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Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

This bill restricts local governments' authority to regulate off-street parking by prohibiting minimum parking space requirements and limiting parking space size standards. It also modifies stormwater control requirements so that property owners redeveloping existing sites only need to manage stormwater from new impervious surfaces, not from areas that existed before redevelopment.

House2026-07-07

H1200Engrossed

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

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

House2026-07-01

H1083Engrossed

Voluntary Portable Benefits Plan Act

This bill creates a voluntary portable benefits plan system that allows independent contractors to build benefit accounts funded by hiring parties. The contributions are not treated as evidence that the worker is an employee, and independent contractors can opt in to have a portion of their pay withheld for these benefits if they choose.

House2026-07-01

H368Engrossed

Revise Child Passenger Restraint Systems Law

This bill updates North Carolina's child car seat requirements to specify rear-facing seats for infants, forward-facing seats for older children, and rear-seat positioning until age 8 or 57 inches tall. It also adds arbitration as an option for resolving disputes between insurance policyholders and insurers over uninsured or underinsured motorist claims.

House2026-06-16

H1029Engrossed

NC Digital Asset and Stablecoin Act

This bill creates two new regulatory frameworks for North Carolina: the Digital Asset Financial Act, which allows state banks and credit unions to provide cryptocurrency custody, staking, and transaction services for customers, and the North Carolina Stablecoin Act, which creates a licensing system for companies that want to issue stablecoins (digital assets designed to maintain a fixed value, typically pegged to the U.S. dollar). Both frameworks include detailed requirements for customer protection, reserve management, and regulatory oversight.

House2026-06-11

H1214Introduced

Make E-Verify Great Again

This bill requires state and local government employers to use the federal E-Verify system to confirm employee work authorization. It creates a 30-day cure period for first-time violations, allows the Department of Labor to conduct random compliance checks, increases civil penalties for repeated violations, and protects employees who report E-Verify violations from retaliation.

House2026-06-10

H1203Introduced

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

This bill expands tuition waivers at North Carolina community colleges to include children (ages 17-24) of law enforcement officers, experienced correctional officers (10+ years), and firefighters. Students would attend community college tuition-free while still meeting admission standards and other college requirements, with the waiver covering the duration of their educational program.

House2026-06-10

H1199Introduced

The Seatbelt Act

The Seatbelt Act makes several changes to North Carolina's traffic and impaired driving laws. It requires repeat speeding violators to install Intelligent Speed Assistance systems in their vehicles, lowers the alcohol concentration threshold for certain ignition interlock requirements from 0.15 to 0.08, and expands school zone traffic cameras to enforce not just speed limits but also seat belt and texting violations.

House2026-06-09

H1030Introduced

US Department of Edu

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

House2026-06-02

H1124Introduced

Interstate Compact for School Psychologists

This bill adopts an interstate compact that allows school psychologists licensed in one state to practice in other participating states without repeating all licensure requirements. The bill also appropriates $1 million to East Carolina University for a virtual school psychology training program.

House2026-06-02

H1110Introduced

Early Intervention School Attendance Pilot

This bill establishes a two-year pilot program in one North Carolina school district to test a data-driven attendance monitoring and intervention system designed to reduce chronic absenteeism. The Department of Public Instruction will select a vendor and school district to implement the system, which includes real-time attendance tracking, automated family communication, and intervention protocols, with $75,000 in state funding allocated for the 2026-2027 school year.

House2026-05-19

H1019Engrossed

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

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

House2026-05-18

H1154Introduced

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

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

House2026-05-13

H1090Introduced

RURAL Care Act

This bill creates a Rural Healthcare Infrastructure Fund and Council to provide grants and below-market loans to rural healthcare facilities for construction, renovation, and modernization projects. It replaces the previous Rural Health Care Stabilization Program and requires the new Council to develop a detailed plan by July 1, 2027, for how the program will operate, which must be approved by the General Assembly before funds can be awarded.

