North Carolina’s legislature opened its 2025-26 biennial assembly on Wednesday, January 8, 2025.

Notable among the members of the General Assembly include three NC Medical Society members.

Rep. Tim Reeder, MD (R – Pitt – incumbent)

Rep. Grant Campbell, MD (R – Cabarrus, Rowan)

Sen. Mark Hollo, PA (R – Caldwell, Catawba)

The new year brings a new Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rep. Destin Hall, who succeeds Rep. Tim Moore who held the gavel from 2015 to 2025.  Sen. Phil Berger will again serve as President Pro Tem of the NC Senate.

This year’s political landscape is similar to that of 2023-24 with Republican majorities in both the House and Senate and a Democrat Governor, Josh Stein.  A significant difference in the upcoming 2025-26 legislative session, however, is that the Republican’s majority in General Assembly’s will not be veto-proof.

NCMS members’ photos from the January 8th House and Senate swearing-in sessions:

Both chambers will return to Raleigh on January 29th to begin this year’s business of the legislature.  The 2025 session of the biennium will be the “long session,” with a clean slate of bills to be deliberated.  The long session does not have a pre-set adjournment date.

The 2026 assembly will be the “short session,” a relative description since legislative sessions have no limit on duration. The second session of the biennium is typically devoted to budgetary issues and any bills that passed out of one chamber during the first session.

The NC Medical Society looks forward to working with Mr. Hollo, Dr. Campbell and Dr. Reeder and with all elected officials.  NCMS physician and PA members’ involvement in the legislative process will be vital to the Society’s ability to achieve its advocacy goals, so please commit now to actively supporting those efforts.  You can show your support by . . .

Signing up for the 2025 Advocacy Summit

 

Thank you for being involved!