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Budget Technical Corrections Modifications

This bill adjusts Medicaid funding by $690 million, requires managed care organizations to transfer $18 million to the state, reduces mental health and substance use funding by $30-44 million, eliminates vacant DHHS positions to save $34 million, and redirects $208.5 million from state capital reserves to fund UNC Children's Hospital and health clinics.

House2026-08-11

H268Passed

2026 Budget Technical Corrections - II

This bill appropriates over $1 billion in additional capital funding for state infrastructure projects across multiple agencies and universities for fiscal year 2025-2026, including $100 million specifically designated for repairs and renovations at North Carolina Central University, and $5 million for the State Bureau of Investigation to purchase radios, vehicles, and a case management system.

House2026-08-11

H832Engrossed

Education Omnibus

This education omnibus bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina education law, including expanding automatic enrollment in advanced courses to include English Language Arts, allowing parents to choose nursing service providers for students with IEPs, restructuring charter school governance, establishing a meal incentive program, modifying teacher licensing requirements, and updating various education reporting requirements.

House2026-08-06

H308Engrossed

2026 Criminal Law Changes

This comprehensive criminal law bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina statutes effective December 1, 2026. It increases penalties for strangulation and indecent exposure offenses, creates new crimes related to approaching first responders and possessing theft tools, expands protections for sexual assault victims and children, increases penalties for crimes affecting critical infrastructure, and modifies procedures for juvenile justice facilities and law enforcement certification.

House2026-08-06

H328Engrossed

Regulate Hemp-Derived Consumables

This bill creates a regulatory system for hemp-derived consumable products (like delta-8 and delta-10 THC products) sold in North Carolina, requiring licenses for manufacturers, distributors, and retailers; setting testing and labeling requirements; restricting sales to adults 21+; and banning the sale of kratom as a controlled substance. The bill takes effect July 1, 2026, for hemp regulations and December 1, 2025, for the kratom ban.

House2026-07-30

H133Passed

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

This bill prohibits entities controlled by adversarial foreign governments from purchasing, leasing, or holding agricultural land or property within 50 miles of North Carolina military installations. It requires existing foreign owners to register with the Secretary of State, allows the Attorney General to enforce violations through forced sales, and establishes penalties for non-compliance.

House2026-07-08

H372Passed

Home-Based Business Fairness Act

This bill prevents North Carolina cities from banning 'no-impact home-based businesses'—small businesses run from home that don't generate extra traffic, parking, or street visibility. Cities can still enforce health and safety rules and can prohibit certain illegal activities, but they cannot require permits, licenses, or rezoning for qualifying home businesses.

House2026-07-08

H517Passed

Modify Nonprofit Corp. Act/Charitable Org

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's nonprofit corporation laws. It allows charitable and religious nonprofits to merge with certain limited liability companies, requires all nonprofits to file annual reports with the Secretary of State, permits nonprofits to change their state of incorporation (domestication), allows nonprofits to have just one director instead of three, and aligns state disclosure rules for charitable organizations with federal tax requirements.

House2026-07-08

H1094Passed

Ferry Div. Audit/DOT Omnibus

This omnibus transportation bill requires a state audit of the Ferry Division's operations and finances, directs a study on changing the Division of Motor Vehicles' funding model, and makes numerous changes to vehicle registration, driver licensing, toll operations, and traffic laws. The bill also addresses special registration plates, electric-assisted bicycles, commercial driver training school refunds, and various highway and transportation management provisions.

House2026-07-08

H747Passed

2026 Wildlife Resources Changes

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's wildlife laws, including protecting sensitive information about rare species locations, authorizing new wildlife-themed vehicle registration plates, adjusting recreational boating safety rules, and allowing the Wildlife Resources Commission to issue elk hunting permits through raffles and auctions to raise conservation funds.

House2026-07-08

H1173Passed

Jaleeyah's Law

Jaleeyah's Law makes several changes to North Carolina's criminal gang statutes and court costs. The bill increases court costs for criminal cases, tightens the definition of criminal gang membership, creates new felony offenses related to gang activity (including recruiting minors and gang members possessing firearms), and enhances sentencing for crimes committed as part of gang activity. The law takes effect December 1, 2026.

House2026-07-07

H1104Passed

Improve IVC Process and Enhance Public Safety

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's involuntary commitment (IVC) process and mental health procedures. It directs various state agencies to study and develop plans for improving how people in mental health crises are evaluated, treated, and moved through the justice and mental health systems. It also creates new capacity restoration programs for defendants found mentally unable to stand trial and modifies procedures for outpatient commitment orders.

House2026-07-07

H1083Engrossed

Voluntary Portable Benefits Plan Act

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

House2026-07-01

H600Introduced

Recognition of the Tuscarora

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

House2026-07-01

H1200Engrossed

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

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

House2026-07-01

H198Engrossed

ABC Omnibus of 2026

This comprehensive bill makes numerous changes to North Carolina's alcoholic beverage laws. Major provisions include authorizing the ABC Commission to obtain a $310 million loan for a new automated warehouse, creating new permit types (service business permit and auction house permit), allowing wine tastings at off-premises locations, expanding where mixed beverage permittees can purchase liquor, and making technical corrections to existing regulations. The bill also makes changes to state government structure and raffle laws.

House2026-06-30

H34Engrossed

Strengthen Medicaid Provider Controls

This bill strengthens oversight of Medicaid providers in North Carolina by establishing a Provider Enrollment Credentialing Committee to review provider applications and eligibility, expanding grounds for denying or terminating provider enrollment based on criminal convictions and licensing actions, and requiring providers to report criminal convictions of their employees. The bill also makes changes to prepaid health plan networks and Medicaid eligibility.

House2026-06-25

H1035Passed

Various Local Election Changes III

This bill makes changes to local election procedures for multiple North Carolina municipalities and one school board. The changes primarily shift municipal elections from odd-numbered years to even-numbered years (aligning with general elections), extend some current officials' terms by one year to accommodate the timing change, and modify term lengths and election methods for various town and city offices.

House2026-06-24

H171Vetoed

Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on DEI

This bill prohibits North Carolina state agencies and local governments from spending money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, policies, or staff positions. It defines DEI as initiatives that influence hiring or employment based on race, sex, color, ethnicity, nationality, country of origin, or sexual orientation outside of merit-based processes, and establishes penalties for violations including fines up to $10,000 and potential removal from employment.

House2026-06-24

H936Engrossed

Robocall Solicitation Modifications

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

House2026-06-24

H301Engrossed

Social Media & AI Safety

This bill creates protections for children under 16 on social media platforms, requires schools to teach artificial intelligence literacy, and establishes AI policies and training for public schools. The social media portion bans children under 14 from most social platforms and requires parental consent for 14-15 year-olds; it also restricts how platforms can use children's data for recommendations and advertising. The education portions update computer science standards to include AI instruction, create a model AI policy for schools, establish an evaluation framework for AI educational tools, and require teacher training on AI use.

House2026-06-24

H315Passed

Prohibit Litigation Invest/Amend WC Benefits

This bill has two main parts: it prohibits litigation investments (third-party funding of lawsuits in exchange for a share of any settlement or judgment) in North Carolina civil cases, and it increases workers' compensation benefit amounts for certain injuries, including raising maximum awards for facial disfigurement from $20,000 to $40,000 and other injury categories from $10,000-$20,000 to $20,000-$40,000.

House2026-06-22

H536Passed

Physical Therapy Practice Act Mods

This bill modernizes North Carolina's physical therapy licensing laws by updating accreditation agency references, adjusting the Board composition, modifying license renewal deadlines, clarifying disciplinary procedures, and adding new provisions for continuing competence assessments and criminal background checks.

House2026-06-22

H258Passed

Worker Safety Act of 2026

This bill clarifies the process for filing complaints about workplace retaliation under North Carolina's worker protection laws. It specifies what information complaints must contain, allows employers to submit response statements within seven days, requires extra materials submitted with complaints to be destroyed and kept confidential, and establishes how time periods are calculated in these cases.

House2026-06-22

H368Engrossed

Revise Child Passenger Restraint Systems Law

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

House2026-06-16

H1203Introduced

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

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

House2026-06-10

H1214Introduced

Make E-Verify Great Again

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

House2026-06-10

H1109Engrossed

NCDOT STI Study Recommendation

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT) to study how well the Strategic Prioritization Funding Plan for Transportation Investments (STI) is working, including what problems exist and how to improve it. NCDOT must submit a report with findings and recommendations to legislative committees by November 1, 2026.

House2026-06-08

H87Passed

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

This bill allows North Carolina to participate in a federal tax credit program that enables individuals to receive tax credits for donations they make to scholarship granting organizations. The state Education Assistance Authority must identify and maintain a list of qualifying scholarship organizations and submit it to the U.S. Treasury, allowing these organizations to provide scholarships for K-12 education expenses including homeschooling.

House2026-06-03

H1030Introduced

US Department of Edu

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

House2026-06-02

H1026Introduced

Remote Instruction for Excess Emergencies

This bill allows North Carolina public schools to use up to three additional days of remote instruction (or 15 hours) when they experience a second emergency after exhausting their initial remote instruction allowance. Schools must report to the State Board about any additional remote instruction days used and the emergency circumstances that required them. The bill appropriates $5,000 to the Department of Public Instruction for administrative costs.

House2026-06-02

H165Introduced

Child and Family Welfare Ombudsman Office

This bill creates a new Child and Family Welfare Ombudsman Office within the Department of Health and Human Services to serve foster youth, birth families, and foster parents. The office would investigate complaints, help resolve licensing issues, provide education about foster care laws, and submit annual reports on recurring problems in the foster care system.

House2026-05-28

H1042Engrossed

Affordable Housing Exemption Mods

This bill updates North Carolina's property tax exemptions for affordable housing by creating a new separate exemption for rental housing owned by nonprofits and modifying the existing exemption for owner-occupied affordable housing. It establishes specific eligibility requirements based on whether the rental housing receives government funding, sets income and rent limits for tenants, and requires annual compliance reporting.

House2026-05-22

H1089Passed

Const. Amend. Property Tax Levy Limit

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require the North Carolina General Assembly to pass laws limiting how much local governments (counties, cities, towns, and special districts) can increase their property tax levies each year. The amendment would be submitted to North Carolina voters in the November 2026 general election, and if approved by a majority of voters, would become part of the state constitution.

House2026-05-21

H443Engrossed

Const. Amendment: Council of State Vacancies

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would change how the Governor fills vacancies in eight statewide elected offices (Secretary of State, Auditor, Treasurer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Attorney General, and three Commissioners). Under the new process, when a vacancy occurs close to an election, the Governor must choose from a list of three candidates nominated by the political party of the officer who left office. The amendment would be decided by voters in November 2026.

House2026-05-20

H144Introduced

Elect SBE/Superintendent as SBE Chair

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to change how the State Board of Education is structured and led. Instead of being appointed by the Governor, most board members would be elected by voters in districts for four-year terms, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction would serve as the board's chair. Voters would decide on this amendment in November 2026, with changes taking effect in 2028.

House2026-05-19

H1019Engrossed

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

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

House2026-05-18

H1154Introduced

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

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

House2026-05-13

H1074Introduced

Prescription Drug Expenses Tax Deduction

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

House2026-05-12

H1086Introduced

Child Care Initiative Funds/Reform/Study

This bill establishes free training academies to help people become child care lead teachers, provides $15 million for mental and behavioral health services in child care settings, allows child care centers to share administrative credentials between two staff members, funds a study on liability insurance for child care providers, and updates bidding requirements for Smart Start contracts.

