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Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

This bill removes sales tax from five categories of essential items: diapers, baby wipes, over-the-counter children's medication, prenatal vitamins, and feminine hygiene products. The tax exemption takes effect October 1, 2026.

House2026-07-01

H1241Passed

Honor Louis Milford Pate Jr

This is a commemorative resolution honoring Louis Milford Pate Jr., a former North Carolina state senator and House member who passed away on August 29, 2025. The resolution recognizes his 20-year military service, his terms as Mayor of Mount Olive, and his legislative service representing eastern North Carolina from 1995-2009 and 2011-2019.

House2026-07-01

H1242Introduced

Modernize Law of the Land Clause

This bill proposes to amend North Carolina's Constitution by modernizing the language of Article I, Section 19, which protects due process and equal protection rights. The change would update outdated legal terminology (such as 'disseized of his freehold') to contemporary language while maintaining the same constitutional protections. The amendment would be submitted to North Carolina voters for approval in the November 2026 general election.

House2026-07-01

H600Introduced

Recognition of the Tuscarora

This bill officially recognizes The Tuscarora Indians of Kahtenuaka Territories as a state-recognized Native American tribe and grants them representation on the North Carolina Commission of Indian Affairs and the American Indian Heritage Commission. The bill is based on the Tuscarora's historical treaties with North Carolina dating back to 1712-1717 and their continuous presence as a community in the state.

House2026-07-01

H1240Introduced

Constitutional Amendment/Early Voting

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would guarantee North Carolina voters the right to early voting in primary and general elections. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would require a minimum of 14 days of early voting with specific operating hours and same-day voter registration at early voting sites.

House2026-06-30

H936Engrossed

Robocall Solicitation Modifications

This bill modifies North Carolina's telephone solicitation laws to specifically address robocalls. It defines robocalls as artificial or prerecorded voice messages (including soundboard technology and ringless voicemails) and spam/scam text messages, and establishes stricter rules for their use. The bill requires prior express written consent (rather than just invitation or permission) before most robocalls can be made, creates specific penalties for violations, and adds protections against spoofing and impersonating government officials.

House2026-06-24

H1239Passed

Honor Mike Clampitt

This is a House Resolution honoring the life and memory of James Michael 'Mike' Clampitt, a former North Carolina House Representative from House District 119. The resolution recognizes his decades of service as a firefighter, law enforcement officer, and state legislator, and expresses the General Assembly's appreciation for his contributions to his community and the state.

House2026-06-24

H1238Passed

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

This is a House Resolution that honors the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team for winning the 2026 Stanley Cup championship. The resolution recognizes the team's accomplishments, leadership, and community contributions, and directs that a certified copy be sent to team members, the owner, and head coach.

House2026-06-23

H1123Passed

UNC Omnibus & Capital Contracting Law Changes

This bill authorizes approximately $636.9 million in capital improvement projects across UNC campuses funded through bonds and non-appropriated sources, standardizes residency requirements for the NC School of Science and Mathematics, expands tuition grants for NCSSM and UNCSA graduates, increases the UNC Board of Governors' authority over capital projects up to $4 million, raises various construction project thresholds, and restricts state agencies from using appropriated funds for public-private partnerships without legislative approval.

House2026-06-19

H369Engrossed

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

This bill restricts local governments from requiring minimum parking space minimums in most developments and limits their ability to impose stormwater control requirements on redevelopment projects. It prohibits parking minimums except in historic districts and coastal areas, and prevents stormwater controls from being required on pre-existing built-upon areas during redevelopment unless the project increases impervious surface beyond what existed before.

House2026-06-10

H1236Introduced

Const. Amend./Judicial Standards Commission

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to establish the Judicial Standards Commission in North Carolina's Constitution and changes how it operates. The amendment would require the Commission to have judges, lawyers, and non-lawyer citizens as members, and would make disciplinary hearings and sanctions public instead of confidential.

House2026-06-03

H1234Introduced

Const. Amend./Supreme Court Ethics

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require North Carolina Supreme Court Justices to recuse themselves from cases where they have financial interests, personal relationships with parties involved, or previously sponsored the law being challenged. It would also require Justices to publicly disclose large financial transactions ($10,000+), non-salary income, and who funds their travel.

House2026-06-03

H1235Introduced

Restoring Separation of Powers & Leg. Transp

This bill proposes two constitutional amendments to be voted on in November 2026. The first amendment would limit the General Assembly's power to reorganize executive branch functions in ways that weaken the Governor's authority to execute state laws. The second amendment would require bills to address only one subject (with exceptions for budget and tax bills) and mandate at least 48 hours of public notice and bill text availability before final passage.

House2026-06-03

H1233Introduced

State Bd of Elections/Independent Agency

This bill changes how North Carolina's State Board of Elections is organized and led. It makes the Board an independent agency (rather than part of the Secretary of State's office) and shifts appointment power from the State Auditor to the Governor, effective July 1, 2027.

House2026-06-01

H1174Introduced

HOA Oversight Act

This bill requires the North Carolina Department of Justice to collect and track complaints from homeowners association members about disputes with their associations, publish complaint data online, and submit annual reports to the General Assembly. The Department will not resolve disputes but will gather information to identify trends in HOA complaints across the state.

House2026-05-28

H451Introduced

Diabetes Education for Parents

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to provide parents and guardians with information about Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes at the beginning of each school year. The information must include descriptions of the diseases, risk factors, warning signs, screening processes, and recommendations to consult with healthcare providers if students show symptoms or receive a diagnosis.

House2026-05-19

H1019Engrossed

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

This bill expands the highway use tax exemption for volunteer fire departments and rescue squads that are not part of local government and have no more than two paid employees. The exemption now applies to fire trucks, pump trucks, tanker trucks, ladder trucks, four-wheel drive forest fire fighting vehicles, and emergency services vehicles.

House2026-05-18

H1154Introduced

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

This bill appropriates $4 million to expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program, which purchases locally grown food and distributes it free to food-insecure North Carolinians, and $2 million to expand the Double Up Food Bucks Program, which provides matching funds to help nutrition assistance recipients afford fresh produce at farmers markets and food hubs. Both programs require annual reporting on participation, distribution, and outcomes.

House2026-05-13

H1131Introduced

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

This bill appropriates $2.178 million in state funds to hire at least 25 additional Adult Protective Services (APS) workers at county departments of social services statewide, beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027. The funds will be distributed to counties with the greatest need based on factors like number of APS cases, required staffing levels, senior population, and report volume.

House2026-05-13

H1193Introduced

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

This bill designates November as Marrow Donation Awareness Month in North Carolina and allows people ages 18-40 to indicate their intention to become bone marrow donors when applying for or renewing a driver's license. The bill requires the state to share this information with the National Marrow Donor Program and directs state health and motor vehicle agencies to conduct public awareness campaigns about bone marrow donation, with $100,000 allocated for these efforts.

House2026-05-12

H433Passed

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

This bill allows North Carolina to reclassify and reallocate remaining State Fiscal Recovery Funds (federal COVID-19 relief money) to different eligible government services and projects, permits the state to use interest earned on certain pandemic relief funds for operations, and extends the North Carolina Pandemic Recovery Office's operations deadline from June 30, 2026, to May 1, 2027.

House2026-05-12

H390Engrossed

Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan Practices

This bill allows Medicaid Prepaid Health Plans (PHPs) to require itemized bills for large hospital claims, align their claims processing with national standards, and direct certain hospital services to outpatient settings instead of inpatient settings, while giving the Department of Health and Human Services authority to set guidelines for these practices.

House2026-05-12

H1230Introduced

No Federal Interference in Elections

This bill prohibits federal or state armed forces from being stationed at voting places for 17 days before through election day, except in emergencies or at the request of election officials, and it restricts state and county election boards from disclosing voters' personal information (like Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and driver's license numbers) to the federal government without a court order.

House2026-05-12

H1229Introduced

Strip Corporations of Political Spending

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would prohibit corporations and other non-human entities from spending money to influence elections in North Carolina, with exceptions for political committees and media companies owned by political parties or candidates. If approved by voters in November 2026, violations would void the corporate action and result in the state withdrawing legal benefits like corporate status and the right to do business in North Carolina.

House2026-05-11

H1206Introduced

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act/Funds

This bill creates the North Carolina Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers with 15+ employees and all government entities to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy-related conditions unless it causes undue hardship. Employees can sue in court for violations and seek damages, back pay, and attorney fees. The bill allocates $600,000 for implementation across the Department of Labor, courts, and legislature.

House2026-05-05

H1198Introduced

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

This bill requires programs that train Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANEs) to report annual data to the North Carolina Board of Nursing about their graduates, including how many graduated and where they work. It also creates a new database where all active nurses must register their training credentials, education, and workplace information, with updates required when licenses renew or employment changes.

House2026-05-05

H1209Introduced

Strengthen Ed by Embedded New Teacher Support

This bill appropriates $1 million in recurring state funding annually to expand the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program, which provides coaching and mentoring to beginning teachers in public schools. The expanded funding aims to increase embedded instructional support within local school districts and connect it more closely with teacher preparation programs.

House2026-05-05

H1197Introduced

Revise NC Teaching Fellows Program

This bill increases financial support for North Carolina's Teaching Fellows Program by raising forgivable loans from $5,000 to $10,000 per academic year, applies recent program improvements retroactively to all current participants, establishes new standards for selecting partner institutions, and funds a $50,000 study to understand why some loan recipients choose to repay loans in cash rather than through teaching service.

House2026-05-05

H1212Introduced

HOA Accessory Limitation Ban

This bill prohibits homeowners associations (HOAs) from restricting residents' ability to install and maintain solar panels, grow edible or pollinator gardens, or build accessory dwelling units (like guest houses or rental units) that comply with building codes and zoning laws. The bill applies to both condo associations and traditional HOAs, and includes $100,000 for educational outreach about these new rules.

House2026-05-05

H1191Introduced

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's child welfare and juvenile justice laws, including tightening confidentiality protections for abuse and neglect case records, establishing court procedures for removing individuals from the responsible individuals list, clarifying permanency planning requirements for foster children, streamlining termination of parental rights procedures, and funding a new secure communications platform for court notifications and attorney coordination in child welfare cases.

House2026-05-05

H1184Introduced

Voucher School Transparency Act

This bill increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship vouchers. It requires these schools to submit annual financial audits, standardized test performance data, graduation rates, staff background checks, and facility/safety information to state authorities. It also directs the State Auditor to review at least three private school audits each year and report findings to the legislature.

House2026-05-05

H1188Introduced

Limits on Immigration Detention Facilities

This bill prohibits North Carolina city, county, and state law enforcement agencies from contracting with the federal government or private companies to detain noncitizens for civil immigration purposes. It also requires the Department of Public Safety to collect and annually report data on immigration detainees, including their demographics, charges, and case status.

House2026-05-05

H1195Introduced

MOMnibus 3.5

This bill establishes five major programs to address maternal mortality and health disparities in North Carolina: a grant program for community organizations serving Black women, mandatory implicit bias training for perinatal healthcare providers, funding for lactation training programs at historically Black colleges and universities, grants for perinatal education in underserved areas, and a mobile health initiative to expand maternal care access. The bill appropriates approximately $20.5 million over multiple years and requires healthcare providers to complete training by December 2027.

House2026-05-05

H1189Introduced

Datacenter Transparency Act

This bill establishes a two-year moratorium (August 1, 2026 to August 1, 2028) on permits for new datacenters in North Carolina while a university study examines their impacts on electricity grids, water supplies, air quality, and property values. It also requires existing datacenters to annually report detailed operational and financial information to receive sales tax exemptions, and directs the state to report on lost tax revenue from datacenter exemptions.

House2026-05-05

H1187Introduced

Save Our Beaches

This bill disapproves a rule adopted by the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission that allows the use of wheat straw bales for sand fencing in ocean hazard areas. By disapproving the rule, the bill prevents this method from being used for coastal sand management.

House2026-05-05

H1157Introduced

Red Wolf Special Registration Plate

This bill authorizes North Carolina to create a special Red Wolf registration plate that vehicle owners can purchase for an additional $30 fee. Revenue from the plate sales will be distributed to support red wolf conservation efforts through the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, and NC State University is directed to promote the plate on campus.

House2026-05-04

H1139Introduced

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

This bill establishes the Learning and Enrichment in Afterschool Programs (LEAP) Advisory Council and Grant Program within the Department of Public Instruction. It creates a $19.5 million fund to provide grants to community organizations, schools, and local governments that offer afterschool and summer youth programs, with priority given to rural and underserved communities.

House2026-05-04

H1132Introduced

LEO Facial Coverings and Identifications

This bill prohibits North Carolina law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings like masks or balaclavas while performing duties, with exceptions for undercover operations, tactical gear for safety, identity protection during prosecution, and health/safety requirements. It also requires officers to wear clear agency identification on uniforms and identify themselves by name or badge number when requested.

House2026-05-04

H1142Introduced

Expand Quantum Computing Education

This bill allocates $2.6 million to public schools for quantum computing and STEM education programs, establishes a $200,000 grant program through the North Carolina Collaboratory to connect high school students with university quantum computing research, and creates a tax credit up to $100,000 for businesses in defense, technology, and quantum sectors that invest in educational partnerships with high school students.

House2026-05-04

H1138Introduced

Aging With Dignity Act

This bill addresses North Carolina's growing senior population by establishing policies that prioritize home and community-based care for Medicaid beneficiaries aged 55+, requiring medication reviews and behavioral health integration, and funding new initiatives including an integrated senior housing pilot program ($120 million), expansion of the long-term care ombudsman office ($3.5 million), a geriatric workforce development program ($10 million), and a family caregiver support stipend pilot ($13.5 million). The bill also creates a study commission on aging to recommend future policies.

House2026-05-04

H1141Introduced

Protecting Medicaid & Autism Services

This bill appropriates $1.047 billion to update Medicaid funding to reflect current enrollment and costs, allows Medicaid health plans to create restricted provider networks specifically for research-based behavioral health treatment, and removes statutory rules that would automatically end Medicaid coverage for the expansion population under certain conditions.

House2026-05-04

H1147Introduced

IDD Omnibus

This comprehensive bill implements changes to support North Carolinians with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) across multiple areas: it provides $183 million to increase direct care worker wages to at least $18/hour, adds 1,000 waiver slots and develops a 10-year plan to address service needs, updates Medicaid eligibility rules for workers with disabilities, studies new employment and community activity services, establishes rental assistance for housing, funds vocational rehabilitation services, restricts prone restraints in schools, and increases funding for special education and accessible transportation.

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

H1171Introduced

Prohibit Gambling in Prediction Markets

This bill makes it illegal in North Carolina to operate or participate in prediction markets where people bet money on the outcomes of future events. The bill treats prediction markets like other prohibited gambling activities and provides $10,000 in funding for enforcement starting July 1, 2026, with the law taking effect December 1, 2026.

House2026-05-04

H1163Introduced

Workforce Act of 2026

This bill appropriates approximately $14.1 million to expand North Carolina's workforce development and education-to-career pathway programs. It funds apprenticeship support, industry credentials, postsecondary transfer technology, career planning platforms, a career development pilot program for middle and high school students, and a consolidated teacher bonus program rewarding performance in advanced courses, career-technical education, and student growth.

House2026-05-04

H1172Introduced

The Ciji Graham Act

The Ciji Graham Act establishes four maternal health initiatives in North Carolina: a care navigation program with nurse consultants in each Medicaid region to help high-risk pregnancy patients access care, a statewide hotline providing clinical guidance to healthcare providers, a digital information hub with clinical guidelines and provider directories for high-risk pregnancies, and standardized referral pathways for patients. The bill appropriates $10 million in recurring annual funding to the Department of Health and Human Services starting in fiscal year 2026-2027.

House2026-05-04

H1158Introduced

Increase Market Rate/Rate Floor/Child Subsidy

This bill increases child care subsidy payment rates to the 75th percentile of the 2023 market rate study, with automatic increases whenever new studies are completed. It also establishes a statewide rate floor for child care providers in counties with rates below the state level. The bill appropriates $60 million from the General Fund, $20 million from the Child Care Block Grant, and $160 million from the General Fund to fund these increases, beginning July 1, 2026.

House2026-05-04

H1144Introduced

Dominique Moody Safety Act

The Dominique Moody Safety Act creates a Child Welfare Case Escalation Team within the Division of Social Services to provide additional oversight of high-risk child abuse and neglect cases that involve complex histories. The bill also requires child protective services workers to gather photographic or video evidence during investigations, establishes new protocols for home visits, and funds training programs for CPS employees on recognizing abuse and neglect.

House2026-05-04

H1182Introduced

Part-Time Status for Disabled Students

This bill requires North Carolina public schools and charter schools to allow students with disabilities who attend private schools to enroll part-time in public school classes, programs, and services. Schools must develop policies for part-time enrollment and post information about the option on their websites, with $10,000 in state funding provided to help schools implement the policy starting in 2026-2027.

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

H1179Introduced

Senior Property Tax Relief Modernization Act

This bill modernizes North Carolina's property tax relief programs for seniors and disabled homeowners by replacing sharp income cutoffs with gradual phase-outs, allowing homeowners to combine two relief programs, and addressing barriers for those with shared property ownership. The state will reimburse local governments for lost tax revenue, and $20 million will fund local governments to improve property reappraisal technology.

House2026-05-04

H1150Introduced

NC Constitutional Rights Act/Funds

This bill creates a new North Carolina law allowing people to sue individuals (non-government entities) in state court for violations of federal constitutional rights and seek damages, attorney fees, and other relief. It also appropriates $150,000 to educate the public about these new rights.

House2026-05-04

H1168Introduced

Limit Electric Util. Hist. Fuel Cost Recovery

This bill modifies how North Carolina's Utilities Commission handles electric utility fuel cost recovery by preventing utilities from recovering fuel costs incurred before a specified test period. It restores a limitation that bars utilities from charging customers for historical fuel costs outside the current review period, while allowing recovery of costs within a defined timeframe plus 30 days before the hearing.

House2026-05-04

H1178Introduced

The NC Teacher Pay Competitiveness Act

This bill increases teacher salaries in North Carolina starting in 2026-2027 and locks in annual 3.67% raises through 2032-2033, with a dedicated funding reserve to protect these raises from budget delays. It also reduces funding for the Opportunity Scholarship Program (private school vouchers) and tightens eligibility requirements for that program.

House2026-05-04

H1181Introduced

Property Tax Modifications

This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax relief programs for elderly and disabled homeowners by increasing income limits for married couples, eliminating deferred tax debt, and expanding eligibility options. It also appropriates $20 million to help counties improve property reappraisal processes and creates a new excise tax on transfers of controlling interests in entities that own real property in the state.

