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Honor Mike Clampitt

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

House2026-06-24

H565Engrossed

Limit Use of AI Medicaid/Commercial Insurance

This bill prohibits the use of artificial intelligence as the sole basis for denying insurance coverage decisions and claims in North Carolina's Medicaid and commercial insurance programs. It also bars healthcare providers and AI developers from using AI systems designed to promote 'upcoding' (billing for higher-level services than actually provided), and requires healthcare providers to annually attest their compliance with these restrictions.

House2026-06-23

H1238Passed

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

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

House2026-06-23

H1123Passed

UNC Omnibus & Capital Contracting Law Changes

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

House2026-06-19

H369Engrossed

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

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

House2026-06-10

H1233Introduced

State Bd of Elections/Independent Agency

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

House2026-06-01

H1019Engrossed

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

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

House2026-05-18

H1154Introduced

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

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

House2026-05-13

H1131Introduced

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

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

House2026-05-13

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

H1193Introduced

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

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

House2026-05-12

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

H1184Introduced

Voucher School Transparency Act

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

House2026-05-05

H1198Introduced

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

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

House2026-05-05

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

H1207Introduced

Keeping NC Open for Business

This bill creates a Municipal Winter Road Operations Cost Share Program that reimburses North Carolina municipalities for up to 75% of costs related to snow and ice removal, including equipment purchases, staffing, and contracted services. The state would provide $10 million annually plus $20 million upfront for equipment, with municipalities required to contract with private snow-removal providers and maintain GPS tracking and public plowing maps.

House2026-05-05

H1181Introduced

Property Tax Modifications

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

House2026-05-04

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

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

H1175Introduced

Affordability in Healthcare Act

This comprehensive healthcare reform bill aims to lower costs and improve affordability through multiple strategies: establishing a state-supported low-cost health insurance plan option on the marketplace (by 2028), creating a purchasing consortium for public health buyers, expanding chronic disease prevention programs, increasing price and billing transparency, regulating hospital facility fees, strengthening protections for rural healthcare, updating insurance prior authorization rules, and requiring state review of significant hospital transactions to preserve competition.

House2026-05-04

H1147Introduced

IDD Omnibus

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

House2026-05-04

H1150Introduced

NC Constitutional Rights Act/Funds

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

House2026-05-04

H1172Introduced

The Ciji Graham Act

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

House2026-05-04

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

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

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

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

H1155Introduced

The People's Right to Amend Act

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

House2026-05-04

H1167Introduced

2026 Governor's Budget

This is North Carolina's 2026 state budget bill, which appropriates funds for state government operations for fiscal years 2026-2027. It allocates approximately $35.4 billion in General Fund spending across education, health, human services, transportation, and other state functions, while also making adjustments to tax rates, employee salaries, and various state programs.

House2026-05-04

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

H1153Introduced

Budgeting Accountability and Transparency

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

House2026-05-04

H1105Introduced

North Carolina Transportation Safety Act

This bill increases law enforcement staffing in Mecklenburg County, increases penalties for traffic safety violations (school bus stops, move-over law, street takeovers), restricts public access to highway camera recordings, expands 24-hour operation of a Charlotte traffic management center, creates new criminal offenses for reckless boating deaths/injuries, and increases penalties for assaults on public transit operators.

House2026-04-30

H1099Introduced

Funding Vocational Rehabilitation

This bill appropriates $7.5 million to help counties provide vocational training and employment services to people participating in accountability and recovery courts. The funding covers training costs, transportation, and support services like childcare and licensing fees, with grants capped at $150,000 per county per year.

House2026-04-30

H1085Introduced

Improve Cable Service Complaint Resolutions

This bill adds enforcement tools for the Consumer Protection Division of the Attorney General's Office to address cable service complaints. It allows the state to pursue civil actions to recover revenue from cable providers who commit repeat violations of federal customer service requirements or their own customer agreements, and requires cable companies to include complaint resolution information on customer bills.

