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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

H1240Introduced

Constitutional Amendment/Early Voting

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would guarantee North Carolina voters the right to early voting in primary and general elections. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would require a minimum of 14 days of early voting with specific operating hours and same-day voter registration at early voting sites.

House2026-06-30

H1238Passed

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

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

House2026-06-23

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

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

H1236Introduced

Const. Amend./Judicial Standards Commission

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to establish the Judicial Standards Commission in North Carolina's Constitution and changes how it operates. The amendment would require the Commission to have judges, lawyers, and non-lawyer citizens as members, and would make disciplinary hearings and sanctions public instead of confidential.

House2026-06-03

H1234Introduced

Const. Amend./Supreme Court Ethics

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would require North Carolina Supreme Court Justices to recuse themselves from cases where they have financial interests, personal relationships with parties involved, or previously sponsored the law being challenged. It would also require Justices to publicly disclose large financial transactions ($10,000+), non-salary income, and who funds their travel.

House2026-06-03

H1235Introduced

Restoring Separation of Powers & Leg. Transp

This bill proposes two constitutional amendments to be voted on in November 2026. The first amendment would limit the General Assembly's power to reorganize executive branch functions in ways that weaken the Governor's authority to execute state laws. The second amendment would require bills to address only one subject (with exceptions for budget and tax bills) and mandate at least 48 hours of public notice and bill text availability before final passage.

House2026-06-03

H1124Introduced

Interstate Compact for School Psychologists

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

House2026-06-02

H1019Engrossed

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

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

House2026-05-18

H1154Introduced

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

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

House2026-05-13

H1131Introduced

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

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

House2026-05-13

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

H1229Introduced

Strip Corporations of Political Spending

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment that would prohibit corporations and other non-human entities from spending money to influence elections in North Carolina, with exceptions for political committees and media companies owned by political parties or candidates. If approved by voters in November 2026, violations would void the corporate action and result in the state withdrawing legal benefits like corporate status and the right to do business in North Carolina.

House2026-05-11

H1208Introduced

Community Safety Risk Protection Act

This bill creates two new firearm restriction mechanisms in North Carolina. First, it requires people subject to civil no-contact orders to surrender firearms to the sheriff if the court finds certain risk factors (such as threats of violence or suicide). Second, it establishes Individual Risk Protection Orders (IRPOs) that allow law enforcement, judges, doctors, and family members to petition courts to temporarily restrict a person's firearm access if they pose a danger to themselves or others, with safeguards including hearings and the ability to retrieve weapons after the order expires.

House2026-05-05

H1197Introduced

Revise NC Teaching Fellows Program

This bill increases financial support for North Carolina's Teaching Fellows Program by raising forgivable loans from $5,000 to $10,000 per academic year, applies recent program improvements retroactively to all current participants, establishes new standards for selecting partner institutions, and funds a $50,000 study to understand why some loan recipients choose to repay loans in cash rather than through teaching service.

House2026-05-05

H1183Introduced

Defend NC

House Bill 1183 'Defend NC' contains multiple provisions: it prohibits North Carolina law enforcement from assisting federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement with immigration enforcement; temporarily suspends sales tax on goods that increased in price by 50% or more due to 2025 federal tariffs during fiscal year 2026-2027; directs state agencies to study and report on federal funding losses and consider replacement funding for health research, Medicaid programs, and education; and appropriates $50,000 to establish a potential North Carolina Institute of Health to support biomedical research.

House2026-05-05

H1210Introduced

Firearm & Conflict De-escalation Training Act

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to teach firearm safety and conflict de-escalation instruction annually starting in kindergarten, allows parents to opt out of either or both programs, and creates a statewide system for courts to search mental health records during concealed handgun permit applications. It also expands judicial authority to issue involuntary commitment orders and funds a pilot program to pair mental health professionals with law enforcement.

House2026-05-05

H1212Introduced

HOA Accessory Limitation Ban

This bill prohibits homeowners associations (HOAs) from restricting residents' ability to install and maintain solar panels, grow edible or pollinator gardens, or build accessory dwelling units (like guest houses or rental units) that comply with building codes and zoning laws. The bill applies to both condo associations and traditional HOAs, and includes $100,000 for educational outreach about these new rules.

House2026-05-05

H1198Introduced

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

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

House2026-05-05

H1187Introduced

Save Our Beaches

This bill disapproves a rule adopted by the North Carolina Coastal Resources Commission that allows the use of wheat straw bales for sand fencing in ocean hazard areas. By disapproving the rule, the bill prevents this method from being used for coastal sand management.

House2026-05-05

H1191Introduced

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

This bill makes multiple changes to North Carolina's child welfare and juvenile justice laws, including tightening confidentiality protections for abuse and neglect case records, establishing court procedures for removing individuals from the responsible individuals list, clarifying permanency planning requirements for foster children, streamlining termination of parental rights procedures, and funding a new secure communications platform for court notifications and attorney coordination in child welfare cases.

House2026-05-05

H1195Introduced

MOMnibus 3.5

This bill establishes five major programs to address maternal mortality and health disparities in North Carolina: a grant program for community organizations serving Black women, mandatory implicit bias training for perinatal healthcare providers, funding for lactation training programs at historically Black colleges and universities, grants for perinatal education in underserved areas, and a mobile health initiative to expand maternal care access. The bill appropriates approximately $20.5 million over multiple years and requires healthcare providers to complete training by December 2027.

House2026-05-05

H1184Introduced

Voucher School Transparency Act

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

House2026-05-05

H1189Introduced

Datacenter Transparency Act

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

House2026-05-05

H1188Introduced

Limits on Immigration Detention Facilities

This bill prohibits North Carolina city, county, and state law enforcement agencies from contracting with the federal government or private companies to detain noncitizens for civil immigration purposes. It also requires the Department of Public Safety to collect and annually report data on immigration detainees, including their demographics, charges, and case status.

House2026-05-05

H1196Introduced

Require Free Water in Bars

This bill requires bars and other establishments with on-premises alcohol permits to provide free drinking water to customers who request it. The water must meet federal and state purity standards and be served in a container holding at least 6 fluid ounces, and the requirement applies during hours when alcohol can be sold.

House2026-05-05

H1209Introduced

Strengthen Ed by Embedded New Teacher Support

This bill appropriates $1 million in recurring state funding annually to expand the North Carolina New Teacher Support Program, which provides coaching and mentoring to beginning teachers in public schools. The expanded funding aims to increase embedded instructional support within local school districts and connect it more closely with teacher preparation programs.

House2026-05-05

H1206Introduced

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act/Funds

This bill creates the North Carolina Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which requires employers with 15+ employees and all government entities to provide reasonable accommodations for pregnancy-related conditions unless it causes undue hardship. Employees can sue in court for violations and seek damages, back pay, and attorney fees. The bill allocates $600,000 for implementation across the Department of Labor, courts, and legislature.

House2026-05-05

H1168Introduced

Limit Electric Util. Hist. Fuel Cost Recovery

This bill modifies how North Carolina's Utilities Commission handles electric utility fuel cost recovery by preventing utilities from recovering fuel costs incurred before a specified test period. It restores a limitation that bars utilities from charging customers for historical fuel costs outside the current review period, while allowing recovery of costs within a defined timeframe plus 30 days before the hearing.