House2026-05-04

H1155Introduced

The People's Right to Amend Act

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would allow North Carolina citizens to directly propose changes to the state constitution through a petition and voting process, rather than requiring the General Assembly to propose all amendments. Citizens would need signatures from at least 8% of recent gubernatorial voters (with at least 3% from each congressional district) to place an amendment on the ballot, and the amendment would need 60% voter approval to pass.

House2026-05-04

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

H1152Introduced

Protection of Constitutional Rights

This bill allows people injured during civil immigration enforcement to sue individuals who violate the U.S. or North Carolina Constitution during that enforcement, and removes various legal immunities that might otherwise protect defendants. It also funds a $50,000 educational pamphlet about rights during immigration enforcement encounters.

House2026-05-04

H1151Introduced

Additional Magistrates/Mecklenburg County

This bill increases the number of magistrates in Mecklenburg County from 38.5 to 43.5 positions and appropriates $405,585 in recurring annual funding plus $15,140 in one-time funding to hire five additional magistrates, effective July 1, 2026.

House2026-05-04

H1153Introduced

Budgeting Accountability and Transparency

This bill increases transparency and public participation in North Carolina's state budget process by requiring at least one week of public comment time, public hearings, and committee meetings before budget votes, and by making legislative budget requests public records once the budget becomes law. The bill allocates $250,000 annually to support these new requirements.

House2026-05-04

H1148Introduced

Universal Pre-K

This bill appropriates $200 million in annual state funding to expand the NC Pre-K program so that all income-eligible four-year-old children in North Carolina can participate, beginning in the 2026-2027 fiscal year. Currently, the program serves some eligible children but cannot accommodate all who qualify.

House2026-05-04

H1159Introduced

Investing in Teen Mental Health

This bill appropriates $1,290,626 in state funding to the Department of Health and Human Services to expand Teen Mental Health First Aid training programs across North Carolina. The training teaches high school students (grades 9-12) how to identify mental health and substance use challenges in their peers and connect them with trusted adults for support.

House2026-05-04

H1160Introduced

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds

This bill reduces the percentage of gross family income that parents must pay as copayments for subsidized child care from 10% to 7%, effective October 1, 2026. The bill appropriates $25 million in recurring state funds annually to cover the cost of this reduction.

House2026-05-04

H1137Introduced

Appropriation to the Lake Norman CDC

This bill appropriates $4 million in state funding to the Lake Norman Community Development Corporation for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The funds are designated for the Smithville Revitalization Plan ($2 million) and other affordable housing development ($2 million), with up to 15% of the total available for administrative costs.

House2026-05-04

H1177Introduced

Consumer Protection AI Bill of Rights

This resolution urges Congress to preserve North Carolina's authority to enforce existing consumer protection laws against harmful uses of artificial intelligence, and to reject any federal actions that would limit the state's ability to investigate and regulate deceptive AI practices. The resolution asserts that states should retain full power to protect consumers from fraud and unfair commercial practices involving AI systems.

House2026-05-04

H1140Introduced

State Employee Bereavement Leave/Up To 40 Hrs

This bill provides North Carolina state employees, public school employees, and community college employees with paid bereavement leave of up to 40 hours when an immediate family member dies and up to 8 hours when a colleague dies. The bill appropriates $2 million to fund this benefit, effective July 1, 2026.

House2026-05-04

H1135Introduced

Modify Mileage and Per Diem

This bill updates the mileage reimbursement rate and per diem (daily meal and lodging allowance) for North Carolina legislators starting in 2027 to match the 2025 federal rates set by the Internal Revenue Service. The bill appropriates $100,000 to cover implementation costs and the increased expenses from these updated rates.

House2026-05-04

H1133Introduced

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

This bill appropriates funds and creates programs to support historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and historically minority-serving institutions in North Carolina. It establishes a study committee on HBCU infrastructure, creates completion assistance and nursing fellows programs, funds capital improvements at multiple institutions, and expands merit scholarships.

House2026-05-04

H1095Introduced

Tier System Reevaluation

This bill requires North Carolina state agencies to stop using the development tier system (which currently classifies counties as tier 1, 2, or 3 based on economic development) by July 1, 2028, and replace it with new, program-specific criteria. Each agency must develop and propose new replacement criteria tailored to their specific programs, which must then be approved by the General Assembly before implementation.

House2026-04-30

H1082Introduced

Tax Relief for Working Families Act

This bill reestablishes North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a tax credit to working families based on a percentage of the federal EITC they qualify for. The credit would be set at 20% of the federal credit amount for 2026 and beyond, and any credit amount exceeding taxes owed would be refunded to the taxpayer.

House2026-04-30

H1116Introduced

Film Grant Modifications

This bill expands North Carolina's Film and Entertainment Grant Fund by increasing the maximum grant amounts that can be awarded to film and television productions, raising the grant cap from $7 million to $20 million for feature films and from $15 million to $25 million for television series seasons. The bill also increases the threshold for what qualifies as a 'highly compensated individual' from $1 million to $4 million in compensation per production.

House2026-04-30

H1096Introduced

First in Flight Act

The First in Flight Act appropriates $175.1 million in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to support North Carolina's aerospace industry through airport infrastructure grants, community college workforce training programs, apprenticeships, dual-enrollment education pathways, university research funding, and supply chain support services.

House2026-04-30

H1079Introduced

Menstrual Products Sales Tax Exemption

This bill removes the sales tax on menstrual products in North Carolina, including tampons, pads, menstrual cups, panty liners, and similar items. The exemption would take effect October 1, 2026, and apply to all future sales of these products in the state.

House2026-04-29

H1070Introduced

Domestic Violence Divorce Reform Act

This bill allows victims of domestic violence to obtain an absolute divorce in North Carolina without waiting the standard one-year separation period. Victims can qualify by obtaining a domestic violence protection order, a conviction against their spouse for a domestic violence offense, or by proving domestic violence to a judge at a hearing. The bill also provides $50,000 in funding to Compass Center to support domestic violence victims.

House2026-04-29

H1080Introduced

Public Safety Reinvestment Act

This bill appropriates approximately $371 million to improve public safety operations across North Carolina by: equipping public transit with emergency trauma kits and implementing fare enforcement measures ($10 million); hiring additional court staff in Wake and Mecklenburg counties ($60 million); providing salary increases for Department of Adult Correction employees ($250 million); raising State Highway Patrol pay ($40 million); funding juvenile justice staffing ($25 million); supporting the State Crime Lab ($4 million); and enhancing retirement benefits for correctional officers ($11 million).

House2026-04-29

H1072Introduced

Affordable Housing Infrastructure Development

This bill creates the Affordable Housing Infrastructure Development Loan Program, which provides below-market interest rate loans to nonprofit organizations for developing land and infrastructure (such as utilities, roads, and site preparation) for affordable housing projects. The program receives $50 million in state funding and is administered by the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency.

House2026-04-29

H1077Introduced

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act

This bill creates a grant program at North Carolina community colleges to train students as tax preparers through the federal Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program, while also providing funding to United Way of North Carolina to expand VITA services. The bill aims to help low-income North Carolinians claim federal tax credits they are eligible for but currently do not claim.

House2026-04-29

H1078Introduced

Omnibus Life Sciences Appropriations

This bill appropriates a total of $34.25 million to support North Carolina's life sciences and biotechnology sectors, including funding for small business accounts, the Biotechnology Center, and a new reserve fund for emerging life science technologies. It also reorganizes the Advisory Council on Rare Diseases by moving it from UNC Chapel Hill to the Department of Health and Human Services, expanding its membership, and authorizing water and sewer infrastructure reimbursements for major manufacturing investments.

House2026-04-29

H1071Introduced

SNAP Funding in Response to H.R. 1

This bill appropriates $85 million in state funds to replace federal funding that North Carolina will lose for administering the SNAP (food assistance) program due to changes in federal law (Public Law 119-21). The funds will be distributed to the Department of Health and Human Services and counties based on their actual losses in federal administrative support.

House2026-04-29

H1066Introduced

Child Care Stabilization & Affordability Act

This bill redirects $390 million from the Opportunity Scholarship program (which funds private school scholarships) to child care subsidies, establishes permanent funding for a tri-share child care cost-sharing program between employers/employees/state, reenacts a state child care tax credit, creates apprenticeships and workforce programs for early childhood educators, increases child care subsidy reimbursement rates, and establishes a health insurance pool for child care workers.

House2026-04-29

H1046Introduced

NC Economic Progress and Well-Being

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Commerce to prepare and publish a biennial report measuring economic opportunity, affordability, and family economic security across the state and by county. The report will track metrics like poverty rates, job quality, housing affordability, education costs, and regional economic opportunity using existing public data sources.

House2026-04-28

H1063Introduced

Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act

This bill regulates large-scale data centers in North Carolina by requiring them to obtain operating certificates, generate at least 25% of their electricity on-site from clean energy, pay utility rates based on their full infrastructure costs, and prohibiting them from receiving state and local tax incentives or subsidies. The bill also establishes water use standards for data centers and repeals existing sales tax exemptions for the industry.

House2026-04-28

H1057Introduced

Affordable Food Act

The Affordable Food Act is a comprehensive bill that addresses food insecurity in North Carolina through multiple programs: it establishes SNAP nutrition incentive programs to help low-income families buy healthy food, creates a state food procurement program to support farmers, appropriates funds to replace lost federal SNAP administrative funding, protects farmland from development, establishes assistance programs for military veterans and families, expands food distribution in underserved areas, and prohibits grocery stores from using electronic shelf labels to change prices more than once per 24 hours (dynamic pricing). The bill totals approximately $320 million in appropriations for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.

House2026-04-28

H1060Introduced

AG Investigations/Certain ICE & CBP Incidents

This bill requires North Carolina's Attorney General to investigate incidents involving federal immigration enforcement (ICE and CBP officers) that result in serious bodily injury or death. The Attorney General must publicly release findings and recommendations within seven days and report to legislative leaders. The bill allocates $450,000 in funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to implement these investigations.

House2026-04-28

H1062Introduced

Immigration Cooperation Agreements

This bill restricts how North Carolina law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration authorities. It requires federal immigration agents to follow specific conditions when working with local police (such as providing advance notice, being clearly identified, and obtaining judicial warrants), and it prohibits local law enforcement from assisting with civil immigration enforcement without a valid judicial warrant. The bill also appropriates $40 million for county law enforcement hiring.

House2026-04-28

H1056Introduced

Relieving Housing Bottlenecks

This bill aims to increase housing supply and affordability in North Carolina through multiple strategies: allowing residential development in commercial zones, eliminating parking minimums, creating a program to reimburse local governments for faster housing permit processing, limiting large-scale corporate purchases of single-family homes to 25 or fewer per company, establishing a loan program for workforce housing development costs, and appropriating $160 million to the Housing Finance Agency.

House2026-04-28

H1051Introduced

Funding for Senior Care/Community Health

This bill appropriates $250,000 in nonrecurring state funds for fiscal year 2026-2027 to the MedAid Foundation Incorporated, a nonprofit organization, to expand healthcare access and improve senior care and community health services for vulnerable populations facing barriers to affordable healthcare and preventive care.

House2026-04-28

H1052Introduced

Cure Violence Program Grant

This bill appropriates $1 million in one-time funding from the state's General Fund to Forsyth County for a Cure Violence Program aimed at addressing violence in the Triad region. The funds become available starting July 1, 2026.

House2026-04-28

H1053Introduced

Additional Funding for School Supplies

This bill appropriates $28.6 million in state funding for the 2026-2027 school year to increase classroom materials and instructional supplies for North Carolina public schools. It also expresses the General Assembly's intent to provide additional funding of $15.1 million in 2027-2028 and $22.6 million in 2028-2029, though these future amounts require separate appropriation.

House2026-04-28

H1061Introduced

Plyler Educational Protections Act

This bill establishes protections for all students in North Carolina public schools regardless of immigration status, based on the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision Plyler v. Doe. It prohibits schools from denying enrollment based on citizenship status, requires schools to protect student information from immigration authorities, establishes procedures for handling immigration enforcement requests on school grounds, and restricts school resource officers from cooperating with immigration enforcement.

House2026-04-28

H1054Introduced

Gov't Employee Raises & Retiree COLA

This bill increases salaries for public school employees (teachers, principals, and staff), state employees, and community college workers effective July 1, 2026. It provides a 7% salary increase for most state-funded employees, enhances sick leave benefits for state workers, and provides a 3% cost-of-living adjustment to certain retirees. The bill appropriates approximately $939.8 million for salary increases and $250 million for retiree adjustments.

House2026-04-28

H1047Introduced

North Carolina Microplastics Study Act

This bill directs the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC Chapel Hill to study microplastics (tiny plastic particles) in North Carolina's waterways and develop strategies to reduce their harmful impacts. The Collaboratory will research where microplastics come from, how they affect ecosystems and human health, and recommend policy solutions, with a comprehensive report due by July 1, 2027. The bill provides $150,000 in funding for this research.

House2026-04-28

H1045Introduced

Fair Wages in Health Care Act/Funds

This bill establishes minimum wage requirements for five direct care and health care support occupations in North Carolina, ranging from $18 to $24 per hour depending on the role. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to adjust Medicaid and state-funded program rates to help employers meet these new wage floors, and appropriates $500,000 for implementation beginning January 1, 2028.

House2026-04-28

H1059Introduced

Fair Minimum Wage Act

This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage to $15 per hour (with a lower $11 per hour rate for small businesses under $400,000 annual revenue) and automatically adjusts it yearly for inflation. It creates a Wage Board to study wage standards, allows local governments to set higher minimum wages, and establishes a Short-Time Compensation program to help employers reduce hours instead of laying off workers.

House2026-04-28

H1031Introduced

Universal Free Breakfast and Lunch

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student at no cost. The state would appropriate $116 million annually beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027 to fund these meals, with the State Board of Education distributing funds to school food authorities based on school size, student need, and other factors.

House2026-04-22

H1017Introduced

Sound Basic Education for Every Child

This comprehensive education bill aims to improve North Carolina schools through four main areas: (1) increasing teacher recruitment, retention, and compensation; (2) improving school leadership through principal salary increases and support programs; (3) reforming school funding to provide more resources to disadvantaged students and children with disabilities; and (4) expanding pre-kindergarten and early childhood education programs. The bill appropriates over $3.7 billion for these initiatives for fiscal year 2026-2027.

House2026-04-22

H1021Introduced

Funds for Facilities of DAV Organizations

This bill appropriates $10 million in recurring annual funding through the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to create a grant program for Disabled American Veterans (DAV) nonprofit chapters. The grants, capped at $1 million per chapter per year, can be used to renovate and expand facilities and provide additional resources to disabled veterans, with unused funds rolling over to future years.

House2026-04-22

H1023Introduced

Divine Nine Special Registration Plate Act

This bill creates a new Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority special registration plate in North Carolina and establishes how fees from this plate and other Divine Nine (historically Black Greek letter organization) plates are collected and distributed. Vehicle owners can purchase these plates for an additional $20 fee, with portions going to various state funds and the organizations' national foundations.

House2026-04-22

H1024Introduced

Revise NC 529 Program

This bill creates a state matching program that provides up to $100 in matching funds for every $50 contributed to education savings accounts for children 14 and younger from low-income families (up to 250% of federal poverty level), with a maximum match of $1,500 per student. It also allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct up to $2,000 per year (or $4,000 for married couples) in contributions to these education savings accounts from their state income taxes.

House2026-04-22

H434Engrossed

Lower Healthcare Costs

This bill aims to lower healthcare costs and increase price transparency in North Carolina through multiple measures: requiring hospitals and surgical facilities to publicly report pricing information on common procedures, mandating clear billing disclosures to patients about out-of-network providers, establishing good-faith cost estimates for scheduled procedures, limiting facility fees charged by hospitals, and strengthening prior authorization and appeals processes for health insurance.

House2026-04-06

H13Introduced

Charges for Credit & Charge Cards

This bill caps the amount merchants in North Carolina can charge customers for credit or charge card payments at 2% of the transaction total, requires clear disclosure of these fees at points of sale, and prohibits charging card fees when no other payment method is available. The bill also increases the filing fee for nonprofit corporation articles of incorporation from $60 to $65.

House2025-09-23

H8Engrossed

NC Managing Environmental Waste Act of 2025

This bill requires state departments, schools, and colleges to purchase recycled, compostable, or recyclable materials when economically practicable, and mandates annual reporting on such purchases and recycling efforts. It also directs a UNC study on food service ware (single-use food containers) and requires the General Assembly and certain state facilities to pilot programs reducing single-use food service products.

House2025-07-31

H907Introduced

NC Recovery and Resiliency Act

This bill establishes a new special fund called the Disaster Readiness and Response Fund within the Office of the State Treasurer, separate from the state's General Fund and other existing funds. The bill does not specify funding amounts, how money enters the fund, or how it will be used.

House2025-07-28

H210Passed

Perpetual Care of Certain Cemeteries

This bill establishes clearer standards for how cemeteries in North Carolina must be maintained, defines what 'care and maintenance' includes, and gives the Cemetery Commission authority to enforce these standards through penalties and fines. It also requires cemeteries to provide annual financial reports showing the maintenance work they performed.

House2025-07-07

H948Passed

The P.A.V.E. Act

The P.A.V.E. Act creates a new metropolitan public transportation authority for Mecklenburg County and authorizes a 1% local sales tax to fund roadway and public transportation projects, with 40% of revenues going to road maintenance in municipalities and 60% to transit operations, including a planned Red Line rail project. The sales tax requires voter approval through a referendum before implementation.

House2025-07-01

H67Passed

Healthcare Workforce Reforms

House Bill 67 is a comprehensive healthcare workforce reform law that includes multiple provisions: allowing interstate medical licensure compacts for physicians and physician assistants, creating an international physician employee license pathway, expanding clinical psychologist scope of practice, enabling pharmacists to test for and treat influenza and establish collaborative practices, and modifying requirements for physician assistants and other healthcare providers to practice in team-based settings. The bill also requires surgical smoke evacuation systems in hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers, and expands behavioral health workforce eligibility through community college degrees.

House2025-07-01

H612Passed

Fostering Care in NC Act

This comprehensive bill makes several changes to North Carolina's child welfare and social services systems. Key provisions expand the Guardianship Assistance Program to include youth as young as 10 years old, establish procedures for judges to issue permanent no-contact orders against defendants convicted of violent offenses, make it a felony when caregivers commit or allow sexual acts against children under 16, and require cities and counties to conduct criminal history background checks for any applicant offered a position working with children.

House2025-06-26

H480Engrossed

Medical Board Licensing Efficiency Act

This bill creates a faster licensing pathway for physicians, physician assistants, and anesthesiologist assistants who are already licensed in other U.S. states. Instead of going through the full licensing process, qualified medical professionals can apply for 'licensure by endorsement' if they have at least five years of active experience, a job offer in North Carolina, and a clean disciplinary record. The bill also keeps Medical Board investigation records confidential.