House2026-05-12

H433Passed

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

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

House2026-05-12

H1074Introduced

Prescription Drug Expenses Tax Deduction

This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct up to $5,000 per year in out-of-pocket prescription drug expenses from their state income taxes, starting in 2026. The deduction covers unreimbursed medication costs and pharmacy co-pays, but excludes amounts already covered by tax-advantaged accounts like Health Savings Accounts or Flexible Spending Accounts.

House2026-05-12

H1231Introduced

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

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

House2026-05-12

H1028Introduced

Harnett County Jetport

This bill allows Harnett County to adopt land-use planning overlays for a jetport by modifying state airport zoning regulations. It exempts airport zoning regulations from certain planning requirements and specifies that regulations within 6 miles of cargo airport sites are governed by the North Carolina Global TransPark Authority.

House2026-05-06

H1027Introduced

Dunn and Erwin Satellite Annexation Change

This bill removes the 10% satellite annexation cap for the City of Dunn and Town of Erwin, allowing them to annex noncontiguous areas of land without the size limitations that apply to most other North Carolina municipalities. The change is added to an existing list of cities and towns already exempt from this annexation restriction.

House2026-05-06

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

H1189Introduced

Datacenter Transparency Act

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

House2026-05-05

H1186Introduced

Equipping Law Enf. for Better Drug Detection

This bill establishes a pilot program through the North Carolina Collaboratory to provide law enforcement agencies with advanced drug-detection technology to replace traditional field drug tests. The program will measure the technology's impact on case outcomes, officer safety, testing accuracy, and cost-effectiveness, with findings reported to the legislature by 2028.

House2026-05-05

H1163Introduced

Workforce Act of 2026

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

House2026-05-04

H1159Introduced

Investing in Teen Mental Health

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

House2026-05-04

H1149Introduced

Keep NC Working Act

This bill establishes a Short-Time Compensation Program that allows employers to reduce employee work hours by 10-60% as an alternative to layoffs, with affected employees receiving partial unemployment benefits to offset lost wages. The program requires employer applications, Division approval, maintenance of employee health and retirement benefits, and is capped at 52 weeks per employee, with $100,000 appropriated for implementation.

House2026-05-04

H1134Introduced

Secret Peeping on Minor/Increase Punishment

This bill increases criminal penalties for secret peeping offenses when the victim is a minor. Currently, many of these offenses are Class 1 misdemeanors or Class I felonies; the bill elevates them to Class A1 misdemeanors or Class H/G felonies when a minor is the victim. The bill also allocates $25,000 for a public awareness campaign about these laws.

House2026-05-04

H1118Introduced

Workforce Housing Loan Renewal Act

This bill appropriates $35 million in recurring annual funding from the state's General Fund to the Housing Finance Agency for the Workforce Housing Loan Program, beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027. The funds are intended to support loans that help workforce-level earners access housing.

House2026-04-30

H1097Introduced

Government Website Access Act

This bill appropriates $31.5 million in state funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to improve government website accessibility through artificial intelligence tools, provide job training grants for veterans and formerly incarcerated individuals, and support career planning resources for working adults.

House2026-04-30

H1111Introduced

Military Service Buyback Reduction: Teachers

This bill allows veterans who work as full-time public school employees in North Carolina to purchase up to four years of military service credit toward their teacher retirement benefits at a reduced cost. Instead of paying the full actuarial cost, eligible veterans would pay only 25% of the cost, with the state covering the remaining 75% through appropriated funds.

House2026-04-30

H1081Introduced

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

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

House2026-04-30

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

H1075Introduced

Persistent D.V. Offender Registry

This bill creates a registry of people convicted of domestic violence offenses in North Carolina. People convicted of a domestic violence offense who have at least one prior domestic violence conviction must register, with registration periods of 2-10 years depending on the number of prior convictions. The State Bureau of Investigation will maintain a public online registry containing offenders' names, birth dates, conviction dates, county, and photographs.

