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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

H56Passed

2026 Budget Technical Corrections

This bill appropriates $46,375,508 in recurring state funds annually for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to North Carolina's public universities to help cover costs associated with increased student enrollment at UNC constituent institutions.

House2026-07-07

H162Passed

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

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

House2026-07-07

H1121Introduced

Added Fee for Sexually Oriented Businesses

This bill imposes a $10 fee per customer entry at sexually oriented businesses that serve alcohol in North Carolina. The fees would be collected quarterly by businesses and deposited into the Sexual Assault and Rape Crisis Center Fund to support sexual assault services.

House2026-06-30

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

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

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

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

H1123Passed

UNC Omnibus & Capital Contracting Law Changes

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

House2026-06-19

H1029Engrossed

NC Digital Asset and Stablecoin Act

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

House2026-06-11

H1214Introduced

Make E-Verify Great Again

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

House2026-06-10

H1203Introduced

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

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

House2026-06-10

H1199Introduced

The Seatbelt Act

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

House2026-06-09

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

H1218Engrossed

Navigable Waters/Pine Knoll Shores

This bill gives the Town of Pine Knoll Shores authority to place and maintain navigation markers and aids in local waterways (canals and Bogue Sound) according to federal standards. The town must notify the U.S. Coast Guard and Army Corps of Engineers at least six weeks before placing any markers, and state or federal rules take precedence over local ordinances if there is a conflict.

House2026-06-03

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

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

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

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

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

H1110Introduced

Early Intervention School Attendance Pilot

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

House2026-05-19

H1019Engrossed

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

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

House2026-05-18

H1154Introduced

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

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

House2026-05-13

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

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

H1231Introduced

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

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

House2026-05-12

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

H1118Introduced

Workforce Housing Loan Renewal Act

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

House2026-04-30

H1111Introduced

Military Service Buyback Reduction: Teachers

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

House2026-04-30

H1081Introduced

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

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

House2026-04-30

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

H775Engrossed

Criminal History Checks for School Positions

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

House2025-09-25

H118Introduced

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

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

House2025-09-23

H42Engrossed

Back the Blue Pay Act

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

House2025-09-22

H192Engrossed

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

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

House2025-09-22

H305Passed

Guilford County Sales Tax Distribution Mods

This bill applies only to Guilford County and makes two main changes: (1) it allows certain small municipalities that don't collect property taxes to receive a share of local sales tax revenue, and (2) it authorizes a quarter-cent sales tax to fund classroom teacher salary supplements, fire protection equipment, and Guilford Technical Community College, with revenues also available for municipal public purposes.

House2025-07-31

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

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

H559Passed

Elevators/Interim Code Council Appt.-AB

This bill increases inspection fees for elevators, amusement devices, and ski lift equipment in North Carolina, and allows these fees to adjust annually based on inflation. It also authorizes the Department of Labor to develop an apprenticeship program for elevator inspectors and expands the timeframe for interim appointments to the Building Code Council and Residential Code Council.

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

H762Passed

Modernize NC S.A.F.E. Act/2d Mortgage Fee Act

This bill modernizes North Carolina's mortgage lending laws by updating definitions, requirements, and procedures in the state's S.A.F.E. Mortgage Licensing Act, and modifies the maximum fees lenders can charge on second or junior mortgage loans to align with federal qualified mortgage standards. The changes include streamlining licensing procedures, clarifying regulatory authority, and allowing slightly higher fee caps on certain junior lien loans while maintaining consumer protections.

House2025-07-01

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

H421Passed

Motor Vehicle Dealers

This bill makes three changes to North Carolina motor vehicle dealer regulations: it extends the grace period for license renewal from 30 days to 60 days after expiration, changes dealer license plate validity from one year to two years to match dealer license renewal cycles, and extends the mandatory replacement period for dealer plates from three years to four years.

House2025-06-26

H247Passed

Underground Safety Revisions

This bill updates North Carolina's underground utility safety laws by clarifying definitions, extending notification timelines, expanding safe excavation methods, and revising the enforcement process through the Underground Damage Prevention Review Board. It introduces soft dig technologies (air and water pressure excavation), adjusts work notice periods from 3-12 days to a minimum of 3 days with a 28-calendar-day validity period, and modifies liability protections and penalty procedures for violations.

