present when children participate in aquatic activities like swimming or water park visits. The bill sets specific requirements including lifeguard-to-child ratios, lifeguard chair heights, mandatory swim tests, and life jackets for non-swimmers, while prohibiting certain water activities like hot tubs and portable pools.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill amends North Carolina's Business Corporations Act to modernize corporate governance rules. It allows corporations to limit director and officer liability through their articles of incorporation, clarifies emergency procedures for board meetings and shareholder meetings during catastrophic events, establishes forum selection rules for internal corporate disputes, prohibits bearer-form share certificates and scrip, refines derivative lawsuit procedures, clarifies board committee authority, and updates merger rules for parent entities and subsidiaries.
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill changes the definition of a boarding kennel in North Carolina law so that only facilities caring for six or more dogs and/or cats require a state permit. Currently, smaller operations that board fewer than six animals would no longer need permitting or comply with state boarding kennel regulations.
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill makes retirement income from North Carolina state government, local government, and federal government retirement plans exempt from North Carolina state income tax. The exemption applies to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
Introduced by Eddie Settle
This bill revises North Carolina's Insurance Guaranty Association Act, which protects policyholders when insurance companies become insolvent. The changes add cybersecurity insurance coverage protections, expand the definition of covered claims to include transferred policies, set a $500,000 cap on cybersecurity claims per insured event, and clarify the Association's authority to contest settlements and defend claims.
This bill appropriates $750,000 in recurring state funding to the NC Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) program at UNC Chapel Hill to help recruit, train, and retain medical students and doctors in rural North Carolina. The funds will support convening health centers to share best practices and creating a publicly accessible database of that information.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill increases the vehicle registration fee for private passenger vehicles by $6.25 per year, effective July 1, 2025. The revenue from this fee increase would be transferred to the Department of Public Safety to fund salary increases for State Highway Patrol officers, with the bill also appropriating $40.4 million annually from the General Fund for SHP pay raises based on experience and rank.
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill creates new state laws regulating artificial intelligence and synthetic media in North Carolina. It requires clear labeling of AI-generated or manipulated content in political ads, prohibits deceptive deepfakes of candidates, bans AI-generated child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate images, requires disclosure when regulated professionals use AI, and establishes criminal penalties and civil remedies for violations.
Technology & Privacy
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill creates the Baby Bond Program Trust Fund, which provides $2,000 initial deposits into individual savings accounts for infants born in North Carolina to parents earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level. Account holders can access funds at age 18 for education, home purchases, qualified business expenses, or long-term financial investments, with the program administered by a Board of Trustees and funded with $10 million in state appropriations.
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill adds a 'conscientious objection' exemption to North Carolina's vaccination requirements for students in public schools, colleges, and universities. The exemption allows students or parents to opt out of immunizations by submitting a written statement explaining their conscience-based or religious objections, without needing medical documentation. The bill takes effect for the 2026-2027 school year.
This bill directs North Carolina's insurance underwriting associations to study two potential options for improving how the state handles property insurance claims from natural disasters: allowing excess property coverage policies and issuing post-event catastrophe bonds. The associations must report their findings and recommendations to the legislature by March 1, 2026.