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Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

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

House2026-07-01

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

H1029Engrossed

NC Digital Asset and Stablecoin Act

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

House2026-06-11

H1203Introduced

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

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

House2026-06-10

H1199Introduced

The Seatbelt Act

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

House2026-06-09

H87Passed

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

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

House2026-06-03

H1042Engrossed

Affordable Housing Exemption Mods

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

House2026-05-22

H1110Introduced

Early Intervention School Attendance Pilot

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

House2026-05-19

H1192Introduced

Energy and Housing Affordability Act

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

House2026-05-07

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

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

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

H1032Introduced

Repeal Two Percent Local Grocery Tax

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

House2026-04-22

H118Introduced

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

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

House2025-09-23

H192Engrossed

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

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

House2025-09-22

H402Passed

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

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

House2025-07-29

H568Passed

2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments.-AB

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

House2025-06-27

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

H829Introduced

Locksmith Licensing Act Modernization

This bill modernizes North Carolina's locksmith licensing laws by requiring locksmith businesses (in addition to individual locksmiths) to obtain licenses, modifying apprenticeship rules to allow a three-year renewal period instead of a one-time term, clarifying licensing requirements and exemptions, and strengthening enforcement through disciplinary procedures and court injunctions.

House2025-06-17

H923Introduced

Protect Personal Info/Judicial Personnel

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

House2025-06-17

H821Introduced

Drivers License Expiration Moratorium

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

House2025-05-19

H781Engrossed

Unauthorized Public Camping & Sleeping

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

House2025-05-08

H886Engrossed

AEDs and CPR in Public Schools

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

House2025-05-08

H854Engrossed

Require Licensure of Educational Interpreters

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

House2025-05-08

H981Engrossed

Local Schools Open Enrollment Study

This bill directs the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to study how local school districts could implement open enrollment policies, allowing students to attend any school within their district rather than only their assigned school. The study will examine existing voluntary enrollment plans, consider how mandatory open enrollment could work (including application processes, capacity limits, transportation, and appeals), and report findings and recommendations to the legislature by April 15, 2026.

House2025-05-08

H379Engrossed

Application for a Convention of the States

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

House2025-05-08

H547Engrossed

Children's Services Protection Act

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

House2025-05-07

H598Introduced

Live Event Ticketing Protections & Reforms

This bill creates consumer protections for people buying resold tickets to live events in North Carolina. It requires ticket sellers to clearly show all fees upfront, prevents price increases during checkout, restricts ticket issuers from blocking resales or punishing resellers, and prohibits secondary ticket websites from using event or venue names in their web addresses.

House2025-05-06

H891Introduced

Civil Actions/State Agency and AG Litigation

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

House2025-05-06

H976Introduced

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

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

House2025-05-06

H472Engrossed

Commercial Vehicle & Cargo Protection

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

House2025-05-05

H789Engrossed

Mitigating Factor/Pretrial Use of IID

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

House2025-05-05

H92Engrossed

NC Digital Assets Investments Act

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

House2025-05-01

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

H996Introduced

Further Limit General Fund Operating Budget

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

House2025-04-14

H846Introduced

Teacher Retention and Recruitment

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

House2025-04-10

H384Introduced

Nat. Guard Tax Deduction for Fed. Pay

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

House2025-04-08

H779Introduced

Designate Children's Day

This bill designates the first Sunday of June each year as Children's Day in North Carolina. The designation is ceremonial and does not create any new programs, funding, or legal requirements.

House2025-04-07

H744Introduced

Fertility Preservation Pilot Program

This bill establishes a seven-year Fertility Preservation Pilot Program that allocates $2.25 million per year to three medical institutions (Duke University, UNC Chapel Hill, and Atrium Health Levine Cancer Center) to help cancer patients afford fertility services like egg/sperm freezing and IVF/IUI treatments. Eligible participants include uninsured individuals, those with inadequate insurance coverage, or those facing high out-of-pocket costs, with financial assistance capped at $12,000 for female participants and $26,000 for IVF/IUI services.

House2025-04-03

H611Introduced

Increase APs in Public Schools

This bill appropriates state funds to increase the number of assistant principals in North Carolina public schools. Local school districts must hire more assistant principals each year, with the state providing $23.6 million in the 2025-2026 school year and $57.6 million annually from 2026-2027 onward to support this expansion.

House2025-04-01

H523Introduced

School Social Workers/Master's Pay

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

House2025-03-27

H469Introduced

Restoring Rivalries Act

This bill requires North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to play each other regularly in football, basketball, baseball, and softball starting in the 2026-2027 academic year. Specifically, the schools must play at least one game per year in football and basketball, and at least three games per year in baseball and softball.