House2025-06-25

H578Engrossed

The Jason Flatt Act of North Carolina

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to include suicide prevention education as part of their school-based mental health policies. It mandates that all licensed educators receive annual suicide prevention training, establishes a suicide risk referral protocol for schools, and requires the State Board of Education to develop model programs and training materials that schools must follow.

House2025-06-24

H187Engrossed

Credit Union Update

This bill updates North Carolina's credit union laws by modernizing language, clarifying regulatory procedures, and expanding the powers and membership options available to credit unions. It updates definitions, streamlines the appeals process, allows credit unions to offer additional financial services, permits membership for underserved populations, and clarifies record-keeping and examination procedures.

House2025-06-18

H778Introduced

Expressing UK Friendship

This House Resolution expresses North Carolina's support for strengthening economic and cultural ties with the United Kingdom and urges the U.S. Congress to work more closely with the UK on trade relations. The resolution recognizes the historical friendship between the two nations, acknowledges British cultural influence on North Carolina, and highlights the economic significance of UK investment and trade to the state.

House2025-06-18

H923Introduced

Protect Personal Info/Judicial Personnel

This bill allows judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and other judicial officials to request that state, county, and city websites remove their personal identifying information such as home addresses, phone numbers, and birth certificates. Public agencies must comply with these requests and keep the requests confidential, while the removed information remains a public record if otherwise required to be disclosed.

House2025-06-17

H860Introduced

Social Media Control in IT Act

This bill requires social media platforms with over 1 million U.S. users to protect North Carolina users' data privacy and prohibits using minors' personal information in algorithmic recommendation systems. The bill sets default privacy protections for minors, requires clear data disclosures, allows users to control how their data is used, and creates a state task force to monitor compliance. Violations become enforceable as unfair business practices starting January 1, 2027.

House2025-06-17

H429Engrossed

Turtle Rescue Team Special Registration Plate

This bill reauthorizes a special registration plate for the Turtle Rescue Team at NC State University's College of Veterinary Medicine. The plate, which expired in 2016, would become available again for vehicle owners to purchase at an additional $30 fee beyond regular registration costs.

House2025-06-16

H50Passed

LEO Special Separation Allowance Options

This bill gives state and local law enforcement officers with at least 30 years of service who retire before age 62 a choice between two ways to calculate their special separation allowance. Officers can either receive 0.85% of their current salary for each year of service, or 0.85% of their salary at the time they reached 30 years of service multiplied by 30—whichever they choose provides more benefit.

House2025-06-13

H569Engrossed

PFAS Pollution and Polluter Liability

This bill allows North Carolina's Secretary of Environmental Quality to order PFAS manufacturers whose pollution has contaminated public drinking water systems to pay for the costs of removing or treating that contamination. The bill applies to cases where a water system has spent over $50 million on PFAS remediation and can trace the contamination to a specific manufacturer's discharge, and it applies retroactively to costs incurred since January 1, 2017.

House2025-06-05

H485Engrossed

Adult Care Home Medicaid PCS Coverage

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services to request federal approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to extend Medicaid coverage for personal care services to certain low-income individuals living in adult care homes. The coverage would apply to people whose income is between the current limit and 180-200% of the federal poverty level, but only if the new services are paid for through savings or cost avoidance and the federal government approves the request.

House2025-05-27

H886Engrossed

AEDs and CPR in Public Schools

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to install at least one automatic external defibrillator (AED) in each school building, primarily in athletic facilities, and mandates training for school personnel on how to use AEDs and perform CPR. The State Board of Education will develop rules for installation, maintenance, and training, with all types of public schools (traditional public, charter, regional, and university-run) required to comply by the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-05-08

H121Engrossed

SchCalFlex/Statewide/Open Cal

This bill gives local school boards more flexibility in setting school calendars by allowing them to start school as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of August 26) if they have experienced significant weather-related closures, and increases the number of remote instruction days schools can use to meet required instructional time when unable to open due to emergencies.

House2025-05-07

H772Engrossed

North Carolina Student Lifeline Act

This bill requires all North Carolina schools (public, charter, private, and religious) and community colleges and universities to display the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline phone number (988) and NC Peer Warmline phone number (855-733-7762) in multiple locations, including student IDs, websites, school devices, calendars, and registration documents. Schools must verify these phone numbers are current annually.

House2025-05-07

H572Engrossed

Veterans/eTMS Pilot Program

This bill authorizes North Carolina's Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to select a provider to run a statewide pilot program offering eTMS (electroencephalogram combined transcranial magnetic stimulation) treatment to veterans, first responders, and their immediate family members who have conditions like PTSD, substance use disorders, traumatic brain injuries, and sleep disorders. The program must include peer support networks, counseling, and outcome reporting by September 2026.

House2025-05-07

H841Engrossed

Shellfish Leasing Study

This bill requires the North Carolina Collaboratory to conduct a comprehensive study on shellfish aquaculture leasing regulations, including the effectiveness of current rules, the history of existing moratoriums, best practices from other states, and potential conflicts between shellfish farming and other coastal uses. The study must be completed by May 1, 2026, with an interim report by December 1, 2025.

House2025-05-07

H909Engrossed

State Infrastructure Bank Board

This bill establishes a State Infrastructure Bank Board to provide loans and financial assistance for transportation, water, sewer, and other infrastructure projects in North Carolina. The Board will manage federal, state, and private funds, offer flexible lending terms including below-market interest rates, and use blended financing to attract private investment in infrastructure.

House2025-05-07

H896Engrossed

Jesse's Law

This bill creates a study committee to examine whether North Carolina should require specialized training on domestic violence and child abuse for judges, guardians ad litem, mediators, and other court professionals involved in child custody cases. The committee will study training content, duration, providers, costs, and implementation models, then report findings to the General Assembly by June 30, 2026.

House2025-05-07

H81Introduced

Restrict Use of Vehicle Telematics

This bill requires insurance companies and agents to notify customers in writing and get their written consent before collecting or using vehicle telematics data (driving habit information from tracking devices or apps). Customers can revoke their consent at any time, and companies must stop using the data within 24 hours of revocation. Violations are treated as unfair or deceptive trade practices.

House2025-05-07

H489Engrossed

Insurance Coverage Emergency Ambulance Trans

This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to reimburse out-of-network ambulance services at a minimum rate of 100% of the local government rate (or 400% of Medicare rates if no local rate exists), and caps the patient's cost-sharing for emergency ambulance services at the lesser of $100 or 10% of the reimbursement amount.

House2025-05-07

H520Engrossed

Abuse and Deception by Telemarketers

This bill prohibits North Carolina telemarketers from displaying fake, misleading, or misrepresented phone numbers on caller identification systems. It requires telemarketers to show their actual phone number or the legitimate business entity they represent, establishes record-keeping requirements for telemarketing calls, and creates civil penalties for violations ranging from $500 to $10,000 per call.

House2025-05-07

H953Engrossed

Study Committee on ADA/APD/PAC Pay

This bill establishes a 12-member study committee to examine the pay rates and structures of assistant district attorneys, assistant public defenders, and private assigned counsel in North Carolina. The committee will compare North Carolina's pay and conditions to neighboring states and other factors that influence whether lawyers work in these criminal justice roles, with reports due to legislative appropriations committees by March 2026 and March 2027.

House2025-05-07

H283Engrossed

Small Business Investment Grant Program

This bill creates a new Small Business Investment Grant Program within North Carolina's One North Carolina Fund, allocating up to $10 million in competitive grants to help small businesses establish new facilities or expand existing ones in the state. It also renames the existing One North Carolina Small Business Account to the Small Business Research and Technology Account.

House2025-05-07

H906Engrossed

Reagan's Law

Reagan's Law requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover prosthetic and orthotic devices (artificial limbs and braces) based on Medicare's coverage standards. The law ensures coverage includes all necessary materials, instruction, repairs, and replacement devices, including multiple devices for different activities, with no limits based on device lifespan or continuous use.

House2025-05-07

H515Engrossed

North Carolina Economic Abuse Prevention Act

This bill creates the North Carolina Economic Abuse Prevention Act, which provides domestic violence survivors and certain other abuse victims legal remedies to challenge debts incurred under duress, coercion, or fraud by abusers. Survivors can provide documentation to creditors and collection agencies to stop collection activities and potentially eliminate their liability for coerced debts, while creditors may pursue claims against the person who coerced the debt.

House2025-05-07

H444Introduced

Homeowners Association Reform Bill

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's condominium and planned community association laws. It protects homeowners by limiting how associations can change rules, restricting managing agent compensation based on fines collected, requiring fair approval procedures for home modifications, and preventing foreclosures without allowing payment plans first. It also establishes mandatory mediation before associations can sue members and requires the Department of Justice to collect and report complaints about association disputes.

House2025-05-06

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

H934Introduced

AI Regulatory Reform Act

This bill creates a new criminal offense for knowingly creating or distributing deepfakes (manipulated media) intended to deceive without consent, particularly when used for harassment, extortion, or election interference. It also grants legal immunity to artificial intelligence developers and online platforms from civil liability when licensed professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.) use AI products and experience errors in their professional services.

House2025-05-06

H97Engrossed

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

This bill adds certain occupational cancers to the list of firefighter deaths eligible for death benefits under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. Firefighters who die from mesothelioma, testicular cancer, small intestine cancer, esophageal cancer, oral cavity cancer, pharynx cancer, gastric cancer, prostate cancer, or colon cancer are presumed to have died in the line of duty if the cancer is occupationally related to firefighting.

House2025-05-05

H866Engrossed

Automatic Ord/Equitable Distribution Claim

This bill requires North Carolina courts to automatically issue a standing order when someone files for equitable distribution (property division) in a divorce. The automatic order prohibits both spouses from selling, transferring, or hiding assets, taking on excessive debt, or changing insurance and beneficiary designations without the other spouse's written consent or court approval. The order remains in effect until the property division case is finalized.

House2025-05-05

H512Engrossed

Emer. Care/Animals/Vet. Practice

This bill allows emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to provide emergency medical care to injured police K-9 units and certified search and rescue dogs at emergency scenes without needing a veterinary license. It also protects EMS personnel from prosecution when they provide such emergency care in good faith, though this protection does not apply to cases involving gross negligence, wanton conduct, or intentional wrongdoing.

House2025-05-01

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

H140Engrossed

Authorize Gullah Geechee Heritage Trail

This bill authorizes the creation of the Gullah Geechee Greenway/Blueway Heritage Trail in Brunswick County, a 21-mile multiuse trail with 9 segments that will feature historical sites and cultural landmarks related to Gullah Geechee heritage. The state is authorized to support, promote, and facilitate the trail's establishment on state and other public and private lands, while respecting the rules and policies of non-state property owners.

House2025-05-01

H146Engrossed

Remote License Renewal/Active Duty Military

This bill allows active duty military members stationed outside North Carolina, along with their spouses and dependent children, to renew their driver's licenses remotely two consecutive times instead of just once. The exception applies when the license is not REAL ID compliant or is being converted from REAL ID compliant to non-compliant status.

House2025-05-01

H254Engrossed

Adopt Tuskegee Airmen Day

This bill designates the fourth Thursday of March each year as Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day in North Carolina. The day honors African-American pilots and support staff trained during World War II at Tuskegee Institute who served with distinction in combat operations.

House2025-05-01

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

H649Engrossed

County Tier Designation Study Bill

This bill directs the NC Collaboratory at UNC Chapel Hill to study how different changes to North Carolina's county tier designation system might affect rankings, programs, and business conditions across all 100 counties. The study will examine three types of changes: modifying ranking criteria, changing how tier designations are assigned, and adjusting the timeframe for rankings. The Collaboratory must submit a preliminary report by December 31, 2025, and a final report by December 1, 2026.

House2025-04-30

H462Introduced

Personal Data Privacy/Social Media Safety

This bill creates two new laws: the Personal Data Privacy Act, which gives North Carolina residents rights to access, correct, delete, and control how companies use their personal data (particularly for targeted advertising and sales), and the Social Media Safety Act, which requires social media platforms to verify users are 18 years old and obtain parental consent before minors can create accounts.

House2025-04-29

H956Introduced

Enhance Financial Protections/Older Adults

This bill requires North Carolina financial institutions and payment card processors to report to social services when they observe older adults (65+) or disabled adults exhibiting financially harmful behavior patterns or ceasing communication for six months. During the reporting period, covered entities must waive late fees, penalties, and interest charges on loans or credit extended to these individuals.

House2025-04-29

H110Introduced

Nat.l Guard Student Loan Repayment Program

This bill creates a National Guard Student Loan Repayment Program that provides up to $50,000 in student loan repayment assistance to active North Carolina National Guard members who commit to at least three years of service, with additional funds available for longer service terms. The bill appropriates $25.5 million in startup funding and $180,000 for administrative staff to operate the program.

House2025-04-29

H592Engrossed

Toxic-Free Medical Devices Act of 2025

This bill prohibits North Carolina manufacturers, sellers, and distributors from intentionally using DEHP (a chemical plasticizer) in intravenous solution containers starting January 1, 2030, and in intravenous tubing starting January 1, 2035. The bill also sets a maximum limit of 0.1% for unintentionally present DEHP and allows delayed compliance until January 2032 for manufacturers awaiting FDA approval or needing equipment upgrades.

House2025-04-28

H634Introduced

Parity Enhancement for Addiction Recovery

This bill updates North Carolina insurance law to align with federal mental health parity requirements and enhance coverage for substance use disorder treatment. It requires health insurance plans to cover mental health conditions with the same terms and conditions as physical health conditions, mandates that substance use disorder treatment decisions use specific clinical criteria from the American Society of Addiction Medicine, and replaces outdated terminology throughout insurance regulations.

House2025-04-17

H824Introduced

Expand Treatment Access/Opioid Use Disorder

This bill expands insurance coverage for opioid use disorder and overdose treatment by requiring health plans to cover all FDA-approved medications for these conditions without prior authorization, requiring pharmacists' services to be covered like other healthcare providers, and updating language throughout state insurance law to reflect current medical terminology and federal parity requirements.

House2025-04-17

H635Introduced

Increase Access to Fertility Treatment

This bill requires large group health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover fertility diagnostic care, fertility treatment, and fertility preservation services. Coverage must include at least three in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles per person, though the requirement does not apply to plans offered by religious institutions or self-insured group plans.

House2025-04-17

H820Introduced

Prescription Eye Drop Early Refill Coverage

This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina that cover prescription eye drops to also cover early refills. Patients could request refills after using 70% of their medication or after 21 days, whichever comes first, as long as the refill doesn't exceed the prescriber's limit. The bill applies to most health insurance plans starting October 1, 2025, and allocates $100,000 per year to implement it.

House2025-04-16

H213Engrossed

Post NC Veterans' Benefits

This bill requires North Carolina employers with five or more employees to post notices about veterans' benefits in the workplace, alongside existing labor law notices. The notices can be printed with a QR code or digital, and must include information about veterans' services, benefits, employment assistance, and housing support provided by the state.

House2025-04-16

H69Engrossed

Military and Veterans Educational Promise Act

This bill prohibits North Carolina's public universities from denying admission based on military service, allows active duty service members and their spouses to defer enrollment for 2-5 years, and grants in-state tuition rates to honorably discharged veterans who meet specific criteria (such as graduating from an NC high school after 2004, serving with a permanent NC station, or receiving a Purple Heart).

House2025-04-16

H272Engrossed

The Sergeant Mickey Hutchens Act

This bill allows law enforcement, probation/parole, and corrections officers who have earned advanced certificates to purchase up to four years of additional service credit in the state retirement system by paying the full cost upfront. The law applies to both the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System and the Local Governmental Employees' Retirement System, and becomes effective January 1, 2027, pending IRS approval.

House2025-04-16

H399Introduced

NC Board of Nursing Licensure Fees

This bill doubles most licensing fees charged by the North Carolina Board of Nursing for registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and related services. The fee increases will take effect October 1, 2025, and apply to new applications, renewals, and reinstatements, with a cap preventing year-to-year increases of more than 20%.

House2025-04-15

H1004Introduced

UNC AI & Technology Hubs

This bill appropriates $124 million to establish artificial intelligence and technology hubs across UNC universities. It designates up to eight UNC institutions as AI Hubs (with at least one being a historically Black college or American Indian university), provides $70 million for technology hubs at all UNC campuses, and allocates $30 million for AI research grants through the NC Collaboratory.

House2025-04-14

H916Introduced

Strengthen Do Not Call/Text Registry

This bill strengthens North Carolina's Do Not Call/Do Not Text Registry by reducing the time companies have to remove numbers from their contact lists after being asked to stop calling (from 60 to 30 business days), expanding the definition of who is considered a telemarketer, and making companies jointly liable if they knowingly accept sales leads generated by illegal calls.

House2025-04-14

H932Introduced

Ten Percent Raise/Teachers/First Responders

This bill establishes a permanent 10% pay raise for North Carolina teachers and first responders, funded by $900 million annually for teachers and $700 million annually for first responders over the 2025-2027 fiscal years. The raises take effect July 1, 2025, and become part of employees' base salaries for calculating future increases.

House2025-04-14

H890Introduced

School Internet Emergency Access Act

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction to develop a plan for providing temporary internet service to public schools during emergencies and establishes a funded Emergency Internet Service Fund. The bill appropriates $3.9 million for the 2025-2026 school year to support this emergency internet access program.

House2025-04-14

H911Introduced

Occup. & Phys. Therapist Salaries/Employment

This bill requires local school boards to establish and publicly report minimum salary schedules for occupational and physical therapists, provides salary supplements for these therapists in the 2025-2026 school year, and mandates annual workforce reporting on therapist employment and vacancies to the state.

House2025-04-14

H943Introduced

Turning High-Achieving Students into Teachers

This bill appropriates $100,000 per year for the 2025-2027 biennium to the North Carolina Teacher Cadet Program, a high school program that encourages high-achieving students to pursue teaching careers. The funds will support curriculum training workshops, expansion into economically distressed counties, and recruitment of male teachers and teachers of color.

House2025-04-14

H951Introduced

SOS (State Owned Structures) Child Care Act

This bill creates multiple initiatives to expand child care access in North Carolina by allowing state-owned buildings to house child care facilities, requiring large state construction projects to include child care centers, establishing pilot programs for state employee and first responder child care, and studying child care feasibility at community colleges and universities. The bill also creates a workgroup to streamline licensing requirements for child care facilities.

House2025-04-14

H887Introduced

Address Abandoned and Derelict Vessels

This bill creates new state authority and procedures to identify, notify owners of, and remove abandoned and derelict vessels from North Carolina waters and public/private lands. It defines 'abandoned vessels' as those left for more than 30 days without permission, and 'derelict vessels' as those in poor condition that pose safety or environmental risks. The bill establishes timelines for owner notification and removal, allows the state to recover removal costs, and limits liability for agencies conducting removals.

