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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

H1143Introduced

Principal Fellows & Admin. Intern. Stipends

This bill modifies North Carolina's Principal Fellows Program, which provides forgivable scholarships to help prepare school leaders, and adds a new stipend for administrative interns. The bill appropriates $5 million to expand the program and creates financial support for people in administrative internship programs.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H662Introduced

Support the State Highway Patrol

This bill provides approximately $40.5 million in annual pay raises for State Highway Patrol officers and staff, establishes new secondary employment policies for troopers, encourages retired officers to return to work, and appropriates funds for bulletproof glass in patrol vehicles and infrastructure improvements at the Huntersville station.

House2026-04-30

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

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

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

H1073Introduced

Fair Share for Public Schools Act

This bill creates a new 7% income tax on North Carolina income exceeding $1 million per year for individuals. The revenue collected, minus administrative costs, would be distributed annually to the state public school fund and allocated to local school districts based on the number of students.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H1048Introduced

Funding for HIV/AIDS Awareness Walk

This bill appropriates $72,000 in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to support the annual Winston-Salem HIV/AIDS Awareness Walk, a nonprofit event designed to raise public awareness, reduce stigma, and provide education about HIV/AIDS.

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

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

H1044Introduced

Justice in Mental Health Act

This bill increases funding and capacity for behavioral health services in North Carolina's criminal justice system by appropriating nearly $768 million for state psychiatric hospitals, community treatment programs, court coordination infrastructure, and safekeeper beds in state prisons. It establishes frameworks for courts and mental health providers to work together, expands treatment options for court-involved individuals, and modifies the legal standard for involuntary commitment to consider patterns of behavior indicating loss of volitional control.

House2026-04-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

H192Engrossed

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

This bill has two main parts: it prohibits Planned Parenthood from participating in North Carolina's Medicaid program, and it establishes new billing transparency and collections practices for hospitals and ambulatory surgical facilities. The billing provisions require hospitals to provide itemized cost estimates for scheduled services, limit final bills to within 5% of the estimate, and prohibit sending bills to collections without first providing an itemized breakdown.

House2025-09-22

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

H546Passed

Medicaid Modernization

This bill makes several updates to North Carolina's Medicaid program, including creating services for substance use disorders, implementing work requirements when approved by federal officials, allowing out-of-state telehealth providers to enroll, establishing a specialty plan for children in foster care, extending postpartum coverage to 12 months, including psychiatric hospitals in a hospital payment program, and exploring Medicaid coverage for personal care services in adult care homes.

House2025-07-07

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

H231Passed

Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact

This bill establishes the Social Work Licensure Compact, an interstate agreement allowing licensed social workers to practice in multiple member states through a single multistate license issued by their home state. The compact creates a commission to oversee implementation, maintain a shared database of licensure and disciplinary information, and establish uniform standards while preserving each state's right to regulate social work practice within its borders.

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

H627Introduced

Regulation of Accessory Dwelling Units

This bill requires local governments across North Carolina to allow at least one accessory dwelling unit (a smaller residential unit on the same property as a single-family home) in residential areas zoned for single-family homes. The bill sets minimum standards for these units—such as a maximum size of at least 800 square feet and prohibits excessive fees or parking requirements—while allowing some local flexibility in placement and design. Local governments must adopt regulations implementing these requirements by January 1, 2027, or accessory dwelling units will be allowed without limitations.

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

H552Engrossed

Ag Manufacturing Economic Development

This bill creates a new Agricultural Manufacturing Investment Grant Account within North Carolina's economic development fund to provide competitive grants up to $500,000 total to agricultural manufacturers. Eligible companies must invest at least $5 million in private funds, maintain at least 25 employees at competitive wages, and may receive up to $100,000 per year for up to five years.

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

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

H297Engrossed

Breast Cancer Prevention Imaging Parity

This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover supplemental and diagnostic breast imaging (such as MRI and ultrasound) with the same cost-sharing as standard mammograms. It also prevents out-of-network providers from billing patients above insurance-approved rates for these breast cancer prevention services.