House2026-04-30

H1095Introduced

Tier System Reevaluation

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

House2026-04-30

H1092Introduced

Reform NC Property Tax

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to allow property tax relief based on area median income, modifies the homestead property tax circuit breaker program for seniors and disabled homeowners, updates tax exemptions for nonprofit affordable rental housing, and provides $20 million in grants to help counties upgrade property reappraisal technology for more frequent assessments.

House2026-04-30

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

H1065Introduced

Prepared Foods Sales Tax Modification

This bill modifies North Carolina's sales tax rules for prepared foods by exempting certain prepared foods from state sales tax, while maintaining taxes on items like dietary supplements, vending machine food, and soft drinks. The bill clarifies definitions of what counts as prepared food and creates an exception for artisan bakeries that meet specific revenue and product requirements.

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

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

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

H1077Introduced

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act

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

House2026-04-29

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

H1053Introduced

Additional Funding for School Supplies

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

House2026-04-28

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

H1054Introduced

Gov't Employee Raises & Retiree COLA

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

House2026-04-28

H1060Introduced

AG Investigations/Certain ICE & CBP Incidents

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

House2026-04-28

H1061Introduced

Plyler Educational Protections Act

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

House2026-04-28

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

H1051Introduced

Funding for Senior Care/Community Health

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

House2026-04-28

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

H1039Introduced

Const Amend: No Budget No Pay

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require North Carolina voters to approve a measure preventing state legislators from receiving their salary and allowances after June 30 if the General Assembly has not passed a comprehensive budget for the upcoming fiscal year. The forfeiture would continue until either a budget is ratified or the legislative session ends, whichever comes first. Voters would decide on this amendment at the November 2026 general election.

House2026-04-23

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

H1021Introduced

Funds for Facilities of DAV Organizations

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

House2026-04-22

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

H434Engrossed

Lower Healthcare Costs

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

House2026-04-06

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

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

H373Passed

UNC Tuition Discounts for Certain Students

This bill allows UNC constituent institutions to offer discounted tuition to two groups of students: those receiving military tuition assistance (federal or North Carolina National Guard) and those enrolled in employer-sponsored financial support programs. The discount amount cannot exceed the difference between the military assistance or employer funding received and the applicable tuition, and UNC must report annually to the legislature on the number of students served and financial impact.

House2025-06-26

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

H578Engrossed

The Jason Flatt Act of North Carolina

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

House2025-06-24

H187Engrossed

Credit Union Update

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

House2025-06-18

H923Introduced

Protect Personal Info/Judicial Personnel

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

House2025-06-17

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

H953Engrossed

Study Committee on ADA/APD/PAC Pay

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

House2025-05-07

H772Engrossed

North Carolina Student Lifeline Act

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

House2025-05-07

H121Engrossed

SchCalFlex/Statewide/Open Cal

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

House2025-05-07

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

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

H94Engrossed

Dis. Veteran Homestead Excl. Prequalification

This bill allows disabled veterans and their surviving spouses to prequalify for North Carolina's disabled veteran property tax homestead exclusion before they purchase a home. Currently, veterans must already own a permanent residence to apply for the tax benefit. The prequalification process lets veterans determine in advance whether they qualify for the tax relief, which can help with mortgage calculations and lending decisions.

House2025-05-07

H906Engrossed

Reagan's Law

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

House2025-05-07

H515Engrossed

North Carolina Economic Abuse Prevention Act

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

House2025-05-07

H489Engrossed

Insurance Coverage Emergency Ambulance Trans

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

House2025-05-07

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

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

H306Introduced

Affordable Housing for Local Employees

This bill authorizes the towns of Blowing Rock and Boone and the counties of Dare, Durham, and Watauga to build and operate affordable housing specifically for their employees. The local governments can construct these units on their own property, partner with other organizations, or contract with private entities, and they can rent or sell units to employees at below-market rates with restrictions on resale.

House2025-05-06

H444Introduced

Homeowners Association Reform Bill

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

House2025-05-06

H976Introduced

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

This bill establishes a new legal process for dividing property owned jointly by multiple family members, called 'heirs property.' It requires courts to first try dividing the property into separate parcels (partition in kind) rather than forcing a sale, and allows remaining cotenants to buy out those who want to sell before the property is sold as a whole.

