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State Digital Asset Payments Study Act

This bill directs North Carolina's Department of State Treasurer to study whether the state could accept digital asset payments (like certain cryptocurrencies) for state fees, and to study costs associated with residents sending money internationally. The bill appropriates $50,000 for these studies and requires reports back to the legislature by January 2027, but does not require the state to actually accept digital assets.

Senate2026-05-05

S971Introduced

Statewide Year-Round School Study

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to conduct a study examining whether North Carolina should implement a year-round school calendar statewide. The department must analyze educational outcomes, summer learning loss, testing, community impacts, employment, and other relevant factors, then report findings and recommendations to the legislature by February 1, 2027. The bill appropriates $50,000 to fund this study.

Senate2026-05-05

S969Introduced

First Grade Reading Promise

This bill appropriates $5 million to provide first grade students with tutoring based on reading science methods, clarifies that schools can offer tutoring virtually, and requires schools to publicly report detailed reading proficiency data for grades 1-3 including student performance rates and reading camp attendance.

Senate2026-05-05

S1027Introduced

Extreme Heat/Ban Utility Disconnections

This bill prohibits utility companies and landlords from disconnecting electric and water service to residential customers during periods of extreme heat, extreme cold, or poor air quality. It also allows tenants to install portable cooling and air filtration devices in rental units unless specific safety or structural concerns apply, and requires landlords to offer deferred payment plans to customers affected by extreme weather events.

Senate2026-05-05

S950Introduced

School Meals for Every Child

This bill requires all public schools in North Carolina to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student. The state would appropriate $116 million annually starting in 2026-2027 to fund these meals, with the State Board of Education distributing funds to school districts based on factors like school size and number of low-income students.

Senate2026-05-04

S1019Introduced

Grid Utilization

This bill requires North Carolina electric utilities to submit detailed reports analyzing how efficiently they use their existing power grid infrastructure and to propose ways to improve that efficiency through alternatives like energy storage and distributed generation. The Utilities Commission will evaluate these reports and set performance targets to help utilities better utilize current grid assets.

Senate2026-05-04

S996Introduced

North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission

This bill creates a seven-member North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission to encourage bilateral trade, investment, and cultural exchanges between North Carolina and Ireland. The commission will be administratively housed in the Department of Commerce, meet at least twice yearly, and submit annual reports to the General Assembly. The state will appropriate $10,000 in nonrecurring funds to support the commission's administrative operations.

Senate2026-05-04

S970Introduced

E-Bike Definition and Local Regulation

This bill updates North Carolina's definition of electric-assisted bicycles by creating three classes (Class 1, 2, and 3) based on motor assistance and speed capabilities, ranging up to 28 mph for Class 3. It permits e-bikes on roadways and paths statewide while allowing cities and counties to impose local restrictions, helmet requirements, and speed limits.

Senate2026-05-04

S973Introduced

DOA Agency Requests

This bill makes four operational changes to how North Carolina's Department of Administration manages state property and facilities. It requires quarterly reports on state-owned facilities needing repairs, allows faster sales of seized vehicles with low value, permits electronic signatures on property transactions, and expands options for advertising state property leases beyond just newspapers.

Senate2026-05-04

S875Introduced

No Firearm Possession After DV Misdemeanors

This bill prohibits people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence offenses from purchasing or possessing firearms. It expands the definition of domestic violence relationships to include intimate partners, and appropriates $1 million for a domestic violence education program.

Senate2026-04-29

S840Introduced

Teacher Licensure Modifications

This bill removes testing requirements for entry into teacher preparation programs, allows teachers to pass licensing exams within their first three years of teaching instead of before, permits teachers with positive student growth data to skip exams for permanent licensure, and streamlines out-of-state teacher licensing by requiring only three years of experience and good standing rather than additional testing.

Senate2026-04-29

S841Introduced

Garner/Town Manager Auth. Settle Claims

This bill increases the authority of Garner's town manager to settle certain claims against the town without town council approval. It raises the limit for personal injury and property damage claims from $100 to $10,000, adds authority to settle eminent domain claims up to budgeted amounts, and adds authority to settle claims for debts owed to the town up to $10,000.

Senate2026-04-28

S805Introduced

Increase Oral Health Care Access in NC

This bill appropriates $80 million in recurring state funds to increase Medicaid reimbursement rates for dental services, which have not been meaningfully increased since 2008. The goal is to encourage more dentists to accept Medicaid patients and improve access to oral health care for low-income North Carolinians.

Senate2026-04-23

S829Introduced

Drivers License Reciprocity/Taiwan

This bill clarifies that North Carolina's Commissioner of Motor Vehicles can enter into reciprocity agreements with foreign nations and directs the commissioner to negotiate an agreement with Taiwan to recognize each other's non-commercial driver's licenses. The bill requires the commissioner to first verify that Taiwan and North Carolina have comparable driver testing standards, and appropriates $5,000 for a public awareness campaign.

