Lapel Intelligence
Session laws
Newly enacted North Carolina session laws, read section by section for the industries they touch and the lobbying principals most likely to have shaped them.
- SL 2026-1·Enacted May 5, 2026·budget·Budget impact
Medicaid rewrite, HASP off-ramp, and a Greensboro megaproject
A budget-adjustment vehicle whose center of gravity is Medicaid — sixteen Division of Health Benefits sections rewrite PHP network rules, copays, ABA policy, and program-integrity authority. Hospital assessment changes (HASP) name NCHA explicitly as DHHS's consultation counterparty.
- SL 2026-2·Enacted May 5, 2026·policy
Five deannexations and a satellite-annexation exemption
Five local deannexation and ETJ-removal sections plus one statewide statutory change adding East Spencer to G.S. 160A-58.1(b)(5). The League of Municipalities is the only institutional lobby touching the entire vehicle.
- SL 2026-3·Enacted May 5, 2026·technical
School-nurses vehicle gutted into SFRF cleanup
A bill that started life as 'Registered Nurses in Schools' and was engrossed by the Senate into SFRF/NCPRO administrative cleanup. As enacted it has very low lobbying density — the visible lobbying was on the original school-nurses content, which is no longer in the bill.