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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

H1231Introduced

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

This bill removes the ability for voters to update their existing voter registration (such as address changes, name changes, or party affiliation changes) through the DMV website or at DMV physical locations. Voters seeking to make these changes would instead be required to do so directly at their county board of elections. New voter registration applications at the DMV would continue to be allowed.

House2026-05-12

H1081Introduced

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

This bill appropriates $3 million in state funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to provide free hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatment to North Carolina veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The funds will be directed to a nonprofit organization called HBOT 4 HEROES to deliver approximately 15,000 treatments to roughly 350 veterans, with progress reported back to the legislature by June 30, 2027.

House2026-04-30

H118Introduced

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

This bill increases the property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans in North Carolina from $45,000 to $61,000 of appraised home value, meaning more of their home's value is not taxed. The state will reimburse local governments for half of the tax revenue they lose from this increase.

House2025-09-23

H402Passed

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

This bill requires state agencies to obtain legislative approval before implementing rules that cost $20 million or more over five years, and requires higher voting thresholds (two-thirds for $1+ million costs, unanimous for $10+ million costs) when agency boards or commissions adopt costly rules. It also allows the public to request legislative review of rules if 10 or more people object within one day of Commission approval.

House2025-07-29

H59Introduced

Modify Homestead Exclusions

This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax relief programs for elderly and disabled homeowners. It increases the income limit for married couples in the elderly/disabled homestead exclusion, eliminates the requirement to repay deferred taxes in the homestead circuit breaker program, adds an alternative income qualification based on area median income, and releases any previously accumulated deferred taxes for eligible properties.

House2025-06-25

H14Introduced

Gambling Loss Tax Deduct, NC Sound Money Act

This bill has two main parts: it allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct gambling losses from their state income taxes (similar to federal tax law), and it establishes that investment coins and bullion made of gold or silver can be recognized as legal tender in North Carolina, though businesses are not required to accept them.

House2025-06-25

H615Engrossed

Enrollment Stability for Military Students

This bill allows military families to enroll their children in North Carolina public schools before they officially move, if the parent is on active duty and receiving transfer orders to the state or separating from military service within 12 months. Families can register remotely and begin attendance while living in temporary housing, with up to one year to provide proof of residency documentation.

House2025-06-19

H741Engrossed

Veterans Registration Plate Modifications

This bill allows the Division of Motor Vehicles to issue Military Veteran special registration plates with personalized backgrounds, and it modifies the plate design to place the branch of service insignia on the left side instead of across the top. The bill exempts these plates from certain application requirements that normally apply to other special plates.

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

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

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

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

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

H671Introduced

Competitive Speech and Debate Grant Pilot

This bill establishes a four-year pilot program (2025-2029) that provides grants up to $10,000 per year to North Carolina public high schools to create or expand speech and debate teams. The program allocates $500,000 annually to fund coach stipends, competition fees, and travel costs, with participating teams required to join the Tarheel Forensic League and National Speech and Debate Association.

House2025-04-15

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

H721Introduced

Muddy Sneakers/St. Gerard House

This bill appropriates $500,000 in recurring funds to the Muddy Sneakers program to support hands-on science learning for fifth graders, and $2,750,000 in nonrecurring funds to St. Gerard House to support autism treatment programs. Both appropriations are funded from the General Fund and take effect July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-03

H300Introduced

Vet Care for Retired First Responder Dogs

This bill establishes a state fund to reimburse owners of retired police, fire, and correctional canines for veterinary care costs. Eligible dogs must have been certified and retired after July 1, 2024, and owners can receive up to $1,500 per fiscal year in reimbursements for covered veterinary expenses. The bill appropriates $400,000 in recurring state funds to support the program.

House2025-04-01

H134Engrossed

Prohibit Misbranding of Certain Food Products

This bill requires cell-cultured meat and poultry products (grown from animal cells in a lab rather than from slaughtered animals) to be clearly labeled with qualifying terms like 'cell-cultured,' 'lab-grown,' or 'fake' in at least 20-point font near the product name if they use meat or poultry terminology. Products that fail to meet these labeling requirements are considered misbranded under North Carolina law.