House2025-04-14

H885Introduced

Revise Suspension & Parental Notice Policies

This bill revises North Carolina public school discipline policies by defining suspension lengths, limiting their use, creating appeal rights for certain suspensions, requiring clear parental notification, and prohibiting corporal punishment statewide. It also establishes new rules for in-school suspensions, restricts discipline for younger students, and requires early child care settings to report disciplinary data.

House2025-04-14

H893Introduced

Chiropractic Investigatory Costs

This bill limits the costs that North Carolina's State Board of Chiropractic Examiners can charge chiropractors during disciplinary proceedings to $1,000 for settled cases or $3,000 for cases with full hearings (except in cases of bad faith defense). The bill also requires the Board to keep accurate meeting minutes with specific details and to provide itemized cost descriptions to chiropractors, with refunds if overcharged.

House2025-04-14

H922Introduced

North Carolina Consumer Protection Act

This bill prohibits North Carolina public utilities from recovering certain costs through customer rates, including advertising, lobbying, political contributions, and executive travel expenses. It requires utilities to submit annual reports detailing prohibited expenses and establishes penalties of $50,000 to $150,000 per violation, with collected penalties funding an Energy Equity Fund for disaster relief and low-income energy assistance programs.

House2025-04-14

H947Introduced

Every Child Reads

This bill requires North Carolina schools to screen students for dyslexia in kindergarten through 3rd grade and grades 6 and 9, provide dyslexia training for teachers, and align middle school literacy instruction with the science of reading. It also transfers the NC Pre-K program from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Public Instruction.

House2025-04-14

H983Introduced

Prohibit Corporal Punishment in Schools

This bill prohibits corporal punishment in North Carolina public schools statewide, changing current law that allows individual school districts to decide whether to permit it. The bill allows schools to continue using physical restraint and reasonable force for safety purposes, and requires schools to report data on discipline practices to the State Board of Education.

House2025-04-14

H930Introduced

First Responder Bonus/Appreciation Fund/$1500

This bill establishes a one-time $1,500 bonus program for first responders and teachers in North Carolina for fiscal years 2025-2027. The state would appropriate $130 million annually for first responders (law enforcement, firefighters, EMTs, dispatchers, and public hospital nurses) and $165 million annually for teachers, with bonuses distributed through their employing agencies by December 31 each year.

House2025-04-14

H974Introduced

DHHS Study/Hospice Patient Complaints

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to study how hospice care facilities handle patient and family complaints. The study will analyze complaint data, consult with hospice administrators and industry groups, and provide recommendations to the legislature by April 1, 2026, focusing on best practices for complaint procedures, investigations, communication, and family involvement.

House2025-04-14

H993Introduced

HOA Organization and Reporting Act

This bill requires homeowners associations (HOAs) in North Carolina—both condominium unit owners' associations and planned community lot owners' associations—to incorporate or organize as corporations or limited liability companies and submit annual reports to the Secretary of State. The reports must include contact information for board members, management agents, and links to recorded covenants, with requirements taking effect October 1, 2026.

House2025-04-14

H969Introduced

Study the Abolition of Contrib. Negligence

This bill directs the Legislative Research Commission to study whether North Carolina should eliminate its contributory negligence law and adopt a different legal framework. The study would examine how abolishing contributory negligence affects citizens, evaluate financial impacts across different sectors, and provide recommendations to the General Assembly by 2026.

House2025-04-14

H979Introduced

Update Volunteer System/LTC Ombudsman Program

This bill restructures the system of volunteers who advocate for residents' rights in North Carolina nursing homes and adult care homes. It changes community advisory committees into a volunteer ombudsman representative system under direct oversight of the State Long-Term Care Ombudsman office, with clearer accountability, training requirements, and designation procedures.

House2025-04-14

H941Introduced

Expand & Enhance the Teaching Fellows Program

This bill expands the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program by increasing loan amounts for teacher education students, expanding the program to 14 institutions instead of 10, adding new focus areas like elementary education and social studies, and allocating $10 million in recurring state funding. It also applies previous program improvements retroactively to all current teaching fellows.

House2025-04-14

H957Introduced

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

This bill creates a study committee to assess infrastructure needs at North Carolina's Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), establishes several new financial aid and scholarship programs for HBCU students, and appropriates approximately $276 million in state funds for capital improvements and academic support at HBCUs and other historically minority-serving institutions across the state.

House2025-04-14

H1006Introduced

Const. Amend. Single Subject Bills

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment requiring that all state laws address only one subject, which must be clearly stated in the bill's title. The amendment would allow exceptions for general appropriation bills, revenue bills, and technical correction bills. If passed by the General Assembly, voters would decide on this amendment in the November 2026 general election.

House2025-04-14

H970Introduced

Preventing Algorithmic Rent Fixing

This bill prohibits landlords and rental management companies in North Carolina from using pricing algorithms that share or incorporate competitor rental data to set rent prices. It also prevents landlords from contracting with services that collect and analyze rental pricing information from multiple competitors. Violations are treated as unfair trade practices, and renters can sue for damages.

House2025-04-14

H973Introduced

Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act

This bill establishes the Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act, which sets state rules for noncompete agreements, confidentiality agreements, nonsolicitation agreements, and other employment restrictions that prevent workers from competing with their employers after leaving. The law requires employers to provide workers with 14 days' notice before enforcing such agreements, prohibits most restrictions on low-wage workers, and sets specific time limits and conditions for different types of restrictions to be enforceable.

House2025-04-14

H955Introduced

NC Junk Fee Prevention Act

This bill requires businesses in North Carolina to display the full total price of goods and services upfront in advertisements, including all mandatory fees that cannot be avoided. It applies to short-term lodging providers, telecommunications services, ticket sellers, and entertainment venues, and allows the Attorney General to enforce the law with civil penalties up to $5,000 per violation.

House2025-04-14

H933Introduced

IDD Omnibus

This bill implements multiple changes to support North Carolina citizens with intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). It increases Medicaid rates for direct care workers to at least $18/hour, expands waiver programs, improves Medicaid coverage for workers with disabilities, studies new community services, creates housing assistance programs, increases education funding for students with disabilities, and restricts use of prone restraints in schools.

House2025-04-14

H986Introduced

Support Our Teachers

This bill prohibits schools from requiring teachers to post lesson plans or objectives, guarantees teachers have duty-free lunch periods without assigned responsibilities, and requires schools to compensate teachers who lead professional development training for their peers.

House2025-04-14

H888Introduced

Funds for NC Community Health Worker Assn

This bill appropriates $1 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the North Carolina Community Health Worker Association to support training, certification, and workforce development for community health workers in North Carolina. The funds are one-time (nonrecurring) and are directed through the Department of Health and Human Services Division of Public Health.

House2025-04-14

H892Introduced

CDL Training/Disaster Affected Areas

This bill creates a grant program through the Department of Commerce to help Western North Carolina residents affected by Hurricane Helene obtain commercial drivers licenses (CDLs). The program provides $4,000 per trainee to approved CDL training providers and up to $1,500 per trainee for housing costs, with $2.5 million in state funding allocated for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

House2025-04-14

H914Introduced

Higher Ed./Religious Inst. Affordable Housing

This bill allows colleges and religious institutions in cities over 50,000 people to build affordable housing on their land without special zoning permits or variances. At least 80% of units must be reserved for low-income residents, and the development must follow standard building codes and avoid historic districts and heavy industrial areas.

House2025-04-14

H915Introduced

Reenact Film Credit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's film production tax credit, which allows production companies to claim a 25% tax credit on qualifying in-state expenses (minimum $250,000) such as wages, equipment, and services. The credit, which was previously repealed, would apply to feature films, television series, documentaries, and other productions, with a $20 million cap per feature film and a sunset date of January 1, 2015.

House2025-04-14

H903Introduced

Highway and Road Safety Act

This bill increases law enforcement and court resources in Mecklenburg County by adding 12 State Troopers and 5 magistrates, increases penalties for failing to stop for school buses, establishes rules for accessing highway camera videos, and funds 24-hour operation of a transportation management center in Charlotte.

House2025-04-14

H902Introduced

Free to Learn - Library Bill of Rights Act

This bill establishes the Free to Learn – Library Bill of Rights Act, creating legal protections for library users' rights to access information, intellectual freedom, and privacy. It requires libraries statewide to develop policies protecting these rights, establishes a legal resource center in the Attorney General's office, and appropriates $3 million over two years for implementation and enforcement.

House2025-04-14

H910Introduced

DRIVE Recommendations/Teacher Diversity

This bill appropriates $40.7 million to recruit and retain teachers in North Carolina through multiple programs: funding for alternative teacher pathways like 2+2 programs and Grow-Your-Own initiatives; a grant program to increase recruitment and retention of teachers of color; recruitment bonuses for teachers in low-performing schools; teacher residency programs; expansion of loan forgiveness programs for teachers in critical areas; and enhanced reporting on diversity in educator preparation programs. It also eliminates minimum standardized testing requirements for admission to teacher preparation programs.

House2025-04-14

H917Introduced

Establish DATA Division

This bill establishes the Data Analytics, Transparency, and Accountability Division within the North Carolina General Assembly. The division will have access to state agency data and databases to conduct analyses, and will receive reports from various state departments and authorities. The bill appropriates $2 million annually to operate this new division starting July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-14

H1002Introduced

Rate Payer Protection Act

This bill prohibits electric utilities from passing costs related to serving large data centers (100+ megawatts) onto regular ratepayers. Instead, data centers must pay rates designed to recover only their own costs. The bill also creates a temporary commission to study data center locations, grid expansion needs, and related planning issues until June 2027.

House2025-04-14

H990Introduced

Notice Requirements for Landlord Fees

This bill requires landlords in North Carolina to provide written notice to tenants before collecting late fees on rental payments. The notice must inform tenants of the fee amount and when it was imposed, and can be delivered by hand, mail, or electronic means as agreed upon in the lease.

House2025-04-14

H982Introduced

NC Highway Safety Act of 2025

This bill creates a 5-year pilot program allowing the North Carolina Department of Transportation to use automated speed cameras in up to 25 highway work zones to detect speeding violations. Drivers caught speeding in these zones face a $250 civil penalty (with an additional $125 penalty if they don't respond within 30 days), and 75% of collected fines go to a school technology fund while 25% goes to public schools.

House2025-04-14

H952Introduced

Comprehensive Capital for Childcare Expansion

This bill creates the North Carolina Child Care Finance Agency, a new state agency that will provide financing (loans, mortgage insurance, and bonds) to help construct and rehabilitate child care facilities across the state. The agency will be governed by a 12-member board and funded with $20 million in state appropriations and 3.5% of the Innovation Fund.

House2025-04-14

H980Introduced

Remove Barriers to Employment from Court Debt

This bill eliminates driver's license suspensions for failure to pay court fines, penalties, or costs, and for failure to appear in court for motor vehicle offenses. It requires the Division of Motor Vehicles to reinstate all such suspended licenses without fees, forgives certain outstanding fines related to driving with a revoked license when the underlying suspension was for non-payment or non-appearance, and funds a text reminder system for court appearances.

House2025-04-14

H968Introduced

Youth CERT Preparedness K-12 Training

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to teach emergency preparedness education from kindergarten through high school, with content differentiated by grade level. Elementary students (grade 3+) learn about disasters and school safety plans; middle school students study past disasters and mass casualty responses; high school students receive training based on the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Community Emergency Response Team manual. Local school boards decide which courses will include this instruction.

House2025-04-14

H940Introduced

Protection Against Pregnancy Discrimination

This bill prohibits North Carolina employers with 15 or more employees from discriminating against workers based on pregnancy, childbirth, or pregnancy-related conditions. It requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations (such as modified schedules or break time for nursing), grant pregnancy-related leave, and allow employees to return to their same or similar position after such leave, unless doing so would cause undue hardship to the business.

House2025-04-14

H944Introduced

Fund Community Health Svcs/Mecklenburg County

This bill appropriates $1.5 million in state funding for fiscal year 2025-2026 to support Care Ring, Inc., a nonprofit community health clinic in Mecklenburg County that provides primary care services to medically vulnerable residents facing geographic, economic, or other barriers to healthcare access.

House2025-04-14

H987Introduced

Create Police Leadership Fellows Program

This bill establishes the North Carolina Police Leadership Fellows Program, which provides forgivable loans up to $20,000 to eligible individuals pursuing Bachelor's Degrees in criminal justice and related fields at UNC System universities. Loan recipients must commit to working in law enforcement or corrections for at least eight years after graduation, at which point the loan is forgiven; if they don't fulfill this service requirement, they must repay the loan with interest.

House2025-04-14

H954Introduced

Local Gov'ts Disaster Fund

This bill creates a State Critical Infrastructure and Construction Resiliency Fund administered by the Governor. The fund would be financed by diverting 5% of highway use tax revenue from counties that have experienced gubernatorial disaster declarations in the past three years, and the Governor could use these funds for disaster-related construction, infrastructure, and response activities in affected counties.

House2025-04-14

H1001Introduced

Reports Related to Sexual Assault Exams

This bill requires programs that train sexual assault nurse examiners (SANEs) in North Carolina to submit annual reports to the Board of Nursing. These reports must include the total number of graduates and information about where each graduate is employed or plans to work by county.

House2025-04-14

H931Introduced

End Predatory Towing Fees and Practices

This bill establishes new regulations on towing companies in North Carolina, requiring them to charge reasonable and clearly disclosed fees, ensure vehicles can be recovered within 24 hours, limit storage fees on days when they're closed, accept multiple payment methods, and accept payment processing fees up to 2%. The Utilities Commission would enforce these rules and can impose penalties up to $5,000 per violation.

House2025-04-14

H942Introduced

Funds to Support Survivors

This bill appropriates $10 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault, which will distribute the money to partner organizations like domestic violence centers, rape crisis centers, and child advocacy centers to support victim advocacy services.

House2025-04-14

H989Introduced

Build Safer Communities and Schools Act

This bill establishes a School Safety Grants Program that provides funding to North Carolina public schools for crisis services, training, and safety equipment. The program is administered by the Center for Safer Schools and funded with $20 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period, with the intent to use recurring funds thereafter.

House2025-04-14

H965Introduced

Environmental Rights Constitutional Amendment

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would add environmental protections to the North Carolina Constitution, guaranteeing all people the right to clean water, clean air, and a preserved environment. The amendment would require the state and its agencies to serve as trustees of natural resources and protect these rights equally for current and future generations. If passed by the legislature, the amendment would go to voters in November 2026 for final approval.

House2025-04-14

H858Introduced

Funds/N. Mecklenburg Public Safety

This bill appropriates a total of approximately $73.1 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to three Northern Mecklenburg County towns: Davidson ($20.4 million), Cornelius ($6 million), and Huntersville ($47.7 million). The funds are directed toward public safety infrastructure and equipment, including fire station construction, emergency vehicles, police facilities, and equipment upgrades.

House2025-04-10

H835Introduced

Learning AAPI Contributions in Schools

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to include age-appropriate units about Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) contributions and history in courses from elementary through high school. The curriculum would cover topics such as early Asian immigrant labor, challenges faced by Asian Americans, their role in the Civil Rights Movement, and their contributions to government, arts, sciences, and North Carolina society.

House2025-04-10

H868Introduced

Due Process in LEO Field Drug Testing

This bill requires law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in North Carolina to adopt policies that prevent colorimetric field drug tests (color-based drug identification kits) from being used alone to arrest, charge, or convict someone of drug possession. Instead, a confirmed laboratory test must corroborate the field test result before these actions can occur. The bill also requires that defendants charged based only on field tests be cited and released or released on their own recognizance pending trial.

House2025-04-10

H867Introduced

Poultry Waste Management

This bill creates a permitting system for large-scale dry litter poultry operations in North Carolina, prohibits new animal waste management systems in 100-year floodplains, requires the Environmental Review Commission to study poultry waste impacts, and increases transparency about farm operations by allowing public access to location and size information.

House2025-04-10

H856Introduced

Clarify Deed Restrictions/Solar Collectors

This bill clarifies North Carolina law to make most deed restrictions that prohibit solar collectors void and unenforceable on residential properties. It allows restrictions only on the location or screening of solar collectors if they don't reduce efficiency by more than 10%, or if the panels would be visible from public areas or common spaces.

House2025-04-10

H842Introduced

Vis., Hear., Dental Screenings Opt-Out

This bill clarifies how North Carolina schools must notify parents about health screenings (vision, hearing, dental, and developmental screenings) and establishes that schools may conduct these screenings without prior parental consent, though parents must be informed at the beginning of the school year and notified of results.

House2025-04-10

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

H879Introduced

Air Conditioning for Rental Properties

This bill requires landlords in North Carolina to provide and maintain operable air conditioning in residential rental units capable of cooling the premises to a reasonable temperature during warm weather. The requirement applies to new rental agreements and renewals starting when the law takes effect.

House2025-04-10

H881Introduced

PFAS Free NC

This bill bans the manufacture, use, and distribution of PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, also called "forever chemicals") in North Carolina, with limited exceptions for federally authorized uses. It also requires water systems to disclose PFAS test results to customers, directs state agencies to study PFAS contamination, and appropriates approximately $100 million for drinking water treatment, environmental monitoring, and research on PFAS impacts.

House2025-04-10

H880Introduced

Aggie Academy Learning Lab/Funds

This bill appropriates $1 million in recurring state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to North Carolina A&T State University to support Aggie Academy, a laboratory school operated by the university. The funds become available starting July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-10

H863Introduced

Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part 1(b)

This bill appropriates $582.2 million from North Carolina's Savings Reserve to help western North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene. The funds are distributed to various state agencies and programs to address unmet needs including housing assistance, business recovery grants, infrastructure repairs, agricultural support, and community recovery services in the affected area.

House2025-04-10

H266Engrossed

Adopt Women Veterans Day

This bill designates May 1st of each year as Women Veterans Day in North Carolina. The day would be officially recognized by the state to honor women who have served in the military.

House2025-04-10

H861Introduced

Taxpayer Accountability/Pregnancy Centers

This bill requires pregnancy centers that receive state funding to establish a competitive grant application process with detailed reporting requirements and performance standards. It mandates that funded centers provide extensive information about their operations, staff qualifications, services, and client demographics, and allows the state to recover funds from centers that fail to comply with established standards.

House2025-04-10

H882Introduced

Break Free From Plastic & Forever Chemicals

This bill establishes three major environmental protections: (1) Extended Producer Responsibility requiring packaging manufacturers to reduce non-reusable packaging by set percentages over time, achieve minimum recycling rates, and use recycled content; (2) a ban on toxic substances in packaging materials including PFAS, heavy metals, and certain plastics; and (3) a ban on intentionally added PFAS in food packaging and compostable containers. Manufacturers must register, join producer responsibility organizations that coordinate compliance, and comply with labeling and reporting requirements.

