A Deeper Dive: NCGA 2025 - Top Sponsors of Passed Laws & Their Key Legislation
August 25, 2025
Your enthusiastic feedback on our previous NCGA 2025 Session by the Numbers: Updated Insights blog has been invaluable - thank you!
Many of you asked for more details about the top sponsors that have successfully advanced bills into law in each chamber and what the bills were. We heard you and thought it was appropriate to follow that up with a deeper dive. Below, you’ll find:
A breakdown of top sponsors, focusing only on bills that became law (excluding resolutions).
Highlights of the specific bills and topics passed by these sponsors.
Top Sponsors: Excluding Resolutions
As many of you already noted after reviewing our Session by the Numbers, there have been 89 Session Laws so far this session and 8 Resolutions, adding up to a total of 97 Ratified Bills.
House: 57 Session Laws + 2 House Resolutions
Senate: 32 Session Laws + 6 Senate Resolutions
When looking at sponsor activity, the picture changes depending on whether you include these resolutions.
Typically the House Rules Chair (Rep. Bell) will be the first primary sponsor on House Resolutions and the Senate Rules Chair (Sen. Rabon) will be the first primary sponsor on Senate Resolutions.
To give a clearer view, we’ve updated our analysis and excluded Resolutions in the tables below for the House and Senate.
House Members with Most Passed Bills (Excluding Resolutions)
Excluding the 2 House/Joint Resolutions, only 4 Members – Reps. B. Jones, Chesser, Pyrtle, and Reeder – had 3 or more bills become Session Law. They were Sponsors for nearly a quarter of all House Bills that became Session Law. Among them:
Rep. B. Jones has had the greatest number of sponsored bills pass (4).
Rep. Chesser has had the greatest percentage of sponsored bills pass (3/9 or 33%).
Here are those bills:
Representative | Session Law | Bill | Bill Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
B. Jones (R) | Ch. SL 2025-6 | H506 | Creates independent NC Investment Authority to manage and oversee state and special fund investments, transferring responsibilities from the State Treasurer, updating investment rules, and implementing new oversight, transparency, and compensation structures. | |
B. Jones (R) | Ch. SL 2025-22 | H421 | Extends motor vehicle dealer license and plate renewal period sand aligns their expiration dates. | |
B. Jones (R) | Ch. SL 2025-76 | H1003 | Overhauls NC’s funeral industry regulations by modernizing cremation laws, strengthening oversight, clarifying preneed funeral fund rules, revising Board authority and composition, updating licensure, reporting, and consumer protection standards across all aspects of funeral services. | |
B. Jones (R) | Ch. SL 2025-83 | H549 | Expands State Auditor’s and Dept of Revenue’s authority to independently investigate, access records, enforce collection of debts, and recommend debarment related to misuse of public funds, with new exemptions from procurement rules and enhanced protections for debtor rights. | |
Chesser (R) | Ch. SL 2025-16 | H612 | Major reforms expand protections for abused and neglected children, strengthen court and social services procedures, broaden kinship guardianship and post-adoption supports, authorize permanent to no contact orders for all violent offenders, and require criminal background checks for prospective child workers in local government. | |
Chesser (R) | Ch. SL 2025-49 | H928 | Authorize physical therapists to evaluate student athlete concussions. | |
Chesser (R) | Ch. SL 2025-82 | H402 | Limits on agency rulemaking with high financial impact, requiring legislative approval or supermajority votes for costly rules. | |
Pyrtle (R) | Ch. SL 2025-5 | H17 | Changes municipal election timing and extends terms for officials in Madison, Faith, and China Grove. | |
Pyrtle (R) | Ch. SL 2025-8 | H50 | Provides an additional special separation allowance option for State and local law enforcement officers with at least 30 years of creditable service. | |
Pyrtle (R) | Ch. SL 2025-14 | H26 | Removes certain properties from several municipal boundaries and exempts them from future municipal taxes, expands Madison’s annexation authority, and comprehensively updates the Town of Davidson’s charter and governance structure. | |
Reeder (R) | Ch. SL 2025-7 | H231 | Creates an interstate compact for social work licensure, enabling multi-state practice and streamlined regulation. | |
Reeder (R) | Ch. SL 2025-13 | H3 | Standardizes and updates local election procedures across several NC counties and municipalities. | |
Reeder (R) | Ch. SL 2025-37 | H67 | Streamlines out-of-state licensure for physicians, PAs, and marriage/family therapists; modernizes pharmacist and PA practice authority; creates a licensure pathway for internationally-trained physicians; expands behavioral health workforce eligibility; and mandates surgical smoke evacuation systems in hospitals and surgical centers. |
Senate Members with Most Passed Bills (Excluding Resolutions)
Excluding the 6 Senate/Joint Resolutions, only these 5 Senators – Sens. Daniel, Britt, Lee, Rabon, and Galey – had 3 bills become Session Law. They were Sponsors for nearly HALF of all Senate Bills that became Session Law.
