# Mark Your Calendars: NC's Legislative Calendar Through the 2026 Short Session

August 1, 2025

### NCGA 2025 Adjournment Resolution – Everything You Need to Know

On July 31, 2025, the NC General Assembly adopted an [**Adjournment Resolution, SJR 772 (Adjournment Resolution)**](https://app.roboro.ai/bills/view/NC/2025/S772).

The Adjournment Resolution adjourns the General Assembly on **July 31, 2025**, and establishes the following schedule of abbreviated sessions through the Short Session in April 2026 and outlines what matters may be considered during each session:

**Dates**

- August 26, 2025, to August 28, 2025
- September 22, 2025, to September 25, 2025 (Expanded consideration of bills)
- October 21, 2025
- November 18, 2025
- December 16, 2025
- January 13, 2026
- February 10, 2026
- March 10, 2026
- April 7, 2026
- April 21, 2026 (Short Session)

**Matters that may be considered during the August 26, 2025, to August 28, 2025, and October 21, 2025, through April 7, 2026, reconvened sessions**:

- Bills returned by the Governor for veto override consideration
- Bills related to appointments, confirmations, or filling vacancies as required by law
- Actions on gubernatorial nominations or appointments
- Actions related to litigation challenging legislative enactments
- Matters relating to election laws, including redistricting for various elected offices
- Impeachment proceedings
- Simple resolutions on organizational matters
- Adoption of conference reports for bills for which conferees had been appointed by both houses on or before July 31, 2025
- Bills, including bills providing for disaster recovery, returned on or before July 31, 2025, to the house in which the bill originated for concurrence
- A joint resolution further adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, amending a joint resolution adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, or adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, sine die

**Matters that may be considered during the September 22, 2025, to September 25, 2025, reconvened session**:

- All the matters that could be considered during the above reconvened sessions, AND
- Bills and resolutions, that:
  - Made Crossover and were not disposed of by tabling, unfavorable committee report, indefinite postponement, or failure to pass any reading
  - Were not subject to Crossover

**Matters that may be considered during the Short Session beginning April 21, 2026, (these are typical matters that may be considered during the Short Session)**:

- Bills directly and primarily affecting the State budget
- Bills proposing amendments to the North Carolina Constitution and implementation language for such amendments
- Bills that made Crossover or were not subject to Crossover
- Bills recommended by study committees
- Local bills
- Bills related to appointments, confirmations, or filling vacancies as required by law
- Actions on gubernatorial nominations or appointments
- Any matter authorized by joint resolution passed by a two-thirds majority of the members of the House of Representatives present and voting and by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Senate present and voting
- Any bills primarily affecting any State or local pension or retirement system
- Joint resolutions and simple resolutions
- Bills returned by the Governor for veto override consideration
- Actions related to litigation challenging legislative enactments
- Matters relating to election laws, including redistricting for various elected offices
- Bills to disapprove rules under G.S. 150B-21.3
- Bills providing for impeachment
- A joint resolution further adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, amending a joint resolution adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, or adjourning the 2025 Regular Session, sine die

The Adjournment Resolution authorizes the Speaker and President Pro Tempore to **allow committees or subcommittees to meet during session interims** to review budget matters, prepare reports, or consider other matters as deemed appropriate, and allows conference committees to meet with leadership approval.

For more insights and real-time updates as the NCGA reconvenes for the rest of session.