House2026-05-12

H727Engrossed

Limit Medicaid Reimb. for Facility Fees

This bill directs North Carolina's Medicaid program to stop reimbursing facility fees charged by hospitals and health care providers, except when services are provided on a hospital's main campus, at facilities with emergency departments, or at ambulatory surgical centers. The bill defines key terms like facility fees, campus boundaries, and related facilities, and includes a sunset provision allowing the changes to expire after June 30, 2027, unless the state chooses to continue them.

House2026-05-12

H390Engrossed

Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan Practices

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

House2026-05-12

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

H1192Introduced

Energy and Housing Affordability Act

This bill makes three main changes: (1) it modifies how electric utilities recover fuel costs by requiring them to share 80% of fuel cost increases with customers while absorbing 20% of increases themselves, and share 20% of fuel cost savings with shareholders while crediting 80% to customers; (2) it creates a voluntary "Bring Your Own Generation" program allowing large businesses to install their own power generation on-site, connect it to the grid, and potentially sell excess power back; and (3) it appropriates $35 million to the Workforce Housing Loan Program.

House2026-05-07

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

H1134Introduced

Secret Peeping on Minor/Increase Punishment

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

House2026-05-04

H1144Introduced

Dominique Moody Safety Act

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

House2026-05-04

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

H1081Introduced

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

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

House2026-04-30

H696Passed

Medicaid & HHS Adjust./Other Critical Needs

This bill makes various changes to North Carolina's Medicaid program, health and human services, and state budget operations. Key provisions include modifications to Medicaid eligibility verification and work requirements, changes to hospital funding mechanisms through assessments and intergovernmental transfers, establishment of a Blue Ribbon Commission on Public Education, increased funding for veterans scholarships, and appropriations for various state agency operating needs.

House2026-04-30

H1108Introduced

Const. Amend./Permitless Carry

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to allow North Carolina citizens to carry firearms openly or concealed without a permit, provided they have not been convicted of violent crimes or drug offenses and have not been adjudicated mentally incompetent. The amendment would be submitted to voters in the November 2026 general election, and if approved, would remove the current legal prohibition on concealed carry without a permit while maintaining an optional permit system for interstate reciprocity.

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

H1091Introduced

DWI Modernization Act of 2026

This bill modernizes North Carolina's DWI enforcement and prevention laws by requiring written explanations when judges find no probable cause in DWI cases, increasing restoration fees for license revocation ($250 for DWI offenses), allowing oral drug screening tests as evidence of probable cause, establishing the same alcohol rules for ride-share drivers as bus drivers, giving repeat offenders a path to conditional license restoration through treatment programs, and making it a felony to provide alcohol to minors whose drinking causes serious injury.

House2026-04-30

H1075Introduced

Persistent D.V. Offender Registry

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

House2026-04-29

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

H1055Introduced

GTCC Aviation Center Expansion

This bill appropriates $1.8 million in state funds to Guilford Technical Community College for expanding its Aviation Center and related capital expenses, effective July 1, 2026. The funds are nonrecurring and will remain available until spent.

House2026-04-28

H1043Introduced

CHCCS Act

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

House2026-04-27

H1032Introduced

Repeal Two Percent Local Grocery Tax

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

House2026-04-22

H1020Introduced

PESA Class Aides & Child. Wartime Vets Funds

This bill makes two changes: (1) it allows Personal Education Student Account (PESA) scholarship funds to be used to pay for one-to-one classroom aides at private schools, with restrictions on who can serve as an aide, and (2) it appropriates $1 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $7 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to increase and expand scholarships for children of wartime veterans.

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

H491Introduced

Medicaid Rebase Funding

This bill appropriates $190 million from the Medicaid Contingency Reserve to adjust North Carolina's Medicaid funding for enrollment changes, service costs, and implementation of a new Children and Families Specialty Plan. It also requires local managed care organizations to transfer $18 million to the state in fiscal years 2025-2026 and 2026-2027.

House2025-10-23

H926Passed

Regulatory Reform Act of 2025

This omnibus regulatory reform bill makes numerous changes to North Carolina law to reduce regulatory burdens on businesses and property owners. It includes modifications to permitting processes for wastewater systems, surveys, and development projects; exemptions from certain building codes and fees; changes to hearing notice requirements; and rules affecting hearing aids, food service, flag displays, swimming pools, and various environmental regulations.

House2025-10-06

H307Passed

Iryna's Law

Iryna's Law modifies North Carolina's criminal justice system in multiple ways: it changes pretrial release conditions to make release harder for certain defendants (especially those charged with violent crimes), expands sentencing factors, requires mental health evaluations for some defendants, modifies death penalty procedures, extends probation terms for juveniles convicted of serious crimes, provides funding for additional prosecutors in Mecklenburg County, and creates a study on mental health in the justice system.

House2025-10-03

H775Engrossed

Criminal History Checks for School Positions

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

House2025-09-25

H118Introduced

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

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

House2025-09-23

H192Engrossed

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

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

House2025-09-22

H42Engrossed

Back the Blue Pay Act

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

House2025-09-22

H193Passed

Firearm Law Revisions

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

House2025-07-29

H549Passed

Clarify Powers of State Auditor

This bill expands the powers of North Carolina's State Auditor by exempting their office from certain state oversight requirements for IT procurement and information systems. It also creates new debt collection tools allowing the Department of Revenue to pursue debts discovered by the State Auditor through levy, sale, attachment, and garnishment procedures, similar to tax collection methods.

House2025-07-29

H805Passed

Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina law by defining sex in state policies as biological sex only, establishes requirements for age verification and consent documentation on websites hosting pornographic images, restricts state funding for gender transition procedures, allows parents to control their children's library book access, permits students to opt out of classroom activities based on religious objections, and requires students to sleep in quarters separated by biological sex on school trips.

House2025-07-29

H402Passed

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

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

House2025-07-29

H318Passed

The Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act

This bill requires North Carolina jail facilities to check whether inmates charged with certain crimes are U.S. citizens or legal residents, and to query Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if their status is unclear. When ICE issues a detention order, facilities must hold the person for up to 48 hours or until ICE takes custody, and must notify ICE before release.

House2025-07-29

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

H1003Passed

Board of Funeral Service Modifications

This bill comprehensively updates North Carolina's funeral service regulations, including adding alkaline hydrolysis as an alternative to cremation, creating new rules for transporting human remains separately from funeral contracts, reorganizing the Board of Funeral Service composition, and making various administrative changes to licensing and record-keeping requirements.

House2025-07-09

H694Passed

Reg'l Water Study/IBT Subbasin/TMDL

This bill directs a study on water and wastewater system regionalization to address financially struggling local systems, eliminates subbasin designations for three river areas to allow more flexible water transfers within their major river basins, and modifies how nutrient offset credits are calculated for certain wastewater permits in the Neuse River Basin.

House2025-07-09

H210Passed

Perpetual Care of Certain Cemeteries

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

House2025-07-07

H546Passed

Medicaid Modernization

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

House2025-07-07

H837Introduced

Study Alternative Methods for Highway Funding

This bill directs the North Carolina General Assembly to hire a consultant to study alternative ways to fund highway construction and maintenance, potentially replacing or supplementing the current gas tax system. The study will examine fees on electric and hybrid vehicles, vehicle miles traveled (VMT) fees, and a flat annual highway access fee for non-diesel vehicles, with findings due by May 1, 2026. The study will cost $125,000 from the Highway Fund.

House2025-07-03

H975Passed

EMS Personnel Provisions

This bill allows emergency medical services (EMS) personnel to carry pepper spray while on duty after completing training and receiving approval from their EMS provider. It also permits EMS personnel to provide emergency medical care and transport to injured police K-9 units and certified search and rescue dogs at emergency scenes, with legal protection from prosecution if they act in good faith.

House2025-07-01

H67Passed

Healthcare Workforce Reforms

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

House2025-07-01

H412Passed

Child Care Regulatory Reforms

This bill reforms North Carolina's child care regulations in three main ways: it directs the state to study separating quality rating requirements from subsidy eligibility for state-funded child care by May 2026; it modifies staffing rules to allow lead teachers to oversee up to two groups and recognizes five years of work experience as equivalent to credential requirements; and it updates building code standards for family child care homes to align with residential code requirements.

House2025-07-01

H378Passed

Various Ed Law/Tax Acct/NIL Changes

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina education and tax laws. It requires schools to evaluate technology costs and report device repair rates; allows community college students under 18 to share education records with parents; expands dual enrollment pathways for high school sophomores; allows uniformed service members to defer UNC enrollment; authorizes UNC capital projects; protects education savings accounts from creditor claims; and creates rules for athlete agents handling name, image, and likeness contracts.

House2025-07-01

H537Passed

Alena's Law & Office of Vital Records Changes

This bill makes three main changes: (1) it creates a legal presumption that someone has died if they disappeared and remained missing for at least 90 days during a declared disaster; (2) it requires the Office of Vital Records to process birth and death certificate amendments within 30 days; and (3) it prohibits Office of Vital Records employees from working remotely except during declared emergencies.

House2025-07-01

H309Passed

Various Local Provisions VI

This bill makes various local changes to North Carolina law, including establishing a new rural development authority for Transylvania County, updating municipal charters and procedures for several towns, allowing county law enforcement cooperation across state lines, and changing board of education elections in five counties from nonpartisan to partisan elections.

House2025-06-30

H568Passed

2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments.-AB

This omnibus bill makes multiple amendments to North Carolina labor laws, including limiting when Department of Labor employees can be subpoenaed in occupational safety cases, streamlining OSHA rule adoption, allowing prehearing discovery in labor commission proceedings, improving fatal injury reporting between medical examiners and the Labor Department, and renaming the Elevator and Amusement Device Division to a Bureau with updated language throughout relevant statutes.

House2025-06-27

H819Engrossed

DIT Agency Bill

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's information technology and broadband programs. It adds the State Highway Patrol to entities that can opt out of Department of Information Technology oversight, modifies the Broadband Pole Replacement Program to include underground facility placement, allows more flexibility in using broadband funds for emergency repairs and satellite internet grants, updates BEAD Program definitions, and allows mobile service providers to offer Lifeline service.

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

H476Passed

DST Technical Corrections/Admin. Changes 2025.-AB

This bill makes multiple technical and administrative changes to North Carolina retirement systems and related state treasurer functions. The changes include extending the provisional entry period for charter schools in the Teachers' and State Employees' Retirement System, transferring authority over benefit forfeiture reversals from the State Treasurer to retirement boards, clarifying fee procedures for out-of-state attorneys, modifying ABLE account procedures, correcting statutory references, and removing certain benefit election options for university health system employees.

House2025-06-26

H91Passed

Define Armed Forces/Religious Prop. Tax Excl

This bill adds the United States Space Force to the definition of 'Armed Forces' throughout North Carolina state law to reflect the military branch's creation in 2019. It also extends the lookback period for religious property tax exemption applications from the current timeframe to up to five calendar years, allowing property owners to file late applications and potentially receive tax relief for the prior five years.

House2025-06-26

H251Passed

Various Disaster Recovery Reforms

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's disaster response and recovery procedures. It prohibits discrimination based on political affiliation in state disaster recovery assistance, increases penalties for theft of temporary housing during emergencies, automatically adopts certain federal health care waivers during emergencies, provides building code exemptions for Hurricane Helene-damaged downtown commercial structures, allows temporary reconstruction flexibility in flooded areas, and streamlines permits for processing hurricane debris into mulch and compost.

House2025-06-26

H59Introduced

Modify Homestead Exclusions

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

House2025-06-25

H480Engrossed

Medical Board Licensing Efficiency Act

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

House2025-06-25

H79Introduced

North Carolina Work and Save

This bill creates the North Carolina Work and Save Program, a state-facilitated retirement savings program for small business employees and self-employed individuals who lack access to employer-sponsored retirement plans. The program would offer payroll deduction IRAs (Individual Retirement Accounts) managed by private financial providers, with a default option of a Roth IRA with a 5% contribution rate, and includes $1 million in state funding for startup costs through 2027.