House2026-05-04

H1178Introduced

The NC Teacher Pay Competitiveness Act

This bill increases teacher salaries in North Carolina starting in 2026-2027 and locks in annual 3.67% raises through 2032-2033, with a dedicated funding reserve to protect these raises from budget delays. It also reduces funding for the Opportunity Scholarship Program (private school vouchers) and tightens eligibility requirements for that program.

House2026-05-04

H1179Introduced

Senior Property Tax Relief Modernization Act

This bill modernizes North Carolina's property tax relief programs for seniors and disabled homeowners by replacing sharp income cutoffs with gradual phase-outs, allowing homeowners to combine two relief programs, and addressing barriers for those with shared property ownership. The state will reimburse local governments for lost tax revenue, and $20 million will fund local governments to improve property reappraisal technology.

House2026-05-04

H1182Introduced

Part-Time Status for Disabled Students

This bill requires North Carolina public schools and charter schools to allow students with disabilities who attend private schools to enroll part-time in public school classes, programs, and services. Schools must develop policies for part-time enrollment and post information about the option on their websites, with $10,000 in state funding provided to help schools implement the policy starting in 2026-2027.

House2026-05-04

H1162Introduced

Standing Up For Wilson County Vol. Fire Depts

This bill appropriates $15 million in state funds to Wilson County for its volunteer fire departments to upgrade emergency lighting on fire trucks with blue lights that activate when vehicles are stationary, and for other fire equipment maintenance, updates, or replacements. The funds are designated as a one-time grant for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.

House2026-05-04

H1180Introduced

Data Center Amendments

This bill establishes new rules for how electric utilities provide service to large data centers (facilities using over 20 megawatts of power). It requires utilities to file special rate plans with the NC Utilities Commission that ensure data centers pay the full cost of infrastructure needed to serve them and that other customers are not burdened with those costs. The bill also repeals certain tax provisions related to data centers.

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

H1158Introduced

Increase Market Rate/Rate Floor/Child Subsidy

This bill increases child care subsidy payment rates to the 75th percentile of the 2023 market rate study, with automatic increases whenever new studies are completed. It also establishes a statewide rate floor for child care providers in counties with rates below the state level. The bill appropriates $60 million from the General Fund, $20 million from the Child Care Block Grant, and $160 million from the General Fund to fund these increases, beginning July 1, 2026.

House2026-05-04

H1145Introduced

Safety Funds for Highway 49 & Eastway Drive

This bill appropriates $2.5 million from the Highway Fund to the Department of Transportation for fiscal year 2026-2027 to update utilities and street infrastructure at the intersection of Highway 49 (North Tryon Street) and Eastway Drive in order to improve pedestrian safety at that crossing.

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

H1175Introduced

Affordability in Healthcare Act

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

House2026-05-04

H1146Introduced

2026 Governor's Budget

This is North Carolina's 2026 state budget bill, which appropriates approximately $35.4 billion in General Fund spending for the fiscal year 2026-2027 and sets salary schedules for state employees, teachers, and officials. The bill includes funding for education, health and human services, transportation, and other state operations, along with various policy changes affecting education, taxation, and state administration.

House2026-05-04

H1172Introduced

The Ciji Graham Act

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

House2026-05-04

H1139Introduced

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

This bill establishes the Learning and Enrichment in Afterschool Programs (LEAP) Advisory Council and Grant Program within the Department of Public Instruction. It creates a $19.5 million fund to provide grants to community organizations, schools, and local governments that offer afterschool and summer youth programs, with priority given to rural and underserved communities.

House2026-05-04

H1149Introduced

Keep NC Working Act

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

House2026-05-04

H1147Introduced

IDD Omnibus

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

House2026-05-04

H1181Introduced

Property Tax Modifications

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

House2026-05-04

H1148Introduced

Universal Pre-K

This bill appropriates $200 million in annual state funding to expand the NC Pre-K program so that all income-eligible four-year-old children in North Carolina can participate, beginning in the 2026-2027 fiscal year. Currently, the program serves some eligible children but cannot accommodate all who qualify.

House2026-05-04

H1159Introduced

Investing in Teen Mental Health

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

House2026-05-04

H1160Introduced

Reduce Parent Copays/Child Care Subsidy/Funds

This bill reduces the percentage of gross family income that parents must pay as copayments for subsidized child care from 10% to 7%, effective October 1, 2026. The bill appropriates $25 million in recurring state funds annually to cover the cost of this reduction.

House2026-05-04

H1140Introduced

State Employee Bereavement Leave/Up To 40 Hrs

This bill provides North Carolina state employees, public school employees, and community college employees with paid bereavement leave of up to 40 hours when an immediate family member dies and up to 8 hours when a colleague dies. The bill appropriates $2 million to fund this benefit, effective July 1, 2026.

House2026-05-04

H1135Introduced

Modify Mileage and Per Diem

This bill updates the mileage reimbursement rate and per diem (daily meal and lodging allowance) for North Carolina legislators starting in 2027 to match the 2025 federal rates set by the Internal Revenue Service. The bill appropriates $100,000 to cover implementation costs and the increased expenses from these updated rates.

House2026-05-04

H1133Introduced

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

This bill appropriates funds and creates programs to support historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and historically minority-serving institutions in North Carolina. It establishes a study committee on HBCU infrastructure, creates completion assistance and nursing fellows programs, funds capital improvements at multiple institutions, and expands merit scholarships.

House2026-05-04

H1141Introduced

Protecting Medicaid & Autism Services

This bill appropriates $1.047 billion to update Medicaid funding to reflect current enrollment and costs, allows Medicaid health plans to create restricted provider networks specifically for research-based behavioral health treatment, and removes statutory rules that would automatically end Medicaid coverage for the expansion population under certain conditions.

House2026-05-04

H1138Introduced

Aging With Dignity Act

This bill addresses North Carolina's growing senior population by establishing policies that prioritize home and community-based care for Medicaid beneficiaries aged 55+, requiring medication reviews and behavioral health integration, and funding new initiatives including an integrated senior housing pilot program ($120 million), expansion of the long-term care ombudsman office ($3.5 million), a geriatric workforce development program ($10 million), and a family caregiver support stipend pilot ($13.5 million). The bill also creates a study commission on aging to recommend future policies.

House2026-05-04

H1142Introduced

Expand Quantum Computing Education

This bill allocates $2.6 million to public schools for quantum computing and STEM education programs, establishes a $200,000 grant program through the North Carolina Collaboratory to connect high school students with university quantum computing research, and creates a tax credit up to $100,000 for businesses in defense, technology, and quantum sectors that invest in educational partnerships with high school students.

House2026-05-04

H1132Introduced

LEO Facial Coverings and Identifications

This bill prohibits North Carolina law enforcement officers from wearing facial coverings like masks or balaclavas while performing duties, with exceptions for undercover operations, tactical gear for safety, identity protection during prosecution, and health/safety requirements. It also requires officers to wear clear agency identification on uniforms and identify themselves by name or badge number when requested.

House2026-05-04

H1129Introduced

Balcony Solar

This bill allows North Carolina residents and tenants to install small portable solar panels (up to 1.2 kilowatts) that plug into standard electrical outlets to offset their own electricity use. The bill requires customers to notify their electric utility and meet safety standards, but prohibits utilities from charging fees or requiring approval before installation. It also protects tenants' rights to install these devices on rental properties.

