By Anonymous (not verified), 4 September, 2025

Requires the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to certify that a state benefits, including TANF, food and nutrition services, housing, medication assistance, child care subsidies, foster care and adoption assistance, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, work first cash assistance, Medicaid, state and local grants and contracts, retirement, disability, unemployment, and caregiver support, are not being used to benefit “unauthorized aliens.” UPDATE - AMENDED - Requires Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to cease providing State-funded benefits to noncitizens residing in the U.S. without permission, and to develop a method for verifying immigration status of applicants; requires a report on the success of steps taken to implement the bill, and a list of State-funded benefits that cannot be withheld under federal law; requires the DHHS to cease providing unauthorized noncitizen residents with benefits including TANF, early intervention services, rental or housing assistance, medication assistance, child care subsidy, foster care and adoption assistance, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, Work First cash assistance and related services, Medicaid, single-stream funding, inpatient psych services, State-County hospital assistance, Home and Community Care Block Grant programs, and caregiver support programs; also ends eligibility of unauthorized noncitizen residents for publicly funded housing benefits, including Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), rental assistance and transitional housing programs, KEY rental assistance and subsidized housing assistance programs, Housing Choice Vouchers, NC Home Advantage Mortgage, NC 1st Home Advantage down payment, and HOME Investment Partnership programs, community living programs, essential single-family rehabilitation program, Affordable Housing Development Fund program, and the Emergency Solutions Grants program; requires State government to verify immigration status before providing unemployment benefits; waives governmental immunity for cities and counties that adopt sanctuary ordinances.

State Name
North Carolina
Bill #
S153
Status
Vetoed
Category
4. Government Grants and Contracts
Subcategory
Other
Status Text
Sent to Executive
Year Proposed
2025
State Taxonomy
Bill Page
https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S153