HB 192 North Carolina House · 2025-2026 Session

Defund Planned Parenthood and Cost Transparency.

The bill title "Defund Planned Parenthood and Cost Transparency" does not match the actual content of HB 192, which is focused on education funding. This bill raises teacher salaries for the 2025-2026 school year using a new salary schedule (e.g., $5,000 for 0 years experience, $6,823 for 25+ years) and reinstates education-based supplements for advanced degrees ($126-$253 monthly). It appropriates $1.597 billion for salary increases and $8 million for supplements, while directing the North Carolina Collaboratory to study a student-based funding system by February 2026. The bill directly affects public school teachers, instructional support staff, and school psychologists. The title appears to be incorrect based on the provided bill text.

Bill status passed both 4 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Sep 2025

House Passage

Jun 2025

Senate Passage

Sep 2025

Governor

Introduced Feb 25, 2025 Last action Sep 22, 2025

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What changed between versions

Edition 2 → Edition 3 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was completely rewritten to shift from a general budget bill for public employee raises to a specific law prohibiting Planned Parenthood from receiving Medicaid funds and establishing new billing transparency rules for hospitals. This change removes all funding allocations for salary increases and replaces them with provisions to enforce federal abortion funding restrictions and require hospitals to provide clear cost estimates to patients.

Scope change

The bill's scope changed from a broad fiscal appropriation affecting multiple state agencies and public employees to a targeted law affecting Medicaid provider eligibility and hospital billing practices.

FISCAL

All appropriations for public employee salary increases and benefits were removed, eliminating funding for teachers, school employees, and state workers.

ELIGIBILITY

A new prohibition was added to disenroll Planned Parenthood from Medicaid and end all Medicaid contracts with the organization.

REQUIREMENT

New requirements were added mandating that hospitals and surgical facilities provide itemized, easy-to-understand cost estimates to patients before scheduling non-urgent services.

SCOPE

The broad scope covering multiple state departments (Education, DHHS, Transportation, etc.) was removed and replaced with specific sections on Medicaid and hospital billing.

Floor votes · Senate Sep 22, 2025 · House Jun 25, 2025

How they voted

28–20

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 51

Sep 22, 2025

D Democratic20

20 Nay

100% Nay

R Republican31

28 Yea 3

90% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Sep 22, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

Sep 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed 3rd Reading

upper

Sep 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Com Substitute Adopted

upper

Sep 22, 2025

Upper · Passed

Reptd Fav Com Substitute

upper

Sep 22, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget

upper

Jun 25, 2025

Committee

Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

upper

Jun 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed 3rd Reading

lower

Jun 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav

lower

Jun 24, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

Jun 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav Com Substitute

lower

Feb 26, 2025

Committee

Ref to the Com on Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

3 primary · 31 co-sponsors