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

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

H555Introduced

Medicaid Telehealth Services

This bill allows healthcare providers licensed by North Carolina who offer services exclusively through telemedicine (remote video or phone visits) to become Medicaid providers without needing a physical office location or in-state address. Currently, such providers may be required to have a physical presence in the state to enroll in Medicaid.

House2025-04-17

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

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

H670Introduced

Workforce Credential Grant Program/CCP

This bill creates a Career and College Pathways Innovation Challenge Grant Program that provides competitive grants to community colleges for developing partnerships with schools, universities, employers, and community organizations to increase college enrollment and completion, align education with job market needs, and close educational opportunity gaps. The program allocates $5 million for fiscal year 2025-2026, with $2 million specifically directed to Hurricane Helene-affected counties over two years.

House2025-04-16

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

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

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

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

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

H840Introduced

Reward Schools for Student Growth

This bill modifies how North Carolina grades schools by requiring separate grades for school achievement and school growth, instead of combining them into one overall grade. Schools will receive an achievement grade (based on test scores, graduation rates, and college/career readiness) and a growth grade (based on how much students improve year-to-year), with both displayed prominently on school report cards starting with the 2025-2026 school year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H764Introduced

Establish Death by Reckless Boating

This bill creates four new criminal offenses related to boating: death by reckless boating, serious injury by reckless boating, and aggravated versions of each that apply when the operator has a prior reckless boating conviction within seven years. The offenses apply when someone unintentionally causes death or serious injury while recklessly operating a vessel, but not when impaired boating is involved.

House2025-04-07

H669Introduced

Volunteer Firefighter Reimbursement Program

This bill creates a one-year pilot program that reimburses volunteer firefighters in North Carolina for mileage traveling to emergency calls and for personal equipment used during those responses. The program is funded with $1 million, administered by the Department of Public Safety, and will end June 30, 2026, with a report to the legislature on whether it should be expanded or made permanent.

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

H710Introduced

Mental Health Crisis Unit Pilot for LSAUs

This bill creates a three-year pilot program that provides $250,000 annually to up to eight school districts to establish mental health crisis units in their schools. Each crisis unit would include a school nurse, social worker, and licensed mental health counselor to respond to student mental health emergencies during school hours.

House2025-04-03

H714Introduced

Universal Healthcare

This bill directs North Carolina's Commissioner of Insurance to develop and implement a state-run universal healthcare plan with income-based sliding scale premiums for residents. The Commissioner must submit an implementation plan by January 1, 2026, and the bill appropriates $100,000 to begin planning and implementation efforts.

House2025-04-03

H665Introduced

DPI Disaster Preparedness Fund

This bill creates a $25 million Public School Disaster Preparedness Fund administered by the Department of Public Instruction to help schools in high-risk natural disaster areas improve or replace building structures to reduce damage from severe weather. Schools apply through a formal process, with the State Board of Education approving projects that meet established preparedness standards, and must report annually on fund usage and progress.

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

H752Introduced

Transportation Economic Development Funding

This bill creates two special funds—one for railroad development ($50 million) and one for airport development ($100 million)—to support transportation infrastructure projects in North Carolina. It also appropriates $30 million to construct a roll-on-roll-off facility at the Port of Morehead City.

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

H686Introduced

Safe Cosmetics Act

This bill prohibits cosmetic products sold in North Carolina from containing certain restricted chemicals—including PFAS, heavy metals, parabens, phthalates, formaldehyde, and others—either as intentionally added ingredients or as unintentional by-products/contaminants above detectable limits. The North Carolina Board of Agriculture can issue notices requiring manufacturers to certify compliance, with enforcement beginning January 1, 2026.

House2025-04-03

H673Introduced

Neonatal Transport Assistance

This bill appropriates $656,000 per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to the UNC Health Care System to cover transportation costs for newborn patients when insurance companies deny coverage for ambulance and mileage fees. The UNC system must report annually to the General Assembly on how the funds are spent and their impact on neonatal care.

House2025-04-03

H689Introduced

Expanding Workforce and Education Act

This bill allows North Carolina high school graduates who meet specific criteria to pay in-state tuition at UNC and community college institutions, even if they are not state residents. Eligible students must graduate from a North Carolina public high school, enroll the following year, have attended NC schools for four consecutive years, and hold a valid NC driver's license or ID and social security number.

