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Strengthen Medicaid Provider Controls

This bill strengthens oversight of Medicaid providers in North Carolina by establishing a Provider Enrollment Credentialing Committee to review provider applications and eligibility, expanding grounds for denying or terminating provider enrollment based on criminal convictions and licensing actions, and requiring providers to report criminal convictions of their employees. The bill also makes changes to prepaid health plan networks and Medicaid eligibility.

House2026-06-25

H258Passed

Worker Safety Act of 2026

This bill clarifies the process for filing complaints about workplace retaliation under North Carolina's worker protection laws. It specifies what information complaints must contain, allows employers to submit response statements within seven days, requires extra materials submitted with complaints to be destroyed and kept confidential, and establishes how time periods are calculated in these cases.

House2026-06-22

H1068Introduced

King Sat. Annex./Rural Hall Fire Dist

This bill removes the satellite annexation cap for the City of King, allowing it to annex noncontiguous areas without the 10% size limit that normally applies to other cities. It also removes the Town of Rural Hall from the Forsyth County Countywide Fire Service District, ending Rural Hall's obligation to pay fire service taxes to the county effective July 1, 2026.

House2026-06-02

H1030Introduced

US Department of Edu

This joint resolution urges the U.S. Congress to eliminate the U.S. Department of Education and return education authority to individual states. The resolution argues that education is not a federal responsibility under the Constitution and that states are better positioned to manage education policy for their communities.

House2026-06-02

H443Engrossed

Const. Amendment: Council of State Vacancies

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would change how the Governor fills vacancies in eight statewide elected offices (Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General, and three Commissioners). Under the new process, when a vacancy occurs close to an election, the Governor must choose from a list of three candidates nominated by the political party of the officer who left office. The amendment would be decided by voters in November 2026.

House2026-05-20

H1167Introduced

2026 Governor's Budget

This is North Carolina's 2026 state budget bill, which appropriates funds for state government operations for fiscal years 2026-2027. It allocates approximately $35.4 billion in General Fund spending across education, health, human services, transportation, and other state functions, while also making adjustments to tax rates, employee salaries, and various state programs.

House2026-05-04

H1176Introduced

North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission

This bill creates the North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission, a seven-member commission administratively housed in the Department of Commerce. The commission's duties are to encourage bilateral trade and investment between North Carolina and Ireland, promote cultural and educational exchanges, and submit annual reports to the General Assembly, with $10,000 in funding appropriated for administrative services in fiscal year 2026-2027.

House2026-05-04

H1146Introduced

2026 Governor's Budget

This is North Carolina's 2026 state budget bill, which appropriates approximately $35.4 billion in General Fund spending for the fiscal year 2026-2027 and sets salary schedules for state employees, teachers, and officials. The bill includes funding for education, health and human services, transportation, and other state operations, along with various policy changes affecting education, taxation, and state administration.

House2026-05-04

H125Passed

Continuing Budget Operations

This law continues North Carolina state government operations for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium by appropriating funds for various state agencies and programs. It makes budget adjustments across education, health and human services, economic development, transportation, and other state functions. The bill also addresses disaster recovery funding following Hurricane Helene, adjusts employee compensation and benefits, and establishes new initiatives in broadband access and government efficiency.

House2025-08-06

H559Passed

Elevators/Interim Code Council Appt.-AB

This bill increases inspection fees for elevators, amusement devices, and ski lift equipment in North Carolina, and allows these fees to adjust annually based on inflation. It also authorizes the Department of Labor to develop an apprenticeship program for elevator inspectors and expands the timeframe for interim appointments to the Building Code Council and Residential Code Council.

House2025-07-07

H959Passed

Various Education Changes

This bill makes five main changes to North Carolina education: it requires schools to adopt internet safety policies limiting student access to age-appropriate content and social media; mandates social media literacy instruction in elementary, middle, and high schools; requires schools to establish policies restricting wireless device use during class time; allows certain nonpublic special education schools to request residency licenses for teachers; and permits criminal justice education programs suspended for at least four years to reapply for accreditation after two years instead of waiting longer.