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

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

H373Passed

UNC Tuition Discounts for Certain Students

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

House2025-06-26

H348Introduced

Annexation of PUV Land/School Capacity

This bill requires cities in counties with 150,000+ residents to get county approval before annexing agricultural or forest land that has been under present-use value taxation. The approval is needed if the annexation would cause residential zoning that increases school enrollment beyond the county's current capacity. Cities can proceed without county approval if they agree to pay the county for school capacity improvements.

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

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

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

H74Passed

House Budget Technical Corrections

House Bill 74 makes various technical corrections and clarifications to North Carolina's budget and existing laws. It extends deadlines for certain grant spending, adjusts disaster relief programs and agricultural assistance timelines, modifies UNC reporting requirements and employment policies, reallocates water and infrastructure funding between communities, transfers the Missing Persons Center to the State Highway Patrol, updates conservation tax credit rules, and makes other administrative changes across multiple state agencies and programs.

House2025-05-15

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

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

H772Engrossed

North Carolina Student Lifeline Act

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

House2025-05-07

H121Engrossed

SchCalFlex/Statewide/Open Cal

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

House2025-05-07

H364Engrossed

STIP Grant Anticipation Notes

This bill allows local governments in North Carolina to borrow money now against future state transportation funding to accelerate transportation projects that are part of the State Transportation Improvement Program. The borrowed money (through grant anticipation notes) must be repaid once the state funding arrives, and the arrangement requires an agreement with the Department of Transportation.

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

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

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

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

H616Engrossed

Megasites/Selectsites Program Revisions

This bill modifies North Carolina's Megasites and Selectsites economic development programs by expanding the number of selectsites from 15 to 20, adding due diligence funding, including disaster recovery areas (Tropical Storm Helene counties), and consolidating program management under EDPNC. It also clarifies grant limitations, requiring local governments to complete basic due diligence before receiving acquisition funds.

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

H782Engrossed

Civic Club Registration Plate Clarification

This bill clarifies the rules for issuing special registration plates for members of civic organizations like Rotary, Kiwanis, and Lions Club. It specifies that both individual members and the organizations themselves can register vehicles with these plates, and requires a minimum of 300 applications before the Division of Motor Vehicles can issue a new civic club plate design.

House2025-05-07

H765Introduced

Save the American Dream Act

This bill substantially reforms North Carolina's local land development regulations by limiting local government authority over zoning and building standards, accelerating permit approval timelines, and establishing new requirements for water and sewer capacity allocation. It also increases certain stormwater permit fees and mandates specific housing types in larger cities.

House2025-05-06

H976Introduced

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

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

House2025-05-06

H97Engrossed

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

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

House2025-05-05

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

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

H254Engrossed

Adopt Tuskegee Airmen Day

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

House2025-05-01

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

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

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

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

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

H557Engrossed

The Andy Griffith Show as State TV Show

This bill designates 'The Andy Griffith Show' as the official television show of North Carolina. The bill highlights Andy Griffith's birth in Mount Airy, his seven-decade career in entertainment, and the show's 249-episode run from 1960-1968 that became the #1 rated show in America.

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

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

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

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

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

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

H999Introduced

Regulation of Video Gaming Terminals

This bill authorizes and creates a regulated system for video gaming terminals in North Carolina. It establishes licensing requirements for manufacturers, operators, and merchants; sets up a central monitoring system; allocates revenues between the state, operators, and merchants; and creates criminal penalties for unauthorized gaming machines.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H184Engrossed

Promote North Carolina Sawmills

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

House2025-03-20

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H362Introduced

Clean Skies Geoengineering Ban

This bill prohibits North Carolina from intentionally releasing materials into the atmosphere to alter temperature, weather, or sunlight intensity through methods like stratospheric aerosol injection, cloud seeding, or electromagnetic radiation. It adds these practices to the state's list of prohibited air pollution activities and requires the Environmental Management Commission to adopt rules to enforce the ban.