House2025-05-06

H97Engrossed

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

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

House2025-05-05

H24Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning Authority

This bill repeals a 2024 law that restricted local governments' ability to reduce zoning density (down-zoning). It restores municipalities' and counties' authority to initiate down-zoning changes and makes this change retroactive to December 11, 2024, reinstating any ordinances that were affected by the previous restriction.

House2025-05-05

H146Engrossed

Remote License Renewal/Active Duty Military

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

House2025-05-01

H140Engrossed

Authorize Gullah Geechee Heritage Trail

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

House2025-05-01

H254Engrossed

Adopt Tuskegee Airmen Day

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

House2025-05-01

H570Engrossed

Responsible Firefighting Foam Management Act

This bill prohibits the use of firefighting foams containing PFAS chemicals (a type of 'forever chemical') for training and practice purposes by firefighters and emergency responders in North Carolina. It allows PFAS-containing foam to still be used in actual emergencies but requires safe containment and disposal when used for testing, and mandates the use of non-fluorinated alternative foams for training instead.

House2025-04-30

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

H462Introduced

Personal Data Privacy/Social Media Safety

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

House2025-04-29

H110Introduced

Nat.l Guard Student Loan Repayment Program

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

House2025-04-29

H610Engrossed

Study on Year-Round School

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to study whether each school district could offer at least one year-round school for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The study will examine costs, logistics, and barriers to implementing year-round schools, with results due to the legislature by January 2027.

House2025-04-28

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

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

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

H943Introduced

Turning High-Achieving Students into Teachers

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

House2025-04-14

H989Introduced

Build Safer Communities and Schools Act

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

House2025-04-14

H942Introduced

Funds to Support Survivors

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

House2025-04-14

H931Introduced

End Predatory Towing Fees and Practices

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

House2025-04-14

H957Introduced

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

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

House2025-04-14

H938Introduced

Right to Repair Digital Electronics Act

This bill requires manufacturers of digital electronic products sold in North Carolina to provide repair information, diagnostic tools, and service parts to independent repair providers and product owners on fair and reasonable terms, similar to what authorized repair shops receive. The bill includes protections for manufacturers' trade secrets and trade agreements with authorized dealers.

House2025-04-14

H937Introduced

Keeping Our Coaches Act

This bill directs $11 million annually from sports betting tax revenue to the Department of Public Instruction to provide salary supplements to public school athletic coaches, ensuring each eligible coach receives at least $3,000 total in state and non-state funds. Schools that previously provided non-state funds for coach supplements must continue doing so, and any unused funds go to support youth sports programming through the North Carolina Alliance of YMCAs.

House2025-04-14

H978Introduced

Est. Youth Mentoring Comm./Mentoring Funds

This bill creates the North Carolina Commission on Youth Mentoring within the Department of Health and Human Services and provides $1.5 million per year for grants to youth mentoring nonprofits. The 15-member commission will establish grant programs, manage applications, and report annually on how funds are distributed and their social impact.

House2025-04-14

H954Introduced

Local Gov'ts Disaster Fund

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

House2025-04-14

H940Introduced

Protection Against Pregnancy Discrimination

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

House2025-04-14

H952Introduced

Comprehensive Capital for Childcare Expansion

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

House2025-04-14

H990Introduced

Notice Requirements for Landlord Fees

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

House2025-04-14

H960Introduced

UI/Give Enhanced Benefits During Disasters

This bill allows North Carolina to automatically increase the maximum weekly unemployment insurance benefit from its current amount to $600 when a disaster is declared under state emergency management law. The enhanced benefits would last for the duration of the disaster declaration, with the state maintaining a dedicated reserve fund to pay for these increased benefits.