House2026-04-29

H1043Introduced

CHCCS Act

This bill establishes new parental rights in public schools regarding student records and identity changes, restricts instruction on gender identity and sexuality in kindergarten through fourth grade, creates a legal process for parents to sue schools for violations, and gives the State Auditor authority to investigate and enforce compliance with financial penalties.

House2026-04-27

H1032Introduced

Repeal Two Percent Local Grocery Tax

This bill removes groceries from North Carolina's local sales tax, reducing the local tax rate from 2% to 1% on food items. Currently, counties can levy up to a 2% local sales tax that includes groceries; this bill would exempt groceries from that tax while keeping the 1% tax on other items.

House2026-04-22

H775Engrossed

Criminal History Checks for School Positions

This bill requires criminal history checks for charter school board members and public school employees before hiring, modifies reporting rules for school employee misconduct, strengthens reporting requirements for threats and assaults on teachers, and encourages the State Board of Education to align its licensure system with a national educator database.

House2025-09-25

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

H42Engrossed

Back the Blue Pay Act

This bill provides salary increases and bonuses to state and local law enforcement officers, correctional officers, and related personnel. It also increases pension benefits for firefighters, rescue squad workers, and National Guard members, and raises death benefits for public safety employees killed in the line of duty. The total state investment across the 2025-2027 fiscal years is approximately $103.7 million in recurring and nonrecurring funds.

House2025-09-22

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

H193Passed

Firearm Law Revisions

This bill allows authorized employees and volunteers at nonpublic schools to carry firearms or stun guns on school property if they meet specific training and authorization requirements. It also permits concealed handgun carry in buildings that are both schools and places of religious worship during worship services. Additionally, the bill increases criminal penalties for assaults and threats against government officers and election workers, requires judges to set pretrial release conditions for such cases, and provides additional protections for relocated law enforcement shooting ranges.

House2025-07-29

H992Passed

Timeshare Foreclosure/Paternity Matters

This bill creates a streamlined foreclosure process for timeshare associations to collect unpaid assessments without going to court, and makes changes to how paternity is established for children born outside of marriage. The timeshare foreclosure process allows associations to sell a delinquent owner's timeshare through a trustee sale, while owners can object to use this process and demand a traditional court foreclosure instead.

House2025-07-09

H959Passed

Various Education Changes

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

House2025-07-01

H150Engrossed

Expedite Surplus Property

This bill allows certain educational organizations and state agencies to more quickly obtain surplus and decommissioned federal materials and property without following standard procedures. Educational nonprofits can access surplus federal property for educational purposes, and state agencies can access it for public safety purposes.

House2025-06-09

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

H379Engrossed

Application for a Convention of the States

This resolution asks Congress to call a convention of the states under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to propose amendments limiting federal fiscal spending, federal power, and congressional term lengths. North Carolina's application remains active until two-thirds of all states submit similar applications for the same purpose.

House2025-05-08

H188Engrossed

Automatic Renewal of Contracts

This bill strengthens North Carolina's requirements for businesses offering automatically renewing contracts (like subscriptions or memberships). It requires clearer disclosure of renewal terms, easier cancellation methods, and advance notice before renewal—with specific formatting rules to make this information stand out to consumers.

House2025-05-08

H519Engrossed

Parents' Medical Bill of Rights

This bill revises North Carolina law regarding when minors can consent to medical treatment without parental approval and when parents can access their minor child's medical records. It restricts minors' ability to independently consent to certain treatments (like venereal disease treatment and pregnancy-related care), requires parental consent for emergency-use vaccines, and limits parental access to medical records only in specific circumstances such as abuse investigations or reportable conditions.

House2025-05-07

H520Engrossed

Abuse and Deception by Telemarketers

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

House2025-05-07

H516Introduced

Motorcycle Road Guard Safety Act

This bill creates a Motorcycle Road Guard Certification Program that allows trained and certified motorcycle riders to direct traffic while escorting motorcycle groups along approved public routes. Certified road guards must meet safety standards, hold a valid motorcycle driver's license endorsement, and complete a Division-developed certification course, with routes requiring approval from local police chiefs or sheriffs.