House2025-04-10

H397Engrossed

Use of Epinephrine Nasal Spray

This bill expands North Carolina schools' ability to treat severe allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) by allowing them to stock epinephrine nasal sprays in addition to the auto-injectors currently permitted. It also extends similar permissions to other organizations like camps, restaurants, and sports venues to acquire and use epinephrine delivery systems, provided staff complete required training.

House2025-04-10

H869Introduced

Dynamic Symbol of Access

This bill requires North Carolina state buildings and parking areas to replace the traditional international symbol of access (static wheelchair icon) with a dynamic symbol of access (a figure leaning forward in motion) on new or replaced signs starting January 1, 2026. The bill also updates driver's license tests, handicapped parking permits, and license plates to recognize both symbols, with new permits and plates using the dynamic symbol by January 1, 2026.

House2025-04-10

H871Introduced

North Carolina Microplastics Study Act

This bill directs the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC-Chapel Hill to study how microplastics (tiny plastic particles) harm North Carolina's waterways and to develop strategies to address the problem. The bill provides $150,000 in funding and requires a comprehensive report to the General Assembly by July 1, 2026.

House2025-04-10

H857Introduced

Create Alert/Missing Person w/ Disability

This bill creates the North Carolina Missing with Disability Alert System, a statewide system to rapidly spread information about missing persons or children with disabilities who may be at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The system requires the NC Center for Missing Persons and law enforcement agencies to issue alerts through media outlets and highway message signs while protecting the missing person's private health information.

House2025-04-10

H53Engrossed

Increase Accident Thresholds/Safe Driver Plan

This bill increases the dollar thresholds used to classify car accidents under North Carolina's Safe Driver Incentive Plan. A 'major accident' threshold rises from $3,850 to $5,975 in property damage, an 'intermediate accident' range shifts from $2,300-$3,850 to $3,570-$5,975, and a 'minor accident' threshold increases from $2,300 to $3,570. The changes take effect October 1, 2025.

House2025-04-10

H845Introduced

Reduce Drowning Risk/Public Docks

This bill requires state agencies and local government entities to install water safety rescue equipment—primarily ring life buoys with attached lines—at public piers and water access points across North Carolina. The bill sets specific standards for the equipment, including size, visibility, placement, and maintenance requirements, and provides $25,000 in state grants to help economically disadvantaged local governments comply.

House2025-04-10

H865Introduced

Clarify Animal Welfare Statutes

This bill changes North Carolina's dangerous dog law to allow case-by-case evaluation of dogs trained for dog fighting, rather than automatically classifying all such dogs as dangerous. It also clarifies that local animal control ordinances must be consistent with state law.

House2025-04-10

H852Introduced

Safe Dogs, Safe Owners

This bill establishes a statewide leashing law for dogs and creates strict liability for dog owners when their unleashed dogs injure people or other animals in public. It defines 'at large' to include dogs not under reasonable physical control, such as those off-leash, on overly long leashes, or escaped from enclosures, and makes violations a Class 3 misdemeanor.

House2025-04-10

H160Engrossed

Joel H. Crisp SUDEP Awareness Law

This bill requires the UNC School of Medicine's Area Health Education Centers (NC AHEC) to compile and share evidence-based information about Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP) with all North Carolina healthcare practitioners. NC AHEC must work with medical boards and professional organizations to create standard information materials and report completed materials to the state legislature by September 1, 2025.

House2025-04-09

H826Introduced

No Retaliation Against Mandatory Reporters

This bill protects employees who are legally required to report suspected abuse, neglect, fraud, or other threats to vulnerable persons from being fired, demoted, or otherwise punished by their employers for making those reports. It allows employees to file complaints with the North Carolina Commissioner of Labor and pursue legal action if they face retaliation, with potential remedies including reinstatement, back pay, and civil penalties up to $5,000.

House2025-04-09

H828Introduced

Prohibit Prop Bets on College/Amateur Sports

This bill prohibits proposition bets (wagers on individual statistics or actions that don't affect the final outcome) on college and amateur sports in North Carolina. It also prevents in-person sports betting at facilities hosting college sports events for eight hours before and during those events.

House2025-04-09

H823Introduced

County Service Districts/Research & URSD

This bill modifies North Carolina's laws governing Research and Production Service Districts (RPSDs) and Urban Research Service Districts (URSDs), which are special taxing districts that allow counties to provide enhanced services to specific areas like research parks. The changes clarify procedures for multi-county districts, expand the authority of private developers to act as agents for service provision, increase the property tax rate limit in these districts from 10 cents to 20 cents per $100 of property value, and allow URSD tax revenues to support certain county debt service for capital projects benefiting the district.

House2025-04-09

H487Introduced

Shorter Separation for Retired ADAs and APDs

This bill allows retired Assistant District Attorneys (ADAs) and Assistant Public Defenders (APDs) with at least 5 years of service to return to work for the Judicial Branch after a 2-month waiting period instead of the standard 6-month separation required for other retirees. The bill requires the State Treasurer to obtain IRS approval to ensure the change does not jeopardize the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System.

House2025-04-09

H787Introduced

Revise NC 529 Program

This bill creates two programs to help North Carolinians save for education: a matching contribution program where the state matches $100 for every $50 contributed to a 529 college savings plan (up to $1,500 per student), and a state tax deduction of up to $2,000 per person (or $4,000 for married couples) for contributions to these savings accounts. The matching program is limited to households earning up to 250% of the federal poverty level and students age 14 or younger.

House2025-04-08

H802Introduced

Nicotine & Vaping Prevention in Schools

This bill expands North Carolina school policies to prohibit nicotine, hemp, and vapor products (including delta-8, delta-9, and CBD) on school property and at school events. It requires schools to provide evidence-based prevention materials to students, establish a discipline policy for students found in possession of these products, and directs the Department of Health and Human Services to approve educational materials and maintain a list of cessation resources.

House2025-04-08

H816Introduced

Voucher School Transparency Act

This bill increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship vouchers. It requires these schools to submit annual reports on student test scores, graduation rates, financial audits, staffing credentials, and safety plans, and directs the State Auditor to review at least three such schools' audits each year.

House2025-04-08

H813Introduced

Enhanced Reg. of Registered Res. Facilities

This bill renames 'multiunit assisted housing with services' facilities to 'registered residential facilities' and clarifies they are not equivalent to licensed adult care homes. It updates registration requirements, expands restrictions on which residents can live in these facilities, allows the Department of Health and Human Services to pursue legal action against facilities operating without approval, and directs the Medical Care Commission to adopt rules for registering and inspecting these facilities.

House2025-04-08

H815Introduced

Voucher School Accountability Act

This bill expands eligibility for North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) and increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept these vouchers. It broadens who can receive scholarships, increases scholarship amounts for low-income students, and requires participating private schools to meet standards including criminal background checks, standardized testing, financial audits, and teacher qualifications.

House2025-04-08

H810Introduced

State Employee Bereavement Leave/Up To 40-Hrs

This bill would provide North Carolina state employees, public school employees, and community college employees with up to 40 hours of paid bereavement leave when an immediate family member dies and 8 hours of paid leave when a colleague dies. The leave would be available immediately upon hire, usable within 180 days of death, and the state would appropriate $2 million annually to fund this benefit beginning July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-08

H809Introduced

Count NC Pre-K for School ADM

This bill requires local school districts that operate NC Pre-K programs to count pre-kindergarten students in their average daily membership (ADM) calculations. Average daily membership is used to determine state funding allocations to school districts, so counting pre-K students would increase funding for districts with these programs.

House2025-04-08

H807Introduced

Strong Public Schools for a Strong NC

This bill appropriates funds to increase teacher salaries, support special education services, provide free breakfast and lunch to all public school students, establish a device refresh program for student computers, and freeze enrollment in the Opportunity Scholarship program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) while reducing its future funding.

House2025-04-08

H788Introduced

Fix Our Democracy

This comprehensive bill proposes multiple democratic reforms in North Carolina, including establishing a nonpartisan redistricting commission, converting judicial elections to nonpartisan processes, extending cooling-off periods for legislators-turned-lobbyists, implementing online and automatic voter registration, requiring live-streaming of legislative meetings, reducing absentee ballot witness requirements, ensuring voting places on college campuses, limiting voter roll purges, and reestablishing public campaign financing for judicial candidates with various campaign finance transparency requirements.

House2025-04-08

H794Introduced

Study Highway Patrol Staffing/Salary Scale

This bill directs the North Carolina State Highway Patrol to conduct a comprehensive study of its staffing levels and salary scales, including overall patrol size, regional troop needs, and compensation for different ranks. The Highway Patrol must report its findings and recommendations to legislative committees by March 1, 2026.

House2025-04-08

H792Introduced

Clean Energy Grants

This bill appropriates $14.5 million in state funding for clean energy grants during the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The money will be distributed through two programs: $10 million for innovation and research grants administered by the Department of Commerce, and $4.5 million for competitive grants supporting clean energy businesses and entrepreneurs.

House2025-04-08

H796Introduced

The Student Mental Health Line Awareness Act

This bill requires public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools in North Carolina to print three mental health crisis helpline numbers on student identification cards issued to grades 6-12 students: the 988 Lifeline, Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and the NC Statewide Warmline (1-855-733-7762). Nonpublic schools are encouraged but not required to do the same. Schools must verify these numbers are accurate and current annually.

House2025-04-08

H335Introduced

Expand Emergency Judge Eligibility

This bill expands eligibility for retired judges to serve as emergency judges by allowing judges who previously served on both superior court and district court to be recalled as emergency judges on either court, rather than only the court from which they most recently retired.

House2025-04-08

H790Introduced

Prohibit Vape/Tobacco Shops Near Schools

This bill makes it illegal to sell tobacco products, vaping products, and alternative nicotine products within 1,000 feet of public or nonpublic school buildings in North Carolina. The restriction does not apply to businesses where such sales are incidental to their primary operations, and it excludes home schools and colleges. Violations would be classified as Class 2 misdemeanors.

House2025-04-08

H798Introduced

Expand Access to Cold Weather Shelters/Funds

This bill appropriates $1.72 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the Department of Health and Human Services to create a grant program that funds municipalities and nonprofit organizations in establishing or expanding temporary emergency shelters for homeless individuals during severe weather. The Division of Aging will manage the program with selection criteria based on applicant needs and local poverty rates, with individual grants capped at $215,000 annually.

House2025-04-08

H755Introduced

Nonprofit Sales Tax Exemption

This bill creates a sales tax exemption for certain nonprofit organizations, including 501(c)(3) charities (with some exclusions), nonprofit hospitals, volunteer fire departments, and university-affiliated nonprofits. The exemption applies to tangible goods, digital property, and services these organizations purchase to carry out their work, with an annual state cap of $31.7 million and a local cap of $13.3 million.

House2025-04-07

H753Introduced

LEOs Return to Work

This bill allows certain law enforcement officers in North Carolina to receive retirement benefits while continuing to work. State and local law enforcement officers age 59.5 or older can elect to start receiving retirement payments while still employed, and retired officers can return to work and continue receiving their retirement benefits. The bill includes funding of $10 million per year and expires December 31, 2029.

House2025-04-07

H766Introduced

Expand Access to Teen Mental Health First Aid

This bill appropriates $1,873,863 in state funding to expand Teen Mental Health First Aid (tMHFA) training across North Carolina. tMHFA is an evidence-based course that teaches high school students (grades 9-12) how to recognize and respond to mental health and substance use challenges in their peers.

House2025-04-07

H774Introduced

School Breakfast for All

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to provide free breakfast to students in pre-K through 12th grade who want it, and establishes a farm-to-table initiative to source local farm products for school meals. The state would allocate $39 million annually ($34 million for free breakfast, $5 million for farm partnerships) starting in the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-04-07

H784Introduced

Prohibit Assault Weapons

This bill would prohibit the manufacture, transfer, and possession of semiautomatic assault weapons and large-capacity ammunition feeding devices (magazines holding more than 10 rounds) in North Carolina, effective December 1, 2025. The law would allow people to keep weapons they already owned before the effective date and includes exceptions for law enforcement, military, and certain other purposes. Violations would be classified as Class E felonies.

House2025-04-07

H786Introduced

Working Families Act

This bill makes several changes to support working families in North Carolina: it reduces what families pay for subsidized child care, restores a state tax credit for families with children, gradually raises the minimum wage from $10 to $15 per hour by 2030 with annual adjustments after that, expands property tax relief for homeowners, creates down payment assistance for public servants buying homes for the first time, and establishes a paid family leave insurance program funded by employer contributions to help workers take time off for family or medical needs.

House2025-04-07

H141Engrossed

The Joe John Remembrance Act

This bill removes the additional fee that fire department and rescue squad members must pay when obtaining a special registration plate. Currently, these members pay the standard vehicle registration fee plus an extra charge; this bill eliminates that extra charge so they only pay the standard fee.

House2025-04-03

H742Introduced

Healthy and High-Performing Schools

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to use environmentally sensitive cleaning products when it is cost-effective to do so. The Department of Public Instruction will establish guidelines for what qualifies as green cleaning products, and schools that cannot afford to switch must notify the state annually. The requirements apply to public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and universities, while nonpublic schools with 50+ students are encouraged but not required to comply.

House2025-04-03

H713Introduced

Universal Free Breakfast and Lunch

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student at no cost. The state would appropriate $144 million in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 school year to cover these meals, with the State Board of Education distributing funds to school districts based on factors like school size, student enrollment, and meal quality standards.

House2025-04-03

H715Introduced

Universal Pre-K

This bill appropriates $13.3 million in recurring annual funding for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to expand the North Carolina Prekindergarten (NC Pre-K) program by increasing available slots for children seeking to participate. The funding goes to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Child Development and Early Education, and takes effect July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-03

H684Introduced

Environmental Justice in North Carolina

This bill establishes a formal Environmental Justice State Policy in North Carolina requiring state agencies to consider how their decisions affect different communities' exposure to environmental burdens and access to environmental benefits. It creates an Environmental Justice Advisory Council and mandates that eight covered state agencies develop engagement plans, track spending on environmental projects, and report annually on how they are distributing environmental benefits fairly across communities.

House2025-04-03

H664Introduced

Eliminate PET Scanners from CON Review

This bill removes PET scanners (Positron Emission Tomography machines used for medical imaging) from North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) review process. Currently, hospitals and medical facilities must obtain state approval before purchasing PET scanners; this bill eliminates that requirement.

House2025-04-03

H667Introduced

Reduce Barriers to College Completion

This bill allows certain children of parents holding H-1B or L-1 work visas to pay in-state tuition rates at North Carolina public universities if they are lawfully present in the United States and establish domicile in North Carolina. The bill applies to students with H-4 visas or those continuously enrolled who held an H-4 visa at some point during their enrollment.

House2025-04-03

H738Introduced

Restore Wetlands Protections

This bill restores wetland protections in North Carolina by repealing two sections from previous laws and redefining what qualifies as protected wetlands. The bill expands the state's wetland protections to include isolated wetlands (those not connected to other water bodies) that were confirmed isolated by the Army Corps of Engineers before June 2020, or those classified as basin wetlands or bogs according to a specific state assessment manual.

House2025-04-03

H725Introduced

MOMnibus 3.0

HB 725, the MOMnibus 3.0 Act, is a comprehensive maternal health bill that addresses North Carolina's high maternal mortality rates, particularly among Black women. The bill establishes grant programs for community-based organizations, requires implicit bias training for perinatal healthcare providers, funds lactation consultant training at historically Black colleges and universities, and creates mobile health initiatives to expand maternal healthcare access in underserved areas.

House2025-04-03

H709Introduced

K-3 Literacy and Improvement Act

This bill creates a pilot grant program that provides funding to 16 public schools (one traditional school and one charter school from each of North Carolina's eight educational districts) to hire additional teacher assistants in kindergarten through third grade classrooms. The program allocates $14.8 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal years, with funding based on statewide average salaries and a standard class size of 21 students.

House2025-04-03

H708Introduced

IROBOT - Increasing Robotics Opportunities

This bill establishes a grant program funded with $2.5 million annually to support high school robotics teams and after-school programs coordinated through public schools or community organizations. The bill also allows students to receive excused absences to participate in school-sanctioned robotics competitions.

House2025-04-03

H654Introduced

Adopt Girl Scouts Week

This bill designates the week containing March 12th each year as Girl Scouts Week in North Carolina to recognize the Girl Scouts organization and celebrate the accomplishments of Girl Scout Gold Award recipients. The designation is a ceremonial recognition with no budgetary or regulatory requirements.

House2025-04-02

H641Introduced

Transportation for the Future Act

This bill modernizes North Carolina's transportation funding distribution formula by increasing support for non-highway transportation projects like public transit, rail, and bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure. It reallocates state transportation funds from 40% to 30% for statewide highway projects, increases regional projects from 30% to 40%, and requires at least 20% of funds go to non-highway projects. It also updates local zoning and subdivision regulations to better accommodate multimodal transportation planning.

House2025-04-02

H651Introduced

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds

This bill reduces the percentage of gross family income that parents must pay as copayments for state-subsidized child care from 10% to 7%. It appropriates $25 million annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to fund this reduction in parent costs.

House2025-04-02

H622Introduced

Limit Excessive Mag Sizes

This bill would prohibit the manufacture, sale, purchase, transfer, and possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines in North Carolina, defined as magazines holding more than 10 rounds for most firearms or more than 8 shotgun shells. Violations would be Class 2 misdemeanors, with enhanced penalties for repeat offenses or use during felonies. The law includes exceptions for military and law enforcement, out-of-state transfers, and allows current owners 180 days to modify, surrender, or sell their magazines.

House2025-04-02

H628Introduced

Reenact Child Tax Credit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's child tax credit, which had previously expired. The credit allows eligible taxpayers to reduce their state income taxes by $125-$250 per qualifying child, depending on their filing status and income level, with the credit amount decreasing for higher earners. The credit is refundable, meaning taxpayers can receive a refund if the credit exceeds their tax liability.

House2025-04-02

H625Introduced

The Prison Resources Repurposing Act

This bill creates a new parole program that allows inmates serving life sentences without parole to become eligible for release after serving at least 20 years if they complete educational, vocational, and work requirements through a 15-year Mutual Agreement Parole Program contract. The bill applies to both current and future inmates, with those already imprisoned for 20+ years eligible for shorter contracts of 1-3 years.

House2025-04-02

H646Introduced

Const. Amend.: Remove Slavery as Punishment

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the exception that currently allows involuntary servitude as punishment for crime in North Carolina. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would make slavery and involuntary servitude completely prohibited under all circumstances in the state constitution.

House2025-04-02

H599Introduced

Award NC Forest Service Pay Increase

This bill appropriates $2.6 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $5.2 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to give North Carolina Forest Service employees a 7.5% salary increase in each year, beginning July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-01

H579Introduced

NC House Public Access Act of 2025

This bill appropriates $91,000 in nonrecurring funds and $4,000 in recurring annual funds to install and maintain equipment that allows the public to watch North Carolina House committee meetings and floor proceedings live online and access recordings for 10 years. Committee chairs may choose not to record meetings if they provide advance notice and maintain audio recordings and written minutes instead.