House2025-03-24

H465Introduced

Waive Renewal Fee/Military Drivers Licenses

This bill waives the renewal fee for North Carolina driver's licenses for people with an active duty military designation or a veteran military designation. The waiver would apply to license renewals on or after July 1, 2025.

House2025-03-20

H182Engrossed

Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse

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

House2025-03-17

H387Introduced

Eliminate Tax on Gov't Retirees

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

House2025-03-13

H375Introduced

AI/Ban Deceptive Ads

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

House2025-03-13

H360Introduced

Homeowner Protection Act

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

House2025-03-12

H361Introduced

Funds to Fight Deed and Title Fraud

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

House2025-03-12

H225Introduced

Restore Down-Zoning/Wake Forest & Rolesville

This bill restores the authority of the towns of Wake Forest and Rolesville to initiate down-zoning (reducing development density or permitted uses on property) without obtaining written consent from all affected property owners. The change applies retroactively to December 11, 2024, and reverses a restriction that was imposed by state legislation in 2024.

House2025-02-27

H76Introduced

Protect Access to In Vitro Fertilization

This bill protects patient access to assisted reproductive technology (ART), including in vitro fertilization (IVF), by prohibiting the state and its subdivisions from blocking, unreasonably limiting, or interfering with these procedures. It also protects health care providers' rights to provide ART services and information about them, while preserving the state's ability to enforce health and safety regulations.

House2025-02-11

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Sponsored Bills (53)

Home-Based Business Fairness Act

Garner Town Mgr./Settle Claims

Voluntary Portable Benefits Plan Act

Tax-Free Family Essentials Act

Honor 2026 Carolina Hurricanes Team

NC Digital Asset and Stablecoin Act

Family Support for Those Who Serve Act

The Seatbelt Act

Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA)

Affordable Housing Exemption Mods

Early Intervention School Attendance Pilot

Energy and Housing Affordability Act

Keep NC Working Act

Workforce Act of 2026

Workforce Housing Loan Renewal Act

Repeal Two Percent Local Grocery Tax

Disabled Veterans Tax Relief Bill

Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency

Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs

2025 Omnibus Labor Amendments.-AB

Modify Homestead Exclusions

Locksmith Licensing Act Modernization

Protect Personal Info/Judicial Personnel

Drivers License Expiration Moratorium

Unauthorized Public Camping & Sleeping

AEDs and CPR in Public Schools

Require Licensure of Educational Interpreters

Local Schools Open Enrollment Study

Application for a Convention of the States

Children's Services Protection Act

Live Event Ticketing Protections & Reforms

Civil Actions/State Agency and AG Litigation

Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act

Commercial Vehicle & Cargo Protection

Mitigating Factor/Pretrial Use of IID

NC Digital Assets Investments Act

Workforce Credential Grant Program/CCP

Further Limit General Fund Operating Budget

Teacher Retention and Recruitment

Nat. Guard Tax Deduction for Fed. Pay

Designate Children's Day

Fertility Preservation Pilot Program

Increase APs in Public Schools

School Social Workers/Master's Pay

Restoring Rivalries Act

Waive Renewal Fee/Military Drivers Licenses

Rev. Law Perm. Protect Order/Child Abuse

Eliminate Tax on Gov't Retirees

AI/Ban Deceptive Ads

Homeowner Protection Act

Funds to Fight Deed and Title Fraud

Restore Down-Zoning/Wake Forest & Rolesville

Protect Access to In Vitro Fertilization

Cosponsored Bills (21)

NC Farmland and Military Protection Act

Honor Mike Clampitt

Prohibit Litigation Invest/Amend WC Benefits

Medicaid Prepaid Health Plan Practices

Lower Healthcare Costs

Continuing Budget Operations Part III

Fostering Care in NC Act

Dis. Veteran Homestead Excl. Prequalification

Restore Down-Zoning Authority

Support Firefighters Fighting Cancer

Revive High-Need Retired Teachers Program

All Pro Dads & Responsible Fatherhood NC

Vet Care for Retired First Responder Dogs

Crimes Against Minors/Revise Law

Establish Military Appreciation Month

Expand Religious Property Tax Exemption

No Tax on Tips, Overtime, Bonus Pay

SchCalFlex/Wake/CC

Reclaim State Assets from NCInnovation

Constitutional Amendment/Repeal Literacy Test

Modernize Medicaid Dental Rates

Voting Record (802)