House2025-06-25

H808Introduced

NC Infrastructure Protection Act

This bill prohibits North Carolina government entities from contracting with foreign-owned companies from China, Iran, North Korea, Russia, or other designated countries if those companies would have direct or remote access to critical infrastructure like power grids, water systems, and communication networks. It also requires criminal background checks for all individuals granted access to these critical infrastructure systems across multiple state agencies.

House2025-06-24

H468Introduced

Regulate Kratom Products

This bill creates a new regulatory framework for kratom products in North Carolina, requiring manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to obtain licenses from the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division. The bill establishes testing standards, labeling requirements, and sales restrictions (including a 21-year age minimum), and also prohibits kratom and hemp-derived consumable products on school property and for those under 21.

House2025-06-24

H126Passed

Revise Voluntary Ag. District Laws

This bill strengthens protections for farmland in voluntary agricultural districts by requiring government agencies to wait longer before taking land through condemnation or rezoning. Agencies must now wait 120 days after receiving the local agricultural advisory board's recommendation before proceeding, up from the previous requirement. The advisory board also gets 45 days instead of 30 days to hold a public hearing and submit its findings.

House2025-06-20

H661Engrossed

Building Industry Efficiency Act of 2025

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's building and construction regulations. It streamlines inspection processes (allowing cancellations without fees, exempting certain HVAC replacements from inspections), modifies street design requirements for developers, exempts certain small construction services from licensing, updates contractor board rules and disciplinary procedures, clarifies exemptions for certain pools and flotation systems, and increases the threshold for formal bidding on public construction contracts.

House2025-06-19

H615Engrossed

Enrollment Stability for Military Students

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

House2025-06-19

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

H543Introduced

Criminal Background Check For Athlete Agents

This bill requires all applicants for athlete agent registration or renewal in North Carolina to undergo a criminal background check using fingerprints and consent forms. The bill also increases athlete agent registration fees from $200 to $250 to help cover the costs of these background checks.

House2025-06-17

H923Introduced

Protect Personal Info/Judicial Personnel

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

House2025-06-17

H860Introduced

Social Media Control in IT Act

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

House2025-06-17

H811Engrossed

CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older

This bill requires North Carolina community colleges to develop and offer comprehensive firearm safety instruction courses to adults 18 and older, starting in fall 2025. The state allocates $1 million annually to community colleges to establish and run these courses as noncurricular extension programs.

House2025-06-16

H50Passed

LEO Special Separation Allowance Options

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

House2025-06-13

H478Introduced

Modify Appointment Process for DA Vacancies

This bill modifies how North Carolina fills District Attorney vacancies when they occur before a term ends. It clarifies the appointment process and requires the Governor to consult with the appropriate political party's district executive committee, which can recommend up to three qualified candidates within 30 days. The appointee serves until an election can be held, with the timing depending on when the original term was set to expire.

House2025-06-10

H150Engrossed

Expedite Surplus Property

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

House2025-06-09

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

H821Introduced

Drivers License Expiration Moratorium

This bill temporarily allows North Carolina Class C driver's licenses to remain valid for up to two years after their expiration date, with exceptions for suspended/revoked licenses and Real IDs older than eight years. The moratorium is intended to address a backlog of people unable to renew licenses in person and expires December 31, 2027.

House2025-05-19

H560Introduced

Parents Protection Act

This bill modifies North Carolina laws related to child welfare, foster care, and adoption by adding protections for parents and caregivers who raise children consistent with their biological sex. It specifies that such parenting decisions—including the use of pronouns and related medical or mental health choices—cannot be the sole basis for abuse or neglect allegations, and prevents adoption and foster care agencies from denying placements based on prospective parents' refusal to support gender transition.

House2025-05-12

H379Engrossed

Application for a Convention of the States

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

House2025-05-08

H997Engrossed

Certify Reading of NC Constitution

This bill requires members of the North Carolina General Assembly to certify that they have reviewed the U.S. Constitution and North Carolina Constitution within the two years before taking office. The certification would be submitted to the Principal Clerk of their respective house and does not change the oath itself, only adds a documentation requirement.

House2025-05-08

H781Engrossed

Unauthorized Public Camping & Sleeping

This bill prohibits local governments in North Carolina from allowing unauthorized camping or sleeping on public property, with limited exceptions. Local governments may designate one property for up to one year as a camping site only if they meet strict state requirements including adequate shelter beds elsewhere, proper sanitation, health services, and departmental certification.

House2025-05-08

H854Engrossed

Require Licensure of Educational Interpreters

This bill removes the current exemption that allows educational interpreters and transliterators working in schools to operate without a state license. Beginning October 1, 2026, educational interpreters and transliterators will be required to meet the same licensing standards as other professional interpreters and transliterators in North Carolina, including national certifications or assessments in their field.

House2025-05-08

H415Engrossed

Modify Math & Social Studies Grad. Req

This bill removes the NC Math III requirement for high school graduation, replacing it with a fourth math course aligned to each student's career plan. It also modifies social studies requirements to include four specific courses (World History, US History, Founding Principles, and Economics), adds a US History graduation test based on civics questions, and requires UNC institutions to align college math admissions standards with the new high school requirements.

House2025-05-08

H674Engrossed

The Firearms Liberty Act

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's firearms laws, including allowing lifetime concealed handgun permits (in addition to the current 5-year permits), waiving firearms training requirements for permit renewals if permits lapse less than 180 days, allowing people under domestic violence protective orders to store or sell their firearms through licensed dealers, providing liability protection for firearms dealers who hold guns temporarily for safety purposes, and authorizing schools to store non-lethal defensive devices in biometric safes for trained employees.

House2025-05-08

H214Engrossed

Faithful Article V Commissioner Act

This bill establishes rules for North Carolina legislators who would serve as commissioners to an interstate convention for proposing amendments to the U.S. Constitution under Article V. It specifies how commissioners are selected (7 total: 3 from Senate, 3 from House, 1 at-large), sets qualification requirements, limits their authority to the scope of state applications, and makes it a felony for commissioners to vote on matters outside their authorized scope.

House2025-05-08

H698Engrossed

Center for Missing Persons to Highway Patrol

This bill transfers the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons from the Department of Public Safety to the State Highway Patrol, consolidating it as a division within the Highway Patrol. The Center will continue its functions of maintaining missing persons information, operating alert systems (AMBER, Silver, Blue, Ashanti, and weather-related alerts), and coordinating with law enforcement agencies, but under Highway Patrol leadership instead of a separate departmental structure.

House2025-05-08

H690Engrossed

The Citizens Support Act

This bill directs state agencies to verify that applicants for certain state-funded benefits, housing assistance, in-state tuition, financial aid, and unemployment benefits are legally authorized to reside in the United States. Agencies must develop plans to restrict these benefits to U.S. citizens and noncitizens with legal permission, and report on implementation by January 15, 2026.

House2025-05-08

H886Engrossed

AEDs and CPR in Public Schools

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

House2025-05-08

H188Engrossed

Automatic Renewal of Contracts

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

House2025-05-08

H754Engrossed

Fin. Exploit. Prevention/Savings Bank Updates

This bill has two main parts: Part I strengthens protections against financial exploitation of older adults (65+) and disabled adults by giving financial institutions authority to delay transactions for up to 30 days (extendable to 60 days) when they suspect fraud, and requires them to report suspected exploitation to law enforcement and social services. Part II updates North Carolina's savings bank laws to align more closely with commercial banking regulations, including changes to branch approval processes and application of existing banking confidentiality rules.

House2025-05-08

H818Engrossed

Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted

This bill changes how adopted persons can obtain copies of their birth certificates in North Carolina. Currently, only the State Registrar issues these certificates, but the bill allows county registers of deeds to also issue them. The bill requires these staff to complete training on privacy and proper procedures before issuing adoptee birth certificates.

House2025-05-08

H918Engrossed

Standardized Testing Choice Act

This bill directs the North Carolina Collaboratory to study whether the Classic Learning Test (CLT) should be accepted by UNC schools for undergraduate admission and scholarship awards alongside the SAT and ACT. The study will examine whether CLT scores predict college success, can be used interchangeably with SAT/ACT scores, and what costs would be involved for universities and the state to offer this test to middle and high school students.

House2025-05-07

H414Engrossed

1-to-1 Credit for Career and College Promise

This bill allows Career and College Promise students to earn high school graduation credit for specific community college courses in English, math, science, and history. It also removes Math III as a mandatory graduation requirement, allowing students to take math courses aligned with their career development plans instead.

House2025-05-07

H795Engrossed

Increased Access for Youth in Foster Families

This bill creates a new Guardianship Assistance Program (KinGAP) in North Carolina that provides financial support to children who leave foster care and are placed with relative or non-relative legal guardians. The program lowers the minimum age of eligibility from 14 to 10 years old and allows youth to continue receiving assistance until age 21 if they are pursuing education, employment, or have a qualifying disability.

House2025-05-07

H841Engrossed

Shellfish Leasing Study

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

House2025-05-07

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

H567Engrossed

Ensure Access to Biomarker Testing

This bill requires health insurance plans in North Carolina to cover biomarker testing (blood tests and tissue analysis that detect disease markers) when supported by medical evidence, such as FDA approval or national clinical guidelines. It also applies these same coverage requirements to North Carolina's Medicaid program and protects individuals from insurance discrimination based on biomarker test results.

House2025-05-07

H953Engrossed

Study Committee on ADA/APD/PAC Pay

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

House2025-05-07

H851Engrossed

Hospital Police Officer/Authority/Info Access

This bill creates a distinct category for hospital police officers within North Carolina's company police framework and grants them specific authorities and access to law enforcement databases. Hospital police officers would be authorized to enter mutual aid agreements with local governments, access criminal justice information systems (CJLEADS and DCIN) similar to campus police, receive tuition waivers for specialized training at community colleges, and use the VIPER emergency communications system.

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

H81Introduced

Restrict Use of Vehicle Telematics

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

House2025-05-07

H489Engrossed

Insurance Coverage Emergency Ambulance Trans

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

House2025-05-07

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

H572Engrossed

Veterans/eTMS Pilot Program

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

House2025-05-07

H552Engrossed

Ag Manufacturing Economic Development

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

House2025-05-07

H519Engrossed

Parents' Medical Bill of Rights

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

House2025-05-07

H547Engrossed

Children's Services Protection Act

This bill limits the liability of private contractors providing children's services under state agencies like DHHS. Contractors can be sued for their own negligence but not for negligence by the government agency they work with, and they would face the same monetary damage caps as public agencies—unless they commit abuse.

House2025-05-07

H618Engrossed

Ivermectin Access Act

This bill requires North Carolina's State Health Director to issue a statewide standing order allowing pharmacists to dispense ivermectin to customers without a prescription or consultation with a healthcare provider. The bill also provides legal immunity from civil and criminal liability for the State Health Director and any pharmacist who dispenses ivermectin under this standing order.

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

H535Engrossed

Title Fraud Prevention Act

This bill creates new criminal penalties for title fraud and requires registers of deeds to verify identity before recording deeds from non-professionals. It also establishes a court process for property owners to quickly challenge fraudulent recordings, requires deeds to show their source of title, and directs a study on creating a statewide fraud alert system.

House2025-05-07

H652Engrossed

Transportation Goods Unit Pricing Cost

This bill modifies how North Carolina calculates unit pricing costs for transportation goods used in highway maintenance and construction. It changes the baseline calculation from using only 2015-2016 fiscal year data to using a rolling average of the three previous fiscal years, and adjusts the enforcement and reporting procedures for Highway Divisions that exceed the 10% variance threshold.