House2025-04-01

H611Introduced

Increase APs in Public Schools

This bill appropriates state funds to increase the number of assistant principals in North Carolina public schools. Local school districts must hire more assistant principals each year, with the state providing $23.6 million in the 2025-2026 school year and $57.6 million annually from 2026-2027 onward to support this expansion.

House2025-04-01

H571Introduced

Funds for PTSD Treatment for Police Officers

This bill appropriates $500,000 in state funds to the Department of Public Safety to create a grant program that helps pay for treatment of police officers diagnosed with PTSD. The funds are nonrecurring, meaning they are available only for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

House2025-04-01

H617Introduced

Supporting Small Farmers for NC's Future Act

This bill establishes a new Small Farmers Support Grant Program that provides $20 million in state funding to help small farmers (those with gross farm income of $300,000 or less) purchase equipment, build infrastructure, and improve their operations. It also lowers the income threshold for farmers to qualify for sales tax exemptions from $10,000 to $7,500 annually.

House2025-04-01

H583Introduced

Law Enforcement/Destroy Certain Firearms

This bill allows North Carolina law enforcement agencies to destroy certain firearms in their possession, including unclaimed guns, firearms confiscated after convictions for certain crimes, and firearms purchased through or voluntarily surrendered to gun buy-back programs. Currently, state law prohibits police from destroying most seized firearms, leading to large storage backlogs costing departments significant money and creating safety risks.

House2025-04-01

H621Introduced

Funds for the Umbrella Center

This bill appropriates $1.5 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Safe Alliance, Inc. for its Umbrella Center (Family Justice Center) in Charlotte. The money will be used for land acquisition and a deceleration lane to support services for people affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, child abuse, elder abuse, and human trafficking.

House2025-04-01

H580Introduced

SBOE Legislative Changes.-AB

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina election law, including protecting the confidentiality of absentee ballot requesters, allowing earlier counting of some ballots, making poll worker assignment more flexible, clarifying digital photo ID requirements, and adjusting various filing deadlines and thresholds for campaign finance reporting.

House2025-04-01

H426Introduced

Workforce Diploma Program

This bill establishes a two-year Workforce Diploma Program through North Carolina's Community Colleges System to help adults age 21 and older earn high school diplomas while developing job skills. The state will contract with qualified third-party organizations to deliver the program and will provide up to $5 million in funding, paying organizations based on student completion of coursework, certifications, credentials, and diplomas.

House2025-04-01

H588Introduced

School Psychologist Omnibus

This bill aims to increase the number and quality of school psychologists in North Carolina through six main parts: providing salary supplements to school psychologists, establishing a grant program for schools to recruit psychologists, creating an internship program with stipends, funding virtual training programs, increasing university training program funding, and joining an interstate compact to allow school psychologists to practice across state lines.

House2025-04-01

H603Introduced

Workforce Housing Loans-Preconstruction Costs

This bill creates a new revolving loan program in the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency that provides short-term loans to developers for preconstruction costs (like surveys, permits, and site preparation) on workforce housing projects. The program allocates $40 million in state funds and reserves 80% of loans for economically disadvantaged counties and 20% for other counties, with individual loans capped at $1 million.

House2025-04-01

H589Introduced

The Second Look Act

The Second Look Act allows people serving prison sentences (except those with life sentences) to request a judge reduce their sentence if they have served at least 10 years or 50% of their sentence, whichever is longer. A judge must hold a hearing and can reduce the sentence if they find the person is not a danger to the community and that reducing the sentence serves justice, considering factors like the person's age, behavior in prison, rehabilitation efforts, and victim input.

House2025-04-01

H550Introduced

Modify Mileage and Per Diem

This bill updates the mileage reimbursement rates and per diem (daily allowance) for North Carolina legislators to match the 2025 federal rates, effective when the 2027 General Assembly convenes. It replaces outdated federal rate references from 1993 with current 2024 federal rates for travel and meal expenses.

House2025-03-31

H545Introduced

Ban Ghost Guns & Undetectable Firearms

This bill would make it illegal for most people in North Carolina to manufacture, sell, transfer, or possess ghost guns (firearms without serial numbers) and undetectable firearms (guns that can't be detected by metal detectors or are made entirely of plastic or 3D-printed materials). Licensed federal firearms manufacturers would be exempt from this prohibition. Violation would be a Class I felony.

House2025-03-31

H522Introduced

Crisis Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act

This bill makes it illegal for crisis pregnancy centers to advertise that they provide abortion or emergency contraceptive services when they do not actually offer those services. The bill also requires the Department of Health and Human Services to study crisis pregnancy centers operating in North Carolina, including their funding sources and services offered.

House2025-03-27

H521Introduced

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

This bill requires employers in North Carolina to provide employees with paid sick leave, accruing at one hour per 30 hours worked, capped at 32 hours per year for small businesses (10 or fewer employees) and 56 hours per year for other employers. Employees can use this time for their own illness, family member care, medical appointments, and situations involving domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. The bill takes effect January 1, 2026.

House2025-03-27

H523Introduced

School Social Workers/Master's Pay

This bill changes pay eligibility rules for school social workers in North Carolina. Currently, only school social workers with master's degrees (or higher) can receive education-based salary supplements. The bill removes the master's degree requirement, allowing all certified school social workers to qualify for these supplements. It allocates $500,000 in state funding to cover the cost beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-03-27

H541Introduced

Opt. Top-2 Same-Day Primary Runoff/Elections

This bill allows North Carolina political parties to optionally use a ranked-choice voting method in primary elections where no candidate receives 30% of the vote. Instead of holding a separate runoff election, voters would rank up to three candidates by preference on the same ballot, and if needed, second and third choices would be counted to determine a winner. The bill appropriates $410,000 annually for two years to develop ballot designs and voter education materials.

House2025-03-27

H531Introduced

Addressing NC's Teacher Crisis/NTSP

This bill appropriates $4 million in recurring state funds to the University of North Carolina's New Teacher Support Program (NTSP) to help new teachers participate in support services at no cost to local school districts. The funding prioritizes teachers in economically disadvantaged counties and covers services like instructional coaching, professional development, and teacher summits.

House2025-03-27

H534Introduced

Funds for Sexual Assault Nurse Programs

This bill appropriates $700,000 in state funding to establish Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) training programs at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College and Wake Technical Community College. Each college receives $350,000 to hire staff, purchase equipment, and develop the certification programs for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.

House2025-03-27

H529Introduced

Clean Repeal of HB2

This bill repeals House Bill 2 (HB2), which was enacted in 2016. The repeal removes HB2's provisions from North Carolina law, including requirements related to bathroom access policies and employment protections.

House2025-03-27

H538Introduced

Equality for All

This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across multiple areas including 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 statuses in existing discrimination laws. The bill also establishes the Human Relations Commission's role in investigating and resolving discrimination complaints in several sectors.

House2025-03-27

H501Introduced

Modernize Domestic Violence Protection Order

This bill modifies North Carolina's domestic violence protection order law to ensure that same-sex couples can obtain protective orders. Currently, the law limits dating relationship protections to 'persons of the opposite sex,' which excludes same-sex couples from this category of protection.

House2025-03-26

H498Introduced

Military to Teacher Ret. Incentive

This bill allows military veterans who become teachers in North Carolina to receive up to four years of service credit toward their teachers' retirement pension based on their active duty military service. The employer must pay a lump sum to cover the full cost of this additional retirement benefit plus an administrative fee.

House2025-03-26

H504Introduced

Pilot Co-Responder Police Program

This bill appropriates $474,680 in state funding over two fiscal years to Mecklenburg County municipalities (Matthews, Pineville, and Mint Hill) to establish a pilot program that pairs mental health professionals with police officers to respond to mental health-related emergencies and crisis calls.

House2025-03-26

H514Introduced

APRN Definitions

This bill formally 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 removes the requirement that APRNs obtain joint approval from both the Medical Board and Nursing Board to perform certain medical acts, instead allowing the Nursing Board to grant prescribing and practice authority directly.

House2025-03-26

H499Introduced

NC Paid Family Leave Insurance Act

This bill creates a paid family and medical leave insurance program in North Carolina, funded by employer contributions starting January 1, 2026, with benefits paid to eligible workers beginning January 1, 2027. Eligible individuals can receive between 12-26 weeks of partial wage replacement (typically 90% of wages up to the state average) to take leave for reasons including childbirth, adoption, personal serious health conditions, caring for family members with serious health conditions, and qualifying military family situations.

House2025-03-26

H497Introduced

Ban on Gay & Trans Panic Defense

This bill prohibits defendants in homicide and assault cases from using a legal defense based on discovering, perceiving, or believing a victim's sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation. The bill clarifies that such discovery or perception cannot negate the malice element of murder or serve as provocation, while still allowing evidence about a victim's conduct or statements if relevant to the case.

House2025-03-26

H503Introduced

Don't Tread on Me Act

This bill creates an 'Individual Freedoms Act' that establishes legal protections against state surveillance, requires medical and political privacy in government dealings, protects parental authority, ensures education is fact-based and non-ideological, and prohibits employment and housing discrimination based on political beliefs or medical history. The bill applies a 'compelling state interest' standard, meaning the government can only restrict these rights if it has a strong reason and uses the narrowest possible means to achieve it.

House2025-03-26

H507Introduced

The Children First Act

The Children First Act expands child care affordability and access through increased subsidies and grants, strengthens child health and safety protections including firearm storage laws and online safety requirements, raises tobacco/vaping age to 21, establishes a fetal and infant mortality review team, and funds workforce development programs for child care workers. The bill appropriates approximately $150+ million over the 2025-2027 biennium for these initiatives.

House2025-03-26

H509Introduced

Right to Reproductive Freedom Act

This bill would protect access to abortion in North Carolina by codifying the standards from Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey into state law. It would prohibit the state from placing substantial obstacles to abortion before fetal viability, allow restrictions after viability except when necessary to preserve the pregnant person's life or health, expand which healthcare providers can perform abortions, and remove certain state funding restrictions on abortion coverage in public health plans.

House2025-03-26

H511Introduced

Award Magistrates Salary Increases

This bill increases salaries for full-time magistrates in North Carolina effective July 1, 2025, and appropriates $11.5 million in recurring annual funds for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to pay for these increases. The salary table shows new pay ranges for magistrates at different experience levels, with entry-level positions increasing from $47,228 to $56,674 annually.

House2025-03-26

H500Introduced

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 on account of sex. The bill argues that the ERA became the 28th Amendment in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, meeting the three-fourths requirement, and that North Carolina's ratification would be a formal recognition of this constitutional change.

House2025-03-26

H513Introduced

Strengthen Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

This bill appropriates $1 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen North Carolina's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. The funding will support nine additional regional ombudsman positions and operational expenses to help the state meet national standards for protecting residents in long-term care facilities.

House2025-03-26

H502Introduced

Gender-Affirming Rights Act

This bill repeals North Carolina's current ban on gender-affirming medical procedures for minors and state funding restrictions for these procedures. It establishes a new Gender-Affirming Rights Act that declares gender identity decisions as fundamental rights, requires healthcare providers to complete training on LGBTQ cultural competency, and prevents local governments from imposing stricter regulations than state law allows.

House2025-03-26

H493Introduced

Gen. Assembly/Safe Workplace Policies

This bill creates a new workplace safety system for the North Carolina General Assembly that includes mandatory annual harassment prevention training, a confidential reporting and investigation process for sexual harassment and improper workplace behavior, clear disciplinary sanctions, and an appeals process. The bill appropriates $250,000 to implement these policies and requires the Legislative Services Commission and Legislative Ethics Committee to adopt the policies by December 31, 2025.

House2025-03-25

H486Introduced

Funds for Blue Star Families, Inc

This bill appropriates $1 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Blue Star Families, Inc., a nonprofit organization that serves military families. The funds are divided into three categories: $400,000 for a military spouse career development program in the Fayetteville area, $300,000 for family strengthening programs, and $300,000 for military and veteran caregiver services.

House2025-03-25

H482Introduced

Reauthorize & Revise Teacher Bonuses/Military

This bill creates a teacher bonus program for the 2025-2027 school years that provides bonuses to teachers based on student performance in advanced courses, career and technical education certifications, and student growth scores. It also allows teachers who leave their positions due to military orders affecting their spouses to still receive bonuses they earned.

House2025-03-25

H494Introduced

Mental Health Protection Act

This bill prohibits licensed mental health professionals in North Carolina from practicing conversion therapy—treatments attempting to change sexual orientation or gender identity—on minors under 18 and adults with disabilities. It also prohibits state and local government funding for conversion therapy services. Violations would be considered unprofessional conduct subject to disciplinary action.

House2025-03-25

H492Introduced

Repeal Parents' Bill of Rights

This bill repeals Session Law 2023-106, which was known as the Parents' Bill of Rights, along with related provisions added in subsequent laws. The bill also removes references to these provisions from exemptions that apply to schools for the deaf and blind, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools.

House2025-03-25

H484Introduced

Honoring NC's Contributions to Civil Rights

This bill authorizes the African American Heritage Commission to study the feasibility of creating monuments commemorating North Carolina's role in the civil rights movement and appropriates $500,000 to place markers and signage along the state's Civil Rights Trail. The Commission must hold public hearings and report its findings by May 1, 2026.

House2025-03-25

H474Introduced

Right to Use Contraception

This bill declares that North Carolina has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to or use of contraception to prevent pregnancy. It establishes the right to use contraception as state policy by adding new language to North Carolina's General Statutes.

House2025-03-24

H473Introduced

Right to IVF

This bill protects access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies by prohibiting the state from restricting patients' right to use these treatments or health care providers' right to offer them. It also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and allocates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.

House2025-03-24

H467Introduced

Reenact Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

This bill restores North Carolina's low-income housing tax credits program, which had been scheduled to expire in 2015, by reenacting it with a new sunset date of January 1, 2030. The program provides state tax credits to developers and investors who build or rehabilitate housing for low-income residents, with credit amounts varying based on the area's income level and the percentage of units made affordable.

House2025-03-24

H466Introduced

Birthplace of Am. Independence Special Plate

This bill authorizes North Carolina to create a special vehicle registration plate called 'Birthplace of American Independence' featuring a feather pen design and commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Halifax Resolves signed in Halifax on April 12, 1776. Drivers who choose this plate would pay an additional $30 fee, with revenue split between the Special Registration Plate Account ($10) and the Collegiate and Cultural Attraction Plate Account ($20), with quarterly funds from the latter going to Halifax County Business Horizons, Inc. for commemorative and educational activities.

House2025-03-24

H452Introduced

Revise Law/Obstruction of Health Facility

This bill revises North Carolina's law against obstructing health care facilities by adding a new restriction on protesting near health care entrances. The bill creates a new offense that prohibits people from approaching within 8 feet of another person (without consent) to hand out leaflets, display signs, or engage in protest, education, or counseling within 100 feet of any health care facility entrance. The bill also increases criminal penalties for repeat violations of obstruction laws.

House2025-03-20

H453Introduced

Increase Medicaid PCS and PDN Rates

This bill increases North Carolina's Medicaid reimbursement rates for two types of home-based care services: personal care services (PCS) would increase to $7.50 per 15-minute increment, and private duty nursing services (PDN) would increase to $16.25 per 15 minutes. The state would spend approximately $139 million annually with federal matching funds totaling approximately $254 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period.

House2025-03-20

H430Introduced

Protect Youth From Harms of Vaping & Nicotine

This bill raises North Carolina's legal sales age for tobacco products (including vaping and e-cigarettes) from 18 to 21 years old. It creates a new permitting system requiring retail sellers, delivery sellers, and remote sellers of tobacco products to obtain state permits from the ABC Commission. The bill establishes penalties for illegal sales to minors and rules for how tobacco products can be sold and displayed.

House2025-03-20

H445Introduced

Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries

This bill reinstates education-based salary supplements for teachers and instructional support personnel (including school social workers) based on advanced degrees, using salary policies from 2013, and allocates $8 million in state funding for this purpose. It also requires local school boards to publicly post salary schedules for occupational therapists and physical therapists on their websites.

House2025-03-20

H464Introduced

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 appropriates $95 million in state funding to help local school districts, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools meet this requirement.

House2025-03-20

H456Introduced

No Surprises for Ambulance Services Act

This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover emergency ground ambulance services without imposing higher out-of-pocket costs than they would for in-network providers, and limits cost-sharing for non-emergency ground ambulance services from out-of-network providers to no more than 110% of in-network costs. The bill also requires insurers to provide clearer information to customers about emergency service coverage and costs.

House2025-03-20

H448Introduced

Safe Firearm Storage/Sales Tax Exemption

This bill creates a temporary one-year sales tax exemption for firearm storage equipment, including gun safes, lockboxes, and devices that prevent unauthorized access to firearms. The exemption applies to sales made between October 1, 2025, and October 1, 2026, but excludes display cabinets designed primarily to showcase firearms.

House2025-03-20

H463Introduced

First Responders Mental Health Plan Act

This bill establishes a supplemental insurance program administered by the Department of Insurance to provide mental health benefits to North Carolina first responders (police, firefighters, EMTs, dispatchers, and correctional officers) diagnosed with work-related mental conditions. Benefits include reimbursement for medical expenses up to $5,000 annually, salary support during required medical leave, and disability payments up to $5,000 monthly for those unable to work.

House2025-03-20

H458Introduced

Improve Enforcement/Migrant Housing

This bill strengthens enforcement of North Carolina's migrant housing standards by requiring operators to submit affidavits certifying they are not barred from agricultural labor programs, restricting post-occupancy inspections to operators with compliance issues, and requiring the Department of Labor to maintain detailed records and cross-reference violations by physical address rather than just operator name.

House2025-03-20

H446Introduced

Prohibition on Disclosing Booking Photographs

This bill prohibits law enforcement agencies from sharing booking photographs with websites that charge fees to remove them, and requires such websites to delete booking photos within seven business days if the person was not convicted. Websites that charge fees to remove photos or fail to delete them can face civil liability including $100 per day in damages.

House2025-03-20

H438Introduced

Require Paid Rest Breaks

This bill would require North Carolina employers to provide employees working shifts of six hours or more with at least one paid 20-minute break scheduled near the middle of the workday. Violations would result in civil penalties of up to $100 for the first offense and up to $500 for subsequent offenses.

House2025-03-19

H425Introduced

Protect Youth From Harms of Vaping & Nicotine

This bill raises North Carolina's legal sales age for tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old and establishes a state tobacco retail sales permit system administered by the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission. The permit system covers physical retail stores, delivery sellers, and remote sellers (online/mail order), with requirements for age verification, employee training, and compliance inspections.

