This plain-language guide reviews the bills identified in recent campaign messaging. It separates the bill’s actual text from a short description, identifies the recorded House vote and legislative stage, and states whether the measure became law.
Enacted · S.L. 2025-79SB 416 — Personal Privacy Protection Act
The claim: A donor-privacy bill that limits government collection of nonprofit supporter information.
The record: The final law restricts public agencies from compelling or publicly disclosing specified information about nonprofit members, supporters, volunteers, and financial or nonfinancial donors, subject to exceptions. It also addresses certain contractor and grantee requests.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, conference-report adoption, and the veto override. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-89HB 125 — Continuing Budget Operations
The claim: The final package included $114,000 per year for a Sunday-opening pilot at 13 historic sites, including Historic Halifax.
The record: That provision was in the final conference package, not the bill as originally filed. Rodney’s final-package vote was a vote on a broad budget-operations measure, not a stand-alone vote on the historic-site pilot.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on final House conference-report adoption, Roll Call 601. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-83HB 549 — State Auditor Powers
The claim: A measure giving the State Auditor authority to investigate misuse of public funds.
The record: The final law addresses alleged improper governmental activity involving defined publicly funded entities and limits covered audits or investigations to State or federal funds those entities receive, disburse, or handle. It also contains additional provisions.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, concurrence in the Senate substitute, and the veto override. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-81HB 193 — Firearm Law Revisions
The record: The enacted law conditionally permits authorized employees or volunteers at nonpublic schools to carry specified weapons when written authorization, a qualifying permit, training, and school procedures are present. It also includes other firearm, school/place-of-worship, official-protection, and pretrial provisions.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on the final House veto override, Roll Call 576. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-82HB 402 — Costly Agency Rules
The record: Rules with an aggregate cost of at least $20 million over five years require General Assembly ratification, subject to an exception. Certain boards and commissions face two-thirds or unanimous voting thresholds at lower cost levels.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on final House passage, concurrence in the Senate-amended version, and the veto override. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-85HB 318 — Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act
The record: The enacted law creates conditional status inquiries, ICE notifications, holds, and transfer procedures for people charged with specified offenses when stated detainer, warrant, identity, and custody-request conditions are met.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, concurrence in the Senate substitute, and the veto override. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-84HB 805 — Prevent Sexual Exploitation/Women and Minors
The record: The final law includes age, consent, and removal provisions for covered pornographic images, plus additional provisions concerning sex-related terms, funding, birth certificates, remedies, religious objections, library access, and school sleeping quarters.
Vote: Rodney Pierce voted Aye on the narrower second-reading version, then No on Senate-substitute concurrence and the final veto override. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-59SB 442 — Parents Protection Act
The record: The enacted law makes specified changes concerning juvenile care and adoption, including provisions about raising or referring to a juvenile consistent with biological sex, while preserving liability for other abuse or neglect.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, after an amendment was adopted. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2025-94HB 926 — Regulatory Reform Act of 2025
The record: This broad regulatory-relief law addresses multiple subjects, including wastewater, inspections, zoning, development, administrative hearings, licensing, debt setoff, existing-use rights, and wastewater products.
Vote: Rodney Pierce voted No at second reading, Aye at third reading after House floor amendments, and No on final concurrence in the Senate-amended version. Official NCGA record →
Enacted · S.L. 2026-20SB 227 — Eliminating “DEI” in Public Education
The record: The law regulates specified practices, instruction, professional development, and DEI-related offices or functions in public school units, with listed exceptions. Its statutory language uses defined “divisive concepts”; “critical race theory” is not the statute’s title or textual label.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading and the final House veto override in 2026. Official NCGA record →
House-passed proposalHB 236 — Remember 9/11 with Freedom Flag
The record: The proposal would designate the Freedom Flag as a symbol of remembrance and permit—not require—its display with the U.S. and North Carolina flags at specified locations on September 11.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, Roll Call 47. The official record reviewed shows Senate referral as the last action and does not show enactment. Official NCGA record →
Needs precise wordingHB 674 — The Firearms Liberty Act
The record: The House-passed version would create an optional lifetime concealed-handgun permit valid statewide until surrendered or revoked, alongside five-year permits. It did not create unrestricted permitless concealed carry.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on the amendment and House second reading, Roll Calls 318 and 319. The official record reviewed shows Senate referral as the last action and does not show enactment. Official NCGA record →
Official title differsHB 781 — Unauthorized Public Camping & Sleeping
The record: The House-passed proposal would restrict local authorization of defined public camping or sleeping on public property, subject to designated-property, emergency, and other exceptions.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, Roll Call 324. The official record reviewed shows Senate referral as the last action and does not show enactment. Official NCGA record →
House-passed proposalHB 618 — Ivermectin Access Act
The record: The proposal would authorize pharmacist dispensing under a statewide standing order without a written prescription or consultation. That is not the same as unrestricted ordinary retail self-service sales.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, Roll Call 291. The official record reviewed shows Senate referral as the last action and does not show enactment. Official NCGA record →
House-passed proposalHB 636 — Promoting Wholesome Content for Students
The record: The House-passed proposal would establish school-library selection and review procedures, advisory committees, objection processes, databases, and specified civil relief. It was not shown as enacted.
Vote: Rodney Pierce was recorded No on House second reading, Roll Call 149. An amendment vote should not be substituted for the bill-passage vote. Official NCGA record →
