North Carolina General Assembly · 2025–2026 session
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Introduced by Amy Galey
This bill increases the membership of the General Statutes Commission from 13 to 14 members by adding one representative appointed by the dean of the High Point University School of Law. The bill also adjusts the appointment schedule so that High Point University's dean appoints their representative in odd-numbered years, aligning with other law school appointments.
Local Government
Introduced by Kandie Smith
This bill allows Pitt County Schools and Edgecombe County Schools to set their own school opening and closing dates for three years (2025-2028), instead of following state requirements. Before making changes, each school board must hold public hearings to get parent and community input on the proposed calendar dates.
Education
Introduced by Carolyn Logan
This bill provides a 3% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) to retirement benefits for retirees of North Carolina's state and local government retirement systems, effective July 1, 2025. The bill appropriates $250 million from the General Fund to cover this increase.
Taxes & Budget
Introduced by Daniel Blue
This bill appropriates $2 million in state funds to the Town of Wendell for a directed grant to stabilize and rehabilitate the old Carver School building into a community center. The project will include a business incubator, technology center, gymnasium, performance space, and classrooms, developed in partnership with Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, Pleasant Grove Community Development Corporation, and Wake County.
Introduced by Dana Jones
The Wells Act directs the Legislative Library to request documentation and activity updates from all state boards, committees, and commissions. Any that don't respond within 120 days or haven't met in the past 12 months will be added to a list submitted to the Joint Legislative Administrative Procedure Oversight Committee, which will then recommend legislation to repeal these inactive entities.
Introduced by Todd Johnson
This bill requires large insurance holding company systems in North Carolina to file annual reports on their group capital calculations and participate in liquidity stress tests to ensure financial stability. The bill also prohibits public disclosure of these stress test results and capital information, with limited exceptions, and aligns North Carolina's insurance regulations with national standards set by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
Business & Labor
Introduced by Renee Price
This bill prohibits North Carolina law enforcement agencies, sheriffs' offices, and individual officers from assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with apprehending people or serving removal warrants in churches, schools, and hospitals. Officers who willfully violate this prohibition could face suspension or revocation of their law enforcement certification.
Criminal Justice & Public Safety
Introduced by Norman Sanderson
This is a local bill that applies only to North Carolina's 2nd Senatorial District. The bill text provided does not specify what changes or provisions apply to the district—it only establishes that the act relates to that district and becomes effective upon passage.
Introduced by Patricia Cotham
This bill protects patient access to assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in vitro fertilization (IVF), by prohibiting the state and its subdivisions from blocking, unreasonably limiting, or interfering with these procedures. It also protects health care providers' rights to provide ART services and information about them, while preserving the state's ability to enforce health and safety regulations.
Healthcare
Introduced by Harry Warren
This bill requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to include specific information in advertisements for prescription drugs and biological products shown to North Carolina consumers. The required disclosures include the FDA approval date, the date the drug became available for purchase, and detailed information about clinical trials related to any required side effect warnings, such as trial length, number of participants, and frequency of side effects.
Introduced by Mary Harrison
This bill requires state environmental agencies to consider the cumulative impact of proposed permits on low-income and minority communities when making permitting decisions across mining, solid waste, hazardous waste, air quality, water quality, and coastal development projects. It also mandates enhanced public participation, including at least one public hearing held in affected overburdened communities with 60 days' advance notice for new or expanded facilities.
Environment & Energy
This bill clarifies how creditors can collect attorneys' fees from debtors when a debt goes unpaid and requires legal action to collect it. It sets a maximum attorneys' fee of 15% of the amount owed and requires creditors to notify debtors before enforcing fee provisions, giving them 14 days to pay without fees. It also establishes specific documentation requirements when debt buyers or assignees attempt to collect fees.
This is a local bill that applies only to North Carolina's 14th Senatorial District. The bill text does not specify what changes it makes to the district, only that it relates to that district and takes effect upon becoming law.
Introduced by Bryan Cohn
This bill restores the authority of local governments in Granville and Vance Counties to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed development density or permitted uses on property) without needing written consent from all affected property owners. The change applies retroactively to December 11, 2024, and reverses a recent state law restriction on down-zoning authority.
Introduced by Julie Mayfield
This bill restores Buncombe County's ability to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed development density or permitted uses on properties) without obtaining written consent from all affected property owners. It reverses a restriction that was added in December 2024, allowing the local government to enact down-zoning on its own authority while still requiring owner consent for down-zoning initiated by others.
Introduced by Jim Burgin
This bill expands sales tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations by allowing certain 501(c)(3) nonprofits to purchase goods and services without paying sales tax, and exempts admission charges for nonprofit fundraising events from entertainment tax. The bill sets annual caps on the total tax exemptions ($31.7 million statewide and $13.3 million for local taxes) and establishes an application process for nonprofits to obtain exemption certificates.
Introduced by Benton Sawrey
This bill prohibits tolls on Interstate 95 in North Carolina for ten years (until July 1, 2035). After that date, any tolling of I-95 would require explicit approval from the North Carolina General Assembly rather than being allowed through current state transportation authority.
Transportation & Infrastructure
Introduced by Bobby Hanig
This bill amends North Carolina's workers' compensation law to clarify that damage to eyeglasses and hearing aids can be covered if the damage occurs as a side effect of a compensable work injury. Previously, the law required damage to these devices to be directly caused by a work accident; this change allows coverage when the damage is 'incidental to' rather than the direct result of a workplace injury.
Introduced by Timothy Moffitt
This bill establishes the legal framework for the Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I, which addresses recovery efforts in North Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Helene following a presidential major disaster declaration. The bill expresses the General Assembly's intent to transfer funds from the State Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund (SERDRF) to the Hurricane Helene Disaster Recovery Fund to support relief and recovery assistance.
Introduced by Rodney Pierce
This bill authorizes North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue a special registration plate for Sigma Gamma Rho sorority members. The plate would display the sorority's symbol, name, and the phrase 'Greater Service, Greater Progress.'
Other / General Government
Introduced by Reece Pyrtle
This bill increases the punishment for assaulting first responders with a firearm from a Class D felony to a Class B1 felony. It expands the definition of protected first responders to include emergency medical technicians, emergency health care providers, medical responders, firefighters, and telecommunicators, in addition to law enforcement, probation, parole officers, National Guard members, and detention facility employees.
Introduced by Wyatt Gable
This bill reduces North Carolina's early voting period by starting it on the second Monday before an election instead of the third Thursday before the election. This shortens the early voting window by approximately one week while maintaining voting on the last Saturday before Election Day.
Elections & Voting
Introduced by Mark Brody
This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require the North Carolina Governor to get approval from a majority of both houses of the General Assembly before granting clemency (pardons, commutations, or reprieves). Currently, the Governor can grant clemency without legislative approval. The amendment would be submitted to voters in November 2026.
Introduced by Brian Biggs
This bill increases North Carolina's Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental services from 35% to 46% of average 2023 dentist charges, starting July 1, 2025. The state would spend $52 million annually (matched with $95 million in federal funds) over the 2025-2027 fiscal period to fund these rate increases.