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

H1099Introduced

Funding Vocational Rehabilitation

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

House2026-04-30

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

H1130Introduced

Re-Professionalizing the Teaching Profession

This bill makes multiple changes to improve teacher compensation and working conditions in North Carolina public schools. It reinstates education-based salary supplements, increases base teacher salaries significantly, creates a forgivable loan program for National Board certification fees, establishes a one-year sabbatical program for experienced teachers, provides additional planning time and workdays for teachers, and gives school districts more flexibility with calendar scheduling and remote instruction days.

House2026-04-30

H1084Introduced

E-Bike Definitions/Local Safety Regulation

This bill clarifies North Carolina's definition of electric-assisted bicycles by creating three classes based on motor power and speed capabilities (Class 1: pedal-assist up to 20 mph; Class 2: throttle-assist up to 20 mph; Class 3: pedal-assist up to 28 mph). It allows cities and counties to regulate e-bike use on local roads and paths, and requires helmet use for riders under 18 on Class 3 e-bikes statewide, while allowing local helmet requirements for Classes 1 and 2.

House2026-04-30

H1082Introduced

Tax Relief for Working Families Act

This bill reestablishes North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which provides a tax credit to working families based on a percentage of the federal EITC they qualify for. The credit would be set at 20% of the federal credit amount for 2026 and beyond, and any credit amount exceeding taxes owed would be refunded to the taxpayer.

House2026-04-30

H1096Introduced

First in Flight Act

The First in Flight Act appropriates $175.1 million in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to support North Carolina's aerospace industry through airport infrastructure grants, community college workforce training programs, apprenticeships, dual-enrollment education pathways, university research funding, and supply chain support services.

House2026-04-30

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

H1127Introduced

Affordable Maternal Access & Cancer Care Act

This bill establishes three healthcare access programs in North Carolina: a $5 million Maternal Care Access Grant Program to fund community-based organizations addressing maternal health disparities, a $2 million Prostate Cancer Control Program providing free or low-cost screenings for uninsured/underinsured men, and insurance coverage requirements ensuring that diagnostic and supplemental breast imaging have the same patient cost-sharing as screening mammograms.

House2026-04-30

H1092Introduced

Reform NC Property Tax

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

House2026-04-30

H1076Introduced

The Innovations Waitlist Reduction Act

This bill increases funding for the Innovations waiver program by $240 million to add 6,635 new slots for individuals with disabilities or long-term care needs. It simultaneously modifies the Opportunity Scholarship Program to prioritize lower-income families and reduces that program's funding by $240 million, redirecting those funds to the Innovations waiver expansion.

House2026-04-29

H1075Introduced

Persistent D.V. Offender Registry

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

House2026-04-29

H1065Introduced

Prepared Foods Sales Tax Modification

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

House2026-04-29

H1079Introduced

Menstrual Products Sales Tax Exemption

This bill removes the sales tax on menstrual products in North Carolina, including tampons, pads, menstrual cups, panty liners, and similar items. The exemption would take effect October 1, 2026, and apply to all future sales of these products in the state.

House2026-04-29

H1080Introduced

Public Safety Reinvestment Act

This bill appropriates approximately $371 million to improve public safety operations across North Carolina by: equipping public transit with emergency trauma kits and implementing fare enforcement measures ($10 million); hiring additional court staff in Wake and Mecklenburg counties ($60 million); providing salary increases for Department of Adult Correction employees ($250 million); raising State Highway Patrol pay ($40 million); funding juvenile justice staffing ($25 million); supporting the State Crime Lab ($4 million); and enhancing retirement benefits for correctional officers ($11 million).

House2026-04-29

H1070Introduced

Domestic Violence Divorce Reform Act

This bill allows victims of domestic violence to obtain an absolute divorce in North Carolina without waiting the standard one-year separation period. Victims can qualify by obtaining a domestic violence protection order, a conviction against their spouse for a domestic violence offense, or by proving domestic violence to a judge at a hearing. The bill also provides $50,000 in funding to Compass Center to support domestic violence victims.

House2026-04-29

H1073Introduced

Fair Share for Public Schools Act

This bill creates a new 7% income tax on North Carolina income exceeding $1 million per year for individuals. The revenue collected, minus administrative costs, would be distributed annually to the state public school fund and allocated to local school districts based on the number of students.

House2026-04-29

H1066Introduced

Child Care Stabilization & Affordability Act

This bill redirects $390 million from the Opportunity Scholarship program (which funds private school scholarships) to child care subsidies, establishes permanent funding for a tri-share child care cost-sharing program between employers/employees/state, reenacts a state child care tax credit, creates apprenticeships and workforce programs for early childhood educators, increases child care subsidy reimbursement rates, and establishes a health insurance pool for child care workers.

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

H1064Introduced

Civil Rights Helpline

This bill establishes a 24-hour civil rights helpline within the North Carolina Department of Justice to receive, document, and investigate complaints from people harmed by federal troops or federal law enforcement actions, including immigration enforcement. The Attorney General would maintain a secure database of reports, publish annual public reports with aggregate data and trends, and hold yearly public hearings to present findings.

House2026-04-29

H1062Introduced

Immigration Cooperation Agreements

This bill restricts how North Carolina law enforcement can cooperate with federal immigration authorities. It requires federal immigration agents to follow specific conditions when working with local police (such as providing advance notice, being clearly identified, and obtaining judicial warrants), and it prohibits local law enforcement from assisting with civil immigration enforcement without a valid judicial warrant. The bill also appropriates $40 million for county law enforcement hiring.

House2026-04-28

H1057Introduced

Affordable Food Act

The Affordable Food Act is a comprehensive bill that addresses food insecurity in North Carolina through multiple programs: it establishes SNAP nutrition incentive programs to help low-income families buy healthy food, creates a state food procurement program to support farmers, appropriates funds to replace lost federal SNAP administrative funding, protects farmland from development, establishes assistance programs for military veterans and families, expands food distribution in underserved areas, and prohibits grocery stores from using electronic shelf labels to change prices more than once per 24 hours (dynamic pricing). The bill totals approximately $320 million in appropriations for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.

House2026-04-28

H1054Introduced

Gov't Employee Raises & Retiree COLA

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

House2026-04-28

H1048Introduced

Funding for HIV/AIDS Awareness Walk

This bill appropriates $72,000 in state funding for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to support the annual Winston-Salem HIV/AIDS Awareness Walk, a nonprofit event designed to raise public awareness, reduce stigma, and provide education about HIV/AIDS.

House2026-04-28

H1045Introduced

Fair Wages in Health Care Act/Funds

This bill establishes minimum wage requirements for five direct care and health care support occupations in North Carolina, ranging from $18 to $24 per hour depending on the role. It requires the Department of Health and Human Services to adjust Medicaid and state-funded program rates to help employers meet these new wage floors, and appropriates $500,000 for implementation beginning January 1, 2028.

House2026-04-28

H1047Introduced

North Carolina Microplastics Study Act

This bill directs the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC Chapel Hill to study microplastics (tiny plastic particles) in North Carolina's waterways and develop strategies to reduce their harmful impacts. The Collaboratory will research where microplastics come from, how they affect ecosystems and human health, and recommend policy solutions, with a comprehensive report due by July 1, 2027. The bill provides $150,000 in funding for this research.

House2026-04-28

H1046Introduced

NC Economic Progress and Well-Being

This bill requires North Carolina's Department of Commerce to prepare and publish a biennial report measuring economic opportunity, affordability, and family economic security across the state and by county. The report will track metrics like poverty rates, job quality, housing affordability, education costs, and regional economic opportunity using existing public data sources.