Here are those bills:
Senator | Session Law | Bill | Bill Title | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Daniel (R) | Ch. SL 2025-51 | S710 | Comprehensive regulations for security systems and private protective services are modernized to cover new technologies, strengthen licensing and background checks, expand oversight authority, clarify standards for armed guards and trainees, enhance ABC Commission enforcement, require thorough personnel file reviews for transferring law enforcement officers, and update military justice procedures for the National Guard. | |
Daniel (R) | Ch. SL 2025-79 | S416 | Restricts public agencies from collecting or disclosing personal information about nonprofit donors, members, and volunteers. | |
Daniel (R) | Ch. SL 2025-80 | S254 | Major restructuring of charter school oversight, operations, and accountability. | |
Britt (R) | Ch. SL 2025-35 | S321 | Updates CPA certification requirements, allowing two educational pathways with corresponding experience requirements. | |
Britt (R) | Ch. SL 2025-70 | S429 | Comprehensive updates to NC criminal laws, including new child protection offenses, autopsy record procedures, sentencing changes, and domestic violence reforms. | |
Britt (R) | Ch. SL 2025-71 | S311 | Expands criminal penalties and civil remedies for various public safety and property crimes – including enhanced penalties for assaults on utility workers, misuse of embalming fluid, workplace violence, organized retail theft, illegal possession of explosives, reckless driving offenses, stricter firearm restrictions for felons, increased penalties for mail theft and burglary, new commercial vehicle protections, and reduces the expunction waiting period for nonviolent misdemeanors. | |
Lee (R) | Ch. SL 2025-56 | S125 | NC’s community college statutes are comprehensively reorganized and modernized to clarify governance, update funding and accreditation standards, expand workforce and transition programs, and adjust eligibility rules for educational initiatives and school safety grants. | |
Lee (R) | Ch. SL 2025-62 | S133 | Authorizes a single learning management system for all community colleges, expands and updates the statewide educational and workforce data system with enhanced privacy protections, and shifts its administration to the Department of Information Technology. | |
Lee (R) | Ch. SL 2025-88 | S55 | Creates a fast-track legal process for property owners to remove unauthorized occupants from residential property. | |
Rabon (R) | Ch. SL 2025-1 | S115 | Appointments to various public offices in NC. | |
Rabon (R) | Ch. SL 2025-29 | S770 | Authorizes and formalizes a wide range of appointments. | |
Rabon (R) | Ch. SL 2025-57 | S391 | Comprehensive updates to Department of Transportation laws, DMV operations, school zone speed enforcement, and related transportation regulations. | |
Galey (R) | Ch. SL 2025-23 | S400 | Establishes local multidisciplinary teams for adult protective services case review and coordination. | |
Galey (R) | Ch. SL 2025-24 | S344 | Ensures asset transfers to pooled special needs trusts by seniors don’t affect Medicaid eligibility. | |
Galey (R) | Ch. SL 2025-73 | S375 | Strengthens hazing penalties and mandates public recording of central office school employee compensation. |
What’s Next?
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