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Truth in Taxation

This bill requires local governments to follow specific notification and public hearing procedures before adopting a property tax rate that exceeds the 'revenue-neutral rate' (the rate that would generate the same total revenue as the previous year despite property reappraisals) during reappraisal years. The bill also increases the late reinstatement fee for real estate appraiser trainees and clarifies that tax refunds can be issued when governments fail to follow these procedures.

Senate2026-07-01

S153Passed

North Carolina Border Protection Act

This bill requires North Carolina state law enforcement agencies to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, restricts state-funded benefits and housing assistance to legally authorized residents, verifies immigration status for unemployment benefits, removes liability protections for local governments that adopt sanctuary policies, and prohibits UNC universities from limiting immigration law enforcement on campus.

Senate2026-06-24

S394Engrossed

Prohibit Foreign Ownership of NC Land

This bill prohibits entities from adversarial foreign governments (as defined by federal arms regulations) from purchasing, leasing, or holding agricultural land or property within 50 miles of North Carolina military installations. Entities that owned such land before the law takes effect must register with the Secretary of State and cannot buy additional land. Those acquiring such land after the effective date must divest within one year, or face civil penalties and forced sale through court receivership.

Senate2026-06-09

S1006Introduced

K-12 Innovation and Transformation Act

This bill makes significant changes to K-12 education in North Carolina by establishing new commissions and programs to redesign high schools, expanding advanced teaching roles and teacher apprenticeships, creating competency-based education pathways, and implementing various student support and teacher development initiatives. The bill appropriates millions in state funding for these programs and grants schools new flexibilities in how they operate.

Senate2026-06-03

S1007Introduced

Human Trafficking Omnibus

This bill creates a new statewide human trafficking reporting and response system allowing the public and professionals to report suspected trafficking through multiple channels with AI-assisted analysis and real-time routing to law enforcement. It also imposes a 10% excise tax on materials deemed harmful to minors sold at physical retail locations, with proceeds funding anti-trafficking efforts and domestic violence services, while making technical clarifications about employee training requirements and government device usage.

Senate2026-06-02

S1080Passed

Lower Taxes for All NC

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would lower North Carolina's maximum income tax rate from 7% to 3.5%. The amendment would be submitted to voters in the November 2026 election, and if approved, would take effect for tax years beginning January 1, 2027.

Senate2026-05-21

S1082Engrossed

NC Right to Work Amendment

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would protect workers' rights to employment without being required to join or pay dues to labor unions. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would establish as state policy that employment cannot be denied based on union membership or non-membership.

Senate2026-05-20

S1081Introduced

Constitutional Right to Farm

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would add a new section to the North Carolina Constitution explicitly protecting the right of people to engage in farming and forestry activities, including crop cultivation, livestock raising, dairy and apiary production, and timber harvesting. The amendment would be subject to voter approval in the November 2026 general election.

Senate2026-05-18

S1010Introduced

FUTURE NC Infrastructure Act

This bill establishes the North Carolina Infrastructure Investment Commission, a 10-member advisory body tasked with developing a comprehensive 20-year statewide infrastructure plan covering transportation, water, utilities, and resiliency needs. The Commission will evaluate infrastructure priorities and recommend funding strategies, then dissolve after submitting its final plan by March 31, 2028.

Senate2026-05-18

S316Engrossed

Lower Healthcare Costs

This bill increases healthcare price transparency and protects consumers from unexpected medical bills by requiring hospitals to publicly disclose pricing for common procedures, mandating advance notice of out-of-network providers, limiting facility fees, and establishing good-faith cost estimates for scheduled procedures. It also strengthens insurance appeals processes and removes requirements for certificate-of-need approval for rehabilitation facilities.

Senate2026-05-06

S996Introduced

North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission

This bill creates a seven-member North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission to encourage bilateral trade, investment, and cultural exchanges between North Carolina and Ireland. The commission will be administratively housed in the Department of Commerce, meet at least twice yearly, and submit annual reports to the General Assembly. The state will appropriate $10,000 in nonrecurring funds to support the commission's administrative operations.

Senate2026-05-04

S994Introduced

Early Voting Procedures at Fire Stations

This bill requires county boards of elections to implement specific procedures when early voting takes place at fire stations. These procedures include providing traffic control, security, phone support for voters, clear signage, liability protection for fire stations, and ensuring the fire station's normal emergency services are not disrupted.

Senate2026-05-04

S955Introduced

Permit Self-Defense Devices on College Campus

This bill allows people age 18 and older to carry self-defense devices such as pepper spray, tasers, mace, and ordinary pocket knives on North Carolina college and university campuses. It also provides $10,000 in funding to publicize this change to students, staff, and the public.

