NCGA 2025 Adjournment Resolution – Everything You Need to Know

On July 31, 2025, the NC General Assembly adopted an Adjournment Resolution, SJR 772 (Adjournment Resolution). 

The Adjournment Resolution adjourns the General Assembly on July 31, 2025, and establishes the following schedule of abbreviated sessions through the Short Session in April 2026 and outlines what matters may be considered during each session:

Dates

• August 26, 2025, to August 28, 2025

• September 22, 2025, to September 25, 2025 (Expanded consideration of bills)

• October 21, 2025

• November 18, 2025

• December 16, 2025

• January 13, 2026

• February 10, 2026

• March 10, 2026

• April 7, 2026

• April 21, 2026 (Short Session)

Matters that may be considered during the August 26, 2025, to August 28, 2025, and October 21, 2025, through April 7, 2026, reconvened sessions:

• Bills returned by the Governor for veto override consideration

• Bills related to appointments, confirmations, or filling vacancies as required by law

• Actions on gubernatorial nominations or appointments

• Actions related to litigation challenging legislative enactments

• Matters relating to election laws, including redistricting for various elected offices

• Impeachment proceedings

• Simple resolutions on organizational matters

• Adoption of conference reports for bills for which conferees had been appointed by both houses on or before July 31, 2025

• Bills, including bills providing for disaster recovery, returned on or before July 31, 2025, to the house in which the bill originated for concurrence

• A joint resolution further adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, amending a joint resolution adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, or adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, sine die

Matters that may be considered during the September 22, 2025, to September 25, 2025, reconvened session:

• All the matters that could be considered during the above reconvened sessions, AND

• Bills and resolutions, that:

  • Made Crossover and were not disposed of by tabling, unfavorable committee report, indefinite postponement, or failure to pass any reading

  • Were not subject to Crossover

Matters that may be considered during the Short Session beginning April 21, 2026, (these are typical matters that may be considered during the Short Session):

• Bills directly and primarily affecting the State budget

• Bills proposing amendments to the North Carolina Constitution and implementation language for such amendments

• Bills that made Crossover or were not subject to Crossover

• Bills recommended by study committees

• Local bills

• Bills related to appointments, confirmations, or filling vacancies as required by law

• Actions on gubernatorial nominations or appointments

• Any matter authorized by joint resolution passed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the House of Representatives present and voting and by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Senate present and voting

• Any bills primarily affecting any State or local pension or retirement system

• Joint resolutions and simple resolutions

• Bills returned by the Governor for veto override consideration

• Actions related to litigation challenging legislative enactments

• Matters relating to election laws, including redistricting for various elected offices

• Bills to disapprove rules under G.S. 150B-21.3

• Bills providing for impeachment

• A joint resolution further adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, amending a joint resolution adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, or adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, sine die

The Adjournment Resolution authorizes the Speaker and President Pro Tempore to allow committees or subcommittees to meet during session interims to review budget matters, prepare reports, or consider other matters as deemed appropriate, and allows conference committees to meet with leadership approval. 

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