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

H741Engrossed

Veterans Registration Plate Modifications

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

House2025-05-07

H891Introduced

Civil Actions/State Agency and AG Litigation

This bill establishes the Government Agency Forum Selection Act, requiring North Carolina and local governments to bring civil lawsuits in state courts rather than federal courts when both courts have jurisdiction, and prohibits them from removing cases to federal court when they are defendants. It also restricts the Attorney General from participating in out-of-state litigation that challenges state laws and requires legislative approval before the Attorney General can join class action lawsuits.

House2025-05-06

H659Introduced

Local Government Spending Transparency

This bill requires all local government entities in North Carolina to publish itemized invoices online showing who was paid, how much, what was purchased, and when. It also requires local governments to publicly display the top three bids received for any project, service, or goods purchased with tax dollars, updated quarterly.

House2025-05-06

H581Introduced

Career Pathways Transparency Act

This bill creates a 'Know Before You Go' program that provides North Carolina high school sophomores with transparent data about college and career options, including job demand, salary information, graduation rates, and student debt outcomes. It requires state agencies to collect and share this information through a website and local school programs, with $500,000 in grants to help schools implement the initiative.

House2025-05-06

H746Introduced

Limited Immunity/Nurses

This bill provides limited immunity from malpractice lawsuits for registered nurses in North Carolina when they act within their scope of practice and follow a supervising health care provider's directions. The immunity does not apply if a nurse acts with gross negligence, recklessness, or intentional misconduct, and nurses are protected when they raise safety concerns about a provider's orders in good faith.

House2025-05-06

H934Introduced

AI Regulatory Reform Act

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

House2025-05-06

H789Engrossed

Mitigating Factor/Pretrial Use of IID

This bill creates a new sentencing consideration for people charged with impaired driving who voluntarily install and use an ignition interlock system (a device that prevents a car from starting if alcohol is detected) for at least six months before their trial. Judges may consider this voluntary action as a mitigating factor when deciding sentencing. The bill also allows people who cannot afford interlock costs to request partial fee waivers from vendors.

House2025-05-05

H57Engrossed

Adopt State Veterans Museum

This bill designates the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas in Brevard as North Carolina's official state veterans history museum. The museum, which opened in 2016, preserves military artifacts and honors veterans through exhibits, educational programs, and community gathering spaces.

House2025-05-05

H908Engrossed

Modify Civil Commitment Hearing Procedures

This bill modifies procedures for civil commitment hearings involving individuals charged with violent crimes who were found incapable of proceeding. It allows district attorneys from the county where the defendant was found incapable of proceeding to represent the state's interest and, if they choose to do so, to move that all related hearings be held in that same county rather than where the facility is located.

House2025-05-05

H875Engrossed

DPI to Redesign Math Instruction

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to create a system of mathematics support for kindergarten through 8th grade, including approved assessment tools, instructional materials, and professional development for teachers. Local school districts must select and implement these approved resources to help students achieve grade-level math proficiency and identify students with math deficiencies.

House2025-05-05

H773Engrossed

School Performance Grade Changes

This bill replaces North Carolina's current school grading system with a new one that calculates school performance scores based on student test proficiency, growth in learning, English language proficiency, graduation rates, and career/college readiness measures. Schools receive letter grades (A-F) based on these scores, with different scoring thresholds for elementary, middle, and high schools.

House2025-05-05

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

H472Engrossed

Commercial Vehicle & Cargo Protection

This bill creates two new protections for commercial vehicles and cargo in North Carolina. First, it prohibits the use of immobilization devices (like boots) on commercial motor vehicles for parking enforcement purposes, making violations a Class 2 misdemeanor. Second, it requires towing companies to promptly return commercial cargo to its owner upon request and to exchange damaged trailers with comparable working trailers.

House2025-05-05

H483Engrossed

Juvenile Justice Legislative Proposals

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's juvenile justice system, including extending probation and post-release supervision terms for youth convicted of serious violent offenses from one year to up to three years, clarifying victim notification rights, allowing secure custody orders for domestic violence protective order violations, creating a new crime for escaping juvenile facilities, and clarifying where youth under 18 sentenced to adult prison must be held.

House2025-05-05

H406Engrossed

Clarify Motor Vehicle Dealer Laws

This bill modifies North Carolina's motor vehicle dealer laws to strengthen protections for franchised dealers. It limits manufacturers' ability to terminate dealership franchises without good cause, restricts conditions manufacturers can place on ownership transfers, requires dealers receive compensation for over-the-air product sales, clarifies dealer succession rights, and ensures dealers are reimbursed for required loaner vehicles and training costs.

House2025-05-05

H156Engrossed

Increase Access for Small Employers/Insurance

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

House2025-05-01

H575Engrossed

The Hunter Robinson Act

The Hunter Robinson Act modifies North Carolina's post-release supervision laws by increasing the time inmates must serve before release and extending supervision periods for certain felony offenses. Specifically, it increases the required prison time served before release eligibility for Class B1-C felonies from 12 to 24 months, maintains 18 months for Class D-E felonies, and keeps 9 months for Class F-I felonies. It also extends post-release supervision periods from 12 to 24 months for Class B1-C felonies while keeping other supervision periods unchanged.

House2025-05-01

H512Engrossed

Emer. Care/Animals/Vet. Practice

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

House2025-05-01

H797Engrossed

Residential Property Wholesaling Protection

This bill requires residential property wholesalers to be licensed as real estate brokers and gives homeowners a 30-day right to cancel purchase contracts with wholesalers without penalty. It also requires wholesalers to disclose the homeowner's cancellation rights in 14-point font on the contract and refund all payments within 10 business days if canceled.

House2025-05-01

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

H92Engrossed

NC Digital Assets Investments Act

This bill authorizes North Carolina's State Treasurer to invest state funds in digital assets like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, but only up to 5% of designated funds and only after independent security review. It also directs the Treasurer to study whether state employees can invest retirement funds in digital assets and requires law enforcement to study creating a state reserve for seized or forfeited digital assets.

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

H801Engrossed

LRC Study Paper Towns

This bill directs the Legislative Research Commission to study North Carolina towns that exist legally but do not provide adequate services to residents. The study will examine towns incorporated since 1995, assess whether they're delivering promised services, and recommend whether the General Assembly should suspend or revoke their charters if they're failing to serve residents properly.

House2025-05-01

H614Engrossed

The Michael Mitchke F.I.N.E. Law

This bill requires that an autopsy be performed in any case where human remains are found in connection with a fire incident. Currently, autopsies in fire-related deaths are discretionary; this law would make them mandatory, effective October 1, 2025.

House2025-05-01

H107Engrossed

Adopt SUDEP Awareness Week

This bill designates the second week in November as SUDEP (Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy) Awareness Week in North Carolina and encourages local school boards to provide seizure awareness training for teachers and school personnel who work with students who have epilepsy or seizure disorders.

House2025-04-30

H38Engrossed

Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act

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

House2025-04-30

H163Engrossed

Pharmacy Benefits Manager Provisions

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

House2025-04-30

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

H729Introduced

Farmland Protection Act

This bill gradually reduces the property tax exemption for solar energy systems in North Carolina over four years, starting in 2026. By July 1, 2029, solar systems will no longer receive any property tax exclusion and will be taxed at full appraised value like other property.

House2025-04-30

H250Engrossed

Annual Rep't Due Date/Deployed Servicemembers

This bill extends annual report filing deadlines for North Carolina businesses (corporations, LLCs, and limited liability partnerships) that are majority-owned by active-duty military members who are deployed. Affected businesses can file their annual reports up to 90 days after their owner's deployment ends, rather than on the standard due date, if they submit an affidavit of deployment beforehand.

House2025-04-30

H288Engrossed

POW/MIA Flag/State Bldgs. & Schools

This bill requires the POW/MIA (Prisoner of War/Missing in Action) flag to be displayed alongside the U.S. flag at all state-owned buildings and public schools in North Carolina, as long as the flag can be attached to an existing flagpole. The state will purchase flags for state buildings, while local school boards may accept donations or use available funds to purchase flags for schools.

House2025-04-30

H613Introduced

The Vehicle Registration Convenience Act

This bill allows North Carolina vehicle owners to choose which month their vehicle registration renews each year, instead of having a fixed renewal date. Owners would elect their renewal month when initially registering their vehicle, and subsequent renewals would occur annually in that month. The registration fee for the initial period is prorated based on the number of months until the owner's chosen renewal date.

House2025-04-30

H663Introduced

Living Donor Protection Act

This bill protects living organ donors in North Carolina by prohibiting insurance companies from discriminating against them, provides a state income tax credit of up to $5,000 for unreimbursed donation-related expenses like lost wages and travel costs, and grants state employees up to 30 days paid leave for organ donation and 7 days for bone marrow donation.

House2025-04-30

H822Engrossed

Moped Regulation

This bill modifies North Carolina moped regulations in two ways: it clarifies that mopeds are presumed to be designed for one person unless the manufacturer states otherwise, and it requires mopeds to stay in the right-hand lane on highways with speed limits over 35 mph (except when turning left). Violating the lane requirement can result in a traffic obstruction citation.

House2025-04-30

H864Introduced

Traffic Law Revisions/Collegiate Plates

This bill makes three main changes to North Carolina traffic laws and license plate regulations. It increases minimum speed requirements on interstates and primary highways, restricts large trucks from using the leftmost lane on certain highways, and creates a new collegiate insignia license plate option with a full-color background design.

House2025-04-30

H649Engrossed

County Tier Designation Study Bill

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

House2025-04-30

H135Introduced

Misbranding/Cell-Cultured Meat/WNC Donations

This bill requires cell-cultured meat and poultry products to be clearly labeled with terms like 'lab-grown' or 'cell-cultured' in at least 20-point font near the product name. It prohibits public schools, charter schools, community colleges, and universities from purchasing these products. The bill also creates a voluntary donation program allowing retailers to collect customer donations for farms affected by Hurricane Helene, and appropriates $1.5 million for a government efficiency audit of North Carolina's disaster response.

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

H956Introduced

Enhance Financial Protections/Older Adults

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

House2025-04-29

H904Passed

House BOG Elections

This House Resolution elects six individuals to serve on the Board of Governors of the University of North Carolina for four-year terms beginning July 1, 2025. The House of Representatives is authorized by state law to elect these six members to help govern the UNC system.

House2025-04-29

H836Introduced

North Carolina Sound Money Act

This bill allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct gains or losses from selling investment coins and precious metal bullion when calculating state income taxes. It also recognizes certain gold and silver coins and bullion as legal tender in North Carolina, though it specifies that no one is required to accept them in transactions.

House2025-04-29

H855Introduced

Residency Licenses for Nonpublic EC Teachers

This bill expands who can request residency licenses for teachers in North Carolina by allowing nonpublic schools to request them in addition to public school units. Residency licenses are one-year renewable licenses (up to three years total) for individuals enrolled in teacher preparation programs who meet basic educational and content knowledge requirements.

House2025-04-29

H703Introduced

Memorials in Veterans Cemeteries

This bill allows North Carolina state veterans cemeteries to sell monuments and memorials—such as memorial trees, granite markers, and benches—to families of those buried there. The cemeteries can set style requirements but cannot prohibit these sales, must charge market rates, and must use the revenue for cemetery maintenance and improvement.

House2025-04-29

H767Introduced

Market Rate Teacher Pay Study

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

House2025-04-29

H806Introduced

Public School Operational Relief

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

House2025-04-29

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

H329Engrossed

Tobacco and Hemp on Nonpublic School Grounds

This bill encourages nonpublic schools (private, religious charter, and qualified nonpublic schools) to adopt policies prohibiting tobacco products and hemp-derived consumable products on school grounds. The bill uses existing public school tobacco regulations as a model for these policies but does not mandate compliance.