Senate2026-05-04

S916Introduced

2026 Appropriations Act

This bill authorizes spending from North Carolina's General Fund, Highway Fund, Highway Trust Fund, and federal block grant funds to pay for the normal operations of state agencies, departments, and institutions during the 2026-2027 fiscal year. The bill sets maximum spending amounts and allows any unspent money to be returned to the appropriate fund at year's end.

Senate2026-04-30

S851Introduced

America's Semiquincentennial License Plate

This bill authorizes North Carolina's Division of Motor Vehicles to create and issue a special license plate commemorating America's 250th anniversary (semiquincentennial), featuring the phrase 'America 250' and related imagery. Vehicle owners would be able to voluntarily purchase this plate if they choose to.

Senate2026-04-29

S870Introduced

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

This bill appropriates $3 million in state funding for fiscal year 2026-2027 to provide free hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) treatment to North Carolina veterans diagnosed with traumatic brain injury (TBI) or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The funding will be directed to a nonprofit called HBOT 4 HEROES to deliver an estimated 15,000 treatments to approximately 350 veterans, with program oversight and outcome reporting required.

Senate2026-04-29

S50Vetoed

Freedom to Carry NC

This bill allows North Carolina citizens age 18 and older to carry concealed handguns without a permit, while still offering optional permits for reciprocity when traveling to other states. The bill maintains restrictions for people ineligible to possess firearms (such as convicted felons, domestic violence offenders, and those adjudicated mentally ill), increases line-of-duty death benefits for law enforcement families from $100,000 to $150,000, enhances penalties for assaulting emergency and law enforcement personnel, creates new felony charges for felons possessing or discharging firearms during felonies, and establishes a scholarship program for children of permanently disabled or killed law enforcement and first responder officers.

Senate2026-04-06

S55Passed

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

This bill creates an expedited court process for property owners to remove people occupying residential property without legal authorization, such as unpaid squatters. The process requires a court hearing within 48 hours of filing, and if the property owner wins, the unauthorized person must vacate within 4 hours of the court order.

Senate2025-08-06

S479Passed

SCRIPT Act

The SCRIPT Act is comprehensive pharmacy legislation with multiple parts that regulate pharmacy benefits managers (PBMs), require transparency in drug pricing and rebates, establish pharmacy of choice protections, create licensing requirements for pharmacy service organizations, strengthen pharmacy audit protections, and require consumers receive benefits from prescription drug rebates. The law takes effect gradually between October 2025 and January 2027.

Senate2025-07-09

S295Passed

Clarify Motor Vehicle Dealer Laws

This bill strengthens protections for motor vehicle dealers in North Carolina by restricting manufacturers' ability to reject dealership ownership transfers, terminating franchises, or imposing unreasonable conditions. It also requires manufacturers to compensate dealers for over-the-air product sales, warranty work, loaner vehicles, and unsold inventory during franchise terminations, and clarifies definitions related to vehicle sales and dealer succession.

Senate2025-07-01

S124Passed

State Hiring Accessibility and Modernization

This bill modernizes North Carolina's state hiring system by reducing educational barriers to state jobs, streamlining job applications, simplifying job postings, and giving state agencies more flexibility in recruiting, hiring, and compensating employees. It also allows agencies to hire temporary employees permanently and rehire qualified candidates from previous postings without reposting positions.

Senate2025-07-01

S402Engrossed

Allow Lottery Winners To Be Confidential

This bill allows North Carolina lottery winners who win $5 million or more to request that their identity be kept confidential for 90 days after claiming their prize. The winner's name and identifying information would be protected from public disclosure during this period, though certain government agencies (like the IRS and state tax authorities) and debt collection programs would still have access as required by law.

Senate2025-06-24

S223Engrossed

Expand Academic Trans. Pathways/Sophomore HS

This bill expands academic transition pathways for sophomore high school students to include career technical education programs in five specific fields: industrial and engineering technologies, agriculture and natural resources, transportation technology, construction, and business technologies. It also allows qualified freshman and sophomore students to pursue college transfer pathways if they meet academic requirements and receive proper consent and advising.

Senate2025-06-05

S336Introduced

Interstate Med.l Lic. Comp./Intern'l Phys

This bill creates an Interstate Medical Licensure Compact allowing doctors to obtain expedited licenses in multiple states through a streamlined process, and establishes a new "internationally-trained physician employee license" for foreign-trained doctors to work at North Carolina hospitals or rural medical practices. The compact requires doctors to meet strict eligibility standards and allows state medical boards to share disciplinary information and coordinate enforcement.