House2025-03-19

H423Introduced

Skip the Stuff Act

The Skip the Stuff Act requires food establishments and third-party food delivery platforms in North Carolina to provide single-use foodware items (utensils, napkins, straws, condiments, etc.) only when customers specifically request them, rather than including them automatically with orders. The bill creates enforcement mechanisms through the Department of Environmental Quality with penalties up to $100 per day for violations, while allowing local governments to adopt stricter regulations.

House2025-03-19

H428Introduced

Study School Discipline Parent Involvement

This bill requires the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to study how increased parent involvement can reduce repeat student disciplinary problems in schools. The study will examine requiring parents to attend meetings, counseling sessions, or joint counseling with their child as conditions for returning to class after discipline removal, as well as remote instruction alternatives and other evidence-based practices. The department must report findings and recommendations to the legislature by April 15, 2026.

House2025-03-19

H431Introduced

Preventing Deed Fraud

This bill creates new protections against deed fraud by requiring non-lawyers and non-financial professionals to show government ID when filing property documents, establishing a fraud alert system to notify property owners when documents are recorded in their names, and creating a faster court process to remove fraudulent documents from property records.

House2025-03-19

H21Engrossed

Drivers License Designation/Autism

This bill directs North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to create an optional autism spectrum disorder designation that can be added to a driver's license upon request. The designation would be stored in electronic records and made available only to law enforcement to facilitate safe interactions, with strict privacy protections and voluntary participation.

House2025-03-19

H37Engrossed

Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation

This bill increases monthly pension benefits for North Carolina firefighters and rescue squad workers from $180 to $175 (effective January 1, 2026), clarifies pension eligibility rules for disabled and displaced members, provides survivor benefits for members killed in the line of duty, and adds a representative from the North Carolina State Firefighters' Association to the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council.

House2025-03-19

H35Engrossed

Establish Military Appreciation Month

This bill designates November as Military Appreciation Month in North Carolina each year. The designation is a ceremonial recognition with no funding or operational requirements attached.

House2025-03-19

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

H420Introduced

Sound Basic Education for Every Child

H.B. 420 is a comprehensive education reform bill aimed at improving public schools in North Carolina through increased funding and structural changes. It allocates nearly $3 billion for teacher and principal salary increases, teacher recruitment programs, early childhood education expansion, school facility improvements through a $2 billion bond, and support services for low-performing schools. The bill also adjusts how school performance is measured by balancing student growth and proficiency scores.

House2025-03-18

H410Introduced

NCIOM Study/Medical Aid in Dying

This bill directs the North Carolina Institute of Medicine to conduct a comprehensive study on the advantages and disadvantages of legalizing medical aid in dying (MAID) in North Carolina, with findings due by April 1, 2027. The study will examine how MAID operates in the 11 U.S. jurisdictions where it is currently legal, including applicant processes, safeguards, patient demographics, and impacts on families and healthcare systems. The bill appropriates $150,000 for the study and requires at least one public hearing for community input.

House2025-03-18

H408Introduced

Fort Fisher Capital Improvements Funds

This bill appropriates $869,000 in state funds to complete remaining items for Phase One and Phase Two capital improvements at Fort Fisher State Historic Site, including a visitor center tower sign, interior partitions and doors, gun carriages, and an ammunition magazine for the reconstructed earthworks.

House2025-03-18

H409Introduced

Funds for Caswell County Vol. Fire Department

This bill appropriates $1.7 million in state funds to Caswell County for replacing the Casville Volunteer Fire Department's facility. The funds come from the state's General Fund and would be available starting July 1, 2025.

House2025-03-18

H413Introduced

Marijuana Legalization and Reinvestment Act

This bill legalizes cannabis possession and use for adults 21 and older in North Carolina, effective January 1, 2028. It establishes a regulated market for cannabis sales through licensed businesses, creates three reinvestment funds to support communities harmed by cannabis prohibition, and automatically expunges prior marijuana convictions. The bill maintains penalties for sales to minors, impaired driving, and unlicensed operations.

House2025-03-18

H416Introduced

Funds for Boys & Girls Clubs

This bill appropriates $30,000 in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to the Boys & Girls Clubs of Durham and Orange Counties. The money is designated for programs covering teen recruitment and retention, emotional safety, youth leadership, trauma-informed practices, cultural responsiveness, and college and career readiness.

House2025-03-18

H422Introduced

Beyond The Choice Act

This bill allows veterans, their dependents, and other individuals covered under the federal Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act to pay in-state tuition at North Carolina colleges and universities without meeting the standard 12-month residency requirement, as long as they qualify for admission. The change applies to the 2025-2026 academic year and beyond.

House2025-03-18

H407Introduced

Divine Nine Special Registration Plate Act

This bill creates a new Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority special registration plate in North Carolina and sets its additional fee at $20. The bill also clarifies how fees from Divine Nine fraternity and sorority plates are distributed, directing a portion of Sigma Gamma Rho plate fees to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority National Education Fund.

House2025-03-17

H401Introduced

Allow Lottery Winners to be Confidential

This bill allows North Carolina lottery winners to keep their identity confidential if they request it, with certain exceptions for tax authorities, law enforcement, and court orders. The confidentiality protection applies to winners of $50 million or more for 90 days after claiming the prize, and indefinitely for winners with protective orders or those in the Address Confidentiality Program.

House2025-03-17

H403Introduced

Workers' Rights Act

This bill makes major changes to North Carolina employment law, including abolishing at-will employment so workers can only be fired for just cause, requiring paid work breaks and meal periods, eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped employees, protecting workers' rights to discuss wages, allowing public employee collective bargaining, creating protections for contract workers in state government, and allowing local governments to set minimum wages and establish worker safety programs.

House2025-03-17

H391Introduced

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

This bill appropriates $2.178 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $4.542 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to fund 50 additional Adult Protective Services (APS) workers at county departments of social services across North Carolina. The new workers would investigate reports of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with funds distributed to counties based on their caseload and elderly population.

House2025-03-17

H404Introduced

Fair & Affordable Housing Act

This bill directs a study of affordable housing in North Carolina, makes it illegal to discriminate in housing based on source of income (like government vouchers), provides $45 million to the Housing Trust Fund, prevents credit agencies from reporting unsuccessful eviction lawsuits, and creates an optional program allowing landlords of subsidized housing to report tenants' rent payments to credit agencies to help build credit.

House2025-03-17

H398Introduced

Enact KinCare & Safe Days

This bill allows North Carolina employees to use up to five consecutive days of their accrued sick leave per calendar year to care for family members, including children, parents, grandparents, siblings, spouses, domestic partners, and others with equivalent family relationships. The bill also adds protections against employer retaliation for employees who use sick leave for these purposes.

House2025-03-17

H365Introduced

Workforce Education Act

This bill increases state funding for workforce education by approximately $205 million for fiscal year 2025-2026. It revises how community colleges are funded to reward enrollment growth, expands funding for cooperative innovative high schools based on regional economic development tiers, creates grant programs for STEM and career/technical education, and funds a public awareness campaign about community college opportunities.

House2025-03-12

H366Introduced

Reenact & Expand Pistol Purchase Permit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's pistol purchase permit law that was previously repealed and expands it to require permits for long gun (rifle and shotgun) purchases as well. Under the bill, sheriffs would issue permits valid for five years after conducting background checks and assessing moral character, with exceptions for antique firearms.

House2025-03-12

H371Introduced

DMV Materials in Additional Languages

This bill requires North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to provide driver license handbooks and written tests in Khmer and in any language spoken as a primary language by at least 2% of the state's population. The change takes effect January 1, 2026.

House2025-03-12

H137Introduced

Gabe Torres Act

This bill expands the Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act to include public safety employees killed while traveling to or from work, rather than only those killed while actively performing duties. It allocates $300,000 annually for the 2025-2027 budget period to cover these expanded benefits.

House2025-03-12

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

H367Introduced

Provide Rape Kit Status Updates to Victims

This bill requires the State Crime Laboratory to inform sexual assault victims about the status of their rape kit testing and notify them when their kit cannot be tested, will not be tested, or is being destroyed. The lab must develop procedures for victims to check on their kit's status and receive these notifications.

House2025-03-12

H374Introduced

NCARCOG Funding/Operations Improvements

This bill appropriates $7.85 million in state funding to regional councils of government in North Carolina. The money will support 32 new finance professionals to help small local governments achieve financial compliance, and will fund a disaster response and recovery program to assist communities before, during, and after natural disasters.

House2025-03-12

H361Introduced

Funds to Fight Deed and Title Fraud

This bill appropriates $32.3 million in state funding to combat deed and title fraud in North Carolina. The money will support employee training at county register offices, a public awareness campaign, technology upgrades (including digitization and security improvements), and fraud detection systems across the state.

House2025-03-12

H343Introduced

Advocacy for Long-Term Care Residents Act

This bill appropriates $380,000 for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $397,000 for fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Department of Health and Human Services to create four new full-time ombudsman positions. These ombudsmen will advocate for residents in nursing homes, adult care homes, and family care homes, with the goal of bringing North Carolina's long-term care ombudsman program into alignment with national standards.

House2025-03-11

H242Introduced

Add Psychiatric Hospitals to Medicaid HASP

This bill expands North Carolina's Medicaid Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP) to include freestanding psychiatric hospitals alongside existing acute care hospitals. It funds increased reimbursements to these psychiatric hospitals through new hospital assessments levied on all freestanding psychiatric hospitals in the state.

House2025-03-11

H317Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./City of High Point

This bill restores the City of High Point's authority 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 restriction that was added in a previous 2024 law.

House2025-03-10

H325Introduced

Legislative Building Field Trip Pilot Program

This bill creates a two-year pilot program that provides grants to North Carolina public schools to fund field trips to the Legislative Building, with up to $2,000 per school available for transportation costs. The program prioritizes funding for schools in economically disadvantaged counties and requires the Department of Public Instruction to manage applications and report on participation.

House2025-03-10

H322Introduced

Make General Assembly Records Public

This bill increases public access to General Assembly records by requiring legislative records to be retained for at least 10 years before destruction and repealing previous exemptions that allowed the General Assembly to destroy records without following standard archival procedures. It also makes changes to campaign finance laws regarding federal political committees.

House2025-03-10

H316Introduced

Child Care Act

This bill reinstitutes the North Carolina child tax credit for families with child care expenses, expands the NC Pre-K program to serve 32,000 additional eligible 4-year-olds, increases subsidized child care funding, requires public schools to provide free lunches to all students, funds child care programs at community colleges, and directs a study on creating high school child care apprenticeships.

House2025-03-10

H323Introduced

Down-Zoning/Cornelius/Davidson/Huntersville

This bill restores the authority of three North Carolina towns—Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville—to initiate down-zoning (reducing property density or permitted uses) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill reverses a restriction that was imposed in December 2024 and applies retroactively to that date.

House2025-03-10

H324Introduced

Funds for Greensboro Transit Agency

This bill allocates $800,000 in one-time funding from the state Highway Fund to the Greensboro Transit Agency for two purposes: $500,000 for the North/South Crossmax Orange Bus Route and $300,000 for a pilot program to transport high school juniors and seniors to Guilford Technical Community College campuses. The funding takes effect on July 1, 2025.

House2025-03-10

H321Introduced

SchCalFlex/Guilford/Open Cal

This bill gives Guilford County Schools flexibility to start the school year earlier than the current state requirement. Currently, North Carolina schools cannot start before the Monday closest to August 26, but this bill allows Guilford County Schools to start as early as the Monday closest to August 19 if the State Board of Education approves their request.

House2025-03-10

H289Introduced

Add Member to NC Training Standards Commiss

This bill adds one new member to the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, bringing the total from 35 to 36 members. The new member would be a full-time sworn law-enforcement officer selected by the North Carolina Police Benevolent Association.

House2025-03-06

H287Introduced

SchCalFlex/Franklin/Open Cal

This bill allows Franklin County Schools to set school opening dates as early as the Monday closest to August 19, instead of the standard Monday closest to August 26, without needing approval from the State Board of Education. The change applies only to Franklin County Schools beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-03-06

H286Introduced

SchCalFlex/Vance/Open Cal

This bill allows Vance County Schools to have more flexibility in setting their school calendar by permitting earlier opening dates without needing State Board of Education approval. Specifically, it enables Vance County to start school as early as the Monday closest to August 19 instead of the required Monday closest to August 26, beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-03-06

H290Introduced

Funds for Pineville Pedestrian Beacon

This bill appropriates $545,588 in state funds to the Town of Pineville to construct a pedestrian hybrid beacon and crosswalk at Highway 51 and Main Street near Town Hall. The goal is to improve pedestrian safety and walkability in the town.

House2025-03-06

H292Introduced

SchCalFlex/Gaston/Open Cal

This bill allows Gaston County Schools to start the school year earlier than the current state requirement of no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26. With State Board of Education approval for good cause, Gaston County Schools could begin as early as the Monday closest to August 19, provided the calendar includes enough days to accommodate potential weather-related closures.

House2025-03-06

H284Introduced

Addtnl Time for School Cal Good Cause Waiver

This bill allows the State Board of Education to waive the requirement that school years begin no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, permitting schools in Ashe, Allegheny, and Watauga counties to start as early as August 12 if they meet 'good cause' criteria. Good cause is defined as schools in a county being closed at least 8 days per year due to severe weather, energy shortages, power failures, or other emergencies during any 4 of the last 10 years.

House2025-03-06

H267Introduced

Expunging Certain Eviction Records

This bill allows North Carolinians to have eviction case records automatically removed from court files in certain situations, such as when cases are dismissed before judgment or when defendants win on the merits. For cases where landlords won, tenants can request removal after three years if they've maintained stable housing with consistent rent payments.

House2025-03-05

H280Introduced

Support for the Senior Tar Heel Legislature

This bill appropriates $30,000 in one-time funding to the Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Aging and Adult Services, to support the operations of the North Carolina Senior Tar Heel Legislature for the 2025-2026 fiscal year. The Senior Tar Heel Legislature is an existing program established under state law that allows older adults to participate in legislative activities.

House2025-03-05

H281Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning/Multiple Municipalities

This bill restores the authority of six specific North Carolina coastal municipalities (Morehead City, Beaufort, Bogue, Cape Carteret, Cedar Point, and Newport) to initiate down-zoning—reducing development density or permitted uses on property—without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill retroactively applies to changes made after December 11, 2024.

House2025-03-05

H278Introduced

Protect Military Votes

This bill exempts military and overseas voters from North Carolina's photo identification requirement when voting by mail. Instead of providing a photocopy of an ID or an affidavit, covered voters (military members and citizens living abroad) would only need to submit their ballot without these additional documents.

House2025-03-05

H269Introduced

Workforce Freedom and Protection Act

This bill removes restrictions on labor organizing and collective bargaining, prohibits non-compete agreements for employees earning under $75,000 annually and no-poach agreements between employers, and directs a study to identify and reform unnecessary occupational licensing requirements. The bill aims to increase worker mobility and job market competition while maintaining public safety protections.

House2025-03-05

H277Introduced

SchCalFlex/Johnston/Aug 10 & Assmnts

This bill gives Johnston County Schools additional flexibility in setting their school calendar by allowing them to start school as early as the Monday closest to August 10 (instead of the standard August 26) and permits assessments to be given before the fall semester ends if the calendar concludes before December 31.

House2025-03-05

H29Introduced

Use Tribal ID for Alcohol & Tobacco Purchase

This bill allows tribal enrollment cards issued by state or federally recognized Indian tribes to be used as valid identification for purchasing alcohol and tobacco in North Carolina. The bill adds tribal enrollment cards to the list of acceptable forms of ID that sellers can accept to verify a customer's age, alongside driver's licenses, military IDs, and passports.

House2025-03-04

H263Introduced

Down-Zoning/Person & Durham Cos

This bill restores the ability of local governments in Durham County, Person County, and the cities of Durham and Roxboro to initiate down-zoning (reducing the allowable density or uses of land) without requiring written consent from property owners. It reverses a recent state law that required all property owners to approve down-zoning amendments and applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.

House2025-03-04

H259Introduced

Brown-Morgan Science Olympiad Grant

This bill establishes a one-year pilot grant program through the Department of Public Instruction to help public schools start or expand Science Olympiad teams. The program allocates $127,500 in grants that schools can use for registration fees, materials, travel, and teacher stipends, with priority given to schools that did not have a Science Olympiad team in the previous year.

House2025-03-04

H255Introduced

SchCalFlex/Granville,Vance/Open Cal

This bill gives Granville County Schools and Vance County Schools additional flexibility to set their school opening and closing dates without needing State Board of Education approval. Currently, these districts must follow state rules requiring schools to open no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 and close no later than the Friday closest to June 11, but this bill removes those restrictions for these two counties specifically.

House2025-03-03

H245Introduced

Affordable Housing in Rural Areas

This bill modifies how North Carolina allocates low-income housing tax credits by requiring the state to prioritize affordable housing development in rural communities and counties with higher poverty levels. It establishes specific scoring criteria, such as measuring distance to amenities by radius rather than driving distance and favoring high-poverty areas when projects have equal scores.

House2025-03-03

H256Introduced

Allow Public Employee Collective Bargaining

This bill repeals North Carolina's current ban on collective bargaining for public employees and allows them to organize and negotiate working conditions with government employers, similar to private sector workers. Public employees would gain the right to collectively bargain over wages, benefits, and working conditions through unions or employee organizations.

House2025-03-03

H252Introduced

Steele Creek Investment and Improvement Act

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).

House2025-03-03

H48Engrossed

Increase UI Max Benefit/2025 UI Tax Credit

This bill ratifies the Governor's emergency unemployment benefits expansion during Hurricane Helene (ending March 1, 2025), increases the maximum weekly unemployment benefit from $350 to $450, and provides employers a tax credit equal to their fourth-quarter 2024 unemployment insurance contributions for the year 2025.

House2025-02-27

H157Passed

State of the State Invitation

This resolution invites Governor Josh Stein to address a joint session of the North Carolina House of Representatives and Senate on March 12, 2025, at 7:00 P.M. in the House chamber. The resolution also extends invitations to cabinet members, Council of State members, and state judges to attend the address.

House2025-02-27

H191Introduced

SchCalFlex/Durham,Person/Aug 10 & Assmnts

This bill allows Durham County and Person County schools to start their school year as early as the Monday closest to August 10, instead of the current standard of August 26. It also permits these districts to give final exams and assessments before the end of the fall semester if their calendar concludes before December 31.

House2025-02-26

H200Introduced

SchCalFlex/Pender/CC

This bill allows Pender County Schools to align their school calendar with Cape Fear Community College's calendar. Currently, state law restricts when public schools can start and end their academic year, but this bill adds an exception for Pender County to match their schedule with the community college serving their area.

House2025-02-26

H205Introduced

SchCalFlex/Cabarrus/Open Cal

This bill gives Cabarrus County Schools flexibility to start the school year earlier than the current state rule allows. Currently, North Carolina requires schools to open no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, but this bill would allow Cabarrus County to open as early as the Monday closest to August 19 if they can show they need extra days for weather-related closures.

