26 bills
HB 244 · 2025-2026 · House
Bans Pride flags, BLM flags, Juneteenth flags, and thin blue line flags from government property. Employees who display an unapproved flag on a breakroom wall face termination.
HB 28 · 2025-2026 · House
Creates stiffer penalties for felons who use guns during crimes. No background checks, no waiting periods, no permit requirements. A Democrat filed an identically-titled bill with actual prevention measures... it never got a hearing.
HB 402 · 2025-2026 · House
Originally called the NC REINS Act. Transfers rulemaking power from state agencies to the legislature. The title makes it sound like fiscal responsibility. The governor said it would make it harder to keep your drinking water clean.
HB 437 · 2025-2026 · House
Threatens homeless shelter operators with felony charges if drug activity happens within 100 feet of their property. The people helping the most face the most risk.
HB 519 · 2025-2026 · House
Repeals minors' ability to consent to treatment for STDs, substance abuse, and mental health without parental permission. The American Academy of Pediatrics says confidentiality is essential to adolescent healthcare.
HB 549 · 2025-2026 · House
Gives the State Auditor sweeping new access to private company data, exempts the office from cybersecurity oversight, and strips career protections from employees. Filed after a Republican won the Auditor seat.
HB 805 · 2025-2026 · House
Passed the House 113-0 as an anti-exploitation bill. The Senate rewrote it to define sex in state law, restrict transgender rights, and add five unrelated policy areas.
SB 153 · 2025-2026 · Senate
North Carolina doesn't have a border. The bill mandates ICE cooperation, strips immunity from "sanctuary" cities, bars UNC campuses from limiting immigration enforcement, and cuts benefits for undocumented residents.
SB 205 · 2025-2026 · Senate
Started as a swimming pool bill. Passed the Senate 46-0. Then the House stuffed a major housing deregulation bill inside it after the original stalled. Cities across the state passed resolutions opposing it.
SB 24 · 2025-2026 · Senate
The title isn't a description. It's an argument. The bill creates a one-in-one-out rule for health insurance coverage requirements... want to add cancer screening? You have to repeal something else first.
SB 266 · 2025-2026 · Senate
Raises your electric bill. NC State researchers estimate up to $23 billion in added costs through 2050, with residential customers paying more so Duke Energy's corporate clients pay less.
SB 378 · 2025-2026 · Senate
Started as an HOA reform bill. Got gutted overnight and rewritten to defund Planned Parenthood. The original bipartisan sponsors are still listed.
SB 403 · 2025-2026 · Senate
This bill cuts state agency positions and reduces Medicaid benefits while making some funding adjustments and adding administrative requirements.
SB 405 · 2025-2026 · Senate
A chiropractic licensing bill that got gutted and rewritten as emergency Medicaid funding. Passed the House 110-0. The Senate killed it on a technicality during a Medicaid funding crisis.
HB 10 · 2023-2024 · House
The "budget adjustments" include $4 billion in private school voucher funding over the next decade. The governor vetoed it over the school provisions, not the immigration ones.
HB 346 · 2023-2024 · House
Lets Blue Cross NC move $4.6 billion in policyholder money into a new holding company with less regulatory oversight. The state Insurance Commissioner called it "a sure way to raise premiums."
HB 49 · 2023-2024 · House
Allows concealed carry on school property during church services. WRAL's headline said what the bill title wouldn't: "NC House passes bill to allow guns at religious services held on school grounds."
HB 556 · 2023-2024 · House
Buried inside a tenancy and notary bill: a provision banning local governments from requiring landlords to accept Section 8 housing vouchers. The title doesn't mention it.
SB 156 · 2023-2024 · Senate
Started as a bipartisan Medicaid plan for foster children. Passed the Senate 44-1. The House gutted it and replaced it with domestic violence misdemeanor language. The foster care plan had to find another ride.
SB 20 · 2023-2024 · Senate
Bans most abortions after 12 weeks, adds a mandatory 72-hour in-person waiting period, and criminalizes advertising abortion-inducing drugs. Introduced Tuesday night, passed Thursday.
SB 364 · 2023-2024 · Senate
Prohibits state agencies from conducting anti-bias and anti-discrimination training. Uses the word "nondiscrimination" to restrict how the state addresses discrimination.
SB 382 · 2023-2024 · Senate
A 132-page "disaster relief" bill that strips the governor's court appointments, restructures election boards, and reshapes the Utilities Commission. The actual relief money was locked in a fund they couldn't spend.
SB 53 · 2023-2024 · Senate
Strips tenant protections from long-term hotel residents. People living in motels can be removed without a legal eviction process for up to 90 days.
SB 650 · 2023-2024 · Senate
SB 678 · 2023-2024 · Senate
Redefines "clean energy" to include nuclear, extends coal ash deadlines, and makes utility regulator NDAs exempt from public records. The "Other Changes" covers everything the title would rather not say.
SB 749 · 2023-2024 · Senate
Restructures the State Board of Elections and all 100 county boards to shift power from the governor to the legislature. Introduced by one party, passed by one party.