House2025-07-01

H568Passed

2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments.-AB

This omnibus bill makes multiple amendments to North Carolina labor laws, including limiting when Department of Labor employees can be subpoenaed in occupational safety cases, streamlining OSHA rule adoption, allowing prehearing discovery in labor commission proceedings, improving fatal injury reporting between medical examiners and the Labor Department, and renaming the Elevator and Amusement Device Division to a Bureau with updated language throughout relevant statutes.

House2025-06-27

H543Introduced

Criminal Background Check For Athlete Agents

This bill requires all applicants for athlete agent registration or renewal in North Carolina to undergo a criminal background check using fingerprints and consent forms. The bill also increases athlete agent registration fees from $200 to $250 to help cover the costs of these background checks.

House2025-06-17

H506Passed

2025 State Investment Modernization Act.-AB

This bill creates a new independent North Carolina Investment Authority to manage the state's retirement systems and other funds. The Authority will be governed by a Board of Directors, led by a Chief Investment Officer, and will have independence from standard state budget controls while maintaining fiduciary duties to protect invested assets.

House2025-06-13

H478Introduced

Modify Appointment Process for DA Vacancies

This bill modifies how North Carolina fills District Attorney vacancies when they occur before a term ends. It clarifies the appointment process and requires the Governor to consult with the appropriate political party's district executive committee, which can recommend up to three qualified candidates within 30 days. The appointee serves until an election can be held, with the timing depending on when the original term was set to expire.

House2025-06-10

H74Passed

House Budget Technical Corrections

House Bill 74 makes various technical corrections and clarifications to North Carolina's budget and existing laws. It extends deadlines for certain grant spending, adjusts disaster relief programs and agricultural assistance timelines, modifies UNC reporting requirements and employment policies, reallocates water and infrastructure funding between communities, transfers the Missing Persons Center to the State Highway Patrol, updates conservation tax credit rules, and makes other administrative changes across multiple state agencies and programs.

House2025-05-15

H976Introduced

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

This bill establishes a new legal process for dividing property owned jointly by multiple family members, called 'heirs property.' It requires courts to first try dividing the property into separate parcels (partition in kind) rather than forcing a sale, and allows remaining cotenants to buy out those who want to sell before the property is sold as a whole.

House2025-05-06

H797Engrossed

Residential Property Wholesaling Protection

This bill requires residential property wholesalers to be licensed as real estate brokers and gives homeowners a 30-day right to cancel purchase contracts with wholesalers without penalty. It also requires wholesalers to disclose the homeowner's cancellation rights in 14-point font on the contract and refund all payments within 10 business days if canceled.

House2025-05-01

H873Introduced

DEQ Agency Bill.-AB

This bill makes several administrative and technical changes to North Carolina's environmental regulations, including allowing the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) to use school and public buildings for hearings, clarifying rules for hazardous waste recycling facilities, modifying brownfields property fee structures, refining solid waste recycling definitions, expanding eligibility for water project financing, and adjusting wetland mitigation and stewardship practices.

House2025-04-30

H570Engrossed

Responsible Firefighting Foam Management Act

This bill prohibits the use of firefighting foams containing PFAS chemicals (a type of 'forever chemical') for training and practice purposes by firefighters and emergency responders in North Carolina. It allows PFAS-containing foam to still be used in actual emergencies but requires safe containment and disposal when used for testing, and mandates the use of non-fluorinated alternative foams for training instead.

House2025-04-30

H135Introduced

Misbranding/Cell-Cultured Meat/WNC Donations

This bill requires cell-cultured meat and poultry products to be clearly labeled with terms like 'lab-grown' or 'cell-cultured' in at least 20-point font near the product name. It prohibits public schools, charter schools, community colleges, and universities from purchasing these products. The bill also creates a voluntary donation program allowing retailers to collect customer donations for farms affected by Hurricane Helene, and appropriates $1.5 million for a government efficiency audit of North Carolina's disaster response.