House2025-04-28

H592Engrossed

Toxic-Free Medical Devices Act of 2025

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

House2025-04-28

H432Engrossed

Property Tax Relief Study

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

House2025-04-28

H734Engrossed

Modernize Debt Settlement Prohibition

This bill modernizes North Carolina's debt settlement laws by classifying debt settlement as an unfair trade practice, clarifying definitions of debt adjusting and debt settlement, and expanding legal remedies available to debtors. It reorganizes existing debt adjustment statutes and creates limited exceptions for legitimate credit counseling organizations and certain other entities.

House2025-04-28

H244Engrossed

Depoliticize Government Property Act

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

House2025-04-28

H636Engrossed

Promoting Wholesome Content for Students

This bill establishes procedures for North Carolina public schools to review and approve library media (books, videos, and other materials) before they are available to students. It creates community library advisory committees to evaluate materials, allows parents and county residents to object to books, and permits parents, guardians, or county residents to sue schools for violations, including seeking $5,000 per violation plus attorney fees.

House2025-04-28

H574Engrossed

Workforce Development Pilot Project

This bill creates a pilot program that provides grants to small and mid-sized North Carolina employers (20-1,500 employees) to help pay for employee training programs. Eligible employers can receive up to $2,000 per trainee or 50% of training costs (whichever is less), with a maximum of $40,000 per year, to fund training that improves worker skills, increases wages, or reduces turnover.

House2025-04-28

H573Introduced

Remove Testing Requirement for Teacher Lisc

This bill removes the requirement that teacher license applicants in North Carolina pass a standardized examination. It repeals existing testing requirements and prohibits the State Board of Education from adopting new rules that would require standardized tests for teacher licensure.

House2025-04-17

H634Introduced

Parity Enhancement for Addiction Recovery

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

House2025-04-17

H949Introduced

School Protection Act

This bill allows sworn law enforcement officers hired as armed security guards at nonpublic (private) schools to carry firearms on school property. It amends North Carolina law to create an exemption for these certified officers from restrictions on carrying weapons in educational settings.

House2025-04-17

H985Introduced

Increase Punishment for Assaulting Teachers

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

House2025-04-17

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

H924Introduced

Board for Gen. Contractors/Crim. Referrals

This bill allows North Carolina's State Licensing Board for General Contractors to refer violations of contractor licensing laws to law enforcement and district attorneys for criminal prosecution. It also permits the Board to share investigative records with law enforcement and prosecutors to support criminal investigations, and allows the Board to use its resources to assist in prosecutions.

House2025-04-17

H650Introduced

No Interchange Fees on Sales Tax or Tips

This bill prohibits payment card networks, banks, and processors from charging interchange fees (transaction fees) on the sales tax or tip portions of credit and debit card payments in North Carolina. Merchants can avoid these fees by reporting tax and tip amounts during payment processing, or they can request refunds up to 180 days after a transaction if they submit documentation.

House2025-04-17

H69Engrossed

Military and Veterans Educational Promise Act

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

House2025-04-16

H632Introduced

Amend Hazing Laws

This bill strengthens North Carolina's hazing laws by creating new criminal penalties for individuals and organizations that commit hazing, and requires public schools and colleges to develop anti-hazing education programs, investigate hazing allegations, and publicly report hazing violations. The bill defines hazing broadly to include physical brutality, substance consumption, mental abuse, and other harmful activities used to recruit or initiate members into student organizations.

House2025-04-16

H820Introduced

Prescription Eye Drop Early Refill Coverage

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

House2025-04-16

H593Introduced

Local Government Audits

This bill changes how local governments, school districts, and public authorities select auditors by requiring sealed-bid processes and giving the State Auditor authority to certify auditors. It also appropriates $3.52 million to the State Auditor to hire 32 finance professionals to help small local governments maintain compliant financial records.

House2025-04-16

H912Introduced

The Hometown Opp. for Mentoring Educators Act

This bill creates the Hometown Teacher Grant Program, which provides $500 monthly salary supplements to teachers who grew up and attended school in their current school district and agree to continue teaching there. The state would allocate $10 million per year to support this program through local school districts.

House2025-04-16

H106Introduced

Revive High-Need Retired Teachers Program

This bill revives a program that allows retired teachers to return to work in high-need schools (Title I schools or schools with D/F grades) without losing their retirement benefits. Retired teachers in STEM and special education fields can earn higher starting salaries, while those in other subjects earn entry-level pay. The program requires IRS approval and includes $10 million in annual state funding.

House2025-04-16

H246Engrossed

Liam's Law

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

House2025-04-16

H218Engrossed

Emergency Info on DMV Applications

This bill requires the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles to add a request for emergency contact information to driver's license applications and renewal forms. The provision of this emergency contact information by applicants is optional, and the bill takes effect October 1, 2026.

House2025-04-16

H213Engrossed

Post NC Veterans' Benefits

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

House2025-04-16

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

H833Introduced

The FRESH Act

The FRESH Act directs the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services to expand North Carolina's Home Processor Program to allow home-based food producers to make and sell refrigerated, frozen, and perishable products—including items like cheesecakes with cream fillings—in addition to products currently allowed. The expanded program would remain subject to existing food safety laws and inspections.

House2025-04-16

H695Introduced

Support VIPER/Assist 911 Operations/Dispatch

This bill requires North Carolina's 911 Board to allocate a minimum of 20% of 911 service charge revenues to the State Highway Patrol for maintenance and support of the VIPER public safety radio system. VIPER is used to enable 911 system interoperability and coordinate first responder dispatch across the state. The change takes effect July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-16

H707Introduced

Drones/Certain Vendor Purchases Prohibited

This bill prohibits North Carolina state government and local government agencies from purchasing drones (unmanned aircraft) manufactured or assembled by certain foreign entities, specifically those connected to China or Russia, or those on U.S. government screening lists. The prohibition applies to any purchase using state funds, including through contracts and grants, and makes violating contracts void.

House2025-04-15

H114Introduced

Employment Preference for Military Personnel

This bill expands North Carolina's employment preference policy for military personnel by removing the requirement that service occur during wartime and extending preference to active duty service members, Armed Forces Reserve members, and their spouses and dependents. The expanded preference applies to state job applications, hirings, promotions, reassignments, and transfers.

House2025-04-15

H640Introduced

Public Assistance Verification Enhancements

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Health and Human Services and public housing authorities to regularly verify eligibility for public assistance programs (food stamps, Medicaid, temporary assistance, and housing) by checking multiple state and federal databases for changes in income, employment, residency, incarceration status, lottery winnings, and other circumstances. It also requires the department to verify applicants' information before enrollment rather than accepting self-attestation and to publish quarterly data about fraud investigations and improper payments.

House2025-04-15

H113Introduced

Create Committee on Medicaid Sustainability

This bill creates a joint legislative committee with 6 senators and 6 representatives to study ways to modify North Carolina's Medicaid program if federal funding decreases. The committee will explore options like reducing optional services, adjusting provider payments, and improving managed care efficiency, then report findings and recommendations by April 30, 2026.

House2025-04-15

H558Introduced

Criteria for PHP Contract Procurement

This bill updates how North Carolina's Medicaid program selects health insurance companies to serve Medicaid recipients. For future contract renewals, it limits statewide contracts to no more than four companies and gives preference to certain types of bidders—particularly Provider-Led Entities (PLEs) and companies with higher provider satisfaction ratings.

House2025-04-15

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

H905Introduced

Public School Part-Time Enrollment

This bill requires public schools and charter schools in North Carolina to allow students who attend private schools to enroll part-time in public school courses, programs, or services. Schools would receive state funding based on the amount of instructional time each part-time student attends, with full per-pupil funding for students attending one-third or more of a full school day and half funding for those attending less.

House2025-04-14

H939Introduced

School Chaplains

This bill allows North Carolina public school boards to hire, contract with, or accept volunteer chaplains to serve students. Schools that choose to employ chaplains must adopt a policy requiring certified training, describing the chaplain's services, establishing continuing education and discipline procedures, and conducting criminal background checks reviewed by the State Superintendent.

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

H967Introduced

Disorderly Conduct at Voting Places

This bill clarifies that voting places are included in North Carolina's disorderly conduct law that applies to public buildings. It adds voting places to the definition of 'public building or facility' so that disruptions at polling locations during voting hours can be prosecuted as disorderly conduct misdemeanors.

House2025-04-14

H945Introduced

Reporting of Sexual Assault on School Buses

This bill requires North Carolina school districts to report sexual assault and harassment incidents that occur on school buses separately from other incidents, increases violence reporting to twice per school year instead of once annually, and makes it a Class I felony for school employees or board members to fail to report acts of violence to the state.

House2025-04-14

H929Introduced

Water Safety Bill

This bill prohibits North Carolina public water systems from adding fluoride to drinking water, effective January 1, 2026. The prohibition does not apply to naturally occurring fluoride in water sources or fluoride used in industrial processes.

House2025-04-14

H901Introduced

Recognize Safety Hold Agreements

This bill allows licensed firearms dealers to store firearms temporarily for owners who request it (called a 'safety hold agreement') at no charge. It provides liability protection for dealers against lawsuits related to these agreements, except in cases of negligent storage or unlawful conduct. The bill also keeps these agreements confidential and allows dealers to dispose of firearms if owners don't reclaim them.

House2025-04-14

H991Introduced

Establish DMORT

This bill establishes a Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) within the Division of Emergency Management to respond to disasters and mass fatality incidents in North Carolina. DMORT would consist of licensed professionals such as funeral directors, medical examiners, dentists, and forensic specialists who would identify victims, recover and transport remains, and assist families during disaster recovery operations.

House2025-04-14

H893Introduced

Chiropractic Investigatory Costs

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

House2025-04-14

H890Introduced

School Internet Emergency Access Act

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

House2025-04-14

H996Introduced

Further Limit General Fund Operating Budget

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

House2025-04-14

H899Introduced

Return Oversight of OSFM to DOI Commissioner

This bill eliminates the independent Office of the State Fire Marshal and returns its oversight to the Commissioner of the Department of Insurance. Current employees and rules would continue under the Commissioner's authority, with the transition occurring October 1, 2025.

House2025-04-14

H1000Introduced

Detransitioners Bill of Rights

This bill prohibits medical professionals from performing gender transition procedures (including surgeries and hormone treatments) on minors in North Carolina, with limited exceptions only when parents consent to detransition procedures. It establishes civil liability for providers who violate the ban, requires gender clinics to report detailed patient statistics to the state, mandates insurance coverage for detransition treatments, and allows parents access to minors' medical records except in abuse cases.

House2025-04-14

H887Introduced

Address Abandoned and Derelict Vessels

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

House2025-04-14

H919Introduced

Fair Access to Financial Services

This bill prohibits banks, credit unions, savings institutions, and insurance companies from denying services or discriminating against customers based on political opinions, religious beliefs, firearm ownership, fossil fuel industry involvement, immigration enforcement support, or failure to meet environmental and social governance standards. It requires banks to disclose subjective service standards and file annual compliance reports.

House2025-04-14

H895Introduced

Emergency Citizen Pilot Training Program

This bill establishes the Emergency Citizen Pilot Training Program within North Carolina's Division of Emergency Management to train and certify private pilots to assist with disaster response and recovery operations. The program will set standards, maintain a registry of certified pilots, require continuing training, and provide job protection for certified pilots called to emergency service.