House2026-04-28

H1063Introduced

Ratepayer and Resource Protection Act

This bill regulates large-scale data centers in North Carolina by requiring them to obtain operating certificates, generate at least 25% of their electricity on-site from clean energy, pay utility rates based on their full infrastructure costs, and prohibiting them from receiving state and local tax incentives or subsidies. The bill also establishes water use standards for data centers and repeals existing sales tax exemptions for the industry.

House2026-04-28

H1060Introduced

AG Investigations/Certain ICE & CBP Incidents

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

House2026-04-28

H1053Introduced

Additional Funding for School Supplies

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

House2026-04-28

H1059Introduced

Fair Minimum Wage Act

This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage to $15 per hour (with a lower $11 per hour rate for small businesses under $400,000 annual revenue) and automatically adjusts it yearly for inflation. It creates a Wage Board to study wage standards, allows local governments to set higher minimum wages, and establishes a Short-Time Compensation program to help employers reduce hours instead of laying off workers.

House2026-04-28

H1061Introduced

Plyler Educational Protections Act

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

House2026-04-28

H1044Introduced

Justice in Mental Health Act

This bill increases funding and capacity for behavioral health services in North Carolina's criminal justice system by appropriating nearly $768 million for state psychiatric hospitals, community treatment programs, court coordination infrastructure, and safekeeper beds in state prisons. It establishes frameworks for courts and mental health providers to work together, expands treatment options for court-involved individuals, and modifies the legal standard for involuntary commitment to consider patterns of behavior indicating loss of volitional control.

House2026-04-27

H1024Introduced

Revise NC 529 Program

This bill creates a state matching program that provides up to $100 in matching funds for every $50 contributed to education savings accounts for children 14 and younger from low-income families (up to 250% of federal poverty level), with a maximum match of $1,500 per student. It also allows North Carolina taxpayers to deduct up to $2,000 per year (or $4,000 for married couples) in contributions to these education savings accounts from their state income taxes.

House2026-04-22

H1023Introduced

Divine Nine Special Registration Plate Act

This bill creates a new Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority special registration plate in North Carolina and establishes how fees from this plate and other Divine Nine (historically Black Greek letter organization) plates are collected and distributed. Vehicle owners can purchase these plates for an additional $20 fee, with portions going to various state funds and the organizations' national foundations.

House2026-04-22

H1017Introduced

Sound Basic Education for Every Child

This comprehensive education bill aims to improve North Carolina schools through four main areas: (1) increasing teacher recruitment, retention, and compensation; (2) improving school leadership through principal salary increases and support programs; (3) reforming school funding to provide more resources to disadvantaged students and children with disabilities; and (4) expanding pre-kindergarten and early childhood education programs. The bill appropriates over $3.7 billion for these initiatives for fiscal year 2026-2027.

House2026-04-22

H1031Introduced

Universal Free Breakfast and Lunch

This bill requires all North Carolina public schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to every student at no cost. The state would appropriate $116 million annually beginning in fiscal year 2026-2027 to fund these meals, with the State Board of Education distributing funds to school food authorities based on school size, student need, and other factors.

House2026-04-22

H13Introduced

Charges for Credit & Charge Cards

This bill caps the amount merchants in North Carolina can charge customers for credit or charge card payments at 2% of the transaction total, requires clear disclosure of these fees at points of sale, and prohibits charging card fees when no other payment method is available. The bill also increases the filing fee for nonprofit corporation articles of incorporation from $60 to $65.

House2025-09-23

H8Engrossed

NC Managing Environmental Waste Act of 2025

This bill requires state departments, schools, and colleges to purchase recycled, compostable, or recyclable materials when economically practicable, and mandates annual reporting on such purchases and recycling efforts. It also directs a UNC study on food service ware (single-use food containers) and requires the General Assembly and certain state facilities to pilot programs reducing single-use food service products.

House2025-07-31

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

H948Passed

The P.A.V.E. Act

The P.A.V.E. Act creates a new metropolitan public transportation authority for Mecklenburg County and authorizes a 1% local sales tax to fund roadway and public transportation projects, with 40% of revenues going to road maintenance in municipalities and 60% to transit operations, including a planned Red Line rail project. The sales tax requires voter approval through a referendum before implementation.

House2025-07-01

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

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

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

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

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

H627Introduced

Regulation of Accessory Dwelling Units

This bill requires local governments across North Carolina to allow at least one accessory dwelling unit (a smaller residential unit on the same property as a single-family home) in residential areas zoned for single-family homes. The bill sets minimum standards for these units—such as a maximum size of at least 800 square feet and prohibits excessive fees or parking requirements—while allowing some local flexibility in placement and design. Local governments must adopt regulations implementing these requirements by January 1, 2027, or accessory dwelling units will be allowed without limitations.

House2025-05-07

H515Engrossed

North Carolina Economic Abuse Prevention Act

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

House2025-05-07

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

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

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

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

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

H462Introduced

Personal Data Privacy/Social Media Safety

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

House2025-04-29

H824Introduced

Expand Treatment Access/Opioid Use Disorder

This bill expands insurance coverage for opioid use disorder and overdose treatment by requiring health plans to cover all FDA-approved medications for these conditions without prior authorization, requiring pharmacists' services to be covered like other healthcare providers, and updating language throughout state insurance law to reflect current medical terminology and federal parity requirements.

House2025-04-17

H670Introduced

Workforce Credential Grant Program/CCP

This bill creates a Career and College Pathways Innovation Challenge Grant Program that provides competitive grants to community colleges for developing partnerships with schools, universities, employers, and community organizations to increase college enrollment and completion, align education with job market needs, and close educational opportunity gaps. The program allocates $5 million for fiscal year 2025-2026, with $2 million specifically directed to Hurricane Helene-affected counties over two years.

House2025-04-16

H69Engrossed

Military and Veterans Educational Promise Act

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

House2025-04-16

H990Introduced

Notice Requirements for Landlord Fees

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

House2025-04-14

H957Introduced

HBCU/HMSI Omnibus

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

House2025-04-14

H940Introduced

Protection Against Pregnancy Discrimination

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

House2025-04-14

H960Introduced

UI/Give Enhanced Benefits During Disasters

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

House2025-04-14

H910Introduced

DRIVE Recommendations/Teacher Diversity

This bill appropriates $40.7 million to recruit and retain teachers in North Carolina through multiple programs: funding for alternative teacher pathways like 2+2 programs and Grow-Your-Own initiatives; a grant program to increase recruitment and retention of teachers of color; recruitment bonuses for teachers in low-performing schools; teacher residency programs; expansion of loan forgiveness programs for teachers in critical areas; and enhanced reporting on diversity in educator preparation programs. It also eliminates minimum standardized testing requirements for admission to teacher preparation programs.

House2025-04-14

H947Introduced

Every Child Reads

This bill requires North Carolina schools to screen students for dyslexia in kindergarten through 3rd grade and grades 6 and 9, provide dyslexia training for teachers, and align middle school literacy instruction with the science of reading. It also transfers the NC Pre-K program from the Department of Health and Human Services to the Department of Public Instruction.

House2025-04-14

H922Introduced

North Carolina Consumer Protection Act

This bill prohibits North Carolina public utilities from recovering certain costs through customer rates, including advertising, lobbying, political contributions, and executive travel expenses. It requires utilities to submit annual reports detailing prohibited expenses and establishes penalties of $50,000 to $150,000 per violation, with collected penalties funding an Energy Equity Fund for disaster relief and low-income energy assistance programs.