Senate2026-04-23

S55Passed

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

This bill creates an expedited court process for property owners to remove people occupying residential property without legal authorization, such as unpaid squatters. The process requires a court hearing within 48 hours of filing, and if the property owner wins, the unauthorized person must vacate within 4 hours of the court order.

Senate2025-08-06

S479Passed

SCRIPT Act

The SCRIPT Act is comprehensive pharmacy legislation with multiple parts that regulate pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), require transparency in drug pricing and rebates, establish pharmacy of choice protections, create licensing requirements for pharmacy service organizations, strengthen pharmacy audit protections, and require consumers receive benefits from prescription drug rebates. The law takes effect gradually between October 2025 and January 2027.

Senate2025-07-09

S110Introduced

North Carolina Work and Save

This bill creates the North Carolina Work and Save Program, a state-facilitated retirement savings program for small business employees, self-employed individuals, and independent contractors who lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The program uses payroll deduction to help workers save through individual retirement accounts (IRAs), modeled after successful public-private partnership structures like the NC 529 College Savings Program.

Senate2025-05-01

S579Introduced

Transforming the High School Experience

This bill establishes a High School Redesign Commission to study ways to better prepare students for college and careers, and creates four pilot programs in North Carolina schools using competency-based education (learning measured by skills mastery rather than time spent in class). The bill also funds evaluations of these programs through 2030.

Senate2025-04-30

S507Engrossed

Auto Enrollment in Advanced ELA Courses

This bill expands North Carolina's automatic enrollment policy for advanced courses to include English Language Arts (ELA) in addition to mathematics. Students who score at the highest level on end-of-grade or end-of-course tests will be automatically enrolled in advanced ELA courses for the next school year, unless parents provide written consent to opt out. The bill also requires the Department of Public Instruction to report data on student demographics and socioeconomic status in advanced course placements.

Senate2025-04-14

S508Introduced

LL to CPL/Apprenticeship Program

This bill creates a Teacher Apprenticeship Program that allows people with bachelor's degrees to work as paid apprentices in classrooms while earning teaching credentials, removes the exam requirement for converting limited teaching licenses to continuing professional licenses for teachers with positive student growth data, and directs university and community college systems to develop an expedited pathway for high school students to enter teaching.

Senate2025-04-09

S260Passed

Confirm Dr. Devdutta Sangvai/DHHS

This Senate Resolution confirms Dr. Devdutta Sangvai as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the state agency overseeing health, mental health, social services, and child welfare programs. The confirmation requires Senate approval and, once adopted, makes Dr. Sangvai the head of this cabinet-level department.

Senate2025-04-03

S97Introduced

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

This bill adds stomach cancer to the list of cancers presumed to be occupationally related to firefighting under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. When a firefighter dies from stomach cancer, their death will be legally presumed to have occurred in the line of duty, making their family eligible for death benefits. The bill allocates $500,000 annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to cover these benefits.

Senate2025-04-01

S361Introduced

Protecting First Responders Act

This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting emergency responders, creates new felony charges for intentionally exposing first responders to fentanyl or harmful chemicals, and appropriates $10.35 million in grants for bulletproof vests and backpack plates for paramedics and EMTs.

Senate2025-04-01

S580Introduced

Competency-Based Education Grant Program

This bill establishes a grant program to help North Carolina schools transition to competency-based education (CBE), where students progress based on demonstrated mastery rather than seat time. The program will award $330,000 grants to 10 participating schools over a four-year period (2025-2029), provide professional development and resources, and create a statewide network to develop proficiency scales and share best practices.

Senate2025-04-01

S732Introduced

NC Economic Progress and Well Being

This bill appropriates $200,000 per fiscal year to the NC Department of Commerce to conduct analyses of economic progress and well-being in North Carolina every two years. The department must measure and report on specific economic metrics for the state and each county, including poverty rates, job quality, household spending burdens, and concentrated poverty areas, with reports due to the General Assembly by January 31 of odd-numbered years.

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

S526Introduced

The Hands Free NC Act

The Hands Free NC Act makes it illegal for drivers to hold a wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle on public roads, and prohibits watching videos or texting while driving. Drivers under 18 are completely banned from using wireless devices except for navigation and emergencies. The law creates a tiered penalty system starting at $100 for first violations and includes exceptions for emergency calls and first responders.

Senate2025-03-26

S512Introduced

Adopt Official Hip Hop Song

This bill would designate the song 'Raise Up' by North Carolina rapper Petey Pablo as the official hip hop song of North Carolina. The bill recognizes the state's significant contributions to hip hop music and the cultural importance of this particular song released in 2001.

