North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 2017–2040 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by David Craven
This bill establishes the NCSTARS Grant Program, which provides up to $500,000 per year to three community colleges that partner with public schools and local employers to create work-based learning programs in apprenticeships and preapprenticeships for students 16 and older. The program runs from 2026-2029 with $4.75 million in state funding and requires participants to secure local matching funds.
Education
Introduced by Stephen Ross
This bill adds one new member to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, bringing the total from 35 to 36 members. The new member would be a full-time sworn law-enforcement officer selected by the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill appropriates $55,000 in one-time state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Citizens Advocating for Racial Equity and Equality (CAREE), a nonprofit organization, to support transitional housing programs in Pitt County. The funds come from the state's General Fund and become effective July 1, 2025.
Housing
Introduced by Lisa Grafstein
This bill aims to increase wages for Direct Support Professionals (DSPs) who work with Medicaid beneficiaries under North Carolina's Innovations waiver by $5 per hour in each of two fiscal years (2025-2026 and 2026-2027). Providers must use at least 90% of the rate increase to raise DSP wages, and the state will appropriate over $115 million in state funds and $210 million in federal funds for the first year to cover these costs.
Social Services & Welfare
Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill requires public schools in North Carolina to accept cash as payment for admission to high school and middle school sporting events. Schools may deposit the cash the next business day and must have procedures for handling it safely before deposit.
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill creates a new Class F felony charge in North Carolina for participating in or inciting a riot that includes an attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, the State of North Carolina, or any local government. The law applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2025.
Introduced by Graig Meyer
This bill repeals a section of previous redistricting law (S.L. 2023-134) that currently exempts certain redistricting documents from public disclosure. By repealing this exemption, the bill would make redistricting documents public records that citizens can access and review.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill removes restrictions on labor organizing and collective bargaining, prohibits non-compete agreements for employees earning under $75,000 annually and no-poach agreements between employers, and directs a study to identify and reform unnecessary occupational licensing requirements. The bill aims to increase worker mobility and job market competition while maintaining public safety protections.
Business & Labor
Introduced by William Rabon
This Senate resolution confirms Joey R. Hopkins as Secretary of the Department of Transportation for North Carolina. The resolution was adopted on March 5, 2025, and becomes effective immediately upon passage.
Local Government
Introduced by Blair Eddins
This bill authorizes the creation of the Brushy Mountains State Natural Area across Alexander, Caldwell, and Wilkes Counties and appropriates $500,000 in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to purchase land and develop the site. The natural area would be added to North Carolina's State Parks System and could also receive donated land and funding from federal and other sources.
Environment & Energy
This bill allows North Carolinians to have eviction case records automatically removed from court files in certain situations, such as when cases are dismissed before judgment or when defendants win on the merits. For cases where landlords won, tenants can request removal after three years if they've maintained stable housing with consistent rent payments.
Introduced by Donna White
This bill gives Johnston County Schools additional flexibility in setting their school calendar by allowing them to start school as early as the Monday closest to August 10 (instead of the standard August 26) and permits assessments to be given before the fall semester ends if the calendar concludes before December 31.
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill appropriates $5 million in nonrecurring state funding to Crossnore Communities for Children, a nonprofit organization, to provide foster care services across North Carolina during fiscal year 2025-2026. The funds will support programs including trauma resilience training, family reunification, youth independent living services, and foster care support delivered from locations in Winston-Salem, Crossnore, and Hendersonville.
Introduced by Robert Reives
This bill appropriates $30,000 in one-time funding to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services, to support the operations of the North Carolina Senior Tar Heel Legislature for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The Senior Tar Heel Legislature is an existing program established under state law that allows older adults to participate in legislative activities.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Marcia Morey
This bill exempts military and overseas voters from North Carolina's photo identification requirement when voting by mail. Instead of providing a photocopy of an ID or an affidavit, covered voters (military members and citizens living abroad) would only need to submit their ballot without these additional documents.
Introduced by Mary Belk
This bill modifies North Carolina's Strategic Transportation Investments (STI) funding rules to allow state funds to be used for independent bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects. Currently, state STI funds cannot support these types of projects except in limited circumstances; this bill removes that restriction.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Celeste Cairns
This bill restores the authority of six specific North Carolina coastal municipalities (Morehead City, Beaufort, Bogue, Cape Carteret, Cedar Point, and Newport) to initiate down-zoning—reducing development density or permitted uses on property—without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill retroactively applies to changes made after December 11, 2024.
Introduced by Bob Brinson
This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax exemption for disabled veterans by changing how much of their home's value is excluded from taxation. Instead of a fixed $45,000 exclusion, disabled veterans would exclude a percentage of their home's appraised value equal to their disability rating (as determined by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs). For example, a veteran with a 50% disability rating would exclude 50% of their home's appraised value from property taxes.
Introduced by Garland Pierce
This bill appropriates a total of $170.4 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support various infrastructure and capital projects in Scotland County, Hoke County, the City of Laurinburg, the towns of Gibson and Wagram, and St. Andrews University. The funds are designated for specific purposes including courthouse and jail construction, water and sewer improvements, public safety facilities, workforce training, and hurricane damage repairs.
Introduced by John Blust
This bill requires North Carolina to transition to zero-based budgeting for state agencies, starting with a phased implementation beginning in fiscal year 2027-2028 and completing by the 2031-2033 fiscal biennium. Under zero-based budgeting, agencies must justify all spending from scratch each budget cycle rather than starting from their previous year's budget amount.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill prevents government contracts involving North Carolina state agencies, counties, municipalities, and other public bodies from including choice of law and forum selection clauses. The bill modifies the legal definition of 'government contract' to explicitly exclude such contracts from provisions that allow parties to choose which state's laws apply or which court handles disputes.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill exempts members of state-recognized and federally-recognized Indian tribes from North Carolina hunting, trapping, and fishing license requirements. Members may hunt and fish on tribal land without licenses, and state residents who are tribal members may also hunt and fish off tribal land without licenses, though they must still comply with other hunting and fishing regulations, reporting requirements, and hunter education courses.
This bill expands how the City of Raeford can use $3 million in state funds previously allocated for sewer line extensions to the Cameron Heights community. The money can now be used for any water or wastewater project, giving the city more flexibility in how it spends these infrastructure funds.
This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation to name an overpass on Interstate 74 in Laurinburg, Scotland County after Chief of Police Robert Lee Malloy. The overpass crosses South Main Street and will be officially designated in his honor.