House2025-04-14

H885Introduced

Revise Suspension & Parental Notice Policies

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

House2025-04-14

H941Introduced

Expand & Enhance the Teaching Fellows Program

This bill expands the North Carolina Teaching Fellows Program by increasing loan amounts for teacher education students, expanding the program to 14 institutions instead of 10, adding new focus areas like elementary education and social studies, and allocating $10 million in recurring state funding. It also applies previous program improvements retroactively to all current teaching fellows.

House2025-04-14

H944Introduced

Fund Community Health Svcs/Mecklenburg County

This bill appropriates $1.5 million in state funding for fiscal year 2025-2026 to support Care Ring, Inc., a nonprofit community health clinic in Mecklenburg County that provides primary care services to medically vulnerable residents facing geographic, economic, or other barriers to healthcare access.

House2025-04-14

H931Introduced

End Predatory Towing Fees and Practices

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

House2025-04-14

H933Introduced

IDD Omnibus

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

House2025-04-14

H915Introduced

Reenact Film Credit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's film production tax credit, which allows production companies to claim a 25% tax credit on qualifying in-state expenses (minimum $250,000) such as wages, equipment, and services. The credit, which was previously repealed, would apply to feature films, television series, documentaries, and other productions, with a $20 million cap per feature film and a sunset date of January 1, 2015.

House2025-04-14

H951Introduced

SOS (State Owned Structures) Child Care Act

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

House2025-04-14

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

H932Introduced

Ten Percent Raise/Teachers/First Responders

This bill establishes a permanent 10% pay raise for North Carolina teachers and first responders, funded by $900 million annually for teachers and $700 million annually for first responders over the 2025-2027 fiscal years. The raises take effect July 1, 2025, and become part of employees' base salaries for calculating future increases.

House2025-04-14

H914Introduced

Higher Ed./Religious Inst. Affordable Housing

This bill allows colleges and religious institutions in cities over 50,000 people to build affordable housing on their land without special zoning permits or variances. At least 80% of units must be reserved for low-income residents, and the development must follow standard building codes and avoid historic districts and heavy industrial areas.

House2025-04-14

H856Introduced

Clarify Deed Restrictions/Solar Collectors

This bill clarifies North Carolina law to make most deed restrictions that prohibit solar collectors void and unenforceable on residential properties. It allows restrictions only on the location or screening of solar collectors if they don't reduce efficiency by more than 10%, or if the panels would be visible from public areas or common spaces.

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

H858Introduced

Funds/N. Mecklenburg Public Safety

This bill appropriates a total of approximately $73.1 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to three Northern Mecklenburg County towns: Davidson ($20.4 million), Cornelius ($6 million), and Huntersville ($47.7 million). The funds are directed toward public safety infrastructure and equipment, including fire station construction, emergency vehicles, police facilities, and equipment upgrades.

House2025-04-10

H871Introduced

North Carolina Microplastics Study Act

This bill directs the North Carolina Collaboratory at UNC-Chapel Hill to study how microplastics (tiny plastic particles) harm North Carolina's waterways and to develop strategies to address the problem. The bill provides $150,000 in funding and requires a comprehensive report to the General Assembly by July 1, 2026.

House2025-04-10

H838Introduced

DIT Agency Broadband Bill

This bill makes several changes to North Carolina's broadband programs under the Department of Information Technology. It redirects satellite broadband grant funding to disaster relief in Hurricane Helene-affected counties, allows up to $50 million in broadband funds to be used for repairing damaged broadband infrastructure, expands the Broadband Pole Replacement Program to include underground facility placement, and creates flexibility for mobile carriers to provide Lifeline service.

House2025-04-10

H857Introduced

Create Alert/Missing Person w/ Disability

This bill creates the North Carolina Missing with Disability Alert System, a statewide system to rapidly spread information about missing persons or children with disabilities who may be at risk of abuse, neglect, or exploitation. The system requires the NC Center for Missing Persons and law enforcement agencies to issue alerts through media outlets and highway message signs while protecting the missing person's private health information.

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

H839Introduced

Advanced Teaching Roles Updates

This bill modifies North Carolina's Advanced Teaching Roles (ATR) program to provide schools with greater flexibility in how they structure advanced teaching positions and manage class sizes. Specifically, it changes how 'classroom excellence teachers' are defined, increases the percentage of teachers who can be designated as 'adult leadership teachers' and 'classroom excellence teachers,' and allows ATR schools to temporarily exceed kindergarten through third grade class size limits with state approval.

House2025-04-10

H842Introduced

Vis., Hear., Dental Screenings Opt-Out

This bill clarifies how North Carolina schools must notify parents about health screenings (vision, hearing, dental, and developmental screenings) and establishes that schools may conduct these screenings without prior parental consent, though parents must be informed at the beginning of the school year and notified of results.

House2025-04-10

H835Introduced

Learning AAPI Contributions in Schools

This bill requires North Carolina public schools to include age-appropriate units about Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) contributions and history in courses from elementary through high school. The curriculum would cover topics such as early Asian immigrant labor, challenges faced by Asian Americans, their role in the Civil Rights Movement, and their contributions to government, arts, sciences, and North Carolina society.

House2025-04-10

H863Introduced

Disaster Recovery Act of 2025 - Part 1(b)

This bill appropriates $582.2 million from North Carolina's Savings Reserve to help western North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene. The funds are distributed to various state agencies and programs to address unmet needs including housing assistance, business recovery grants, infrastructure repairs, agricultural support, and community recovery services in the affected area.

House2025-04-10

H881Introduced

PFAS Free NC

This bill bans the manufacture, use, and distribution of PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, also called "forever chemicals") in North Carolina, with limited exceptions for federally authorized uses. It also requires water systems to disclose PFAS test results to customers, directs state agencies to study PFAS contamination, and appropriates approximately $100 million for drinking water treatment, environmental monitoring, and research on PFAS impacts.

House2025-04-10

H882Introduced

Break Free From Plastic & Forever Chemicals

This bill establishes three major environmental protections: (1) Extended Producer Responsibility requiring packaging manufacturers to reduce non-reusable packaging by set percentages over time, achieve minimum recycling rates, and use recycled content; (2) a ban on toxic substances in packaging materials including PFAS, heavy metals, and certain plastics; and (3) a ban on intentionally added PFAS in food packaging and compostable containers. Manufacturers must register, join producer responsibility organizations that coordinate compliance, and comply with labeling and reporting requirements.

House2025-04-10

H880Introduced

Aggie Academy Learning Lab/Funds

This bill appropriates $1 million in recurring state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to North Carolina A&T State University to support Aggie Academy, a laboratory school operated by the university. The funds become available starting July 1, 2025.

House2025-04-10

H877Introduced

Childcare Pilot

This bill establishes a pilot program to create an affordable childcare facility through a public-private partnership. The state would provide land and a building shell on state or university property, while a private operator would run the facility and charge rates at least 25% below market rates. The state would invest $5 million to support the project.

House2025-04-10

H879Introduced

Air Conditioning for Rental Properties

This bill requires landlords in North Carolina to provide and maintain operable air conditioning in residential rental units capable of cooling the premises to a reasonable temperature during warm weather. The requirement applies to new rental agreements and renewals starting when the law takes effect.