House2025-03-26

H16Engrossed

General Assembly: In God We Trust - Display

This bill requires North Carolina's Legislative Services Officer to display the national motto 'In God We Trust' above and behind the speaker's dais in both the House and Senate chambers, matching a similar display in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill prioritizes using private donations to cover costs, with state funds available if needed after 90 days.

House2025-03-26

H184Engrossed

Promote North Carolina Sawmills

This bill allows small sawmills and certain other mills to sell ungraded lumber directly to homeowners for residential construction, provided the mill operator completes a state-approved lumber grading training program, the lumber meets building code standards, and code officials inspect the framing. The bill requires mills to mark and certify their lumber and register with the North Carolina Forest Service.

House2025-03-20

H186Engrossed

The Stars and Stripes Commitment Act

This bill requires North Carolina schools to schedule daily recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance within one hour of the school day's start, display U.S. and North Carolina flags in classrooms, and provide instruction on the flag and Pledge's history. It also requires the State Board of Education and local school governing bodies to begin their meetings with the Pledge. The bill specifies that no one can be compelled to stand, salute, or recite the Pledge.

House2025-03-20

H455Introduced

Repeal Certificate of Need Laws

This bill repeals North Carolina's Certificate of Need (CON) laws, which currently require healthcare facilities to obtain state approval before making major expansions, purchases of equipment, or new service offerings. The bill removes the requirement for state review and permission before healthcare providers can expand operations, while making technical updates to other state laws that reference the repealed CON requirements.

House2025-03-20

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

H5Introduced

NC Constitutional Carry Act

This bill allows North Carolina citizens age 18 and older to carry concealed handguns without a permit, while still permitting people to voluntarily obtain permits for reciprocity when traveling to other states. The bill maintains certain restrictions on who can carry concealed handguns, including those with felony convictions, domestic violence convictions, active criminal charges, and those deemed mentally unfit or addicted to controlled substances.

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

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

H62Introduced

Farmers Protection Act

This bill prohibits North Carolina banks, savings and loans, savings banks, and credit unions from denying, restricting, or canceling services to farmers based on their greenhouse gas emissions, use of fossil fuel fertilizers, or use of fossil fuel-powered machinery. If a financial institution has environmental, social, or political (ESG) commitments related to agriculture, the law presumes any denial of service to a farmer violates this rule unless the institution can prove the decision was based solely on financial reasons.

House2025-03-17

H276Introduced

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

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

House2025-03-12

H52Engrossed

Protect Those Who Serve & Protect Act of 2025

This bill creates new criminal penalties for assaulting public safety officers and animals by throwing or spraying substances at them, and expands the definition of 'public safety officer' to include a broader range of workers such as healthcare providers, emergency management workers, and military members. It also consolidates and increases penalties for various assaults on public safety officers across multiple criminal statutes.

House2025-03-12

H11Introduced

No Tax on Tips, Overtime, Bonus Pay

This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct overtime compensation, tips, and up to $2,500 in annual bonus pay from their state income tax. The deductions apply to income that would normally be taxed, effectively reducing the amount of state income tax owed by workers who receive these forms of compensation.

House2025-03-11

H296Introduced

Corn Farmer Recovery Act - Phase I

This bill establishes the 2024 Agricultural Disaster Corn Crop Loss Program and appropriates $89.5 million from the State Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund to provide financial assistance to North Carolina corn farmers who experienced verified crop losses from weather disasters in 2024. Eligible farmers in USDA-designated disaster counties can apply for payments based on acreage, county loss estimates, and yield averages.

