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North Carolina House advances dozens of bills on crossover day; key votes on education, health and oversight measures
Summary
The NC House on May 1 moved a large crossover calendar, passing dozens of bills and sending them to the Senate. Lawmakers debated education credit alignment and graduation standards, parental consent for minor medical care, auditor authority, liability for gender-affirming care, and foster-care reforms.
The North Carolina House convened May 1 for a crossover-calendar session and advanced a large slate of bills to the Senate, including measures on K–12 credit articulation, minor consent to medical care, auditor authority, medical-malpractice windows for gender-related care, and foster-care reform.
Among the bills ordered to the Senate were House Bill 121 (school calendar flexibility); HB 301 (social media protections for minors under 16); HB 346 (community college full‑time equivalent calculation); HB 433 (expanded eligibility for school nurses); HB 489 (insurance coverage for emergency ambulance transport); HB 546 (suspend — not terminate — Medicaid during incarceration); and HB 772 (Student Lifeline Act placing 988/741741 on student IDs). Many of those passed unanimously or with lopsided margins on second and third readings.
Several bills produced extended debate. HB 414, the Career and College…
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