Senate2025-03-26

S636Introduced

School Psychologist Omnibus

This bill increases compensation for school psychologists, creates a grant program to help schools recruit psychologists, establishes an internship program with stipends for psychology students, and funds university training programs to produce more school psychologists in North Carolina. The bill appropriates approximately $21.4 million for these initiatives.

Senate2025-03-26

S643Introduced

Expand & Enhance the Teaching Fellows Program

This bill expands and enhances the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program by increasing forgivable loan amounts from $5,000 to $6,000 per semester, adding $10 million in state funding, and restructuring loan forgiveness to require teachers to work in public schools for a period matching their years of support (with credit toward faster forgiveness for working in low-performing schools). The bill also emphasizes recruitment in high-need areas and adds new support services for program participants.

Senate2025-03-26

S647Introduced

The Child Promise Act

The Child Promise Act is a comprehensive early childhood education and childcare investment package that appropriates approximately $168 million over three years to expand pre-K programs, increase childcare subsidies and affordability, strengthen the childcare workforce through education and retention programs, and improve childcare infrastructure across North Carolina.

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

S752Introduced

Needle Free Epinephrine for Schoolchildren

This bill expands North Carolina school emergency epinephrine options by allowing nasal spray formulations in addition to auto-injectors for treating anaphylactic reactions. Schools would still be required to stock emergency epinephrine products and train personnel on their use, with the definition updated to include nasal sprays alongside needle-based injectors. The requirement applies to public schools, charter schools, and regional schools.

Senate2025-03-26

S435Introduced

Restore Master's Pay for Teachers & ISP

This bill restores salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel who hold master's degrees or doctorates by bringing back a 2013 salary policy. It appropriates $8 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to pay these education-based bonuses.

Senate2025-03-25

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

S438Introduced

NC Adopt ERA

This bill would have North Carolina officially ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, which states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied based on sex. The bill asserts that the ERA already became the 28th Amendment when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it in 2020, and North Carolina's ratification would affirm this status.

Senate2025-03-25

S412Introduced

Childcare Subsidy Rate Increase & West Pilot

This bill increases child care subsidy payment rates to the 75th percentile starting July 1, 2025, and allocates $123.5 million annually for two years to fund these increases. It also creates an $8 million pilot program in western North Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Helene to help build new child care capacity through recruitment and mentoring of new providers.

Senate2025-03-25

S413Introduced

Right to Use Contraception

This bill adds a new law to North Carolina's General Statutes declaring that individuals have the right to use contraception to prevent pregnancy and that the state has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to contraception. The law becomes effective immediately upon passage.

Senate2025-03-25

S398Introduced

Prohibit Weapons at Voting Place

This bill makes it illegal for people to carry or possess dangerous weapons at voting locations, within 100 feet of voting place entrances, or while waiting in line to vote. Violations would be charged as a Class 1 misdemeanor, with an exception for law enforcement officers performing their duties. The law would take effect December 1, 2025.

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

S360Introduced

Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School

This bill requires every public school in North Carolina to have at least one full-time, permanent school nurse starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The bill applies to traditional public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools, and appropriates $95 million in state funding to help schools meet this requirement.

Senate2025-03-24

S383Introduced

Right to IVF

This bill protects access to assisted reproductive technology (ART) like in vitro fertilization (IVF) by prohibiting the state from limiting or interfering with patients' right to use ART or healthcare providers' right to offer it. The bill also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and appropriates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.

Senate2025-03-24

S381Introduced

Equality for All

This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, education, and jury service. It adds sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, military/veteran status, and genetic information to the list of protected characteristics in state law, and establishes complaint procedures through the Human Relations Commission.

Senate2025-03-24

S91Introduced

Newborn Safety Devices

This bill creates a legal framework allowing hospitals, law enforcement agencies, and fire departments to install temperature-controlled 'newborn safety devices' (safe surrender boxes) where parents can anonymously leave newborns up to 30 days old without legal consequences. The devices must have alarm systems, be inspected regularly, and staff must have emergency medical plans to care for surrendered infants.

Senate2025-03-20

S304Introduced

Reenact EITC

This bill restores North Carolina's state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a tax credit to low- and moderate-income working individuals and families based on the federal EITC. The credit would be set at 10% of the federal credit amount for tax years beginning in 2025 and beyond.

Senate2025-03-18

S275Introduced

Deregulate Small Boarding Kennels

This bill changes the definition of a boarding kennel in North Carolina law so that only facilities caring for six or more dogs and/or cats require a state permit. Currently, smaller operations that board fewer than six animals would no longer need permitting or comply with state boarding kennel regulations.

Senate2025-03-13

S279Introduced

Baby Bond Trust Fund

This bill creates the Baby Bond Program Trust Fund, which provides $2,000 initial deposits into individual savings accounts for infants born in North Carolina to parents earning up to 200% of the federal poverty level. Account holders can access funds at age 18 for education, home purchases, qualified business expenses, or long-term financial investments, with the program administered by a Board of Trustees and funded with $10 million in state appropriations.

