## Updated: NCGA 2025 Adjournment Resolution – Everything you need to know

September 23, 2025

On September 23, 2025, the NC General Assembly adopted [**SJR 776 (Adjournment Resolution Changes)**](https://app.roboro.ai/bills/view/NC/2025/S776), which amends the previously adopted [**SJR 772 (Adjournment Resolution)**](https://app.roboro.ai/bills/view/NC/2025/S772).

The [**Adjournment Resolution Changes**](https://app.roboro.ai/bills/view/NC/2025/S776) adjourns the General Assembly on **September 25, 2025**, and establishes the following schedule of abbreviated sessions through the Short Session next spring and provides what matters may be considered during each session:

**When will the NCGA reconvene?**

- October 20-23, 2025, at 10:00 A.M.
- November 17-20, 2025, at 10:00 A.M.
- December 15-18, 2025, at 10:00 A.M.
- January 12-15, 2026, at 10:00 A.M.
- February 9-12, 2026, at 10:00 A.M.
- March 9-12, 2026, at 10:00 A.M.
- April 6-9, 2026, at 10:00 A.M.
- April 21, 2026 (Short Session), at 12:00 noon.

**Matters that may be considered during the October 20-23, 2025, through April 6-9, 2026, reconvened sessions:**

- Bills returned by the Governor for veto override consideration (unchanged)
- Bills related to appointments, confirmations, or filling vacancies as required by law (unchanged)
- Actions on gubernatorial nominations or appointments (unchanged)
- Actions related to litigation challenging legislative enactments (unchanged)
- Matters relating to election laws, including redistricting for various elected offices (unchanged)
- Impeachment proceedings (unchanged)
- Simple resolutions on organizational matters
- Adoption of conference reports for bills for which conferees had been appointed by both houses on or before **September 25, 2025 (date change – was July 31, 2025)**
- Bills, including bills providing for disaster recovery, returned on or before **September 25, 2025**, to the house in which the bill originated for concurrence **(date change – was July 31, 2025)**
- 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 (unchanged)

**Matters that may be considered during the Short Session beginning April 21, 2026:**

- 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.

**(Note: These are typical matters that may be considered during the Short Session. They were not changed by the Adjournment Resolution Changes.)**

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. **(This provision was not changed by the Adjournment Resolution Changes.)**

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