House2025-04-14

H935Introduced

Fire/Emergency Agency Property Voting Limits

This bill adds an exemption to allow fire and emergency response agencies to opt out of having their facilities used as voting locations if the fire chief determines that doing so would interfere with emergency response capabilities. The exemption requires the fire chief to appeal to the county board of commissioners, which must make a final determination supporting the exemption.

House2025-04-14

H1006Introduced

Const. Amend. Single Subject Bills

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

House2025-04-14

H966Introduced

College Cost Reduction Act

This bill requires UNC constituent institutions to adopt a policy prohibiting professors and departments from requiring students to pay for learning management systems (online platforms for coursework) beyond what students already pay in approved student fees. The policy would take effect for the 2025-2026 academic year.

House2025-04-14

H846Introduced

Teacher Retention and Recruitment

This bill aims to improve teacher recruitment and retention through multiple provisions: offering tuition waivers for children of veteran teachers with 12-16 years of service, reviving a program allowing retired teachers to work in high-need schools, expanding teacher licensure reciprocity for out-of-state teachers, and strengthening reporting requirements for threats and assaults against teachers.

House2025-04-10

H849Introduced

Utility Forced Relocation Expenses

This bill shifts the financial responsibility for relocating utility facilities (like phone lines, broadband, water pipes, and wireless infrastructure) from utility companies to the government entities requiring the relocations. When state, city, or public authorities require utilities to move their infrastructure due to road construction or public projects, those government entities would now pay the relocation costs instead of the utility companies.

House2025-04-10

H845Introduced

Reduce Drowning Risk/Public Docks

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

House2025-04-10

H123Engrossed

Criminal Falsification of Medical Records

This bill creates criminal penalties for health care providers who knowingly destroy, alter, falsify, or omit information from medical records. The offense is classified as a Class H felony if done to conceal medical errors or abuse/neglect that caused serious injury or death, a Class A1 misdemeanor for concealing other material facts related to potential claims, and a Class I felony if money is exchanged for such conduct.

House2025-04-10

H878Introduced

Increased Academic Transparency

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to post lesson plans and course materials online within 10 days of instruction, organized by subject and grade level. Schools must list all instructional and supplemental materials used, provide links where available, and offer procedures for in-person review of materials not available online, with some exemptions for very small schools.

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

H853Introduced

Special License Plate After Revocation

This bill requires drivers whose licenses have been revoked to display a special, distinctly-colored license plate on any vehicle they operate for 3-7 years after their license is restored. The special plate must be readily identifiable by law enforcement and costs an additional $10 per registration. Drivers may operate employer vehicles without the plate if the employer is notified and the driver carries proof of notification.

House2025-04-10

H883Introduced

Support Students with Disabilities Act

This bill creates a new grant program allowing school districts to apply for state funding to cover extraordinary costs of educating students with disabilities, including placements in private schools. The state will reimburse 75% of qualifying costs for students whose total service costs exceed four times the state average per-pupil spending on special education, and requires annual monitoring reports on homebound, modified day, and hospital placements.

House2025-04-10

H872Introduced

School Employee Protections for Use of Force

This bill expands protections for school employees who use physical force in schools by creating a legal presumption that force is reasonable unless proven otherwise, preventing discipline or license revocation based solely on criminal allegations that don't result in conviction, and prohibiting retaliation against employees for using force consistent with school policies.

House2025-04-10

H354Engrossed

Civil Procedure/Gatekeeper Orders/Database

This bill creates 'gatekeeper orders' in North Carolina civil courts that require people adjudicated as incompetent to file legal documents only through their guardian or attorney. It also requires the Administrative Office of the Courts to maintain a database of all people adjudicated incompetent so courts can identify and enforce these restrictions, with exceptions allowing direct filing in cases involving guardianship disputes, competency restoration, or cases where the person is being sued.

House2025-04-10

H266Engrossed

Adopt Women Veterans Day

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

House2025-04-10

H53Engrossed

Increase Accident Thresholds/Safe Driver Plan

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

House2025-04-10

H227Engrossed

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

This bill requires state institutions and political subdivisions in North Carolina to purchase only U.S. and North Carolina flags that are 100% manufactured in the United States using domestically-grown or produced materials. The requirement applies to all purchases made with public funds beginning October 1, 2025.

House2025-04-09

H828Introduced

Prohibit Prop Bets on College/Amateur Sports

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

House2025-04-09

H487Introduced

Shorter Separation for Retired ADAs and APDs

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

House2025-04-09

H825Introduced

Election Improvements

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

House2025-04-09

H826Introduced

No Retaliation Against Mandatory Reporters

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

House2025-04-09

H803Introduced

3-Year FDA Approval for New Childhood Vaxx

This bill requires that new vaccines added to North Carolina's childhood immunization schedule must have been FDA-approved for at least three years, unless both the North Carolina Medical Society and North Carolina Pediatric Society boards recommend adding a newer vaccine. The bill modifies the current process for adding vaccines to the state's required immunizations for children.

House2025-04-08

H814Introduced

Power Infrastructure Resiliency & Eff.(PIRE)

This bill promotes the use of advanced conductors and grid-enhancing technologies in North Carolina's electric transmission system. It streamlines the permitting process for upgrading existing transmission lines with these technologies and requires utilities to evaluate such technologies when planning for grid improvements and carbon emission reductions.

House2025-04-08

H471Introduced

Food Labeling Transparency Act

This bill requires clear labeling of manufactured-protein food products—including cell-cultured meat and insect-based proteins—sold in North Carolina. Products using meat or poultry terminology must display qualifying terms like 'cell-cultured,' 'lab-grown,' or 'insect-based' prominently on packaging and restaurant menus to distinguish them from traditional animal-derived meat and poultry.

House2025-04-08

H524Introduced

Fraud Detection Alert System

This bill creates a fraud detection alert system that allows property owners to monitor their names in land records by receiving email notifications when deeds or mortgages are recorded under their identity. It also strengthens penalties for rental and sale fraud by making fraudulent leasing a Class H felony and fraudulent advertising of property a Class I felony, and allows civil lawsuits with attorney's fees for violations.

House2025-04-08

H791Introduced

Women's Safety and Protection Act

This bill establishes legal definitions of biological sex and gender throughout North Carolina law, creates the Women's Safety and Protection Act requiring single-sex facilities in prisons, detention centers, schools, and shelters that receive state funds, allows private lawsuits against facilities that fail to enforce these rules, and requires driver's licenses and birth certificates to reflect biological sex as defined at birth.

House2025-04-08

H264Introduced

Wire Fraud Prevention Act

This bill modifies North Carolina's wire transfer fraud laws to require banks to verbally verify payment orders with customers and beneficiaries, and to refund a portion of unauthorized payments more quickly. It also adds protections for large deposits made to newly opened accounts by delaying payment for 10 business days.

House2025-04-08

H384Introduced

Nat. Guard Tax Deduction for Fed. Pay

This bill allows enlisted members of the North Carolina Army National Guard and Air National Guard with ranks E-1 through E-5 to deduct their federal basic pay from their state income taxes. It also redirects sports wagering tax revenue by reducing funding to collegiate athletics and the Major Events fund, while increasing the amount going to the state's General Fund.

House2025-04-08

H794Introduced

Study Highway Patrol Staffing/Salary Scale

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

House2025-04-08

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

H802Introduced

Nicotine & Vaping Prevention in Schools

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

House2025-04-08

H799Introduced

Ensure Nondiscrimination in Government

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

House2025-04-08

H755Introduced

Nonprofit Sales Tax Exemption

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

House2025-04-07

H776Introduced

NC Religious Freedom Restoration Act

This bill creates the North Carolina Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which requires state and local government actions to meet strict legal standards when they burden religious practice. It also protects religious gatherings in homes and neighborhoods from housing restrictions, and ensures religious institutions receive equal treatment during emergencies.

House2025-04-07

H753Introduced

LEOs Return to Work

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

House2025-04-07

H761Introduced

Limit Session Length

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would limit how long the North Carolina General Assembly can meet in regular session: 90 legislative days in odd-numbered years and 45 legislative days in even-numbered years. The amendment would be submitted to voters in November 2026, and if approved, would take effect for future legislative sessions.

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

H780Introduced

All Pro Dads & Responsible Fatherhood NC

This bill appropriates $5 million to support fatherhood programs in North Carolina. It provides $2 million to expand the All Pro Dad program in schools and creates a new Responsible Fatherhood NC program with $3 million in funding, which will include a statewide media campaign, resources for fathers, and grants to community organizations serving fathers.

House2025-04-07

H295Engrossed

Req. DOT to Install Prop. Corner Markers

This bill requires the North Carolina Department of Transportation to install permanent metal corner markers along property lines after completing road projects that involve acquiring right-of-way or easements. The markers must be placed according to surveying standards and tied to the state coordinate system to clearly identify property boundaries.

House2025-04-03

H745Introduced

Fair Competition Study Act

This bill directs the North Carolina Public Utilities Commission to conduct a study examining North Carolina's current energy market structure and whether the state should reform it by adopting an energy imbalance market or a regional transmission organization. The study would evaluate costs, benefits, and impacts on rates, reliability, environmental quality, and vulnerable communities, with results due within one year and $350,000 appropriated for the research.

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

H682Introduced

Public Safety Through Food Access Act

This bill allows North Carolina to remove federal restrictions that prevent individuals convicted of drug-related felonies from receiving food assistance and temporary aid benefits. Instead of permanent disqualification, eligible individuals could receive benefits after either completing substance abuse treatment in prison or six months after conviction without committing additional drug offenses, provided they participate in required treatment programs.

House2025-04-03

H664Introduced

Eliminate PET Scanners from CON Review

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

House2025-04-03

H702Introduced

Chiropractic Education Changes

This bill modifies North Carolina's chiropractic licensing requirements by changing the education standard from a specific 4,200-hour requirement to requiring a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from an accredited program, adds acupuncture certification authority for chiropractors, and makes updates to board composition and supervision standards for chiropractic students.

House2025-04-03

H666Introduced

Wildlife Resources Commission Term Limits

This bill changes the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission so that all members serve two-year terms instead of the current mix of two, four, and six-year terms. It also limits Commission members to a maximum of three consecutive two-year terms (six years total), though current members are allowed to complete their existing terms.

House2025-04-03

H721Introduced

Muddy Sneakers/St. Gerard House

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

House2025-04-03

H751Introduced

Uniform Energy Rates for Seasonal Service

This bill requires large electric utility companies (serving at least 150,000 customers) to extend any seasonal or intermittent service rates they currently offer in part of their service area to all eligible customers statewide by September 1, 2025. The utility must file an application for a rate case to make this expansion.

House2025-04-03

H71Engrossed

Respiratory Care Modernization Act

This bill modernizes North Carolina's laws governing respiratory care practitioners by creating a new category of advanced respiratory care practitioners (ARCPs) who can perform specialized procedures under physician supervision, updating licensing requirements to reflect current education standards, and establishing clearer practice definitions and Board oversight. The changes are intended to reflect how the respiratory care profession has evolved, particularly following increased demands during the COVID-19 pandemic.

House2025-04-03

H692Introduced

AEDs and CPR in Schools

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to install at least two Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) in each school building, provide training to school personnel on AED and CPR use, and maintain the devices according to state board rules. The bill applies to all public school types including traditional public schools, charter schools, and regional schools, with implementation beginning in the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-04-03

H672Introduced

Physician Assist. Omnibus/Team-based/Compact

This bill makes two main changes to physician assistant (PA) practice in North Carolina: Part I creates a 'team-based practice' option for PAs with significant experience that allows them to work with less direct physician supervision in hospitals and clinics, and Part II establishes North Carolina's participation in the PA Licensure Compact, which allows PAs licensed in one state to practice in other compact states without getting a separate license in each state.

