The House and Senate convened at noon on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025, for the beginning of the 2025-2026 legislative session.  

During this Organizational Session H1 and S1 were filed and adopted, establishing the temporary rules for the House and permanent rules for the Senate. View H1 in Roboro or ncleg.gov. View S1 in Roboro or ncleg.gov. 

As soon as the bills were filed, we provided a summary (see our previous blog post here). We’re following that up with a detailed change analysis, including a comparison of deadlines, committees, and additional rules changes. See below.

Deadlines

The bill request and introduction deadlines as well as the crossover deadline are roughly equivalent to the deadlines for the 2023-2024 Session. The only significant deadline change is that the House has eliminated deadlines for specific kinds of bills, like study commission, appropriations, and finance bills, and now only has local and public bill deadlines like the Senate. 

Committees 

The House did not make changes to committees in its temporary rules. 

The Senate changed the name of the Redistricting and Elections Committee to the Elections Committee and added one committee, the Regulatory Reform Committee. 

Other Rule Changes

HOUSE 

The House adopted temporary rules for the current session. The only changes versus the 2023-2024 permanent rules were the changes to the deadlines that are summarized above.

We expect the House will adopt permanent rules in the next month or so and that these rules may have additional changes. 

SENATE 

The Senate adopted permanent rules for the current session.  

In addition to the deadline changes above, here is a summary of the other changes:

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