North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 1945–1968 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Wyatt Gable
This bill appropriates $2,000,000 in state funding to the City of Jacksonville for water and wastewater infrastructure projects during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds are nonrecurring, meaning they are a one-time allocation rather than ongoing annual funding.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Jerry Branson
This bill requires North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to provide driver license handbooks and written tests in Khmer and in any language spoken as a primary language by at least 2% of the state's population. The change takes effect January 1, 2026.
Introduced by Ralph Hise
This bill rescinds all previous applications that North Carolina's General Assembly has made to Congress calling for a constitutional convention under Article V of the U.S. Constitution. Article V allows states to petition Congress for a convention to propose amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and this bill cancels any such requests North Carolina previously made before December 1, 2024.
Other / General Government
This is a budget bill that authorizes spending from North Carolina's General Fund, Highway Fund, Highway Trust Fund, and federal block grants for state agencies and departments during the 2025-2027 fiscal years. The bill provides the legal framework for appropriating funds to maintain and operate state services, with any unused funds returning to their respective funds at year's end.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Michael Lee
This bill authorizes state budget spending for the 2025-2027 fiscal years across North Carolina state agencies, departments, and institutions. It appropriates funds from the General Fund, Highway Fund, Highway Trust Fund, and federal block grants for current operations and specified purposes.
Introduced by Kevin Corbin
This bill increases pay for school psychologists, creates grant and internship programs to recruit and train more of them, funds university training programs, and establishes an interstate compact allowing school psychologists licensed in one state to practice in other member states more easily.
Education
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $10 million in state highway funds to the Pitt-Greenville Airport for constructing a new general aviation terminal designed to address flood mitigation concerns. The funds would be made available starting July 1, 2025.
This bill appropriates $5 million in state funds to the City of Greenville to replace an aging bulkhead in Town Common park. The replacement is intended to address flooding problems, structural deterioration, and improve the area's resilience to future flood events.
Introduced by Nasif Majeed
This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans by changing the exclusion amount based on the veteran's disability rating percentage, ranging from $25,000 for veterans with 10-29% disability ratings to $100,000 for those with 70% or greater ratings. The bill also extends similar protections to surviving spouses of disabled veterans whose death resulted from a service-connected condition.
Introduced by Marcia Morey
The Economic Security Act would increase North Carolina's minimum wage to $22 per hour (adjusted annually for inflation), require paid sick leave and family medical leave, strengthen wage protections, expand unemployment insurance benefits, and provide cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees. It also includes provisions on equal pay for equal work, workplace safety, criminal history screening in hiring, and tax credits for working families.
Business & Labor
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill creates a new category of funeral service agreements called 'transportation protection agreements' and excludes them from existing preneed funeral contract regulations and life insurance requirements. Transportation protection agreements are defined as agreements that arrange professional services for preparing and transporting human remains or cremated remains.
Introduced by Timothy Reeder
This bill expands North Carolina's Medicaid Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP) to include freestanding psychiatric hospitals alongside existing acute care hospitals. It funds increased reimbursements to these psychiatric hospitals through new hospital assessments levied on all freestanding psychiatric hospitals in the state.
Healthcare
Introduced by Aisha Dew
This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage from $6.15 per hour to $10.00 in 2026, increasing by $2.00 per year until reaching $18.00 in 2030, then automatically adjusting annually based on inflation. It also requires employers who fail to pay minimum wages to cover employees' attorneys' fees and court costs in legal cases.
Introduced by Phil Rubin
This bill requires North Carolina firearm owners to report a lost or stolen gun to local law enforcement or the State Bureau of Investigation within 24 hours of discovering the loss or theft. The report must include details like the firearm's serial number and circumstances of the loss/theft, which law enforcement must then enter into the National Crime Information Center database. Violations are Class 3 misdemeanors, with second or subsequent violations classified as Class I felonies.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill creates a beverage container deposit and refund program in North Carolina. Consumers pay a 10-cent deposit when purchasing drinks in bottles or cans, which they can reclaim by returning empty containers to retailers or redemption centers. The bill sets recycling and redemption targets and creates a fund from unredeemed deposits to support litter reduction and recycling programs.
Environment & Energy
Introduced by Tracy Clark
This bill appropriates $8.3 million in nonrecurring state funds to Guilford County Schools for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds are designated for two programs: $5 million for high dosage tutoring (hiring tutors, expanding subjects, and increasing tutoring sessions) and $3.3 million for learning hubs that provide flexible, individualized programs for at-risk students to help them graduate.
Introduced by Carla Cunningham
This bill appropriates $380,000 for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $397,000 for fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Department of Health and Human Services to create four new full-time ombudsman positions. These ombudsmen will advocate for residents in nursing homes, adult care homes, and family care homes, with the goal of bringing North Carolina's long-term care ombudsman program into alignment with national standards.
Introduced by Charles Miller
This bill expands the investigatory powers of North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation and State Fire Marshal by clarifying their authority to supervise fire investigations in certain cases (deaths, serious injuries, arson, and government/educational/religious buildings) and requiring insurance companies to share fire loss investigation information with state officials. The bill also grants investigators broader access to buildings, witness testimony powers, and protections for insurance companies that cooperate.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill would recognize the Dan and Haw River ecosystems as having legal rights to exist, flourish, and remain unpolluted, and would recognize North Carolina residents' right to healthy river ecosystems. It requires state agencies to assess these rivers by mid-2026, remedy violations by mid-2027, and complete full restoration by 2030, with enforcement mechanisms allowing the Attorney General, residents, and the ecosystems themselves to bring lawsuits for violations.
Introduced by John Bell
This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct overtime compensation, tips, and up to $2,500 in annual bonus pay from their state income tax. The deductions apply to income that would normally be taxed, effectively reducing the amount of state income tax owed by workers who receive these forms of compensation.
Introduced by Kyle Hall
This bill establishes a Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program administered by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to help employers support employees in recovery from substance use disorders. Employers can voluntarily participate at two levels—as a participant or as a certified workplace—by completing orientation, adopting recovery-supportive policies, and maintaining annual reviews. The bill appropriates $300,000 from the Opioid Settlement Fund for fiscal year 2025-2026 to implement the program.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill requires North Carolina's State Board of Education to develop or purchase a screening assessment for gifted students and administer it to all sixth-graders in middle schools. The state would allocate $7 million in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement this universal screening program.
Introduced by Beth Helfrich
This bill restores the authority of three North Carolina towns—Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville—to initiate down-zoning (reducing property density or permitted uses) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill reverses a restriction that was imposed in December 2024 and applies retroactively to that date.
Local Government
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill authorizes the Town of Tabor City to participate in state and federal railroad revitalization programs and allows the town to use local property tax funds (up to 10% of project costs) as matching funds to support these rail service improvements.