House2025-04-03

H680Introduced

The Protect Children from Cannabis Act

This bill creates a state regulatory system for hemp-derived consumable products (like delta-8 THC vapes and edibles) that contain less than 0.3% delta-9 THC but may have high levels of other cannabinoids. It requires retailers and online sellers to obtain permits, prohibits sales to anyone under 21, establishes penalties for violations, and gives the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission enforcement authority.

House2025-04-03

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

H716Introduced

Bail Bond Omnibus

This bill modifies North Carolina's bail bond laws by expanding the definition of a defendant's address of record, clarifying when bail bond obligations end, establishing procedures for setting aside bond forfeitures, requiring district attorneys to report failed appearances to a national database, and prohibiting electronic systems from acting as bail bondsmen.

House2025-04-03

H658Introduced

Optometrists Telehealth Services

This bill allows licensed optometrists in North Carolina to provide telehealth services to patients in the state without being physically located in North Carolina or holding a license in the state where they are physically located. The optometrist must have a valid North Carolina license and remain subject to all state laws and Board regulations.

House2025-04-02

H647Introduced

Ag. PUV Conservation

This bill allows nonprofit and private conservation organizations that hold agricultural, horticultural, or forestland to have that property taxed at present-use value (a lower tax rate based on current agricultural/forest use rather than potential development value). It also allows property with conservation easements to maintain present-use value tax status even after being transferred to a new owner, as long as the easement requirements are met.

House2025-04-02

H629Introduced

Extend Primary Care Task Force

This bill extends the Primary Care Payment Reform Task Force from its original expiration date of May 1, 2024, to December 31, 2026, allowing the group to continue studying primary care spending and payment systems in North Carolina. The bill also adds requirements for data security protections and clarifies that collected data is not subject to public records requests.

House2025-04-02

H596Introduced

Standards Advisory Commission

This bill creates the Standard Course of Study Advisory Commission, a 18-member committee of teachers, principals, parents, superintendents, and business representatives who will develop and recommend academic standards to the State Board of Education. The State Board must either adopt the Commission's recommendations without changes or reject them with detailed reasons, and the General Assembly gains the ability to disapprove curriculum changes through legislation.

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

H582Introduced

Providing Relief to Impacted Families Act

This bill modifies North Carolina's motor fuel excise tax refund program for nonprofits. It clarifies and continues the existing quarterly refund system that allows certain nonprofits—including volunteer fire departments, rescue squads, food distribution organizations, and others—to receive refunds on fuel taxes they pay, minus one cent per gallon.

House2025-04-01

H426Introduced

Workforce Diploma Program

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

House2025-04-01

H588Introduced

School Psychologist Omnibus

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

House2025-04-01

H585Introduced

Human Trafficking Reporting/Response System

This bill appropriates $300,000 in recurring funds to the North Carolina Human Trafficking Commission to develop or use a secure, technology-driven reporting and response system for human trafficking victims, with initial focus on western North Carolina where anti-trafficking resources are limited. The funds may be used to expand the system, hire a regional coordinator, and launch public awareness campaigns.

House2025-04-01

H595Introduced

Parental Rights for Curriculum and Books

This bill restricts curriculum content related to gender identity, sexual activity, and sexuality in K-6 grades and requires parental consent for these topics in grades 7-12. It establishes new procedures for selecting health and safety instructional materials and library books, including public hearings and parent review periods. The bill also requires schools to maintain repositories of instructional materials and restricts minors' access to materials deemed harmful in public libraries.

House2025-04-01

H591Introduced

Elec. Monitoring in Nursing/Adult Care Homes

This bill permits residents of nursing homes and adult care homes to install electronic monitoring devices (cameras, audio recorders, etc.) in their own rooms at their own expense. Facilities must provide power sources and mounting space for these devices, cannot refuse admission or discharge residents for requesting monitoring, and recordings are admissible as evidence in court proceedings.

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

H607Introduced

Regulate Hemp Consumable Products

This bill creates a new regulatory framework for hemp-derived consumable products (like edibles and vapes containing cannabinoids such as delta-8 and delta-10 THC) in North Carolina. It requires manufacturers, distributors, and retailers to obtain licenses from the Alcohol Law Enforcement Division, establishes testing and labeling requirements, restricts sales to adults 21+, and sets penalties for violations ranging from civil fines to criminal charges.

House2025-04-01

H556Introduced

2025 Charter Schools Review Board Omnibus

This bill makes several changes to how charter schools are regulated and operated in North Carolina. It gives the Charter Schools Review Board approval power over state rules about charter schools, allows the Review Board to hire its own legal counsel, and makes various operational changes including exempting charter schools from reporting class rank on transcripts, allowing alternate teacher evaluations, and creating a separate grading process for remote charter academies.

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

H553Introduced

Ensuring Patient Safety w/Mail Order Meds

This bill revises North Carolina law regarding abortion-inducing drugs sent by mail or through remote means. It allows such drugs to be provided if a physician conducts an in-person informed consent meeting at least 72 hours beforehand, the drugs are FDA-approved, and standard informed consent requirements are met. The bill also establishes civil liability and enforcement mechanisms, including private lawsuits and potential criminal penalties.

House2025-03-31

H566Introduced

Principal Fellows Changes

This bill makes changes to North Carolina's Principal Fellows Program, which helps prepare school leaders. It adds a new grant program for universities and colleges to develop innovative principal training methods, allows the program to fund statewide professional development activities for school leadership, and establishes reporting requirements to track how well graduates perform as school principals.

House2025-03-31

H540Introduced

Additional Funds for Patriot Star Scholarship

This bill appropriates $2 million in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support the North Carolina Patriot Star Family Scholarship Program, which is operated by the Patriot Foundation under the UNC Board of Governors. The funds are designated as recurring, meaning they would continue annually unless changed by future legislation.

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

H518Introduced

Project Newsletter

This bill requires North Carolina local governments and school districts to use a competitive bidding process when selecting newspapers to publish required public notices. Instead of using commercial advertising rates, governments must award contracts to the lowest responsible bidder through an informal bid process that considers quality, performance, circulation, and cost.

House2025-03-27

H542Introduced

Child Care Mental & Behavioral Services/Funds

This bill appropriates $7.5 million per year for fiscal years 2025-2027 from the ARPA Temporary Savings Fund to the North Carolina Partnership for Children to expand mental and behavioral health services for children, families, and staff in child care facilities and after-school programs. The bill also establishes a special fund to hold and manage these allocations, allowing unspent funds to carry over year to year rather than revert to the state.

House2025-03-27

H544Introduced

Tax Credit for Rehab. Corp. Campus

This bill creates a state tax credit equal to 40% of qualified rehabilitation expenditures for companies that restore historic corporate campuses in North Carolina. To qualify, a project must involve at least $10 million in rehab spending on a historic structure that was formerly a corporate headquarters, sits on at least 20 acres, has been mostly vacant for two years, and is subject to a preservation agreement.

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

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

H134Engrossed

Prohibit Misbranding of Certain Food Products

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

House2025-03-26

H505Introduced

Kayla's Act: Protecting Dom. Violence Victims

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

House2025-03-26

H330Engrossed

Controlled Substances Act - Updates

This bill updates North Carolina's Controlled Substances Act by adding dozens of newly synthesized drugs to the state's Schedule I and Schedule II controlled substance lists. These additions include synthetic opioids (such as U-47700 variants and nitazene derivatives), fentanyl derivatives, synthetic cannabinoids, and other designer drugs, while also making minor corrections to existing drug names in the statute.

House2025-03-26

H511Introduced

Award Magistrates Salary Increases

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

House2025-03-26

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

H470Introduced

The Second Amendment Protection Act

This bill prohibits North Carolina state and local law enforcement officers from enforcing federal firearms laws, regulations, or executive orders within the state's borders. It establishes that violations could result in $50,000 civil penalties and allows citizens to sue for injunctive relief, with limited exceptions for certain serious criminal investigations and interstate cases.

House2025-03-24

H47Passed

Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I

This bill appropriates $524 million from North Carolina's disaster relief fund to help communities recover from Hurricane Helene through programs supporting home reconstruction, agricultural losses, private road repairs, and small business infrastructure. It also extends regulatory flexibilities for disaster recovery activities through June 30, 2025, and requires detailed reporting on fund usage.

House2025-03-20

H186Engrossed

The Stars and Stripes Commitment Act

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

House2025-03-20

H95Engrossed

Threaten Elected Official/Increase Punishment

This bill increases criminal penalties for assaulting or threatening elected officials (including state executives, legislators, judges, and local elected officials) by moving offenses to more serious felony classifications. It also requires that pretrial release decisions for these offenses be made by a judge rather than a magistrate, with judges able to impose specific conditions like stay-away orders.

House2025-03-20

H430Introduced

Protect Youth From Harms of Vaping & Nicotine

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

House2025-03-20

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

H400Introduced

Bentley's Law

Bentley's Law requires courts to order defendants convicted of felony death by vehicle offenses to pay child support restitution to the minor children of the victim until age 18 and high school graduation. The court determines the restitution amount based on factors like the child's financial needs, the surviving parent's resources, and the child's standard of living.

House2025-03-19

H425Introduced

Protect Youth From Harms of Vaping & Nicotine

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

House2025-03-19

H431Introduced

Preventing Deed Fraud

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

House2025-03-19

H28Engrossed

Gun Violence Prevention Act

This bill creates three new criminal offenses for people with prior felony convictions who illegally possess firearms or weapons of mass death and destruction while committing other felonies. The offenses carry increasingly severe penalties depending on whether the person merely possesses the weapon, brandishes it, or discharges it during the commission of a felony.

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

H237Introduced

Child Welfare

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's child welfare laws, including shortening timelines for permanency planning (one year instead of reasonable time), establishing rules for a Regional Abuse and Medical Specialist program, requiring training for social services board members, and creating a private cause of action against the Department of Health and Human Services for operating programs without proper rulemaking procedures.

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

H411Introduced

Reduce Early Voting Period for Primaries

This bill reduces the early voting period for primary elections, runoff elections, and special elections from 17 days to 6 days, while keeping the early voting period for general elections unchanged. The bill also applies the 6-day early voting limit to municipal elections and special elections not held at regular times.

House2025-03-18

H408Introduced

Fort Fisher Capital Improvements Funds

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

House2025-03-18

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

H182Engrossed

Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse

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

House2025-03-17

H62Introduced

Farmers Protection Act

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

House2025-03-17

H383Introduced

Augment Subcontractor Protections

This bill strengthens protections for subcontractors in North Carolina construction projects by making 'pay if paid' and 'pay when paid' clauses unenforceable, requiring contractors to pay subcontractors within 7-30 days of receiving payment themselves, and imposing 1% monthly interest on late payments. The bill does not apply to residential construction projects with 12 or fewer units.

House2025-03-13

H387Introduced

Eliminate Tax on Gov't Retirees

This bill makes retirement income from North Carolina state government, local government, and federal government retirement plans exempt from North Carolina state income tax. The exemption applies to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.

House2025-03-13

H380Introduced

Conscientious Objections to Vaccine Mandates

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

House2025-03-13

H375Introduced

AI/Ban Deceptive Ads

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

House2025-03-13

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

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

H52Engrossed

Protect Those Who Serve & Protect Act of 2025

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

House2025-03-12

H43Engrossed

Designate State Balloon Rally

This bill designates the Carolina BalloonFest, an annual hot air balloon festival held in Statesville each October, as North Carolina's official state balloon rally. The festival, which has been running since 1974, is the second-oldest hot air balloon festival in the United States.