House2025-03-06

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

H130Introduced

Agriculture Crops Disaster Relief

This bill establishes the 2024 Agricultural Disaster Crop Loss Program and appropriates $475 million to help North Carolina farmers recover from verified crop losses caused by natural disasters in 2024. The program provides financial assistance to farmers in counties designated as agricultural disaster areas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with funds transferred from state reserves and distributed based on acreage, county loss estimates, and yield/price averages.

House2025-02-26

H177Introduced

Reduce Barriers to State Employment

This bill requires North Carolina's State Human Resources Commission to review job requirements for state positions and reduce unnecessary barriers to employment, such as removing four-year college degree requirements when practical experience, military service, apprenticeships, or trade school education would be sufficient. The commission must report annually on its progress to a legislative committee starting in October 2025.

House2025-02-25

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

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

H61Introduced

Assaults on First Responders

This bill increases the punishment for assaulting first responders with a firearm from a Class D felony to a Class B1 felony. It expands the definition of protected first responders to include emergency medical technicians, emergency health care providers, medical responders, firefighters, and telecommunicators, in addition to law enforcement, probation, parole officers, National Guard members, and detention facility employees.

House2025-02-06

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

H9Introduced

Firearm Discharge/Preempt Local Ordinance

This bill prevents local governments (counties and cities) from regulating firearm discharge on private property when the property owner gives permission, and removes local authority to regulate sport shooting ranges. It allows counties and cities to still regulate firearm discharge in public spaces and for hunting, self-defense, and law enforcement purposes.

House2025-01-30

Edward Goodwin

Edward Goodwin

Sponsored Bills (22)

Recognition of the Tuscarora

Require Seat Belts on School Buses

Dis. Veteran Homestead Excl. Prequalification

Adopt State Veterans Museum

Adopt Tuskegee Airmen Day

Emer. Care/Animals/Vet. Practice

POW/MIA Flag/State Bldgs. & Schools

Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act

Memorials in Veterans Cemeteries

Nat.l Guard Student Loan Repayment Program

Post NC Veterans' Benefits

Employment Preference for Military Personnel

Adopt Women Veterans Day

Learning AAPI Contributions in Schools

U.S. & N.C. Flags/Made In USA

Establish AAPI Heritage Commission

Additional Funds for Patriot Star Scholarship

Military to Teacher Ret. Incentive

Beyond The Choice Act

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

Increase Disabled Veteran Prop Tax Benefit

Disabled Veteran Motor Vehicle Tax Exclusion

Cosponsored Bills (45)

Ferry Div. Audit/DOT Omnibus

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

Const. Amend. Property Tax Levy Limit

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

Modify Homestead Exclusions

Gambling Loss Tax Deduct, NC Sound Money Act

Enrollment Stability for Military Students

Veterans Registration Plate Modifications

Veterans/eTMS Pilot Program

Remote License Renewal/Active Duty Military

Authorize Gullah Geechee Heritage Trail

County Tier Designation Study Bill

Military and Veterans Educational Promise Act

Competitive Speech and Debate Grant Pilot

The Joe John Remembrance Act

Muddy Sneakers/St. Gerard House

Vet Care for Retired First Responder Dogs

Prohibit Misbranding of Certain Food Products

General Assembly: In God We Trust - Display

Promote North Carolina Sawmills

The Stars and Stripes Commitment Act

Repeal Certificate of Need Laws

Establish Military Appreciation Month

NC Constitutional Carry Act

Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation

Fort Fisher Capital Improvements Funds

Farmers Protection Act

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

Protect Those Who Serve & Protect Act of 2025

No Tax on Tips, Overtime, Bonus Pay

Corn Farmer Recovery Act - Phase I

Use Tribal ID for Alcohol & Tobacco Purchase

Agriculture Crops Disaster Relief

Reduce Barriers to State Employment

Make Election Day A State Holiday

Establish Prostate Cancer Control Program

Assaults on First Responders

Maintenance of State Veterans Cemeteries

Observe Standard Time All Year

Study State Travel Allowance Reimbursements

Firearm Discharge/Preempt Local Ordinance

Voting Record (802)