Senate2025-03-13

S264Introduced

Flags at Every School

This bill requires all public schools in North Carolina—including traditional public schools, charter schools, and university-operated schools—to display U.S. and North Carolina flags on school grounds and in every classroom. It also requires schools to schedule daily Pledge of Allegiance recitations and teach students about the flag's meaning and history. The bill provides $1 million in funding for the 2025-2026 school year and $100,000 annually after that to help schools purchase flags.

Senate2025-03-12

S265Introduced

Protecting Our Community Act

This bill creates a state regulatory system for hemp-derived consumable products (like delta-8 THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids) sold in North Carolina. It establishes licensing requirements for manufacturers, distributors, and sellers; sets testing and packaging standards; restricts sales to people under 21; and prohibits these products on school grounds.

Senate2025-03-12

S259Introduced

School Psychologist Omnibus

This bill increases pay for school psychologists, creates grant and internship programs to recruit and train more of them, funds university training programs, and establishes an interstate compact allowing school psychologists licensed in one state to practice in other member states more easily.

Senate2025-03-11

S240Introduced

Establish NCSTARS Grant Program

This bill establishes the NCSTARS Grant Program, which provides up to $500,000 per year to three community colleges that partner with public schools and local employers to create work-based learning programs in apprenticeships and preapprenticeships for students 16 and older. The program runs from 2026-2029 with $4.75 million in state funding and requires participants to secure local matching funds.

Senate2025-03-06

S98Introduced

Funds for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library

This bill appropriates $1.5 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to fund Dolly Parton's Imagination Library in North Carolina. The Imagination Library is an early literacy program that mails age-appropriate books to registered children monthly through the North Carolina Partnership for Children, Inc.

Senate2025-02-17

S95Introduced

Promote NC Sawmills

This bill allows ungraded lumber from small sawmills and mobile sawmills to be used in residential construction when sold directly to homeowners, provided the sawmill operator completes training, the lumber meets quality standards, and a code enforcement official inspects the framing. The bill also establishes a state lumber grading training program through NC Cooperative Extension.

Senate2025-02-17

Jay Chaudhuri

Jay Chaudhuri

Sponsored Bills (42)

CARDINAL Act

Child Care Licensing Penalty Reform

No Child Left Unfed

Child Care Omnibus

Amend Child Care Definitions/FFN Providers

A PTA for Every School

Don't Zone Out Child Care

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

Omnibus Life Sciences Appropriations

Construction Inspection Efficiency Act

Screen Free Schools Act

CFSS Gun Prsnt. for Grade 7 and 9 Students

Government Modernization/Funds

Real Tickets, Real Fans Act

Agency Vacant Property

Every School Has Resources Act

Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Hands Free NC

Cybersecurity and Quantum Resilience Study

Revise Neglected Juvenile Definition

Grant Our Kids Care Act

Statewide Child Care Investment Act

Care Center Cost Support Act

Language Access & State Holidays Act

AI Ethics and Literacy Across Education

Onsite Childcare for State Employees Act

Government Modernization

Comprehensive Capital for Childcare Expansion

SOS (State Owned Structures) Childcare Act

Voucher School Accountability Act

Child Care Center Capacity Amendment Act

Ban Ghost Guns & Undetectable Firearms

RIC FLAIR Act

Betting and Addiction in Pers. Finance Course

Safeguard Fair Elections

Agency Vacant Property

Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Marijuana Justice and Reinvestment Act

Right to Start Act

SchCalFlex/Wake/CC

Judge Joe John Nonpartisan Jud. Elections Act

15th Senatorial District Local Act-1

Cosponsored Bills (57)

Nathaniel Denny; NC Dept I.T

Medicaid Rebase

Workforce Act of 2026

State Digital Asset Payments Study Act

Statewide Year-Round School Study

First Grade Reading Promise

Extreme Heat/Ban Utility Disconnections

School Meals for Every Child

Grid Utilization

North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission

E-Bike Definition and Local Regulation

DOA Agency Requests

No Firearm Possession After DV Misdemeanors

Teacher Licensure Modifications

Garner/Town Manager Auth. Settle Claims

Increase Oral Health Care Access in NC

Drivers License Reciprocity/Taiwan

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

SCRIPT Act

North Carolina Work and Save

Transforming the High School Experience

Auto Enrollment in Advanced ELA Courses

LL to CPL/Apprenticeship Program

Confirm Dr. Devdutta Sangvai/DHHS

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

Protecting First Responders Act

Competency-Based Education Grant Program

NC Economic Progress and Well Being

Don't Tread on Me Act

The Hands Free NC Act

Adopt Official Hip Hop Song

School Psychologist Omnibus

Expand & Enhance the Teaching Fellows Program

The Child Promise Act