House2025-05-05

H254Engrossed

Adopt Tuskegee Airmen Day

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

House2025-05-01

H156Engrossed

Increase Access for Small Employers/Insurance

This bill increases access to stop loss and catastrophic insurance coverage for small employers in North Carolina by lowering the threshold of what qualifies as a small employer from businesses with fewer than 12 employees to those with fewer than 5 employees. Stop loss insurance protects employers from unexpected large medical claims by their employees.

House2025-05-01

H146Engrossed

Remote License Renewal/Active Duty Military

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

House2025-05-01

H261Engrossed

Sent. Enhancement/Immigration-Related Crimes

This bill creates sentence enhancements in North Carolina that increase criminal penalties in three situations: (1) when a person convicted of a felony has a prior federal conviction for illegal reentry into the U.S., (2) when a felony is committed as part of a conspiracy to benefit criminal activity, and (3) when a misdemeanor is committed as part of a conspiracy to benefit criminal activity. Enhanced sentences raise the felony or misdemeanor one class level higher.

House2025-05-01

H163Engrossed

Pharmacy Benefits Manager Provisions

This bill regulates pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs) in North Carolina by prohibiting spread pricing (charging insurers more than they pay pharmacies), restricting certain fees and concessions, establishing standards for specialty pharmacy accreditation, clarifying patients' right to choose their pharmacy, and strengthening audit protections for pharmacies. The bill also requires PBMs to report concession data to the Insurance Commissioner.

House2025-04-30

H38Engrossed

Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act

This bill prohibits payment card networks (like Visa and Mastercard) from using special merchant codes that identify firearms purchases or merchants, and from maintaining records of North Carolina residents who own firearms. The bill allows the Attorney General to enforce violations with civil penalties up to $5,000, and permits affected merchants, customers, and firearm owners to sue for damages up to $10,000 per violation.

House2025-04-30

H767Introduced

Market Rate Teacher Pay Study

This bill creates a joint legislative study commission to research how North Carolina public school teacher pay compares to other states and examine factors affecting teacher recruitment and retention. The commission will study teacher salaries, benefits, attrition rates, and the effectiveness of various compensation programs, then report findings and recommendations to the General Assembly by the end of 2026.

House2025-04-29

H806Introduced

Public School Operational Relief

This bill removes North Carolina's class size requirements for public schools and allows schools to employ teachers who are not licensed, as long as at least 50% of teachers in each school hold valid teaching licenses. Unlicensed teachers in core subjects (math, science, social studies, language arts) must be college graduates and complete training in special education, behavior management, and restraint/seclusion procedures.

House2025-04-29

H244Engrossed

Depoliticize Government Property Act

This bill restricts which flags can be flown or displayed on government buildings and property in North Carolina. Only official governmental flags—such as the U.S. flag, North Carolina flag, military branch flags, POW/MIA flag, and flags of recognized nations and tribes—are permitted, while other flags are prohibited. Employees who violate this rule could face disciplinary action or termination.

House2025-04-28

H432Engrossed

Property Tax Relief Study

This bill directs the Revenue Laws Study Committee to examine North Carolina's current property tax relief programs for elderly, disabled, and disabled veteran homeowners, and to evaluate potential modifications and broader property tax reforms. The committee will study options like increasing relief amounts, expanding eligibility, and limiting tax increases, then report findings and recommendations to the General Assembly in 2026.

House2025-04-28

H985Introduced

Increase Punishment for Assaulting Teachers

This bill increases the punishment for assaulting school employees or volunteers from a Class A1 misdemeanor to a Class I felony. It also requires school supervisors to report assaults on employees that result in physical injury to the principal, and prohibits school administrators from intimidating employees who report assaults to law enforcement.

House2025-04-17

H246Engrossed

Liam's Law

Liam's Law increases criminal penalties for reckless driving, street racing, and hit-and-run offenses that result in serious injury or death. It upgrades penalties for street racing from misdemeanors to felonies when serious injury or death occurs, extends driver's license revocation periods (including permanent revocation for deaths), and strengthens hit-and-run requirements by distinguishing between crashes resulting in serious bodily injury versus other injuries.