Senate2025-05-07

S207Engrossed

Litter Law/Rebuttable Presumption

This bill creates a legal presumption that a person littered if litter is found bearing their name on documents or objects such as bank statements, utility bills, or prescription bottles. The presumption can be challenged in court, and the bill excludes advertising and campaign materials from triggering this presumption.

Senate2025-05-06

S754Engrossed

School Calendar Flexibility:A New Alternative

This bill provides North Carolina local school boards with flexibility in setting school start and end dates while establishing enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance. It allows boards to choose between two calendar options (starting no earlier than August 26 or August 19) and creates reporting requirements, state oversight procedures, and allows private citizens to sue school boards for calendar violations.

Senate2025-05-05

S508Introduced

LL to CPL/Apprenticeship Program

This bill creates a Teacher Apprenticeship Program that allows people with bachelor's degrees to work as paid apprentices in classrooms while earning teaching credentials, removes the exam requirement for converting limited teaching licenses to continuing professional licenses for teachers with positive student growth data, and directs university and community college systems to develop an expedited pathway for high school students to enter teaching.

Senate2025-04-09

S63Introduced

Board of Motor Vehicles/Authority Study

This bill creates a 9-member Board of Motor Vehicles to appoint and oversee the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, replacing the current system where the Secretary of Transportation directly appoints the Commissioner. It also directs the Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of creating an independent Motor Vehicle Authority to potentially replace the Division of Motor Vehicles entirely, with findings due by January 1, 2026.

Senate2025-04-07

S97Introduced

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

This bill adds stomach cancer to the list of cancers presumed to be occupationally related to firefighting under North Carolina's Public Safety Employees' Death Benefits Act. When a firefighter dies from stomach cancer, their death will be legally presumed to have occurred in the line of duty, making their family eligible for death benefits. The bill allocates $500,000 annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal period to cover these benefits.

Senate2025-04-01

S504Introduced

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

This bill prohibits foreign governments designated as adversarial by the U.S. State Department from purchasing, leasing, or holding interests in North Carolina agricultural land and land within a 75-mile radius of military installations. Any such transactions would be declared void under the law.

Senate2025-03-26

S701Introduced

Bring Back Our Heroes

This bill allows North Carolina law enforcement officers to receive retirement benefits while continuing to work, and provides special separation allowances for officers with at least 30 years of service. Officers age 59.5 or older can begin collecting retirement while still employed, and retired officers can return to law enforcement work while continuing their retirement payments. These provisions expire December 31, 2029, unless renewed.

Senate2025-03-26

S333Introduced

Prohibit Illegal Accreditation Requirements

This bill prohibits UNC constituent institutions and community colleges from violating state or federal law in order to comply with requirements from accrediting agencies. It allows exceptions for specific professional programs like law, pharmacy, and engineering that have their own accreditation standards.

Senate2025-03-20

S315Introduced

More Transparency/Efficiency in Utiliz. Rev

This bill increases transparency and efficiency in health insurance utilization reviews—the process insurers use to approve or deny medical services. It sets faster approval timelines (24 hours for urgent care, 3 business days for non-urgent), requires clearer notification to patients and doctors, mandates that qualified medical professionals (not just algorithms) make decisions, and requires insurers to disclose their prior authorization requirements on websites and membership cards.

Senate2025-03-18

S261Engrossed

Energy Security and Affordability Act

This bill modifies North Carolina's carbon reduction requirements for electric utilities by removing an interim 2030 target and keeping only the 2050 carbon neutrality goal. It also creates a new cost recovery mechanism allowing utilities to increase rates outside standard proceedings for baseload power plant construction costs, if the project shows long-term savings for customers.

Senate2025-03-18

S226Introduced

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

This bill expands death benefits for firefighters who die from cancer by including any cancer that qualified them for the state's Firefighters' Cancer Insurance Program in the definition of deaths 'killed in the line of duty.' It also makes the cancer insurance program permanent and allocates $2 million annually for related death benefits.

Senate2025-03-17

S264Introduced

Flags at Every School

This bill requires all public schools in North Carolina—including traditional public schools, charter schools, and university-operated schools—to display U.S. and North Carolina flags on school grounds and in every classroom. It also requires schools to schedule daily Pledge of Allegiance recitations and teach students about the flag's meaning and history. The bill provides $1 million in funding for the 2025-2026 school year and $100,000 annually after that to help schools purchase flags.

Senate2025-03-12

S259Introduced

School Psychologist Omnibus

This bill increases pay for school psychologists, creates grant and internship programs to recruit and train more of them, funds university training programs, and establishes an interstate compact allowing school psychologists licensed in one state to practice in other member states more easily.

