North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 2041–2064 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by James Roberson
This bill establishes a one-year pilot grant program through the Department of Public Instruction to help public schools start or expand Science Olympiad teams. The program allocates $127,500 in grants that schools can use for registration fees, materials, travel, and teacher stipends, with priority given to schools that did not have a Science Olympiad team in the previous year.
Education
Introduced by Donny Lambeth
This bill creates a study commission to examine whether North Carolina's five largest school districts experience negative outcomes because of their size and to recommend solutions. The nine-member commission, composed of legislators, school board members, and Department of Public Instruction representatives, will report its findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by 2026.
Introduced by Brenden Jones
This bill renames the Indian Gaming Education Revenue Fund and appropriates additional money from it to support North Carolina's state-recognized Indian tribes and urban Indian organizations. The new appropriations total approximately $7.75 million over the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium for tribal operating expenses, cultural and economic development programs, and specific grants for tribal schools and services.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Ray Jeffers
This bill restores the ability of local governments in Durham County, Person County, and the cities of Durham and Roxboro to initiate down-zoning (reducing the allowable density or uses of land) without requiring written consent from property owners. It reverses a recent state law that required all property owners to approve down-zoning amendments and applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.
Local Government
Introduced by Mary Belk
This bill allows Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to align their school calendar with the calendar of local community colleges that serve the same area. Currently, state law requires school opening and closing dates to fall within specific windows around August 26 and June 11, but this bill creates an exception for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to match their schedule with community college calendars.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill allows tribal enrollment cards issued by state or federally recognized Indian tribes to be used as valid identification for purchasing alcohol and tobacco in North Carolina. The bill adds tribal enrollment cards to the list of acceptable forms of ID that sellers can accept to verify a customer's age, alongside driver's licenses, military IDs, and passports.
Other / General Government
This bill appropriates $217 million for disaster recovery from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, establishes detailed monthly reporting requirements to the legislature and State Auditor on how these funds are spent, creates a public dashboard comparing appropriated versus expended funds, and requires that recipients of state disaster aid attempt to obtain insurance settlements and federal aid first, with any alternative funds obtained being returned to the state.
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill appropriates $30 million in state funds to Durham County for upgrading wastewater infrastructure in the Research Triangle Park area to support economic development. The money comes from the state's General Fund and is designated as a one-time grant for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
Introduced by Jonathan Almond
This bill modifies how North Carolina distributes state funding for educating children with disabilities. It changes the funding formula to include students who receive education scholarship grants (such as education savings accounts) when calculating how much money each school district receives, and appropriates an additional $25 million in state funding for this purpose starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill allows small employers with fewer than 5 employees (instead of the current 12) to purchase stop loss, catastrophic, and reinsurance coverage. These insurance products help protect small businesses from extremely high medical claims costs. The bill maintains existing safeguards around attachment points and claim thresholds to prevent the coverage from being used as primary health insurance.
Healthcare
Introduced by Gale Adcock
This bill restores the authority of local governments in Chatham, Durham, and Wake Counties to initiate down-zoning (reducing the density or permitted uses of land) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The change applies retroactively to December 11, 2024, and reverses a restriction imposed by a 2024 law.
Introduced by Joyce Waddell
This bill allows Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to align their school calendar with the calendar of local community colleges, providing flexibility beyond the standard state requirements that typically require schools to start no earlier than late August and end no later than mid-June. The change applies only to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools starting in the 2025-2026 school year.
Introduced by DeAndrea Salvador
This bill allows contracted law enforcement officers to enforce North Carolina motor vehicle laws on private streets, roadways, and alleys within the Park South Station community in Charlotte. State traffic laws would apply to these private roads as if they were public highways, with speed limits set by Charlotte City Council.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Jennifer Balkcom
This bill restores Henderson County's authority to initiate down-zoning (reducing permitted land uses or development density) without property owner consent, but only for two specific purposes: farmland preservation in agricultural districts and floodplain mitigation in federally designated flood hazard areas. The bill applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.
This bill removes the requirement that teacher candidates pass a standardized exam to obtain a teacher license in North Carolina. It repeals existing testing requirements and prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting any new rules that would reinstate such exam requirements for teacher licensure.
This bill amends the charter of the Town of Pineville to allow the town to establish a reserve police division and authorize compensation for reserve officers when they are called to perform active duty. Currently, state law allows towns to have auxiliary police but does not explicitly authorize paying reserve officers for their service time.
Introduced by Shelly Willingham
This bill modifies how North Carolina allocates low-income housing tax credits by requiring the state to prioritize affordable housing development in rural communities and counties with higher poverty levels. It establishes specific scoring criteria, such as measuring distance to amenities by radius rather than driving distance and favoring high-poverty areas when projects have equal scores.
Housing
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill revises and consolidates the Town of Pinetops' charter by updating its governing structure, powers, and procedures into a single, modern document. The town will continue operating under a mayor-council form of government with a five-member board elected at-large on staggered four-year terms, and repeals an outdated 1921 charter.
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill gives Granville County Schools and Vance County Schools additional flexibility to set their school opening and closing dates without needing State Board of Education approval. Currently, these districts must follow state rules requiring schools to open no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and close no later than the Friday closest to June 11, but this bill removes those restrictions for these two counties specifically.
This bill appropriates $150 million in state funds to the North Carolina Housing Trust Fund for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to help residents in counties affected by Hurricane Helene rebuild and repair their homes. The money will be distributed according to existing state housing trust fund rules in federally-declared disaster areas.
Introduced by Brad Overcash
This bill exempts student disciplinary records containing personally identifiable information from North Carolina's public records law at public universities and community colleges. The records would remain confidential even if federal law (FERPA) would otherwise permit their release.
This bill appropriates $15.8 million in state funds for three specific projects in Person County: $10 million for wastewater treatment plant repairs in Roxboro, $800,000 for a splash pad in Person County parks, and $5 million for equipment and upgrades at Piedmont Community College's health and trades center. The funds come from the state General Fund and are designated as one-time, nonrecurring appropriations.
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill appropriates $13,215 in state funds to the Town of Milton during the 2025-2026 fiscal year to repair the town's wastewater pump station. The funds are designated as a one-time grant and become effective July 1, 2025.
Introduced by Zack Forde-Hawkins
This bill repeals North Carolina's current ban on collective bargaining for public employees and allows them to organize and negotiate working conditions with government employers, similar to private sector workers. Public employees would gain the right to collectively bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions through unions or employee organizations.
Business & Labor