House2025-04-29

H557Engrossed

The Andy Griffith Show as State TV Show

This bill designates 'The Andy Griffith Show' as the official television show of North Carolina. The bill highlights Andy Griffith's birth in Mount Airy, his seven-decade career in entertainment, and the show's 249-episode run from 1960-1968 that became the #1 rated show in America.

House2025-04-28

H574Engrossed

Workforce Development Pilot Project

This bill creates a pilot program that provides grants to small and mid-sized North Carolina employers (20-1,500 employees) to help pay for employee training programs. Eligible employers can receive up to $2,000 per trainee or 50% of training costs (whichever is less), with a maximum of $40,000 per year, to fund training that improves worker skills, increases wages, or reduces turnover.

House2025-04-28

H114Introduced

Employment Preference for Military Personnel

This bill expands North Carolina's employment preference policy for military personnel by removing the requirement that service occur during wartime and extending preference to active duty service members, Armed Forces Reserve members, and their spouses and dependents. The expanded preference applies to state job applications, hirings, promotions, reassignments, and transfers.

House2025-04-15

H838Introduced

DIT Agency Broadband Bill

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's broadband programs under the Department of Information Technology. It redirects satellite broadband grant funding to disaster relief in Hurricane Helene-affected counties, allows up to $50 million in broadband funds to be used for repairing damaged broadband infrastructure, expands the Broadband Pole Replacement Program to include underground facility placement, and creates flexibility for mobile carriers to provide Lifeline service.

House2025-04-10

H814Introduced

Power Infrastructure Resiliency & Eff.(PIRE)

This bill promotes the use of advanced conductors and grid-enhancing technologies in North Carolina's electric transmission system. It streamlines the permitting process for upgrading existing transmission lines with these technologies and requires utilities to evaluate such technologies when planning for grid improvements and carbon emission reductions.

House2025-04-08

H490Introduced

Propel NC Funding and Tuition Surcharge

This bill changes how North Carolina community colleges receive state funding by shifting to a model that allocates money based on student enrollment in specific workforce and educational programs, weighted by labor market demand. It also creates a reserve fund for colleges experiencing unexpected enrollment growth and allows individual community colleges to charge students up to 10% additional tuition and fees, with revenue used only for instructional purposes.

House2025-03-25

H469Introduced

Restoring Rivalries Act

This bill requires North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to play each other regularly in football, basketball, baseball, and softball starting in the 2026-2027 academic year. Specifically, the schools must play at least one game per year in football and basketball, and at least three games per year in baseball and softball.

House2025-03-24

H124Engrossed

Adopt Official State Cookie

This bill designates the Moravian cookie as North Carolina's official state cookie. Moravian cookies are thin spice cookies made with molasses, allspice, and ginger that have been produced in Winston-Salem since the 1950s and have historical roots in the Moravian settlers who founded Salem in 1766.

House2025-03-19

H419Introduced

School of the Arts Building Purchase

This bill appropriates $4.5 million in state funds for the University of North Carolina School of the Arts to purchase a building adjacent to the Stevens Center in Winston-Salem. The funds would be used in fiscal year 2025-2026 to acquire the real property and any improvements on the site.

House2025-03-18

H418Introduced

K-5 Performing and Visual Arts Requirement

This bill requires all North Carolina elementary schools (K-5) to provide students with at least one day of instruction in performing arts (music, dance, or theatre) and visual arts every five school days. Classes must be taught by licensed instructors, last at least 30 minutes, and follow class size limits. The requirement begins in the 2026-2027 school year.

House2025-03-18

H182Engrossed

Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse

This bill makes two main changes to North Carolina law: (1) it expands permanent no contact orders so that judges can prohibit convicted violent offenders from contacting not just crime victims, but also the victim's immediate family members, and (2) it clarifies that child abuse laws apply to anyone providing care or supervision of a child under 16 who commits or allows sexual acts upon that child, classifying this as a felony.