Senate2025-03-11

S126Introduced

Zero-Based Budgeting

This bill requires North Carolina state agencies to use zero-based budgeting on a rotating schedule, starting in 2025. Under this approach, agencies must justify all spending from scratch rather than basing budgets on previous years' appropriations, and must document the costs, outcomes, and necessity of each activity they perform.

Senate2025-02-24

S24Engrossed

Govt Mandates Increase Healthcare Costs

This bill requires that any new state legislation creating health insurance mandates (such as requiring coverage of specific treatments or services) must also repeal an equal number of existing mandates and appropriate funds to cover the new mandate's cost. It applies to both private health insurance plans and the state employee health plan, with an exception if an actuarial analysis shows a mandate would actually decrease costs.

Senate2025-02-17

S86Introduced

Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation

This bill increases pension benefits for North Carolina firefighters and rescue squad workers from $180 to $175 per month (effective January 1, 2026), clarifies payment procedures for pension contributions, and adds representation from the North Carolina State Firefighters' Association to the Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council.

Senate2025-02-13

S71Introduced

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

This bill creates a new legal process allowing property owners to request law enforcement remove people from their residential property who are occupying it without permission, without a lease, and without paying rent. The property owner files a sworn affidavit with a clerk of court or magistrate, and law enforcement must remove the person within 24 hours.

Senate2025-02-12

S56Introduced

Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I

This bill establishes the legal framework for the Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part I, which addresses recovery efforts in North Carolina counties affected by Hurricane Helene following a presidential major disaster declaration. The bill expresses the General Assembly's intent to transfer funds from the State Emergency Response and Disaster Relief Fund (SERDRF) to the Hurricane Helene Disaster Recovery Fund to support relief and recovery assistance.

Senate2025-02-06

Brad Overcash

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Sponsored Bills (35)

Charitable Orgs. Privacy Protection Act

Required Disclosures/Proxy Advisory Services

Eliminating "DEI" in Public Higher Ed

Eliminating "DEI" in Public Education

Dominique Moody Act

Post-Election Audits by State Auditor

Reduce Early Voting Period

Students First Act

Community College Workforce Readiness Act

DIGITAL NC Act

Continuing Budget Operations Part IV

Harrison's Law

NCCCS LMS/NCLDS

Extend Certain Rights to Catawba Nation

Accounting Workforce Development Act

School Contracted Health Services

Property Tax Modifications

Recognizing South Fork Passage State Trail

Land Use Clarification and Changes

Auto Enrollment in Advanced ELA Courses

ATR Salary Sups and Grant Increases

Women's Safety and Protection Act

AI Academic Support Grant Program

2025 Charter Schools Review Board Omnibus

Safe Parks & Public Spaces Act

NC Debt Settlement Services Act

Augment Agency Appeal Rights

Revive High-Need Retired Teachers Program

Expand Certain APA Standing Provisions

Vaccination Schedule Variance/Minors

Increase Funding to State Auditor

NC Bitcoin Reserve and Investment Act

Buy American Steel

Protect Campus Survivors Act

43rd Senatorial District Local Act-1

Cosponsored Bills (45)

Clarify Disp. Place Analysis/IOLTA

Adjust Counties/Reappraisal Moratorium

Public Workforce Modernization Act

Truth in Taxation

North Carolina Border Protection Act

Prohibit Foreign Ownership of NC Land

K-12 Innovation and Transformation Act

Human Trafficking Omnibus

Lower Taxes for All NC

NC Right to Work Amendment

Constitutional Right to Farm

FUTURE NC Infrastructure Act

Lower Healthcare Costs

North Carolina-Ireland Trade Commission

Early Voting Procedures at Fire Stations

Permit Self-Defense Devices on College Campus

2026 Appropriations Act

America's Semiquincentennial License Plate

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

Freedom to Carry NC

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

SCRIPT Act

Clarify Motor Vehicle Dealer Laws

State Hiring Accessibility and Modernization

Allow Lottery Winners To Be Confidential

Expand Academic Trans. Pathways/Sophomore HS

Interstate Med.l Lic. Comp./Intern'l Phys

Litter Law/Rebuttable Presumption

School Calendar Flexibility:A New Alternative

LL to CPL/Apprenticeship Program

Board of Motor Vehicles/Authority Study

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

Bring Back Our Heroes

Prohibit Illegal Accreditation Requirements

More Transparency/Efficiency in Utiliz. Rev

Energy Security and Affordability Act

Align Benefits for Firefighters with Cancer

Flags at Every School

School Psychologist Omnibus

Zero-Based Budgeting