House2025-04-03

H688Introduced

Funds for Inclusive Playgrounds

This bill establishes a continuing annual appropriation of $100,000 from the state General Fund to the Parks and Recreation Trust Fund specifically for grants to local governments, school units, and public authorities to build or adapt playground and recreational facilities for people with disabilities. Grant awards are capped at $5,000 per recipient, with recipients required to provide local matching funds of $1 for every $5 in state funds.

House2025-04-03

H685Introduced

Rural NC Reinvestment Act

This bill appropriates $595 million in one-time state funding for rural North Carolina across eight areas: water and sewer infrastructure ($200M), public safety equipment ($10M), economic development land acquisition ($20M), rural physician placement ($5M), agricultural development ($10M), rural school construction and repairs ($200M), broadband expansion ($50M), and early learning programs ($100M). Each funding area includes guidelines developed by relevant state departments that prioritize projects based on factors like need severity, efficiency, and people served.

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

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

H691Introduced

Voter Protection and Reliance Act

This bill protects voters by ensuring their ballots are counted based on election rules and procedures that were in place on election day, preventing ballots from being disqualified due to legal changes made after voting occurred. It also requires courts to expedite lawsuits challenging election procedures that are filed within 90 days before or after an election, and clarifies that technical registration errors cannot be used to invalidate a cast ballot unless the voter was actually ineligible.

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

H733Introduced

The Everybody Eats Act

This bill removes North Carolina's restrictions on food and nutrition assistance (food stamps) and temporary assistance for needy families for individuals convicted of drug-related felonies, allowing them to receive these benefits after completing substance abuse treatment. It also extends the recertification period for food and nutrition benefits from more frequent intervals to once per year.

House2025-04-03

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

H626Introduced

Housing Choice Act

The Housing Choice Act creates incentives for North Carolina municipalities to adopt housing-friendly zoning policies by giving them priority consideration for state water infrastructure funding. Smaller cities (under 100,000 residents) can adopt at least 2 of 6 housing strategies, while larger cities (100,000+ residents) can adopt at least 5 of 12 strategies to qualify for this funding priority. The bill also requires a study on the state's housing needs through 2050.

House2025-04-02

H653Introduced

Adjust FMAP Trigger for Medicaid Expansion

This bill lowers the threshold that would trigger the end of Medicaid expansion coverage in North Carolina. Currently, expansion coverage would only stop if federal funding fell below 90% of the non-expansion Medicaid rate; this bill changes that threshold (the specific new percentage is referenced in existing law but not stated in this excerpt). The bill requires the state to notify lawmakers and begin the discontinuation process if this lower threshold is reached.

House2025-04-02

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

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

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

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

H608Introduced

Protect Health and Gov't Personnel Info

This bill strengthens protections for sensitive personal information by establishing minimum financial penalties for computer trespassing crimes involving protected health information and government employee personnel records. Victims of such data breaches can now recover at least $5,000 per violation in civil lawsuits, in addition to actual damages sustained.

House2025-04-01

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

H564Introduced

State Retirees Cost-of-Living Increase/Funds

This bill provides a 2% cost-of-living increase to retirement payments for state employees, teachers, judges, and legislators who retired through the state retirement systems. The bill appropriates $106.2 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to cover this increase, which takes effect July 1, 2025.

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

H275Engrossed

Failure to Yield Penalties

This bill makes two changes to North Carolina traffic law: (1) it clarifies that drivers must yield to blind or partially blind pedestrians using white canes or guide dogs at all crossings and intersections, and (2) it increases the penalty for failure to yield that causes serious bodily injury to include a $500 fine and 90-day driver's license suspension. The changes take effect December 1, 2026.

