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S903 • 2025

Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.

Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.

Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Chitlik, Grafstein, Murdock, Theodros, Waddell
Last action
2026-04-30
Official status
Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.

Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.

What This Bill Does

  • Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2026-04-30 Senate

    Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

  2. 2026-04-30 Senate

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2026-04-30 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  4. 2026-04-30 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  5. 2026-04-29 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 903

Short Title: Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Chitlik and Grafstein (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
April 30, 2026
*S903-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT REPEALING THE BAN ON PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. 2
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 3
SECTION 1. G.S. 95-98 reads as rewritten: 4
"§ 95-98. Contracts between units of government and labor unions, trade unions or labor 5
organizations concerning public employees declared to be illegal. 6
Any agreement, or contract, between the governing authority of any city, town, county, or 7
other municipality, or between any agency, unit, or instrumentality thereof, or betw een any 8
agency, instrumentality, or institution of the State of North Carolina, and any labor union, trade 9
union, or labor organization, as bargaining agent for any public employees of such city, town, 10
county or other municipality, or agency or instrumenta lity of government, is hereby declared to 11
be against the public policy of the State, illegal, unlawful, void and of no effect." 12
SECTION 2. Effective July 1, 2026, there is appropriated from the General Fund to 13
the Department of Labor the sum of one hundre d thousand dollars ($100,000) in nonrecurring 14
funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to inform public employees about this act. 15
SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes 16
law. 17