House2025-04-14

H1002Introduced

Rate Payer Protection Act

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

House2025-04-14

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

H902Introduced

Free to Learn - Library Bill of Rights Act

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

House2025-04-14

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

H955Introduced

NC Junk Fee Prevention Act

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

House2025-04-14

H933Introduced

IDD Omnibus

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

House2025-04-14

H892Introduced

CDL Training/Disaster Affected Areas

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

House2025-04-14

H888Introduced

Funds for NC Community Health Worker Assn

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

House2025-04-14

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

H983Introduced

Prohibit Corporal Punishment in Schools

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

House2025-04-14

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

H885Introduced

Revise Suspension & Parental Notice Policies

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

House2025-04-14

H951Introduced

SOS (State Owned Structures) Child Care Act

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

House2025-04-14

H965Introduced

Environmental Rights Constitutional Amendment

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

House2025-04-14

H916Introduced

Strengthen Do Not Call/Text Registry

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

House2025-04-14

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

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

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

H790Introduced

Prohibit Vape/Tobacco Shops Near Schools

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

House2025-04-08

H798Introduced

Expand Access to Cold Weather Shelters/Funds

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

House2025-04-08

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

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

H760Introduced

Bloodborne Pathogen Training for Tattooists

This bill requires tattooists in North Carolina to complete annual bloodborne pathogen training that meets federal OSHA standards in order to obtain or renew their tattooing permit. The Department of Health and Human Services must verify completion of this training before issuing or renewing a permit, and failure to complete the training can result in permit denial or non-renewal.

House2025-04-07

H766Introduced

Expand Access to Teen Mental Health First Aid

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

House2025-04-07

H774Introduced

School Breakfast for All

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

House2025-04-07

H141Engrossed

The Joe John Remembrance Act

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

House2025-04-03

H355Engrossed

OSFM to Study Future of Rural Firefighting

This bill directs the Office of the State Fire Marshal to conduct a comprehensive study of rural firefighting in North Carolina by March 1, 2027. The study will examine volunteer recruitment and retention, funding gaps, interagency cooperation, firefighter health and wellness, public education, and long-term sustainability, with input gathered through three regional public hearings and a 90-day public comment period.

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

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

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

H604Introduced

Rural and Downtown Community Eco. Dev. Grants

This bill creates two grant programs totaling $80 million to help rural communities and downtown areas in North Carolina attract business investment and improve economic conditions. The Rural Community Development Grant Program provides up to $2 million per grant to counties and municipalities lacking amenities like restaurants or parks, while the Downtown Revitalization Grant Program provides similar grants for downtown improvements, with both programs requiring matching funds from non-state sources.

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

H617Introduced

Supporting Small Farmers for NC's Future Act

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

House2025-04-01

H603Introduced

Workforce Housing Loans-Preconstruction Costs

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

House2025-04-01

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

H601Introduced

Funds for Facilities of DAV Organizations

This bill appropriates $10 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs to fund grants for Disabled American Veterans (DAV) chapters. The grants, capped at $1 million per chapter per year, will help DAV organizations repair and expand their facilities and provide additional resources to disabled veterans.

House2025-04-01

H589Introduced

The Second Look Act

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

House2025-04-01

H551Introduced

Clubhouse Expansion

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to develop a statewide plan for reimbursing Clubhouse model programs—psychosocial rehabilitation day programs for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. It allocates $2.5 million in recurring funds starting in fiscal year 2026-2027 to implement the plan, support accreditation, expand services, and provide training, with a report due to the legislature by June 1, 2026.

House2025-03-31

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

H522Introduced

Crisis Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act

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

House2025-03-27

H523Introduced

School Social Workers/Master's Pay

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

House2025-03-27

H521Introduced

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

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

House2025-03-27

H534Introduced

Funds for Sexual Assault Nurse Programs

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

House2025-03-27

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

H529Introduced

Clean Repeal of HB2

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

House2025-03-27

H538Introduced

Equality for All

This bill expands North Carolina's nondiscrimination protections across multiple areas including housing, employment, public accommodations, credit, insurance, education, and jury service. It adds sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, familial status, military/veteran status, and genetic information to the list of protected statuses in existing discrimination laws. The bill also establishes the Human Relations Commission's role in investigating and resolving discrimination complaints in several sectors.