House2025-04-10

H868Introduced

Due Process in LEO Field Drug Testing

This bill requires law enforcement agencies and prosecutors in North Carolina to adopt policies that prevent colorimetric field drug tests (color-based drug identification kits) from being used alone to arrest, charge, or convict someone of drug possession. Instead, a confirmed laboratory test must corroborate the field test result before these actions can occur. The bill also requires that defendants charged based only on field tests be cited and released or released on their own recognizance pending trial.

House2025-04-10

H861Introduced

Taxpayer Accountability/Pregnancy Centers

This bill requires pregnancy centers that receive state funding to establish a competitive grant application process with detailed reporting requirements and performance standards. It mandates that funded centers provide extensive information about their operations, staff qualifications, services, and client demographics, and allows the state to recover funds from centers that fail to comply with established standards.

House2025-04-10

H840Introduced

Reward Schools for Student Growth

This bill modifies how North Carolina grades schools by requiring separate grades for school achievement and school growth, instead of combining them into one overall grade. Schools will receive an achievement grade (based on test scores, graduation rates, and college/career readiness) and a growth grade (based on how much students improve year-to-year), with both displayed prominently on school report cards starting with the 2025-2026 school year.

House2025-04-10

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

H798Introduced

Expand Access to Cold Weather Shelters/Funds

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

House2025-04-08

H796Introduced

The Student Mental Health Line Awareness Act

This bill requires public schools, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools in North Carolina to print three mental health crisis helpline numbers on student identification cards issued to grades 6-12 students: the 988 Lifeline, Crisis Text Line (text HOME to 741741), and the NC Statewide Warmline (1-855-733-7762). Nonpublic schools are encouraged but not required to do the same. Schools must verify these numbers are accurate and current annually.

House2025-04-08

H816Introduced

Voucher School Transparency Act

This bill increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship vouchers. It requires these schools to submit annual reports on student test scores, graduation rates, financial audits, staffing credentials, and safety plans, and directs the State Auditor to review at least three such schools' audits each year.

House2025-04-08

H815Introduced

Voucher School Accountability Act

This bill expands eligibility for North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship Program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) and increases accountability requirements for private schools that accept these vouchers. It broadens who can receive scholarships, increases scholarship amounts for low-income students, and requires participating private schools to meet standards including criminal background checks, standardized testing, financial audits, and teacher qualifications.

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

H788Introduced

Fix Our Democracy

This comprehensive bill proposes multiple democratic reforms in North Carolina, including establishing a nonpartisan redistricting commission, converting judicial elections to nonpartisan processes, extending cooling-off periods for legislators-turned-lobbyists, implementing online and automatic voter registration, requiring live-streaming of legislative meetings, reducing absentee ballot witness requirements, ensuring voting places on college campuses, limiting voter roll purges, and reestablishing public campaign financing for judicial candidates with various campaign finance transparency requirements.

House2025-04-08

H807Introduced

Strong Public Schools for a Strong NC

This bill appropriates funds to increase teacher salaries, support special education services, provide free breakfast and lunch to all public school students, establish a device refresh program for student computers, and freeze enrollment in the Opportunity Scholarship program (which provides vouchers for private school tuition) while reducing its future funding.

House2025-04-08

H809Introduced

Count NC Pre-K for School ADM

This bill requires local school districts that operate NC Pre-K programs to count pre-kindergarten students in their average daily membership (ADM) calculations. Average daily membership is used to determine state funding allocations to school districts, so counting pre-K students would increase funding for districts with these programs.

House2025-04-08

H787Introduced

Revise NC 529 Program

This bill creates two programs to help North Carolinians save for education: a matching contribution program where the state matches $100 for every $50 contributed to a 529 college savings plan (up to $1,500 per student), and a state tax deduction of up to $2,000 per person (or $4,000 for married couples) for contributions to these savings accounts. The matching program is limited to households earning up to 250% of the federal poverty level and students age 14 or younger.

House2025-04-08

H786Introduced

Working Families Act

This bill makes several changes to support working families in North Carolina: it reduces what families pay for subsidized child care, restores a state tax credit for families with children, gradually raises the minimum wage from $10 to $15 per hour by 2030 with annual adjustments after that, expands property tax relief for homeowners, creates down payment assistance for public servants buying homes for the first time, and establishes a paid family leave insurance program funded by employer contributions to help workers take time off for family or medical needs.

House2025-04-07

H668Introduced

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act

This bill establishes a grant program at North Carolina community colleges to train students as tax preparers through the IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program and provides funding to United Way of North Carolina to expand VITA services. The bill allocates approximately $2.83 million to help low-income North Carolinians claim federal tax credits they may be missing, with an estimated average benefit of $2,812 per eligible filer.

House2025-04-03

H725Introduced

MOMnibus 3.0

HB 725, the MOMnibus 3.0 Act, is a comprehensive maternal health bill that addresses North Carolina's high maternal mortality rates, particularly among Black women. The bill establishes grant programs for community-based organizations, requires implicit bias training for perinatal healthcare providers, funds lactation consultant training at historically Black colleges and universities, and creates mobile health initiatives to expand maternal healthcare access in underserved areas.

House2025-04-03

H628Introduced

Reenact Child Tax Credit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's child tax credit, which had previously expired. The credit allows eligible taxpayers to reduce their state income taxes by $125-$250 per qualifying child, depending on their filing status and income level, with the credit amount decreasing for higher earners. The credit is refundable, meaning taxpayers can receive a refund if the credit exceeds their tax liability.

House2025-04-02

H645Introduced

Friendly NC Act

The Friendly NC Act is a comprehensive civil rights and anti-discrimination bill that would expand legal protections against discrimination in North Carolina across multiple areas including employment, housing, public accommodations, credit, insurance, education, and jury service. It also creates new protections related to reproductive rights, conversion therapy, domestic violence for same-sex couples, and establishes an environmental justice program.

House2025-04-02

H646Introduced

Const. Amend.: Remove Slavery as Punishment

This bill proposes a constitutional amendment to remove the exception that currently allows involuntary servitude as punishment for crime in North Carolina. If approved by voters in November 2026, it would make slavery and involuntary servitude completely prohibited under all circumstances in the state constitution.

House2025-04-02

H641Introduced

Transportation for the Future Act

This bill modernizes North Carolina's transportation funding distribution formula by increasing support for non-highway transportation projects like public transit, rail, and bicycle/pedestrian infrastructure. It reallocates state transportation funds from 40% to 30% for statewide highway projects, increases regional projects from 30% to 40%, and requires at least 20% of funds go to non-highway projects. It also updates local zoning and subdivision regulations to better accommodate multimodal transportation planning.

House2025-04-02

H633Introduced

Expand Sickle Cell Disease Programs & Svcs

This bill appropriates $2.3 million in state funding for the 2025-2027 fiscal years to expand sickle cell disease programs and services through the Department of Health and Human Services. The funding will support six comprehensive sickle cell medical centers, create transition coordinator positions to help young patients move from pediatric to adult care, provide grants to community organizations, and improve emergency department care for sickle cell patients.

House2025-04-02

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

H619Introduced

Health Care Security Act

This bill removes a provision in North Carolina law that would automatically end Medicaid coverage for the expansion population if federal funding for Medicaid drops below 90%. Currently, state law requires coverage to be discontinued if federal support falls to that threshold; this bill eliminates that automatic discontinuation requirement.