House2025-04-16

H986Introduced

Support Our Teachers

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

House2025-04-14

H996Introduced

Further Limit General Fund Operating Budget

This bill lowers North Carolina's statutory cap on state General Fund operating budget spending from 7% to 6% of total state personal income. The change takes effect July 1, 2025, and applies to all future state budgets unless lawmakers vote by a two-thirds majority to exceed the new limit.

House2025-04-14

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

H828Introduced

Prohibit Prop Bets on College/Amateur Sports

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

House2025-04-09

H825Introduced

Election Improvements

This bill makes four changes to North Carolina elections: it prohibits ranked choice voting statewide, clarifies rules about where election-related activity can occur near polling places, reduces the early voting period from the third Thursday before an election to the second Thursday, and modifies the identification requirements for voters requesting absentee ballots.

House2025-04-09

H487Introduced

Shorter Separation for Retired ADAs and APDs

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

House2025-04-09

H799Introduced

Ensure Nondiscrimination in Government

This bill prohibits state, city, and county government agencies from promoting or requiring employees to affirm certain ideological concepts related to race, sex, religion, and ethnicity in hiring, training, and promotion. It also prevents government agencies from using public funds for programs teaching these concepts and restricts requiring job applicants to express positions on contemporary political or social issues.

House2025-04-08

H794Introduced

Study Highway Patrol Staffing/Salary Scale

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

House2025-04-08

H802Introduced

Nicotine & Vaping Prevention in Schools

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

House2025-04-08

H800Introduced

Review Effectiveness & Delivery of Child Care

This bill directs state agencies to study the effectiveness of North Carolina's child care programs (NC Pre-K and Smart Start) and propose improvements. It also appropriates $10 million per year for a pilot program that automatically qualifies full-time child care teachers for child care subsidies for their own preschool-age children, provided they enroll in early childhood education courses.

House2025-04-08

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

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

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

H189Engrossed

Red Light Camera Delay Interval

This bill clarifies the rules for red light cameras in North Carolina by defining when a violation occurs and requiring that yellow light intervals and red clearance intervals at intersections with cameras meet or exceed the durations specified in the engineer-approved traffic signal plan and comply with national uniform traffic control standards.

House2025-04-03

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

H511Introduced

Award Magistrates Salary Increases

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

House2025-03-26

H505Introduced

Kayla's Act: Protecting Dom. Violence Victims

Kayla's Act makes three main changes to North Carolina domestic violence law: it allows courts to admit statements from witnesses who are unavailable because a defendant caused that unavailability; it extends the statute of limitations for certain domestic violence misdemeanors to 10 years; and it permits domestic violence victims to testify remotely (outside the defendant's physical presence) in criminal proceedings if the defendant doesn't object or if the court finds the victim would suffer serious emotional distress from testifying in person.

House2025-03-26

H501Introduced

Modernize Domestic Violence Protection Order

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

House2025-03-26

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

H488Introduced

Modify School Performance Grades

This bill changes how North Carolina assigns school performance grades by requiring all schools to receive two separate letter grades: one for school achievement (how well students perform) and one for school growth (how much students improve). Previously, schools received a single overall performance grade combining both measures. The bill also requires these separate achievement and growth grades to be prominently displayed on school report cards.

House2025-03-25

H186Engrossed

The Stars and Stripes Commitment Act

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

House2025-03-20

H184Engrossed

Promote North Carolina Sawmills

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

House2025-03-20

H430Introduced

Protect Youth From Harms of Vaping & Nicotine

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

House2025-03-20

H431Introduced

Preventing Deed Fraud

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

House2025-03-19

H182Engrossed

Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse

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

House2025-03-17

H380Introduced

Conscientious Objections to Vaccine Mandates

This bill adds a 'conscientious objection' exemption to North Carolina's vaccination requirements for students in public schools, colleges, and universities. The exemption allows students or parents to opt out of immunizations by submitting a written statement explaining their conscience-based or religious objections, without needing medical documentation. The bill takes effect for the 2026-2027 school year.

