Bill Watch List / 2025 Session

Updated: 4/21/2025 3:1 PM

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• H38 – Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025 – Prohibits a payment card network from maintaining records of individuals in the state who own firearms and from declining a lawful firearm payment card transaction.
• S50 – Passed Senate – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Protects the right to carry a concealed handgun without a permit and allows individuals to obtain a concealed handgun permit for reciprocity in other states.
• S280 – Passed 1st Reading in the Senate – Permits authorized employees and volunteers at private schools to carry weapons on school property and allows concealed handguns at schools that are also religious worship sites during services or religious events.

• H553 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Places stricter rules on mailing abortion drugs incluidng: in-person consultation a least 72 hours before mailing the drug and that it must be FDA-approved. This will help ensure the pregnant woman has adequate information and time to make an informed decision before using abortion-inducing medication.
• H804 – Introduced in the House – Human Life Protection Act of 2025. Prohibits abortion after conception, except when necessary to save the mother’s life.

• H844 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Finding Grace Family Bill. Requires The Department of Health and Human Services to post information about adoption benefits/process, adoption agencies/services, reasons adoptions may fail and how to prevent it, support for women during and after pregnancy, and alternatives to abortion; and adds that its unlawful to have an abortion after 6 weeks of pregnancy.

• H680 – Introduced in the House – Aims to regulate the sale and distribution of hemp-derived consumable products to protect children and youth from potential health risks associated with these products. ​
• S429 – Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate – 2025 Public Safety Act. Bans hemp-derived products on school grounds and creates a criminal offense for exposing children to controlled substances.
• S533 – Awaiting Senate Committee Hearing – Raises the minimum age to purchase tobacco products to 21 (currently 18).

• H87 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Develops policies to restrict students’ use of cell phones in the classroom. (Companion to S55)
• H595 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Parental Rights for Curriculum and Books. Prohibits instruction on gender identity, sexual activity, or sexuality in grades K-6. Students in grades 7-12 must have prior written consent of their parents or legal guardian to participate in instruction on gender identity, sexual activity, or sexuality. Prohibits books in school libraries that contain material that is harmful to minors as defined in NC Criminal Law Code 14-190.13. Mandates public libraries restrict access to minors to any library book containing material that is harmful to minors as defined in NC Criminal Law Code 14-190.13.
• H949 – Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – School Protection Act. Allows security guards to carry firearms on nonpublic school property.
• S55 – Passed Senate – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Develops policies to restrict students’ use of cell phones in the classroom. (Companion to H87)
• S227 – Passed Senate – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Eliminating “DEI” in Public Education. Prohibits public education institutions from promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) concepts such as racial guilt or meritocracy criticism in professional development programs, and bans the use of public funds for such programs.

• H448 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Offers a temporary sales tax exemption on equipment specifically designed to prevent unauthorized access to firearms, encouraging the purchase of safety devices like gun safes or biometric locks.
• H674 – Introduced in the House – The Firearms Liberty Act. Allows lifetime concealed handgun permits, lets permit holders who let their permit lapse renew without retaking a safety course, and authorizes the use of biometric safes for storing defensive devices in schools.

• H519 – House Serial Referral To Health Stricken – Updates regulations on when minors can independently consent to medical treatment and ensures parents have the right to access their minor children’s medical records. (Companion to S759)
• S316 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Aims to lower healthcare costs and increase price transparency.
• S759 – Awaiting Senate Committee Hearing – Updates regulations on when minors can independently consent to medical treatment and ensures parents have the right to access their minor children’s medical records. (Companion to H519)

• H7 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – NC REACH Act. Requires students to complete at least three credit hours of instruction in American history or American government to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from a University of North Carolina institution or an associate degree from a community college. (Companion to S300)
• S300 – Awaiting Senate Committee Hearing – NC REACH Act. Requires students to complete at least three credit hours of instruction in American history or American government to graduate with a bachelor’s degree from a University of North Carolina institution or an associate degree from a community college. (Companion to H7)
• S558 – Passed Senate – Sent to the House – Eliminates “DEI” in Public Higher Ed. Prohibits public institutions of higher education from implementing or advancing policies related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

• S389 – Introduced in the Senate – Allows opportunity scholarships (financial assistance) to be given to students in home schools and allocate funds for this purpose.