House2025-03-27

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H490Introduced

Propel NC Funding and Tuition Surcharge

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

House2025-03-25

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H396Introduced

Nursing Fellows & Curric. Support Funds/WSSU

This bill establishes a Nursing Fellows Program at Winston-Salem State University that provides forgivable loans to nursing students pursuing Bachelor of Science or Master of Science degrees in nursing education. The bill appropriates $1.4 million for the program and an additional $100,000 for curriculum support services at WSSU.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H353Introduced

Fair Minimum Wage Act

This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage from $6.15 per hour to $10.00 in 2026, increasing by $2.00 per year until reaching $18.00 in 2030, then automatically adjusting annually based on inflation. It also requires employers who fail to pay minimum wages to cover employees' attorneys' fees and court costs in legal cases.

House2025-03-11

H345Introduced

Rights of Nature/Certain River Basins

This bill would recognize the Dan and Haw River ecosystems as having legal rights to exist, flourish, and remain unpolluted, and would recognize North Carolina residents' right to healthy river ecosystems. It requires state agencies to assess these rivers by mid-2026, remedy violations by mid-2027, and complete full restoration by 2030, with enforcement mechanisms allowing the Attorney General, residents, and the ecosystems themselves to bring lawsuits for violations.

House2025-03-11

H341Introduced

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

This bill modifies North Carolina's property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans by changing the exclusion amount based on the veteran's disability rating percentage, ranging from $25,000 for veterans with 10-29% disability ratings to $100,000 for those with 70% or greater ratings. The bill also extends similar protections to surviving spouses of disabled veterans whose death resulted from a service-connected condition.

House2025-03-11

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

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

H326Introduced

DPI to Study Increased Teacher Planning

This bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to study ways to increase teacher planning time or reduce teacher obligations that interfere with planning time. The department must report its findings and recommendations to the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee by February 15, 2026, including cost estimates. The state will provide $5,000 in funding for the study.

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

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

H303Introduced

Make Corporations Pay What They Owe

This bill repeals a 2021 law that was gradually phasing out North Carolina's corporate income tax. By repealing the phaseout, the bill would maintain the current corporate income tax rate instead of allowing it to continue declining toward zero.

House2025-03-06

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

H293Introduced

Marine Life Stewardship Act

This bill prohibits the farming (aquaculture) of octopus species in North Carolina for human consumption. It allows exceptions for wild-caught octopuses and octopuses used only for research purposes. Violations would result in civil penalties up to $1,000 per day.

House2025-03-06

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

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

H274Introduced

Foster Care Services/Funds

This bill appropriates $5 million in nonrecurring state funding to Crossnore Communities for Children, a nonprofit organization, to provide foster care services across North Carolina during fiscal year 2025-2026. The funds will support programs including trauma resilience training, family reunification, youth independent living services, and foster care support delivered from locations in Winston-Salem, Crossnore, and Hendersonville.

House2025-03-05

H262Introduced

Designate Chief R. Malloy Overpass

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation to name an overpass on Interstate 74 in Laurinburg, Scotland County after Chief of Police Robert Lee Malloy. The overpass crosses South Main Street and will be officially designated in his honor.

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

H253Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning/Farmland & Floodplain

This bill restores Henderson County's authority to initiate down-zoning (reducing permitted land uses or development density) without property owner consent, but only for two specific purposes: farmland preservation in agricultural districts and floodplain mitigation in federally designated flood hazard areas. The bill applies retroactively to December 11, 2024.

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

H248Introduced

Live/Work Exemption for One-Family Dwellings

This bill exempts owner-occupied, single-family dwellings with home-based businesses from North Carolina's live/work building code requirements, allowing them to be classified and regulated as standard residential homes instead. The exemption applies only if the owner lives in the home, operates the business directly (not leasing to others), and complies with local zoning laws.

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

H208Introduced

Partnership for Children Information Access

This bill expands privacy protections for minors participating in local government programs and programs funded by the North Carolina Partnership for Children. It prevents the release of identifying information (such as names, addresses, phone numbers, and parent/guardian contact details) for minor participants in these programs across specified localities in the Triangle area, while still allowing county, municipality, and zip code information to be public.

House2025-02-27

H225Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning/Wake Forest & Rolesville

This bill restores the authority of the towns of Wake Forest and Rolesville to initiate down-zoning (reducing development density or permitted uses on property) without obtaining written consent from all affected property owners. The change applies retroactively to December 11, 2024, and reverses a restriction that was imposed by state legislation in 2024.

