North Carolina Senate

Graig Meyer

DemocratSenator · District 23

Running for Reelection · November 2026

Election Day: November 3, 2026 · Register to vote at ncsbe.gov

North Carolina Senate

Graig Meyer

DemocratSenator · District 23

Running for Reelection · November 2026

Election Day: November 3, 2026 · Register to vote at ncsbe.gov

Bills Sponsored

Bills Cosponsored

492

Votes Cast

96%

Party Unity Score

Cosponsored Bills (11)

S537Introduced

APRN Definitions

This bill legally defines the scope of practice for four types of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North Carolina: Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. It establishes a separate APRN license and removes certain requirements for physician oversight of APRN prescribing and medical decision-making, aligning North Carolina with 36 other states that have expanded APRN practice authority.

Senate2025-03-26

S622Introduced

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

This bill would require employers in North Carolina to provide employees with paid sick days that accrue at one hour per 30 hours worked, with annual limits of 32 hours for small businesses (10 or fewer employees) and 56 hours for larger employers. Employees could use paid sick time for their own illness, family care, medical appointments, and situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The law would take effect January 1, 2026.

Senate2025-03-26

S637Introduced

Ensure Same-Sex Domestic Violence Prot. Order

This bill modifies North Carolina's domestic violence protective order law to ensure that same-sex couples have the same access to protective orders as opposite-sex couples. Currently, the law limits dating relationship protections to opposite-sex couples; this bill removes that gender restriction so same-sex couples can obtain protective orders in dating relationships.

Senate2025-03-26

S638Introduced

Fair Maps Act

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the General Assembly and Governor from redistricting decisions and instead create an independent North Carolina Citizens Redistricting Commission to draw state legislative and congressional district maps after each census. The commission would be composed of 15 citizens selected through a process designed to ensure political balance and diversity, and would follow strict criteria prioritizing equal population, constitutional compliance, contiguous districts, and community preservation.

Senate2025-03-26

S659Introduced

Investing in North Carolina Act

This bill appropriates funds to raise salaries for teachers, state employees, community college and university workers, and provides cost-of-living increases for retirees. It also expands the WAGE$ early childhood educator supplement program to all 100 North Carolina counties and creates a tax credit for small businesses with annual receipts of $8 million or less.

Senate2025-03-26

S708Introduced

Working Families Act

This bill makes multiple changes to support working families in North Carolina. It lowers copayments for subsidized child care from 10% to 7% of family income, restores a state child tax credit, increases the minimum wage to $15/hour starting September 1, 2025 and allows cities/counties to set higher local minimum wages, expands property tax relief for homeowners, creates a down payment assistance program for first-time homebuyers in public service jobs (teachers, police, firefighters, military, medics), and establishes a paid family and medical leave insurance program funded through employer and employee payroll contributions.

Senate2025-03-26

S482Introduced

Don't Tread on Me Act

This bill creates an Individual Freedoms Act that establishes protections against state surveillance, medical privacy requirements, parental authority in education and healthcare, fact-based education standards, and prohibitions on employment/housing discrimination based on political beliefs or medical history. The bill requires that any restrictions on these rights meet a 'compelling state interest' test and use narrowly tailored means.

Senate2025-03-26

S440Introduced

2025 Governor's Budget

This is North Carolina's biennial budget bill appropriating funds for state government operations from July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2027. It allocates approximately $34 billion in general funds annually, establishes funding for education, healthcare, transportation, corrections, and social services, and includes tax policy changes such as maintaining tax rates and creating new tax credits for working families and school supplies.

Senate2025-03-25

S406Introduced

Allow ERPOs to Prevent Suicides & Save Lives

This bill creates Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), which allow courts to temporarily remove firearms from people deemed to pose an imminent danger to themselves or others. Family members, law enforcement, health care providers, and others can petition district courts for these orders, which can last up to one year and be renewed. The bill also requires courts to order seizure of firearms from people who fail to surrender them after domestic violence protective orders.

Senate2025-03-25

Voting Record (492)

492

Votes Cast

232

Yea

148

Nay

77%

Participation

Absent
S254SenatePassed
Charter School Changes
2025-07-29
Absent
S50SenatePassed
Freedom to Carry NC
2025-07-29
Absent
S227SenatePassed
Eliminating "DEI" in Public Education
2025-07-29
Absent
H549SenatePassed
Clarify Powers of State Auditor
2025-07-29
Absent
S55SenatePassed
Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons
2025-07-29
Absent
H87SenatePassed
Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)
2025-07-29
Nay
S770SenatePassed
General Assembly Appointments
2025-06-26
Yea
S706SenatePassed
County Waste Management Assistance
2025-06-26
Yea
S664SenatePassed
JMAC/ABC/Other Revisions
2025-06-26
Yea
S655SenatePassed
Extend Certain Rights to Catawba Nation
2025-06-26

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Graig Meyer

Graig Meyer

Sponsored Bills (36)

NC Economic Progress and Well Being

Parity Enhancement for Addiction Recovery

Medicaid SUD Services Rate Adjustment Act

Ride Safe, Insure Smart Act

Environmental Justice

Convert School Buses to Electric by 2050

Polluter Pays

Green Schools Save Money

In-State Tuition Equity

Modernize Domestic Violence Protection Order

Fair Competition Study Act

The Ronnie Long No Cap Act

Fair Procurement and Ownership Reform Act

North Carolina Consumer Protection Act

Student Voter ID Grant Program/CCs

Voucher School Accountability Act

NC Paid Family Leave Insurance Act

Transportation for the Future Act

Mobile Home Park Act

Right to Reproductive Freedom Act

Automatic Voter Registration

Whiz Kids/Slow Pokes Voter Registration

Amend Dangerous Dog Statutes

2025 Safe Drinking Water Act

Equality for All

Repeal the NC Drug Tax

Marijuana Justice and Reinvestment Act

Budgeting Accountability and Transparency

Baby Bond Trust Fund

H.A.L.L. Accountability Act

Revise, Study, and Fund LEP Allotment

23rd Senatorial District Local Act-1

Labor Org. Membership Dues Tax Deductible

Remove Barriers to Labor Organizing

Extended-Year Teacher Contracts

Repeal Death Penalty

Cosponsored Bills (11)

APRN Definitions

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

Ensure Same-Sex Domestic Violence Prot. Order

Fair Maps Act

Investing in North Carolina Act

Working Families Act

Don't Tread on Me Act

2025 Governor's Budget

Allow ERPOs to Prevent Suicides & Save Lives

Grant's Law/Require Lifeguards at Day Camps

Make Corporations Pay What They Owe

Voting Record (492)