House2025-03-27

H501Introduced

Modernize Domestic Violence Protection Order

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

House2025-03-26

H509Introduced

Right to Reproductive Freedom Act

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

House2025-03-26

H504Introduced

Pilot Co-Responder Police Program

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

House2025-03-26

H510Introduced

Menstrual Equity for All Act

This bill removes the sales tax on menstrual products like tampons, pads, and menstrual cups, and establishes a $750,000 annual grant program to provide these products in schools. The tax exemption would apply to sales made on or after July 1, 2025.

House2025-03-26

H499Introduced

NC Paid Family Leave Insurance Act

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

House2025-03-26

H497Introduced

Ban on Gay & Trans Panic Defense

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

House2025-03-26

H498Introduced

Military to Teacher Ret. Incentive

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

House2025-03-26

H514Introduced

APRN Definitions

This bill formally defines the scope of practice for four types of Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (APRNs) in North Carolina: Certified Nurse Practitioners, Certified Nurse Midwives, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, and Clinical Nurse Specialists. It removes the requirement that APRNs obtain joint approval from both the Medical Board and Nursing Board to perform certain medical acts, instead allowing the Nursing Board to grant prescribing and practice authority directly.

House2025-03-26

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

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

H492Introduced

Repeal Parents' Bill of Rights

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

House2025-03-25

H484Introduced

Honoring NC's Contributions to Civil Rights

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

House2025-03-25

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

H495Introduced

Accessing Midwives Act

This bill creates a state licensing system for Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) in North Carolina, establishing the North Carolina Council of Midwives to set standards, issue licenses, and oversee midwifery practice. The bill defines the qualifications, responsibilities, and scope of practice for licensed midwives while requiring them to maintain national certification and collaborate with physicians when necessary.

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

H475Introduced

State ID Cards for High School Students

This bill lowers the age requirement for obtaining a North Carolina special identification card from 17 to 16 years old and establishes a pilot program in four counties (Mecklenburg, Randolph, Union, and Watauga) to issue these cards to high school students on school grounds during scheduled times. The pilot program runs through December 31, 2027.

House2025-03-24

H446Introduced

Prohibition on Disclosing Booking Photographs

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

House2025-03-20

H461Introduced

Urging Support for Washington DC Statehood

This joint resolution expresses North Carolina's support for admitting Washington, D.C., as a U.S. state and urges members of Congress to pass federal legislation to make this happen. The resolution does not create law in North Carolina but rather communicates the state's position to federal lawmakers.

House2025-03-20

H460Introduced

Medical Equipment Right to Repair Act

This bill requires medical equipment manufacturers to provide hospitals, equipment owners, and independent repair providers with access to documentation, tools, and parts needed to repair and maintain medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment. Manufacturers must provide this information at no cost (except actual printing/shipping), cannot require special authorization to use repair tools, and must offer the same parts prices and training to independent providers as they do to authorized repair providers.

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

H456Introduced

No Surprises for Ambulance Services Act

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

House2025-03-20

H448Introduced

Safe Firearm Storage/Sales Tax Exemption

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

House2025-03-20

H438Introduced

Require Paid Rest Breaks

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

House2025-03-19

H21Engrossed

Drivers License Designation/Autism

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

House2025-03-19

H428Introduced

Study School Discipline Parent Involvement

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

House2025-03-19

H35Engrossed

Establish Military Appreciation Month

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

House2025-03-19

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

H418Introduced

K-5 Performing and Visual Arts Requirement

This bill requires all North Carolina elementary schools (K-5) to provide students with at least one day of instruction in performing arts (music, dance, or theatre) and visual arts every five school days. Classes must be taught by licensed instructors, last at least 30 minutes, and follow class size limits. The requirement begins in the 2026-2027 school year.

House2025-03-18

H422Introduced

Beyond The Choice Act

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

House2025-03-18

H416Introduced

Funds for Boys & Girls Clubs

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

House2025-03-18

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

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

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

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

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

H137Introduced

Gabe Torres Act

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

House2025-03-12

H276Introduced

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

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

House2025-03-12

H360Introduced

Homeowner Protection Act

This bill creates stronger criminal penalties for forging real estate documents, establishes a court process for homeowners to quickly remove fraudulent claims against their property titles, and requires additional verification steps when recording deeds to prevent title fraud.