House2025-03-13

H375Introduced

AI/Ban Deceptive Ads

This bill creates new state laws regulating artificial intelligence and synthetic media in North Carolina. It requires clear labeling of AI-generated or manipulated content in political ads, prohibits deceptive deepfakes of candidates, bans AI-generated child sexual abuse material and non-consensual intimate images, requires disclosure when regulated professionals use AI, and establishes criminal penalties and civil remedies for violations.

House2025-03-13

H177Introduced

Reduce Barriers to State Employment

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

House2025-02-25

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

H164Introduced

Parental Consent to Release Child Autopsies

This bill requires parents or guardians to give written permission before child autopsy records, photos, videos, or audio recordings can be shared. It creates an exception allowing disclosure without consent when necessary for public health, safety, legal compliance, or research, and allows courts to override parental wishes if they find good cause after reviewing the materials in private.

House2025-02-24

H61Introduced

Assaults on First Responders

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

House2025-02-06

H66Introduced

Reduce Early Voting Period

This bill reduces North Carolina's early voting period by starting it on the second Monday before an election instead of the third Thursday before the election. This shortens the early voting window by approximately one week while maintaining voting on the last Saturday before Election Day.

House2025-02-06

H46Introduced

Make Healthcare Affordable

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

House2025-02-05

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

Joe Pike

Joe Pike

Sponsored Bills (14)

HOA Oversight Act

Const. Amend./Permitless Carry

DWI Modernization Act of 2026

Allow Concealed Carry of Knife

CCW Permit/Allow Carry of Other Weapons

Special License Plate After Revocation

CCW Permit/No Records Provided

DOT Study on Fort Bragg Traffic Congestion

General Assembly: In God We Trust - Display

Repeal Certificate of Need Laws

Review of Federal Acts/Rules/Regulations

Clean Skies Geoengineering Ban

Increase Disabled Veteran Prop Tax Benefit

Firearm Discharge/Preempt Local Ordinance

Cosponsored Bills (97)

Election Law Changes

Jacksonville Annexation & Conforming Changes

Home-Based Business Fairness Act

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

Voluntary Portable Benefits Plan Act

Revise Child Passenger Restraint Systems Law

NC Digital Asset and Stablecoin Act

Make E-Verify Great Again

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

The Seatbelt Act

US Department of Edu

Interstate Compact for School Psychologists

Early Intervention School Attendance Pilot

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

RURAL Care Act

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

Prescription Drug Expenses Tax Deduction

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

Harnett County Jetport

Dunn and Erwin Satellite Annexation Change

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

Datacenter Transparency Act

Equipping Law Enf. for Better Drug Detection

Workforce Act of 2026

Investing in Teen Mental Health

Keep NC Working Act

Secret Peeping on Minor/Increase Punishment

Workforce Housing Loan Renewal Act

Government Website Access Act

Military Service Buyback Reduction: Teachers

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

Affordable Housing Infrastructure Development

Persistent D.V. Offender Registry

CHCCS Act

Repeal Two Percent Local Grocery Tax

Criminal History Checks for School Positions

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

Back the Blue Pay Act

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

Firearm Law Revisions

Timeshare Foreclosure/Paternity Matters

Various Education Changes

Expedite Surplus Property

Adult Care Home Medicaid PCS Coverage

Application for a Convention of the States

Automatic Renewal of Contracts

Parents' Medical Bill of Rights

Abuse and Deception by Telemarketers

Motorcycle Road Guard Safety Act

Adopt Tuskegee Airmen Day

Increase Access for Small Employers/Insurance

Remote License Renewal/Active Duty Military

Sent. Enhancement/Immigration-Related Crimes

Pharmacy Benefits Manager Provisions

Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act

Market Rate Teacher Pay Study

Public School Operational Relief

Depoliticize Government Property Act

Property Tax Relief Study

Increase Punishment for Assaulting Teachers