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

H209Introduced

Employee Housing/Durham County

This bill authorizes the Durham Public Schools Board of Education and Durham County to partner together to build and operate affordable rental housing for teachers, police officers, first responders, and other county employees on publicly owned land. The housing can be offered at below-market rental rates, with at least 75% of units reserved for teachers.

House2025-02-27

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

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

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

H203Introduced

Home Warranty Act

This bill strengthens consumer protections for home service agreements (home warranties) and reorganizes North Carolina's service agreement laws by separating home appliance rules from motor vehicle rules. It requires service agreement companies to provide clear contract details, disclose exclusions prominently, respond to repair claims quickly for essential services, and allow consumers to cancel agreements with pro-rata refunds.

House2025-02-26

H175Introduced

Const. Amend./Marriage Equality

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would remove North Carolina's current constitutional definition of marriage as between one man and one woman. If passed by voters in November 2026, the amendment would take effect January 1, 2027, and would allow the state to legally recognize marriages between same-sex couples.

House2025-02-25

H174Introduced

Marriage Equality Act

This bill would establish a state law in North Carolina explicitly protecting the right of all individuals to marry regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation, and would require all state and local government entities to apply marriage laws equally to all couples. The bill also prohibits discrimination in marriage-related services and requires public officials to issue marriage licenses without refusing based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sponsored Bills (37)

Worker Safety Act of 2026

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

Investing in Teen Mental Health

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds

Affordability in Healthcare Act

Increase Market Rate/Rate Floor/Child Subsidy

IDD Omnibus

Protecting Medicaid & Autism Services

North Carolina Transportation Safety Act

Expand Disabled Veteran Prop. Tax Exclusion

The Innovations Waitlist Reduction Act

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act

Fin. Exploit. Prevention/Savings Bank Updates

Update Opioid Abatement Treatment Prog. Rules

Allow Live-In DSPs in Group Homes

Prescription Eye Drop Early Refill Coverage

Comprehensive Capital for Childcare Expansion

IDD Omnibus

Occup. & Phys. Therapist Salaries/Employment

Taxpayer Accountability/Pregnancy Centers

Vis., Hear., Dental Screenings Opt-Out

Enhanced Reg. of Registered Res. Facilities

Bloodborne Pathogen Training for Tattooists

Environmental Justice in North Carolina

Open Movie Captioning in Movie Theaters

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act

Public Safety Through Food Access Act

Expand Disabled Veteran Prop. Tax Exclusion

Prescription Drug Pricing

Health Care Security Act

Clubhouse Expansion

Crisis Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act

Reenact Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

Gabe Torres Act

Workforce Freedom and Protection Act

Labor Org. Membership Dues Tax Deductible

Child Care Facility Tax Exemption

Cosponsored Bills (202)

Budget Technical Corrections Modifications

Constitutional Amendment/Early Voting

Prohibit Litigation Invest/Amend WC Benefits

Diabetes Education for Parents

Principal Fellows & Admin. Intern. Stipends

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

Aging With Dignity Act

Universal Pre-K

Red Wolf Special Registration Plate

State Employee Bereavement Leave/Up To 40 Hrs

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

2026 Governor's Budget

The NC Teacher Pay Competitiveness Act

Senior Property Tax Relief Modernization Act

Part-Time Status for Disabled Students

2026 Governor's Budget

Support the State Highway Patrol

Omnibus Life Sciences Appropriations

Child Care Stabilization & Affordability Act

SNAP Funding in Response to H.R. 1

Fair Share for Public Schools Act

Domestic Violence Divorce Reform Act

Public Safety Reinvestment Act

Menstrual Products Sales Tax Exemption

Affordable Housing Infrastructure Development

Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act

NC Economic Progress and Well-Being

Relieving Housing Bottlenecks

North Carolina Microplastics Study Act

Funding for HIV/AIDS Awareness Walk

Fair Wages in Health Care Act/Funds

Fair Minimum Wage Act

Affordable Food Act

Justice in Mental Health Act