Updates from the N.C. General Assembly

The bills are in - now we see where this session goes.

Standing with teachers, standing up for the environment.

NC lawmakers in session - thanks for staying engaged

To put it mildly, 2025 was a bumpy year at the N.C. General Assembly. Your N.C. Sierra Club was a regular presence at the Legislative Building, and we're getting ready now for the 2026 "short session." Read our recap and stay tuned for ways you can...

State lawmakers spent the week pushing through a new congressional map for North Carolina that's designed to give Republicans a significant electoral advantage. It chiefly affects District 1, which encompasses northeastern N.C.'s Black Belt region.

State lawmakers returned to Raleigh this week for another mini session, with the goals of overriding vetoes, enacting mini-budgets, appropriating additional funds ("rebasing") for Medicaid, and passing a crime bill filed in response to the killing...

Tuesday was one of the grimmest days we've seen at the N.C. General Assembly in a while, as lawmakers overturned veto after veto by Gov. Josh Stein, including two of our highest-priority bills.Four House Democrats broke party ranks to help the GOP...

The House and Senate held skeleton sessions this week, while the real action happened a few blocks over at Gov. Josh Stein's office, where he used his veto powers on some bills of interest to Sierrans.

The General Assembly's highly anticipated adjournment, scheduled for Thursday, didn’t happen. Now, Governor Stein has until July 4 to veto the "Ratepayer Risks Act," and other problematic bills are still in the pipeline.

The session is winding down and the action is heating up at the legislature, which we're told will adjourn next week. The big news was yesterday's Senate concurrence vote to accept massive changes to S266, the bill we call the Ratepayer Risks Act.