House2025-03-12

H100Introduced

Expand Religious Property Tax Exemption

This bill expands the property tax exemption for religious organizations by allowing them to hold undeveloped land tax-free for up to five years if they plan to use it for religious purposes. The exemption applies to land that does not exceed 200% of the organization's currently exempt property, and the organization must certify within five years that it will begin using or developing the land for religious purposes.

House2025-03-12

H137Introduced

Gabe Torres Act

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

House2025-03-12

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

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

H314Introduced

Removal of Squatters from Private Property

This bill creates a faster legal process for property owners to remove squatters (unauthorized persons) from residential property in North Carolina. Property owners can file a sworn affidavit with a clerk of court or magistrate for a $25 fee, and law enforcement must remove the unauthorized person within 24 hours if conditions are met.

House2025-03-10

H334Introduced

GSC Unif. Community Prop. Disp. at Death Act

This bill enacts the Uniform Community Property Disposition at Death Act in North Carolina, which clarifies how community property acquired in other states is handled when a spouse dies. It establishes that the surviving spouse automatically receives half of community property without going through probate, while the deceased spouse's half can be distributed through their will or estate.

House2025-03-10

H299Introduced

Increase Disabled Veteran Prop Tax Benefit

This bill increases the property tax homestead exclusion for disabled veterans in North Carolina from $45,000 to $54,000 in appraised home value. This means disabled veterans would pay property taxes on a smaller portion of their home's value, resulting in lower annual property tax bills.

House2025-03-06

H296Introduced

Corn Farmer Recovery Act - Phase I

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

House2025-03-06

H310Introduced

Eminent Domain

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to restrict eminent domain (government power to take private property) to only situations of genuine public use, and to guarantee that property owners can request a jury to determine fair compensation. The bill also updates state law to align with this stricter standard.

House2025-03-06

H49Introduced

Filial Debt Fairness Act

This bill clarifies North Carolina's existing filial responsibility law by explicitly stating that adult children cannot be held liable for debts their parents incur. The law maintains requirements that adult children with sufficient income support aging parents who are sick or unable to work, but adds protection against being forced to pay their parents' contracted debts.

House2025-03-06

H280Introduced

Support for the Senior Tar Heel Legislature

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

House2025-03-05

H29Introduced

Use Tribal ID for Alcohol & Tobacco Purchase

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

House2025-03-04

H142Introduced

Implement Zero-Based Budgeting

This bill requires North Carolina to transition to zero-based budgeting for state agencies, starting with a phased implementation beginning in fiscal year 2027-2028 and completing by the 2031-2033 fiscal biennium. Under zero-based budgeting, agencies must justify all spending from scratch each budget cycle rather than starting from their previous year's budget amount.

House2025-03-04

H222Introduced

C.O.O.P.E.R. Accountability Act

This bill appropriates $217 million for disaster recovery from Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, establishes detailed monthly reporting requirements to the legislature and State Auditor on how these funds are spent, creates a public dashboard comparing appropriated versus expended funds, and requires that recipients of state disaster aid attempt to obtain insurance settlements and federal aid first, with any alternative funds obtained being returned to the state.

House2025-03-04

H239Introduced

Change to EC Funding Formula

This bill modifies how North Carolina distributes state funding for educating children with disabilities. It changes the funding formula to include students who receive education scholarship grants (such as education savings accounts) when calculating how much money each school district receives, and appropriates an additional $25 million in state funding for this purpose starting in the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-03-03

H157Passed

State of the State Invitation

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

House2025-02-27

H234Introduced

Little Federal Model NC Edition

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to change how North Carolina state senators are elected and organized. Specifically, it would require each senator to represent exactly two counties instead of representing districts based on equal population, and it would lock the state at 100 counties. The amendment would need voter approval in November 2026.

House2025-02-27

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

H229Introduced

Medicaid Rates/Ambulatory Surgical Centers

This bill requires North Carolina's Medicaid program to reimburse ambulatory surgical centers (outpatient surgery facilities) at rates of at least 95% of what Medicare pays for the same services. The state will spend $10.5 million annually to fund this increase, which will draw down $19.1 million in federal matching funds.

House2025-02-27

H44Engrossed

GSC Electronic Signatures

This bill clarifies that electronic signatures are acceptable for business contracts with reciprocal attorneys' fees provisions in North Carolina, provided the electronic signature comes from an affirmative action by the party (such as typing or writing their name on a touchscreen). The bill also updates notary public application procedures to allow electronic submission of signatures while requiring the initial application signature to be written in pen and ink.

House2025-02-27

H230Introduced

Create Crime for Habitual Domestic Violence

This bill creates a new felony crime called 'habitual domestic violence' for people with two or more prior domestic violence convictions within 15 years, with penalties starting at Class H felony and increasing for repeat offenses. It also allows police officers to make warrantless arrests when they have probable cause to believe a misdemeanor domestic violence offense has occurred.

House2025-02-27

H197Introduced

Local Communicable Disease Programs/Funds

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

House2025-02-26

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

H45Introduced

GSC Moral Turpitude/Occupational Licensure

This bill clarifies and standardizes how North Carolina licensing boards consider criminal histories when deciding whether to grant, deny, or revoke professional licenses. It prohibits boards from automatically denying licenses based solely on convictions for crimes of 'moral turpitude' and instead requires boards to evaluate specific factors like the crime's seriousness, when it occurred, rehabilitation efforts, and how directly it relates to the licensed profession. The bill also adds transparency requirements, gives applicants advance notice of potential issues, and allows people with criminal histories to request advance guidance before completing training.

House2025-02-26

H177Introduced

Reduce Barriers to State Employment

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

House2025-02-25

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

H33Introduced

SchCalFlex/Yadkin, Davie/CC

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

House2025-02-24

H30Introduced

SchCalFlex/WS-F,Stokes,Davdsn/Aug11 & Assmnts

This bill gives Winston-Salem/Forsyth, Stokes, and Davidson County Schools more flexibility in setting school calendars by allowing them to start the school year as early as the Monday closest to August 11 (instead of August 26) and permits assessments to be given before the fall semester ends if schools use an early-closing fall calendar.

House2025-02-24

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

H127Introduced

Voter Registration Drive Form

This bill requires the North Carolina State Board of Elections to create a special sample form for organized voter registration drives that is visually distinct from official registration applications. The sample form would provide information about where to obtain official applications, registration deadlines, and election dates, but would not allow people to fill in personal information. Organizations conducting registration drives must register with their county board of elections and use only this sample form, not official application forms.

House2025-02-24

H164Introduced

Parental Consent to Release Child Autopsies

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

House2025-02-24

H159Introduced

Orphan Roads Maintenance Program Grant

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

House2025-02-24

H51Introduced

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

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

House2025-02-24

H145Introduced

Funds for Diabetes Research Institute/UNC-CH

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

House2025-02-21

H154Introduced

Reclaim State Assets from NCInnovation

This bill would dissolve the state's relationship with NCInnovation and require the organization to return all state funds and assets back to North Carolina. The returned funds would be deposited into the state's General Fund and would remain unspent unless the General Assembly appropriates them in a future bill.

House2025-02-21

H128Introduced

Establish Prostate Cancer Control Program

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

House2025-02-17

H72Introduced

AG/Restrict Challenge to Presidential EOs

This bill would restrict North Carolina's Attorney General from participating in lawsuits in other states if those lawsuits seek to overturn executive orders issued by the President of the United States. The restriction applies whether the Attorney General acts as a party to the case, files a friend-of-the-court brief, or participates in any other capacity.

House2025-02-17

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

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

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

H86Introduced

Citizens' Expungement Clarification of 2025

This bill prohibits people who are not legal residents or citizens of the United States from obtaining expungements (removal of criminal records). It requires courts to verify a petitioner's citizenship or legal residency status before granting an expungement, including contacting Immigration and Customs Enforcement if needed. The bill exempts people who lawfully entered the U.S. and have filed or have had an immigrant petition filed on their behalf.

House2025-02-11

H75Introduced

Pharmaceutical Full Disclosure Act

This bill requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to include specific information in advertisements for prescription drugs and biological products shown to North Carolina consumers. The required disclosures include the FDA approval date, the date the drug became available for purchase, and detailed information about clinical trials related to any required side effect warnings, such as trial length, number of participants, and frequency of side effects.

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

H65Introduced

Sigma Gamma Rho Special Registration Plate

This bill authorizes North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue a special registration plate for Sigma Gamma Rho sorority members. The plate would display the sorority's symbol, name, and the phrase 'Greater Service, Greater Progress.'

House2025-02-06

H61Introduced

Assaults on First Responders

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

House2025-02-06

H64Introduced

Const. Amend. – Gubernatorial Clemency

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require the North Carolina Governor to get approval from a majority of both houses of the General Assembly before granting clemency (pardons, commutations, or reprieves). Currently, the Governor can grant clemency without legislative approval. The amendment would be submitted to voters in November 2026.

House2025-02-06

H66Introduced

Reduce Early Voting Period

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

House2025-02-06

H46Introduced

Make Healthcare Affordable

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

House2025-02-05

H55Introduced

Funds for the IGNITE Program

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

House2025-02-05

H54Introduced

Funds for NC APSE

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

House2025-02-05

H36Introduced

Maintenance of State Veterans Cemeteries

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

House2025-02-04

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Sponsored Bills (31)

Various Local Provisions XI

DPS/Other Changes

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

Protect Taxpayers and Local Governments

HOA Oversight Act

Patriotic Youth Group Access

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

RURAL Care Act

Datacenter Transparency Act

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

Improve Cable Service Complaint Resolutions

Revise Law on the Death Penalty

Baby Boxes/Newborn Safety Device

Sent. Enhancement/Immigration-Related Crimes

Allow Concealed Carry of Knife

The Kelsey Smith Act

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

CCW Permit/No Records Provided

Removal of Precinct Officials

Equit. Escalation of Electricity Demand Act

General Assembly: In God We Trust - Display

Remember 9/11 with Freedom Flag

Repeal Certificate of Need Laws

Add Member to NC Training Standards Commiss

NC Am. Indian Hunting/Fishing Rights

Strengthen Our Tribal Communities Act

SchCalFlex/Camden/Aug 19

SchCalFlex/Hertford/CC

SchCalFlex/Gates/CC

Energy Security Act of 2025

Disabled Veteran Motor Vehicle Tax Exclusion

Cosponsored Bills (402)

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

Election Law Changes

SBOE Administrative Changes

Budget Technical Corrections Modifications

2026 Budget Technical Corrections - II

Education Omnibus

2026 Criminal Law Changes

Regulate Hemp-Derived Consumables

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

Home-Based Business Fairness Act

Modify Nonprofit Corp. Act/Charitable Org

Ferry Div. Audit/DOT Omnibus

2026 Wildlife Resources Changes

Jaleeyah's Law

Improve IVC Process and Enhance Public Safety

Voluntary Portable Benefits Plan Act

Recognition of the Tuscarora

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

ABC Omnibus of 2026

Strengthen Medicaid Provider Controls

Various Local Election Changes III

Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on DEI

Robocall Solicitation Modifications

Social Media & AI Safety

Prohibit Litigation Invest/Amend WC Benefits

Physical Therapy Practice Act Mods

Worker Safety Act of 2026

Revise Child Passenger Restraint Systems Law

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

Make E-Verify Great Again

NCDOT STI Study Recommendation

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

US Department of Edu

Remote Instruction for Excess Emergencies

Child and Family Welfare Ombudsman Office

Affordable Housing Exemption Mods

Const. Amend. Property Tax Levy Limit

Const. Amendment: Council of State Vacancies

Elect SBE/Superintendent as SBE Chair

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

Prescription Drug Expenses Tax Deduction

Child Care Initiative Funds/Reform/Study

Limit Medicaid Reimb. for Facility Fees

Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan Practices