House2025-03-17

H276Introduced

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

This bill expands death benefits for North Carolina firefighters by treating certain cancer diagnoses as 'killed in the line of duty' deaths under the Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. It makes permanent a pilot program that provided health benefits to firefighters diagnosed with cancer and allocates $2 million per year to cover the expanded death benefits.

House2025-03-12

H351Introduced

Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program/Funds

This bill establishes a Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program administered by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to help employers support employees in recovery from substance use disorders. Employers can voluntarily participate at two levels—as a participant or as a certified workplace—by completing orientation, adopting recovery-supportive policies, and maintaining annual reviews. The bill appropriates $300,000 from the Opioid Settlement Fund for fiscal year 2025-2026 to implement the program.

House2025-03-11

H274Introduced

Foster Care Services/Funds

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.

House2025-03-05

H31Introduced

Make Election Day A State Holiday

This bill amends North Carolina's state human resources law to designate statewide general election days as paid holidays for state employees. The change maintains the current limit of 13 paid holidays per year by adjusting how holidays are counted.

House2025-02-24

H30Introduced

SchCalFlex/WS-F,Stokes,Davdsn/Aug11 & Assmnts

This bill gives Winston-Salem/Forsyth, Stokes, and Davidson County Schools more flexibility in setting school calendars by allowing them to start the school year as early as the Monday closest to August 11 (instead of August 26) and permits assessments to be given before the fall semester ends if schools use an early-closing fall calendar.

House2025-02-24

H46Introduced

Make Healthcare Affordable

This bill requires that any new state legislation creating health insurance mandates (such as coverage requirements for specific treatments, providers, or drugs) must also repeal at least an equal number of existing mandates and must appropriate funds to cover the cost. The bill establishes a definition of health benefit mandates and applies these requirements to both private health plans and the State Health Plan for Teachers and State Employees.

House2025-02-05

Kyle Hall

Kyle Hall

Sponsored Bills (41)

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

Rocky Mount ETJ

Modify Nonprofit Corp. Act/Charitable Org

Strengthen Medicaid Provider Controls

Worker Safety Act of 2026

King Sat. Annex./Rural Hall Fire Dist

US Department of Edu

Const. Amendment: Council of State Vacancies

2026 Governor's Budget

North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission

2026 Governor's Budget

Continuing Budget Operations

Elevators/Interim Code Council Appt.-AB

Various Education Changes

2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments.-AB

Criminal Background Check For Athlete Agents

2025 State Investment Modernization Act.-AB

Modify Appointment Process for DA Vacancies

House Budget Technical Corrections

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

Residential Property Wholesaling Protection

DEQ Agency Bill.-AB

Responsible Firefighting Foam Management Act

Misbranding/Cell-Cultured Meat/WNC Donations

The Andy Griffith Show as State TV Show

Workforce Development Pilot Project

Employment Preference for Military Personnel

DIT Agency Broadband Bill

Power Infrastructure Resiliency & Eff.(PIRE)

Propel NC Funding and Tuition Surcharge

Restoring Rivalries Act

Adopt Official State Cookie

School of the Arts Building Purchase

K-5 Performing and Visual Arts Requirement

Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program/Funds

Foster Care Services/Funds

Make Election Day A State Holiday

SchCalFlex/WS-F,Stokes,Davdsn/Aug11 & Assmnts

Make Healthcare Affordable

Cosponsored Bills (19)

2026 Budget Technical Corrections - II

Honor Mike Clampitt

Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on DEI

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

Elect SBE/Superintendent as SBE Chair

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

The Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act

UNC Tuition Discounts for Certain Students

NC Digital Assets Investments Act

Military and Veterans Educational Promise Act

The Sergeant Mickey Hutchens Act

Elk Permit Auction/Raffle

Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I

Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation

Establish Military Appreciation Month

No Tax on Tips, Overtime, Bonus Pay

Constitutional Amendment/Repeal Literacy Test

Observe Standard Time All Year

Honor Joe John, Former Member

Voting Record (802)