House2025-03-12

H361Introduced

Funds to Fight Deed and Title Fraud

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

House2025-03-12

H365Introduced

Workforce Education Act

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

House2025-03-12

H374Introduced

NCARCOG Funding/Operations Improvements

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

House2025-03-12

H367Introduced

Provide Rape Kit Status Updates to Victims

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

House2025-03-12

H371Introduced

DMV Materials in Additional Languages

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

House2025-03-12

H366Introduced

Reenact & Expand Pistol Purchase Permit

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

House2025-03-12

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

H340Introduced

Universal AIG Screening in Middle Schools

This bill requires North Carolina's State Board of Education to develop or purchase a screening assessment for gifted students and administer it to all sixth-graders in middle schools. The state would allocate $7 million in recurring funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to implement this universal screening program.

House2025-03-11

H339Introduced

Economic Security Act

The Economic Security Act would increase North Carolina's minimum wage to $22 per hour (adjusted annually for inflation), require paid sick leave and family medical leave, strengthen wage protections, expand unemployment insurance benefits, and provide cost-of-living adjustments for public retirees. It also includes provisions on equal pay for equal work, workplace safety, criminal history screening in hiring, and tax credits for working families.

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

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

H344Introduced

Litter Reduction Act of 2025

This bill creates a beverage container deposit and refund program in North Carolina. Consumers pay a 10-cent deposit when purchasing drinks in bottles or cans, which they can reclaim by returning empty containers to retailers or redemption centers. The bill sets recycling and redemption targets and creates a fund from unredeemed deposits to support litter reduction and recycling programs.

House2025-03-11

H350Introduced

Report Lost/Stolen Firearm Within 24 Hours

This bill requires North Carolina firearm owners to report a lost or stolen gun to local law enforcement or the State Bureau of Investigation within 24 hours of discovering the loss or theft. The report must include details like the firearm's serial number and circumstances of the loss/theft, which law enforcement must then enter into the National Crime Information Center database. Violations are Class 3 misdemeanors, with second or subsequent violations classified as Class I felonies.

House2025-03-11

H351Introduced

Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program/Funds

This bill establishes a Recovery-Friendly Workplace Program administered by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to help employers support employees in recovery from substance use disorders. Employers can voluntarily participate at two levels—as a participant or as a certified workplace—by completing orientation, adopting recovery-supportive policies, and maintaining annual reviews. The bill appropriates $300,000 from the Opioid Settlement Fund for fiscal year 2025-2026 to implement the program.

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

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

H278Introduced

Protect Military Votes

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

House2025-03-05

H269Introduced

Workforce Freedom and Protection Act

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

House2025-03-05

H282Introduced

STI Funding/Bicycle/Pedestrian Improv

This bill modifies North Carolina's Strategic Transportation Investments (STI) funding rules to allow state funds to be used for independent bicycle and pedestrian improvement projects. Currently, state STI funds cannot support these types of projects except in limited circumstances; this bill removes that restriction.

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

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

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

H48Engrossed

Increase UI Max Benefit/2025 UI Tax Credit

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

House2025-02-27

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

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

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

H120Introduced

Expand Project C.A.R.E./Funds

This bill appropriates $2,073,847 in state funding for each of fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027 to expand Project C.A.R.E., a state program that provides support services to family caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease or other related dementias.

House2025-02-25

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

H178Introduced

Budgeting Accountability and Transparency

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

House2025-02-25

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

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

H180Introduced

Fiscally Responsible & Sustainable Budgeting

This bill requires North Carolina's Governor and legislature to work together each year to create a five-year budget assessment that projects the costs of maintaining current services, analyzes new programs or policy changes, evaluates employee compensation needs, and examines how different economic scenarios might affect the state budget. The Governor's budget recommendations must now include a detailed five-year fiscal analysis consistent with this new assessment process.

House2025-02-25

H179Introduced

Labor Org. Membership Dues Tax Deductible

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

House2025-02-25

H31Introduced

Make Election Day A State Holiday

This bill amends North Carolina's state human resources law to designate statewide general election days as paid holidays for state employees. The change maintains the current limit of 13 paid holidays per year by adjusting how holidays are counted.

