North Carolina legislation · 2025-2026 Session
North Carolina S903: Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.
Status: Introduced, April 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act repealing the ban on public employee collective bargaining.
From the introduced text:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT REPEALING THE BAN ON PUBLIC EMPLOYEE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: SECTION 1. G.S. 95-98 reads as rewritten: "§ 95-98. Contracts between units of government and labor unions, trade unions or labor organizations concerning public employees declared to be illegal. Any agreement, or contract, between the governing authority of any city, town, county, or other municipality, or between any agency, unit, or instrumentality thereof, or between any agency, instrumentality, or institution of the State of North Carolina, and any labor union, trade union, or labor organization, as bargaining agent for any public employees of such city, town, county or other municipality, or agency or instrumentality of government, is hereby declared to be against the public policy of the State, illegal, unlawful, void and of no effect." SECTION 2. Effective July 1, 2026, there is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Labor the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) in nonrecurring funds for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to inform public employees about this act. SECTION 3. Except as otherwise provided, this act is effective when it becomes law. *DRS45470-LRa-199*
Sponsors
- Chitlik, Sophia (D, 22) · primary sponsor
- Grafstein, Lisa (D, 13) · primary sponsor
- Murdock, Natalie S. (D, 20)
- Theodros, Caleb (D, 41)
- Waddell, Joyce (D, 40)
Latest actions
- : Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget
- : Withdrawn From Com
- : Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
- : Passed 1st Reading
- : Filed
Subjects: LOCAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, BUDGETING, GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYMENT, COMMERCE, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, STATE EMPLOYEES, PUBLIC
Common questions
- What is S903?
- S903 is a bill in the North Carolina Legislature (2025-2026 Session): Public Employees Deserve A Voice Act.
- What does S903 do?
- In its own words: An act repealing the ban on public employee collective bargaining.
- What is the status of S903?
- Introduced as of April 30, 2026. Latest action: Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget (April 30, 2026).
- Who sponsored S903?
- Chitlik, Sophia (D, 22), with 4 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for S903?
- On the North Carolina Legislature website: https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S903
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