• H560 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Parents Protection Act. Clarifies current state law that parent, guardian, or caretaker who raises or refers to a child based on the child’s biological sex will not be accused of abuse or neglect just for doing so. (Companion to S442)
• H791 – Introduced in the House – Women’s Safety and Protection Act. Requires restrooms, changing facilities, and sleeping areas in covered facilities to be used by one biological sex at a time; and in public schools, students cannot share sleeping quarters with members of the opposite biological sex during school events, unless they are family members and the school has permission from a parent.
• H1000 – Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – Detransitioners Bill of Rights. Allows an individual who undergoes a detransition procedure to file a lawsuit within 10 years of turning 18 or within four years of the procedure, whichever is later. Additionally, no city or county can prevent a parent from consenting to or withholding consent for mental health services for a minor regarding gender issues, and health plans covering gender transition for minors must also cover adverse effects, monitoring, and treatments related to transition procedures.
• S442 – Introduced in the Senate – Parents Protection Act. Clarifies current state law that parent, guardian, or caretaker who raises or refers to a child based on the child’s biological sex will not be accused of abuse or neglect just for doing so.(Companion to H560)
• S516 – Awaiting Senate Committee Hearing – Women’s Safety and Protection Act. Defines “sex,” “male,” “female,” “man,” “woman,” “boy,” “girl,” “mother,” “father,” and “gender” according to truth, science, and a biblical worldview. Public restrooms must be designated and used by only one biological sex at a time. Removes the current provision in state law allowing an individual to change the sex on their birth certificate based on sex reassignment surgery. Requires driver’s licenses and state-issued IDs to reflect a person’s biological sex at birth.

• H375 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Regulates the use of AI generated images including the prohibition of AI generated child pornography, intimate AI generated images of a person without their consent, and AI generated deepfakes, or deceptive or fraudulent images of candidates for office.
• H805 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Aims to prevent the exploitation of individuals through the distribution of pornographic images without consent, sets strict requirements for online entities to verify the age and consent of individuals in such images before publication.

• H776 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Applies the Compelling Interest Test (CIT) to cases where a person or organization claims that a state law violates their religious beliefs. That means that in those cases, the state must prove in court that it has a “compelling interest,” an interest of the highest legal degree, to force the person or organization to violate their beliefs, and secondly, if it does have a “compelling interest,” the state must be applying that interest in the “least restrictive way.”

• H83 – Passed House – Sent to the Senate – Increases penalties for sharing harmful material or performances with minors, creates a new crime for repeated indecent exposure, requires sex offender registration for certain offenses, and prevents ride services from picking up minors without parental consent.

• H301 – Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – Protects minors under age 16 from harmful social media websites and prohibits accounts for minors under age 14.
• H860 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Social Media Control in IT Act. Prevents social media addiction by protecting user privacy, banning ads and algorithms using minors’ data, and punishing companies that break these rules.

• H171 – Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – Eliminates DEI initiatives in state and local government.
• H678 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Amends the North Carolina Constitution to limit the governor’s emergency powers, requires General Assembly approval for emergency measures lasting more than two weeks, and ensures people’s rights are protected during emergencies.
• H799 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Requires that state employee hiring, promotion, and training shall be without regard to race or ethnicity, religion, or sex and that applications for state employment shall not inquire about race.

• H380 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Allows students in North Carolina to be exempt from vaccination requirements based on conscientious or religious objection.

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• H503 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Individual Freedom Bill of Rights. States that no state or political subdivision may violate such rights, including: denial or restriction of reproductive health care, denying employment, housing, or services based on political beliefs, medical history, or lawful personal conduct, and mandates no warrantless surveillance, tracking, or data collection by the state. (Companion to S482)
• H509 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. Advances abortion by codifying the essential holdings of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey. Mandates that the state cannot impose and undue burden on person who chooses to abort their unborn child before the stage of fetal viability. Removes the current restriction prohibiting minor’s from authorizing “the inducing of an abortion.”
• S467 – Passed 1st Reading in the Senate – Right to Reproductive Freedom Act. Advances abortion by codifying the essential holdings of Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v Casey. Mandates that the state cannot impose and undue burden on person who chooses to abort their unborn child before the stage of fetal viability. Removes the current restriction prohibiting minor’s from authorizing “the inducing of an abortion.”
• S482 – Awaiting Senate Committee Hearing – Individual Freedom Bill of Rights. States that no state or political subdivision may violate such rights, including: denial or restriction of reproductive health care, denying employment, housing, or services based on political beliefs, medical history, or lawful personal conduct, and no warrantless surveillance, tracking, or data collection by the state. (Companion to H503)