House2025-02-24

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

H108Introduced

The Sober Operator Act of 2025

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's impaired driving laws effective December 1, 2025. It lowers the legal alcohol limit for drivers from 0.08 to 0.05, increases fees paid by impaired drivers, allows screening test results to be used as evidence of probable cause, requires video recording of court proceedings and public reporting of impaired driving case outcomes, creates a path for repeat offenders to regain driving privileges through treatment programs, and increases penalties for adults who provide alcohol to minors if serious injury results.

House2025-02-13

H102Introduced

Real Property Appraisal - Owner Notification

This bill requires county assessors to provide property owners with clearer notifications during property revaluations. The notices must be written in plain language and include the projected percentage change in the property's appraised value and tax liability, along with information on how to request more details or appeal the revaluation.

House2025-02-12

H93Introduced

Constitutional Amendment/Repeal Literacy Test

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

House2025-02-12

H101Introduced

Prop. Tax Appeal Process Transparency

This bill requires county and municipal boards of equalization and review to notify property owners in plain language about their right to appeal property tax appraisals, and to provide this notice within a reasonable timeframe. It also requires these boards to automatically review properties that have increased in value by 30% or more compared to their previous appraisal.

House2025-02-12

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

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

H36Introduced

Maintenance of State Veterans Cemeteries

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

House2025-02-04

H18Passed

Honor Joe John, Former Member

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

House2025-01-29

Lindsey Prather

Lindsey Prather

Sponsored Bills (48)

Strengthen Ed by Embedded New Teacher Support

Revise NC Teaching Fellows Program

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds

Protecting Medicaid & Autism Services

The NC Teacher Pay Competitiveness Act

Increase Market Rate/Rate Floor/Child Subsidy

Limit Electric Util. Hist. Fuel Cost Recovery

Funds for Families Providing Foster Care

Tax Relief for Working Families Act

Re-Professionalizing the Teaching Profession

Affordable Maternal Access & Cancer Care Act

The Innovations Waitlist Reduction Act

Fair Share for Public Schools Act

Child Care Stabilization & Affordability Act

Fair Minimum Wage Act

Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act

Fair Wages in Health Care Act/Funds

Relieving Housing Bottlenecks

Justice in Mental Health Act

Sound Basic Education for Every Child

Expand & Enhance the Teaching Fellows Program

Preventing Algorithmic Rent Fixing

Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part 1(b)

Voucher School Accountability Act

Voucher School Transparency Act

Strong Public Schools for a Strong NC

Reduce Barriers to College Completion

Expanding Workforce and Education Act

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds

Award NC Forest Service Pay Increase

Modify Mileage and Per Diem

Addressing NC's Teacher Crisis/NTSP

NC Adopt ERA

The Children First Act

Don't Tread on Me Act

Right to Use Contraception

Right to IVF

Fairness & Transparency in Education Salaries

NCIOM Study/Medical Aid in Dying

Sound Basic Education for Every Child

Make General Assembly Records Public

Reimburse Buncombe Co. for Cost of Study

City of Asheville/Funds for Study

SchCalFlex/Asheville/Open Cal

Tax Relief for Working Families Act

SchCalFlex/Buncombe/Open Cal

The Pollinator Protection Act

Fair Maps Act

Cosponsored Bills (245)

2026 Budget Technical Corrections - II

Authorize Municipal Deannexation

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

Honor Mike Clampitt

Limit Use of AI Medicaid/Commercial Insurance

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

UNC Omnibus & Capital Contracting Law Changes

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

State Bd of Elections/Independent Agency

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

Datacenter Transparency Act

Voucher School Transparency Act

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

Equipping Law Enf. for Better Drug Detection

Keeping NC Open for Business

Property Tax Modifications

Investing in Teen Mental Health

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

Aging With Dignity Act

Affordability in Healthcare Act

IDD Omnibus

NC Constitutional Rights Act/Funds

The Ciji Graham Act