North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
Showing 2065–2088 of 2,338 bills
Introduced by Natalie Murdock
This bill appropriates $500,000 in state funds to Durham County to repair and improve orphan roads—roads in unincorporated areas that are not currently maintained by the state or local government. The goal is to bring these roads up to standards so the North Carolina Department of Transportation can take over their maintenance.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Terence Everitt
This bill restores the ability of local governments in Granville and Wake Counties to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed development density or permitted uses) without needing written consent from all affected property owners. It reverses a restriction imposed by a 2024 state law and applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.
Local Government
Introduced by Woodson Bradley
This is a local bill that applies only to the 42nd Senatorial District in North Carolina. The bill text provided does not specify what changes are being made to the district, only that the act relates to it and becomes effective upon passage.
Introduced by Paul Lowe
This bill updates Winston-Salem and Forsyth County's planning and zoning laws to modernize terminology and procedures. It clarifies the joint City-County Planning Board's role in zoning decisions, allows the city to offer density bonuses and financial incentives to developers who build affordable housing, and updates references from 'Board of Aldermen' to 'City Council' throughout the enabling statutes.
Housing
Introduced by James Roberson
This bill appropriates $10,112 to North Carolina State University to run a pilot program in Wake County designed to increase participation in pickleball among people of color. The program will include focus groups, marketing materials, four-week instruction sessions at two Raleigh recreation centers in fall 2025 and spring 2026, and will create a toolkit for other communities to replicate the program.
Education
This bill expands privacy protections for minors' identifying information in local government programs and programs funded by the North Carolina Partnership for Children. It removes the requirement that these privacy rules apply only to certain localities and makes them apply statewide to any county, municipality, or local government program instead.
Technology & Privacy
This bill exempts owner-occupied, single-family dwellings with home-based businesses from North Carolina's live/work building code requirements, allowing them to be classified and regulated as standard residential homes instead. The exemption applies only if the owner lives in the home, operates the business directly (not leasing to others), and complies with local zoning laws.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill prohibits business entities (including corporations, LLCs, and partnerships) from purchasing single-family homes for rental purposes in North Carolina counties with populations over 150,000 if that entity and its affiliates already own 100 or more single-family rental homes. The Attorney General, county commissioners, and affected individuals can enforce the law through civil actions with penalties up to $100 per day per home, plus potential damages and attorney fees.
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill removes the 10% satellite annexation cap for the Town of Sharpsburg, allowing it to annex noncontiguous areas of land without the size limitation that currently applies to most North Carolina municipalities. The bill adds Sharpsburg to a list of cities and towns already exempted from this annexation restriction.
This bill restores North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit, which expired in 2014. The credit would allow eligible workers who claim the federal Earned Income Tax Credit to receive a state tax credit equal to 5% of their federal credit amount, and any credit exceeding their state tax liability would be refunded to them.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Terry Brown
This bill appropriates $1.25 million in state funding for three projects in Steele Creek, a rapidly growing community in southwest Mecklenburg County. The funds support community wellness programs ($250,000), fire and rescue equipment and facilities ($500,000), and a traffic study on Shopton Road West ($500,000).
Introduced by Sophia Chitlik
This bill allows Durham County Schools to start the school year as early as the Monday closest to August 10, instead of the current requirement of no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26. It also permits Durham schools that end their fall semester before December 31 to give assessments and final exams before the semester ends, rather than waiting until the final days of the school year.
This bill appropriates $3.5 million in state funding to Forsyth County for renovating the Smith Reynolds Airport's maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) hangar. The funds will be used for structural repairs, modernization, HVAC upgrades, and infrastructure improvements, with quarterly reporting required to legislative committees.
Introduced by Ray Jeffers
This bill allows the City of Durham and Durham County to send public hearing notices through electronic means, such as websites, instead of only using traditional methods. The bill specifies that electronic notices cannot replace required mailed notices to specific groups or property sign postings, and publication schedules remain unchanged.
Introduced by Gladys Robinson
This is a local bill that applies only to the 28th Senatorial District in North Carolina. The bill itself contains no specific provisions—it only establishes that any measures contained would apply exclusively to that district and become effective upon passage.
Introduced by Mike Clampitt
This bill strengthens protections for Charlotte firefighters' retirement system participants and beneficiaries by requiring the system to obtain data breach and cyber liability insurance, establish procedures for reporting and investigating cybersecurity incidents, provide resources to victims of breaches, and compensate participants harmed by data breaches occurring after the bill becomes law.
Introduced by Mark Hollo
This bill appropriates $22 million in state funding to the City of Conover for water and wastewater system improvements during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds become available starting July 1, 2025.
This bill modifies Durham's city charter to extend the deadline for the City Council to fill vacancies in the Mayor or Council member positions from 60 days to 120 days. If the Council fails to appoint someone within 120 days, a special election must be held instead. The bill applies only to the City of Durham.
Introduced by Mike Schietzelt
This bill restores the authority of the towns of Wake Forest and Rolesville to initiate down-zoning (reducing development density or permitted uses on property) without obtaining written consent from all affected property owners. The change applies retroactively to December 11, 2024, and reverses a restriction that was imposed by state legislation in 2024.
Introduced by Carl Ford
This bill changes how retired registers of deeds in North Carolina receive supplemental pension payments. Starting October 1, 2025, instead of calculating benefits based on a share of available fund assets, all eligible retired registers of deeds will receive a fixed flat rate of $1,500 per month.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill increases the fee that inspection stations charge for vehicle safety inspections in North Carolina. The safety-only inspection fee increases from $12.75 to $29.15, and the combined emissions and safety inspection fee increases from $23.75 to $40.15, effective October 1, 2025.
Introduced by Paul Newton
This bill appropriates $2.5 million in recurring state funds to the nonprofit organization Voices Together to provide educational programming for middle school students with intellectual and developmental disabilities or those experiencing educational delays. The funding is intended to prepare these students for Pre-Employment Transition Services, expanding Voices Together's existing high school programming to the middle school level.
Introduced by John Torbett
This bill creates a new felony crime called 'habitual domestic violence' for people with two or more prior domestic violence convictions within 15 years, with penalties starting at Class H felony and increasing for repeat offenses. It also allows police officers to make warrantless arrests when they have probable cause to believe a misdemeanor domestic violence offense has occurred.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill establishes that the Anson County Board of Commissioners will have seven members, each elected from their own single-member district. Candidates must live in the district they represent, but all county voters can vote for each position. The bill uses election districts from 2020 and 2022 as the boundaries and becomes effective in December 2026.
Elections & Voting