House2025-04-01

H589Introduced

The Second Look Act

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

House2025-04-01

H588Introduced

School Psychologist Omnibus

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

House2025-04-01

H604Introduced

Rural and Downtown Community Eco. Dev. Grants

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

House2025-04-01

H521Introduced

Healthy Families & Workplaces/Paid Sick Leave

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

House2025-03-27

H507Introduced

The Children First Act

The Children First Act expands child care affordability and access through increased subsidies and grants, strengthens child health and safety protections including firearm storage laws and online safety requirements, raises tobacco/vaping age to 21, establishes a fetal and infant mortality review team, and funds workforce development programs for child care workers. The bill appropriates approximately $150+ million over the 2025-2027 biennium for these initiatives.

House2025-03-26

H513Introduced

Strengthen Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program

This bill appropriates $1 million per year for the 2025-2027 fiscal biennium to the Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen North Carolina's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program. The funding will support nine additional regional ombudsman positions and operational expenses to help the state meet national standards for protecting residents in long-term care facilities.

House2025-03-26

H514Introduced

APRN Definitions

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

House2025-03-26

H500Introduced

NC Adopt ERA

This bill would have North Carolina officially ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution, which states that equality of rights under the law shall not be denied on account of sex. The bill argues that the ERA became the 28th Amendment in 2020 when Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it, meeting the three-fourths requirement, and that North Carolina's ratification would be a formal recognition of this constitutional change.

House2025-03-26

H499Introduced

NC Paid Family Leave Insurance Act

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

House2025-03-26

H503Introduced

Don't Tread on Me Act

This bill creates an 'Individual Freedoms Act' that establishes legal protections against state surveillance, requires medical and political privacy in government dealings, protects parental authority, ensures education is fact-based and non-ideological, and prohibits employment and housing discrimination based on political beliefs or medical history. The bill applies a 'compelling state interest' standard, meaning the government can only restrict these rights if it has a strong reason and uses the narrowest possible means to achieve it.

House2025-03-26

H493Introduced

Gen. Assembly/Safe Workplace Policies

This bill creates a new workplace safety system for the North Carolina General Assembly that includes mandatory annual harassment prevention training, a confidential reporting and investigation process for sexual harassment and improper workplace behavior, clear disciplinary sanctions, and an appeals process. The bill appropriates $250,000 to implement these policies and requires the Legislative Services Commission and Legislative Ethics Committee to adopt the policies by December 31, 2025.

House2025-03-25

H484Introduced

Honoring NC's Contributions to Civil Rights

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

House2025-03-25

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

H474Introduced

Right to Use Contraception

This bill declares that North Carolina has no legitimate governmental interest in limiting access to or use of contraception to prevent pregnancy. It establishes the right to use contraception as state policy by adding new language to North Carolina's General Statutes.

House2025-03-24

H467Introduced

Reenact Low-Income Housing Tax Credits

This bill restores North Carolina's low-income housing tax credits program, which had been scheduled to expire in 2015, by reenacting it with a new sunset date of January 1, 2030. The program provides state tax credits to developers and investors who build or rehabilitate housing for low-income residents, with credit amounts varying based on the area's income level and the percentage of units made affordable.

House2025-03-24

H473Introduced

Right to IVF

This bill protects access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and other assisted reproductive technologies by prohibiting the state from restricting patients' right to use these treatments or health care providers' right to offer them. It also specifies that fertilized eggs and embryos outside the uterus are not considered human beings under state law, and allocates $500,000 annually to expand Medicaid maternal support services.

House2025-03-24

H464Introduced

Healthy Students - A Nurse in Every School

This bill requires every public school in North Carolina to have at least one full-time, permanent school nurse starting in the 2025-2026 school year. The bill appropriates $95 million in state funding to help local school districts, charter schools, regional schools, and laboratory schools meet this requirement.

House2025-03-20

H21Engrossed

Drivers License Designation/Autism

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

House2025-03-19

H420Introduced

Sound Basic Education for Every Child

H.B. 420 is a comprehensive education reform bill aimed at improving public schools in North Carolina through increased funding and structural changes. It allocates nearly $3 billion for teacher and principal salary increases, teacher recruitment programs, early childhood education expansion, school facility improvements through a $2 billion bond, and support services for low-performing schools. The bill also adjusts how school performance is measured by balancing student growth and proficiency scores.

House2025-03-18

H418Introduced

K-5 Performing and Visual Arts Requirement

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

House2025-03-18

H403Introduced

Workers' Rights Act

This bill makes major changes to North Carolina employment law, including abolishing at-will employment so workers can only be fired for just cause, requiring paid work breaks and meal periods, eliminating the subminimum wage for tipped employees, protecting workers' rights to discuss wages, allowing public employee collective bargaining, creating protections for contract workers in state government, and allowing local governments to set minimum wages and establish worker safety programs.

House2025-03-17

H407Introduced

Divine Nine Special Registration Plate Act

This bill creates a new Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority special registration plate in North Carolina and sets its additional fee at $20. The bill also clarifies how fees from Divine Nine fraternity and sorority plates are distributed, directing a portion of Sigma Gamma Rho plate fees to the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority National Education Fund.

House2025-03-17

H391Introduced

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

This bill appropriates $2.178 million for fiscal year 2025-2026 and $4.542 million for fiscal year 2026-2027 to fund 50 additional Adult Protective Services (APS) workers at county departments of social services across North Carolina. The new workers would investigate reports of elder abuse, neglect, and exploitation, with funds distributed to counties based on their caseload and elderly population.

House2025-03-17

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

H367Introduced

Provide Rape Kit Status Updates to Victims

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

House2025-03-12

H371Introduced

DMV Materials in Additional Languages

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

House2025-03-12

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

H353Introduced

Fair Minimum Wage Act

This bill raises North Carolina's minimum wage from $6.15 per hour to $10.00 in 2026, increasing by $2.00 per year until reaching $18.00 in 2030, then automatically adjusting annually based on inflation. It also requires employers who fail to pay minimum wages to cover employees' attorneys' fees and court costs in legal cases.

House2025-03-11

H242Introduced

Add Psychiatric Hospitals to Medicaid HASP

This bill expands North Carolina's Medicaid Healthcare Access and Stabilization Program (HASP) to include freestanding psychiatric hospitals alongside existing acute care hospitals. It funds increased reimbursements to these psychiatric hospitals through new hospital assessments levied on all freestanding psychiatric hospitals in the state.

House2025-03-11

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

H325Introduced

Legislative Building Field Trip Pilot Program

This bill creates a two-year pilot program that provides grants to North Carolina public schools to fund field trips to the Legislative Building, with up to $2,000 per school available for transportation costs. The program prioritizes funding for schools in economically disadvantaged counties and requires the Department of Public Instruction to manage applications and report on participation.

House2025-03-10

H322Introduced

Make General Assembly Records Public

This bill increases public access to General Assembly records by requiring legislative records to be retained for at least 10 years before destruction and repealing previous exemptions that allowed the General Assembly to destroy records without following standard archival procedures. It also makes changes to campaign finance laws regarding federal political committees.

House2025-03-10

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

H282Introduced

STI Funding/Bicycle/Pedestrian Improv

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

House2025-03-05

H267Introduced

Expunging Certain Eviction Records

This bill allows North Carolinians to have eviction case records automatically removed from court files in certain situations, such as when cases are dismissed before judgment or when defendants win on the merits. For cases where landlords won, tenants can request removal after three years if they've maintained stable housing with consistent rent payments.