• H410 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Directs the North Carolina Institute of Medicine to study the legalization of medical aid in dying in the state and allocates funds for this purpose.

• H522 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Crisis Pregnancy Center Fraud Prevention Act. Makes it illegal for crisis pregnancy centers to falsely advertise abortion or emergency contraceptive services if they do not actually provide those services.

• S94 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Abolishes any provision that allows the execution of individuals convicted of capital offenses, substituting the death penalty with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

• H413 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Legalizes and regulate the sale, possession, and use of cannabis in North Carolina. (Companion to S350)
• S350 – Passed 1st Reading in the Senate – Seeks to legalize and regulate the sale, possession, and use of cannabis in North Carolina. (Companion to H413)

• H788 – Introduced in the House – Aims to make elections “more fair” by creating nonpartisan redistricting, allowing online and automatic voter registration, ensuring voting access on college campuses, preventing voter roll purging, and restoring voting rights for some offenders.
• S107 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Aims to create nonpartisan elections for selecting and nominating judges in North Carolina.

• H420 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Appropriates $200,000 in recurring funds to the Department of Public Instruction to support additional positions, including educators to monitor “diversity.”
• H842 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Allows public schools to conduct health screenings (vision, dental, hearing, and developmental screenings) without parental consent, requiring only that they notify parents at the beginning of the school year about all planned screenings and provide the results afterward.

• H732 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Imposes stricter laws on guns: requires permits for purchasing assault weapons or long guns, establishes a 72-hour waiting period before delivery, raises the legal age for purchasing certain firearms, mandates firearm liability insurance, restricts the sale of bump stocks and ghost guns, and includes measures for safe storage

• H462 – Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 3, if favorable, Commerce and Economic Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – Establishes the “NC Personal Data Privacy Act” and the “Social Media Safety Act,” to regulate social media platforms within the state, potentially limiting free expression or leading to excessive censorship

• H14 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Allows a state income tax deduction on gambling losses.
• H424 – Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House – Legalizes gambling via board games, card games, or tile games (like canasta, mahjong, and bridge) for money or valuables at a private residence, home, or community clubhouse.

• H725 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Aims to “reduce maternal health disparities and improve outcomes for Black women” in North Carolina by creating a Maternal Mortality Prevention Grant Program and requiring healthcare professionals involved in perinatal care to complete training on unconscious biases, cultural competence, and health inequities.

• H497 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Prohibits using the discovery, perception, or belief about someone’s sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation as a defense in cases of homicide or assault. (Companion to S407)
• H502 – Awaiting House Committee Hearing – Gender-Affirming Rights Act. Repeals the ban on gender transition procedures for minors and removes restrictions on using state funds for those procedures.
• S407 – Introduced in the Senate – Prohibits using the discovery, perception, or belief about someone’s sex, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation as a defense in cases of homicide or assault. (Companion to H497)

• H174 – Passed 1st Reading in the House – Marriage Equality Act. Redefines marriage as the legal union of two consenting individuals, regardless of sex, gender, or sexual orientation, and ensures equal application of laws and services related to marriage, prohibiting any refusal of recognition or denial of marriage services based on these factors.

• H902 – Introduced in the House – Library Bill of Rights Act. Declares the right to access library materials, and that the government can’t restrict access based on content or viewpoint, thereby allowing libraries to put whatever they want on the shelves.

• H538 – Introduced in the House – Aims to protect all North Carolinians from discrimination in various aspects of life.
• S154 – Passed 1st Reading in the Senate – NC CROWN Act. Makes it illegal for a person or business to discriminate based on a person’s race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, or “protective hairstyles.”

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• S452 – Introduced in the Senate – Requires that only individuals 18 years or older can legally marry.