House2025-02-26

H207Introduced

Remove Barriers to Labor Organizing

This bill removes language that protects workers' right to work without union membership and repeals restrictions on public employee labor organizing. It adds new language affirming labor organizations' right to enter into labor agreements, while maintaining existing prohibitions on requiring union membership as a condition of employment.

House2025-02-26

H197Introduced

Local Communicable Disease Programs/Funds

This bill appropriates $25 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to local health departments in North Carolina to support communicable disease response and prevention efforts. The funds will be distributed equally among counties (50%) and based on population served (50%), and can be used to hire staff, retain employees, and expand public health programs.

House2025-02-26

H190Introduced

SchCal Mandatory Winter Break/Date Adjustment

This bill requires Lincoln County Schools and Iredell-Statesville Schools to include a mandatory two-week winter break with no instructional days or teacher workdays in their school calendars. It also adjusts the earliest date schools can start the academic year from Monday closest to August 26 to Wednesday closest to August 13, while allowing schools that have experienced three or more weather closures before winter break to potentially use some winter break days for makeup instruction.

House2025-02-26

H196Introduced

Funds Museum of Life and Science Exhibit/Lab

This bill appropriates $1.5 million in state funds to the North Carolina Museum of Life and Science to create a new biotechnology exhibit and laboratory. The funds are intended to showcase North Carolina's biotechnology industry and encourage student interest in STEM careers, becoming effective July 1, 2025.

House2025-02-26

H204Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Cabarrus Co

This bill restores the authority of Cabarrus County and its municipalities to initiate down-zoning (reducing allowed building density or permitted uses on property) without requiring written consent from all affected property owners. The bill applies only to Cabarrus County and is retroactive to December 11, 2024, reversing a recent state law change that had restricted this local authority.

House2025-02-26

H194Introduced

SchCalFlex/Asheville/Open Cal

This bill gives Asheville City Schools flexibility to start their school calendar earlier than the current state requirement. Currently, North Carolina law requires public schools to open no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, but this bill allows the State Board of Education to waive that requirement for Asheville City Schools, permitting them to open as early as the Monday closest to August 19 if they can show a need for extra makeup days due to weather closures.

House2025-02-26

H195Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Chatham Co

This bill restores the ability of local governments in Chatham County and its municipalities to initiate down-zoning (reducing the allowed density or uses of land) without needing written consent from property owners. It reverses a restriction imposed on December 11, 2024, and applies retroactively to that date.

House2025-02-26

H178Introduced

Budgeting Accountability and Transparency

This bill increases transparency and public participation in North Carolina's state budget process by requiring at least one week of public comment, public hearings, and multiple committee meetings before budget votes, and by making public the communications between legislators and agencies requesting specific budget provisions or funding once the budget becomes law.

House2025-02-25

H181Introduced

Tax Relief for Working Families Act

This bill restores North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which expired in 2014. The credit would allow working families to receive a state tax credit equal to 20% of the federal EITC they qualify for, with excess credits refunded to taxpayers, effective for tax years beginning January 1, 2025.

House2025-02-25

H179Introduced

Labor Org. Membership Dues Tax Deductible

This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct labor union membership dues from their state taxable income, starting with the 2026 tax year. The deduction would apply to dues, fees, assessments, or other required payments for union membership.

House2025-02-25

H176Introduced

SchCalFlex/Kannapolis/Open Cal

This bill grants Kannapolis City Schools flexibility in setting their school calendar by allowing them to start the school year earlier than the standard statewide requirement. Specifically, it permits Kannapolis schools to open as early as the Monday closest to August 19 instead of the Monday closest to August 26, if the State Board of Education approves based on a showing of good cause.

House2025-02-25

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

H70Introduced

SchCalFlex/Hertford/CC

This bill allows Hertford County Schools to align their school calendar with the calendar of Roanoke-Chowan Community College. It adds an exception to state law that normally sets specific opening and closing dates for public schools, enabling local school boards to coordinate their schedules with community colleges in their area.

House2025-02-24

H168Introduced

North Carolina CROWN Act

This bill, known as the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair), expands North Carolina's employment discrimination protections to explicitly include hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles like braids, locks, and twists as protected characteristics under race discrimination law. The bill adds these protections to the state's existing anti-discrimination statute and ensures employees cannot be fired or denied employment based on natural hairstyles.

House2025-02-24

H166Introduced

Allow ERPOs to Prevent Suicides & Save Lives

This bill creates Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs) in North Carolina, which allow courts to temporarily remove firearms from people who pose a danger of harming themselves or others. Family members, law enforcement, healthcare providers, and others can petition for these orders, which can last up to one year and be renewed. The bill also requires courts to order seizure of firearms when someone fails to surrender them under existing domestic violence protective orders.

House2025-02-24

H161Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Randolph Co

This bill restores the authority of Randolph County and its municipalities to initiate down-zoning (reducing development density or permitted uses on property) without requiring written consent from affected property owners. It reverses a restriction that was put in place on December 11, 2024, and applies only to Randolph County.

House2025-02-24

H119Introduced

SchCalFlex/Pitt/MorF Aug 10

This bill changes the earliest date that Pitt County Schools can start the school year from the Monday closest to August 26 to the Monday closest to August 10 (or the Friday or Monday adjacent if August 10 falls on a weekend). The change applies only to Pitt County beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-02-24

H27Introduced

SchCalFlex/Alamance/Open Cal

This bill gives Alamance County Schools additional flexibility in setting their school calendar by allowing earlier start dates without needing State Board of Education approval. Specifically, it allows Alamance-Burlington Schools to begin the school year as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of August 26) if the district can demonstrate it has experienced eight days of weather-related or emergency closures in any four of the last ten years.

House2025-02-24

H51Introduced

SchCalFlex/Orange,CH-Car,Caswell/CC & Assmnts

This bill provides scheduling flexibility for three school systems—Caswell County, Chapel Hill-Carrboro City, and Orange County Schools—by allowing them to align their school calendars with local community colleges and to administer final exams and state assessments earlier if their fall semester ends before December 31.

House2025-02-24

H104Introduced

SchCalFlex/Buncombe/Open Cal

This bill gives Buncombe County Schools flexibility to set their own school calendar opening and closing dates without needing approval from the State Board of Education. Currently, state law requires schools to open no earlier than late August and close no later than early June, but this bill removes that requirement for Buncombe County only.

House2025-02-24

H111Introduced

SchCalFlex/Chatham/Aug 10 & Assmnts

This bill gives Chatham County Schools flexibility in their school calendar by allowing them to start students as early as the Monday closest to August 10 (instead of the standard Monday closest to August 26) and permits assessments to be given before the fall semester ends if the calendar concludes before December 31.

House2025-02-24

H172Introduced

SchCalFlex/Camden/Aug 19

This bill allows Camden County Schools to start their school year as early as the Monday closest to August 19, instead of the current requirement that school start no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26. The change applies only to Camden County Schools beginning with the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-02-24

H167Introduced

Firearm in Unattended Vehicle/Safely Store

This bill makes it illegal to leave a firearm unattended in a motor vehicle unless both the vehicle is locked and the firearm is either secured with a trigger lock or stored in a locked container. Violation is classified as a Class 2 misdemeanor, with the law taking effect December 1, 2025.

House2025-02-24

H170Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning/Union Co

This bill restores the ability of local governments in Union County and its municipalities to reduce zoning allowances (down-zone property) without getting written consent from all affected property owners. It reverses a December 2024 state law that had required unanimous property owner consent for down-zoning and makes this change retroactive to that date.

House2025-02-24

H158Introduced

SchCalFlex/Warren,Weldon,Halifax,RR/Open Cal

This bill allows Warren County Schools, Weldon City Schools, Halifax County Schools, and Roanoke Rapids Graded School District to start the school year as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of August 26) if they can show good cause, such as frequent weather-related closures. The bill gives these four specific school districts more flexibility in setting their school calendars while maintaining state requirements for total instructional days.

House2025-02-24

H159Introduced

Orphan Roads Maintenance Program Grant

This bill establishes the Orphan Roads Maintenance Program Grant, which allocates $75 million in state funding to help counties and municipalities improve subdivision streets that don't meet state highway standards. Eligible roads must be improved to meet Department of Transportation standards before being transferred to state or local maintenance responsibility, with counties required to provide 25 cents in matching funds for every dollar awarded, up to $250,000 per subdivision.

House2025-02-24

H33Introduced

SchCalFlex/Yadkin, Davie/CC

This bill allows Yadkin County Schools and Davie County Schools to align their school calendars with the calendars of Surry County Community College or Davidson-Davie Community College. It modifies state law to permit these two school districts to coordinate their opening and closing dates with their respective community college partners.

House2025-02-24

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

H145Introduced

Funds for Diabetes Research Institute/UNC-CH

This bill appropriates $50 million in state funds to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to establish and develop a diabetes research institute. The funds are designated as nonrecurring (one-time) and would become available starting July 1, 2025.

House2025-02-21

H155Introduced

SchCalFlex/Wilkes,Alexander/Open Cal

This bill gives Wilkes County Schools and Alexander County Schools additional flexibility in setting their school calendar opening and closing dates. Specifically, it allows these two school systems to start the school year as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of the standard August 26) if they meet certain conditions, such as having experienced frequent weather-related closures in recent years.

House2025-02-21

H151Introduced

SchCalFlex/Wake/CC

This bill allows Wake County Schools to align their school calendar with the calendar of local community colleges that serve the county. It modifies state law to give Wake County Schools this specific flexibility, effective starting with the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-02-21

H148Introduced

SchCalFlex/Jackson,Swain,Transyl/Open Cal

This bill gives Jackson, Swain, and Transylvania County Schools additional flexibility in setting their school calendar start and end dates. It allows these three counties to open schools as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of August 26) if they can show they've had eight or more weather-related closures in any four of the last ten years.

House2025-02-21

H138Introduced

SchCalFlex/Gates/CC

This bill allows Gates County Schools to align their school calendar with the calendar of College of the Albemarle, a community college in the area. Currently, state law sets specific opening and closing dates for public school calendars, but this bill creates an exception for Gates County to coordinate their schedule with the local community college.

House2025-02-18

H131Introduced

Reenact Solar Energy Tax Credit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's solar energy tax credit, which had previously expired. The credit allows taxpayers who install solar equipment to claim a tax deduction equal to 35% of the equipment's cost, with different limits depending on whether the installation is for residential or business use.

House2025-02-18

H129Introduced

Judge Joe John Nonpartisan Jud. Elections Act

This bill changes North Carolina judicial elections from partisan (party-based) to nonpartisan elections for Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, superior court, and district court judges, effective in 2026. It also reestablishes a public campaign financing program for judicial candidates who voluntarily accept spending limits and demonstrate public support through qualifying contributions.

House2025-02-18

H132Introduced

SchCalFlex/Cumberland/Open Cal

This bill gives Cumberland County Schools flexibility in setting their school calendar by allowing them to open as early as the Monday closest to August 19 (instead of the standard August 26) if they can show they've had at least 8 days of weather-related closings in 4 of the last 10 years. The change takes effect for the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-02-18

H128Introduced

Establish Prostate Cancer Control Program

This bill appropriates $2 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to establish a statewide Prostate Cancer Control Program that provides free or low-cost prostate cancer screenings and follow-up care to uninsured or underinsured North Carolina men ages 40-70 who meet specific income and health criteria.

House2025-02-17

H115Introduced

Child Care Facility Tax Exemption

This bill creates a property tax exemption for licensed child care facilities in North Carolina. Facilities that are properly licensed and actually used to provide child care would be exempt from property taxes on their buildings, land, and reasonably necessary adjacent land, with the exemption beginning for tax years after July 1, 2026.

House2025-02-13

H109Introduced

Strangulation/Increase Punishment

This bill increases the penalties for assault by strangulation in North Carolina. It raises the felony class for assault causing physical injury by strangulation from Class H to Class G, and raises the felony class for serious bodily injury assault from Class F to Class E, making these offenses punishable with longer prison sentences.

House2025-02-13

H93Introduced

Constitutional Amendment/Repeal Literacy Test

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to remove North Carolina's literacy test requirement for voting from the state constitution. The amendment would be submitted to voters in the November 2026 general election, and if approved by a majority, would eliminate this outdated provision that is already prohibited under federal law.

House2025-02-12

H78Introduced

Prohibit LEO w/ICE Churches/Schools/Hospitals

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.

House2025-02-11

H77Introduced

Environmental Justice

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.

House2025-02-11

H84Introduced

The Pollinator Protection Act

The Pollinator Protection Act restricts the retail sale and general use of neonicotinoid pesticides in North Carolina to licensed pesticide applicators, farmers, and veterinarians. The bill defines neonicotinoids as a class of systemic insecticides and requires the Pesticide Board to monitor EPA assessments and study seed treatment regulations.

House2025-02-11

H90Introduced

State & Local Gov't Retirees COLA

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.

House2025-02-11

H88Introduced

SchCalFlex/Wilson/Open Cal

This bill gives Wilson County Schools additional flexibility in setting their school calendar by allowing the State Board of Education to waive the requirement that schools open no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26, and instead permit an opening date as early as the Monday closest to August 19, if the county has experienced eight or more school closure days per year due to weather or emergencies during any four of the last ten years.

House2025-02-11

H80Introduced

Prohibit LEO w/ICE at Farm/Construct. Sites

This bill prohibits North Carolina law enforcement agencies and officers from assisting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in apprehending people or serving removal warrants on farmland, construction sites, and related agricultural facilities. The bill voids any existing agreements between local law enforcement and ICE that would violate this restriction and allows officers who willfully violate the ban to face certification suspension or revocation.

House2025-02-11

H68Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Auth./Granville & Vance

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.

House2025-02-10

H60Introduced

Modernize Medicaid Dental Rates

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.

House2025-02-06

H39Introduced

Disabled Veteran Motor Vehicle Tax Exclusion

This bill excludes motor vehicles owned by veterans with a 100% disability rating from North Carolina property tax. Veterans with this certification from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would no longer pay property tax on their vehicles starting January 1, 2026.

House2025-02-05

H55Introduced

Funds for the IGNITE Program

This bill appropriates $250,000 per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to fund the IGNITE Program run by the Autism Society of North Carolina. The program provides activities and educational groups designed to help young adults with autism develop independence and social skills as they transition into adulthood.

House2025-02-05

H54Introduced

Funds for NC APSE

This bill provides $125,000 per year for two years to the North Carolina Association of People Supporting Employment First (NC APSE) to develop training programs on evidence-based supported employment services. These programs will help individuals with serious mental illness, intellectual disabilities, or developmental disabilities prepare for, find, and maintain paid competitive jobs.

House2025-02-05

H36Introduced

Maintenance of State Veterans Cemeteries

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Veterans and Military Affairs to improve maintenance at the state's four veterans cemeteries by addressing specific issues like delayed headstone installation, grounds damage, and poor appearance. It also directs the department to review and potentially adjust policies around funeral services at these cemeteries, with findings due to the General Assembly by October 1, 2025.

House2025-02-04

H12Introduced

Observe Standard Time All Year

This bill would make North Carolina observe standard time year-round, eliminating the practice of switching to daylight saving time in the spring. The bill aligns with a provision in the federal Uniform Time Act that allows states to remain on standard time permanently.

House2025-02-03

H10Introduced

Study State Travel Allowance Reimbursements

This bill establishes a bipartisan committee to study whether North Carolina's current travel allowances and reimbursement rates for state employees, teachers, and legislators should be updated. The committee will examine historical rates, federal guidelines, and input from various industries, then submit recommendations to the legislature by March 15, 2026.

House2025-01-30

H20Introduced

Fair Maps Act

This bill would establish an independent redistricting process for North Carolina legislative and congressional districts by creating a 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission. The commission would be composed of diverse citizens (not politicians) and would draw new district maps after each census, rather than allowing the General Assembly to control redistricting. The bill requires voter approval of constitutional amendments in November 2026 before the commission could begin work in 2027.

House2025-01-30

H18Passed

Honor Joe John, Former Member

This is a memorial resolution honoring Joseph Robert John, Sr., a former North Carolina House member who represented House District 40 from 2017 to 2025 and passed away on January 20, 2025. The resolution recognizes his career in public service, including his work as a lawyer, judge, and legislator, and expresses the House's appreciation for his contributions to the state.

House2025-01-29

Mary Belk

Mary Belk

Sponsored Bills (34)

Reorganize & Fund Rare Disease Adv. Council

Down-Zoning/Historic Districts-Mecklenburg Co

Affordability in Healthcare Act

Safety Funds for Highway 49 & Eastway Drive

Funding Vocational Rehabilitation

Affordable Maternal Access & Cancer Care Act

Justice in Mental Health Act

Breast Cancer Prevention Imaging Parity

Regulate Research of Medical Cannabis

Funds for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Right to Repair Digital Electronics Act

Reward Schools for Student Growth

Advanced Teaching Roles Updates

Change to Needs-Based Capital Funding

Transportation Economic Development Funding

Common Sense Gun Regulations

NC-FACT

Technology Coalitions Strategic Support Fund

Modernize STI Transit Funding

Safe Cosmetics Act

Prescription Drug Pricing

Reorganize & Fund Rare Disease Adv. Council

Menstrual Equity for All Act

Accessing Midwives Act

Medical Equipment Right to Repair Act

Urging Support for Washington DC Statehood

Counties/Semiannual Assessments

Marine Life Stewardship Act

STI Funding/Bicycle/Pedestrian Improv

SchCalFlex/Char-Meck/CC

Home Warranty Act

Const. Amend./Marriage Equality

Marriage Equality Act

Reflexologists Right to Work Act

Cosponsored Bills (447)

Authorize Municipal Deannexation

Honor 250th Anniversary and NC's Role

Safeguarding Elections Act

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

Honor Louis Milford Pate Jr

Modernize Law of the Land Clause

Recognition of the Tuscarora

Constitutional Amendment/Early Voting

Robocall Solicitation Modifications

Honor Mike Clampitt

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

UNC Omnibus & Capital Contracting Law Changes

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

Const. Amend./Judicial Standards Commission

Const. Amend./Supreme Court Ethics

Restoring Separation of Powers & Leg. Transp

State Bd of Elections/Independent Agency

HOA Oversight Act

Diabetes Education for Parents

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan Practices

No Federal Interference in Elections

Strip Corporations of Political Spending

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act/Funds

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

Strengthen Ed by Embedded New Teacher Support

Revise NC Teaching Fellows Program

HOA Accessory Limitation Ban

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

Voucher School Transparency Act

Limits on Immigration Detention Facilities

MOMnibus 3.5

Datacenter Transparency Act

Save Our Beaches

Red Wolf Special Registration Plate

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

LEO Facial Coverings and Identifications

Expand Quantum Computing Education