House2025-03-05

H269Introduced

Workforce Freedom and Protection Act

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

House2025-03-05

H265Introduced

SchCalFlex/Char-Meck/CC

This bill allows Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to align their school calendar with the calendar of local community colleges that serve the same area. Currently, state law requires school opening and closing dates to fall within specific windows around August 26 and June 11, but this bill creates an exception for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to match their schedule with community college calendars.

House2025-03-04

H257Introduced

Funds for Scotland & Hoke Projects

This bill appropriates a total of $170.4 million in state funds for the 2025-2026 fiscal year to support various infrastructure and capital projects in Scotland County, Hoke County, the City of Laurinburg, the towns of Gibson and Wagram, and St. Andrews University. The funds are designated for specific purposes including courthouse and jail construction, water and sewer improvements, public safety facilities, workforce training, and hurricane damage repairs.

House2025-03-04

H259Introduced

Brown-Morgan Science Olympiad Grant

This bill establishes a one-year pilot grant program through the Department of Public Instruction to help public schools start or expand Science Olympiad teams. The program allocates $127,500 in grants that schools can use for registration fees, materials, travel, and teacher stipends, with priority given to schools that did not have a Science Olympiad team in the previous year.

House2025-03-04

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

H252Introduced

Steele Creek Investment and Improvement Act

This bill appropriates $1.25 million in state funding for three projects in Steele Creek, a rapidly growing community in southwest Mecklenburg County. The funds support community wellness programs ($250,000), fire and rescue equipment and facilities ($500,000), and a traffic study on Shopton Road West ($500,000).

House2025-03-03

H245Introduced

Affordable Housing in Rural Areas

This bill modifies how North Carolina allocates low-income housing tax credits by requiring the state to prioritize affordable housing development in rural communities and counties with higher poverty levels. It establishes specific scoring criteria, such as measuring distance to amenities by radius rather than driving distance and favoring high-poverty areas when projects have equal scores.

House2025-03-03

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

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

H179Introduced

Labor Org. Membership Dues Tax Deductible

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

House2025-02-25

H181Introduced

Tax Relief for Working Families Act

This bill restores North Carolina's Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which expired in 2014. The credit would allow working families to receive a state tax credit equal to 20% of the federal EITC they qualify for, with excess credits refunded to taxpayers, effective for tax years beginning January 1, 2025.

House2025-02-25

H178Introduced

Budgeting Accountability and Transparency

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

House2025-02-25

H168Introduced

North Carolina CROWN Act

This bill, known as the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair), expands North Carolina's employment discrimination protections to explicitly include hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles like braids, locks, and twists as protected characteristics under race discrimination law. The bill adds these protections to the state's existing anti-discrimination statute and ensures employees cannot be fired or denied employment based on natural hairstyles.

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

H129Introduced

Judge Joe John Nonpartisan Jud. Elections Act

This bill changes North Carolina judicial elections from partisan (party-based) to nonpartisan elections for Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, superior court, and district court judges, effective in 2026. It also reestablishes a public campaign financing program for judicial candidates who voluntarily accept spending limits and demonstrate public support through qualifying contributions.

House2025-02-18

H131Introduced

Reenact Solar Energy Tax Credit

This bill reinstates North Carolina's solar energy tax credit, which had previously expired. The credit allows taxpayers who install solar equipment to claim a tax deduction equal to 35% of the equipment's cost, with different limits depending on whether the installation is for residential or business use.

House2025-02-18

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

H115Introduced

Child Care Facility Tax Exemption

This bill creates a property tax exemption for licensed child care facilities in North Carolina. Facilities that are properly licensed and actually used to provide child care would be exempt from property taxes on their buildings, land, and reasonably necessary adjacent land, with the exemption beginning for tax years after July 1, 2026.

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

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

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

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

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

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

H20Introduced

Fair Maps Act

This bill would establish an independent redistricting process for North Carolina legislative and congressional districts by creating a 15-member Citizens Redistricting Commission. The commission would be composed of diverse citizens (not politicians) and would draw new district maps after each census, rather than allowing the General Assembly to control redistricting. The bill requires voter approval of constitutional amendments in November 2026 before the commission could begin work in 2027.

House2025-01-30

H10Introduced

Study State Travel Allowance Reimbursements

This bill establishes a bipartisan committee to study whether North Carolina's current travel allowances and reimbursement rates for state employees, teachers, and legislators should be updated. The committee will examine historical rates, federal guidelines, and input from various industries, then submit recommendations to the legislature by March 15, 2026.

House2025-01-30

H18Passed

Honor Joe John, Former Member

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

House2025-01-29

Jordan Lopez

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Sponsored Bills (27)

Consumer Protection AI Bill of Rights

The People's Right to Amend Act

Additional Magistrates/Mecklenburg County

NC Working Families Economic Relief Act

SNAP Funding in Response to H.R. 1

Relieving Housing Bottlenecks

Preventing Algorithmic Rent Fixing

Funds for Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

The Everybody Eats Act

Recovery Support Via Revenue Stabilization

Open Movie Captioning in Movie Theaters

Change to Needs-Based Capital Funding

Modernize STI Transit Funding

Comprehensive State Communications

Workforce Housing Loans-Preconstruction Costs

Law Enforcement/Destroy Certain Firearms

Funds for the Umbrella Center

Ban Ghost Guns & Undetectable Firearms

Marijuana Legalization and Reinvestment Act

Fair & Affordable Housing Act

Report Lost/Stolen Firearm Within 24 Hours

Child Care Act

Allow Public Employee Collective Bargaining

Marriage Equality Act

Const. Amend./Marriage Equality

Firearm in Unattended Vehicle/Safely Store

Environmental Justice

Cosponsored Bills (237)

Authorize Municipal Deannexation

Education Omnibus

Honor 250th Anniversary and NC's Role

Safeguarding Elections Act

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

Constitutional Amendment/Early Voting

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

Worker Safety Act of 2026

NCDOT STI Study Recommendation

Const. Amend./Judicial Standards Commission

Const. Amend./Supreme Court Ethics

Restoring Separation of Powers & Leg. Transp

Interstate Compact for School Psychologists

Mike Clampitt 1st Responder Tax Fairness Act

Expand the FarmSHARE Food Hub Program

More APS Staff to Address Elder Abuse

Rep. Mike Clampitt Bone Marrow Donation Act

Strip Corporations of Political Spending

Community Safety Risk Protection Act

Revise NC Teaching Fellows Program

Defend NC

Firearm & Conflict De-escalation Training Act

HOA Accessory Limitation Ban

SANE Nurses Data/Registration Info Reqs

Save Our Beaches

Fostering Care in NC Act 2026

MOMnibus 3.5

Voucher School Transparency Act

Datacenter Transparency Act

Limits on Immigration Detention Facilities

Require Free Water in Bars

Strengthen Ed by Embedded New Teacher Support

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act/Funds

Limit Electric Util. Hist. Fuel Cost Recovery

The NC Teacher Pay Competitiveness Act

Senior Property Tax Relief Modernization Act

Part-Time Status for Disabled Students

Standing Up For Wilson County Vol. Fire Depts

Data Center Amendments

Dominique Moody Safety Act

Increase Market Rate/Rate Floor/Child Subsidy

Safety Funds for Highway 49 & Eastway Drive

Workforce Act of 2026

Affordability in Healthcare Act

2026 Governor's Budget

The Ciji Graham Act

Learning & Enrichment in Afterschool Programs

Keep NC Working Act

IDD Omnibus