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

H319Introduced

Funds for Hispanic Grassroots

This bill appropriates $500,000 in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to Hispanic Grassroots, a nonprofit organization that provides education and outreach services to Hispanic communities in North Carolina. The funds would support programs including education scholarships, small business assistance, healthcare education, and civics classes.

House2025-03-10

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

H273Introduced

Create/Fund Brushy Mtns. State Natural Area

This bill authorizes the creation of the Brushy Mountains State Natural Area across Alexander, Caldwell, and Wilkes Counties and appropriates $500,000 in state funding for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to purchase land and develop the site. The natural area would be added to North Carolina's State Parks System and could also receive donated land and funding from federal and other sources.

House2025-03-05

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H89Introduced

University Vaccination Freedom Act

This bill removes immunization requirements for students attending North Carolina colleges and universities. It eliminates vaccine documentation rules for higher education institutions while keeping K-12 school requirements unchanged.

House2025-02-11

H61Introduced

Assaults on First Responders

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

House2025-02-06

H66Introduced

Reduce Early Voting Period

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

House2025-02-06

H39Introduced

Disabled Veteran Motor Vehicle Tax Exclusion

This bill excludes motor vehicles owned by veterans with a 100% disability rating from North Carolina property tax. Veterans with this certification from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs would no longer pay property tax on their vehicles starting January 1, 2026.

House2025-02-05

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 (12)

GTCC Aviation Center Expansion

Protect Towers and Truckers Act

Commercial Vehicle & Cargo Protection

School Protection Act

Aggie Academy Learning Lab/Funds

Funds/Greensboro Water and Wastewater

NC Folk Fest and FIFA Funds

Tax Credit for Rehab. Corp. Campus

Birthplace of Am. Independence Special Plate

DMV Materials in Additional Languages

Guilford County Schools Funding Requests

Funds for Greensboro Transit Agency

Cosponsored Bills (141)

Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons

2026 Budget Technical Corrections - II

SBOE Administrative Changes

Regulate Hemp-Derived Consumables

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

2026 Budget Technical Corrections

Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control

Added Fee for Sexually Oriented Businesses

ABC Omnibus of 2026

Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on DEI

Social Media & AI Safety

Worker Safety Act of 2026

UNC Omnibus & Capital Contracting Law Changes

NC Digital Asset and Stablecoin Act

Make E-Verify Great Again

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

The Seatbelt Act

NCDOT STI Study Recommendation

Navigable Waters/Pine Knoll Shores

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

Remote Instruction for Excess Emergencies

US Department of Edu

Child and Family Welfare Ombudsman Office

Affordable Housing Exemption Mods

Const. Amend. Property Tax Levy Limit

Elect SBE/Superintendent as SBE Chair

Early Intervention School Attendance Pilot

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

Prescription Drug Expenses Tax Deduction

SFRF/NCPRO Revisions

No Voter Registration Changes At DMV

Equipping Law Enf. for Better Drug Detection

Workforce Housing Loan Renewal Act

Military Service Buyback Reduction: Teachers

Funds for Veterans/HBOT

CHCCS Act

Repeal Two Percent Local Grocery Tax

PESA Class Aides & Child. Wartime Vets Funds

Criminal History Checks for School Positions

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

Back the Blue Pay Act

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

Guilford County Sales Tax Distribution Mods

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

Firearm Law Revisions

Elevators/Interim Code Council Appt.-AB

Study Alternative Methods for Highway Funding

Modernize NC S.A.F.E. Act/2d Mortgage Fee Act

Various Disaster Recovery Reforms

Motor Vehicle Dealers

Underground Safety Revisions

Fostering Care in NC Act

Define Armed Forces/Religious Prop. Tax Excl

UNC Tuition Discounts for Certain Students

Annexation of PUV Land/School Capacity

Medical Board Licensing Efficiency Act

Revise Voluntary Ag. District Laws

LEO Special Separation Allowance Options

Modify Appointment Process for DA Vacancies

House Budget Technical Corrections

Parents Protection Act

Faithful Article V Commissioner Act

North Carolina Student Lifeline Act