Want to catch up with your lawmakers are doing? It’s challenging, given that the modern streaming era has come slowly to our state legislature compared to neighboring states, such as Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia. For years, the only way for the public to participate at the state legislature (aside from traveling to Raleigh) was to listen to an audio stream of proceedings from the floor of the House of Representatives, with the audio archived on the legislative website. If you wanted a recording of Senate proceedings, you needed to contact the legislative library and for $1.25 they would provide you with a recording (it’s now on a thumb drive, it used to be on a CD).
During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the NC General Assembly started to broadcast video of all of its proceedings and many committee hearings for the first time. Committee rooms have been renovated, they’ve had video and audio capability put in place. Hearings and legislative sessions have continued to be broadcast on YouTube (with the exception of Senate sessions, which reverted back to audio only).
However, this content is ephemeral. As soon as the YouTube feed ends, the video disappears and is not archived in any public spaces, again, in contrast to neighboring states.
At NC Health News, we’re dedicated to government transparency and so looking to make these videos available to the public, within our means. We’re recording the videos as they stream on YouTube (so, please pardon any anomalies in the recordings). We are archiving and posting to YouTube recordings of committee hearings at the NC General Assembly that are related to public health, health care or environmental health, areas of our coverage.
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UPDATE: Good news! As of April, 2025 the House of Representatives now has video of their floor work sessions archived on YouTube, albeit with a several week lag time for the video to actually appear. House committee meetings remain unarchived, but for our work. The Senate’s work remains without any video archive access at all.
Videos appear in reverse chronological order.
Looking for 2025 committee hearing and session recordings? Look here.
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2026 Committee Hearings
Senate Education/ Higher Education Committee, April 29, 2026
Agenda:
H301: Social Media Protections for Minors Under 16. This bill would require app stores to verify ages of minors who want to download social media apps and an amendment was a proposed committee substitute bill focusing on AI literacy and training for K-12 educators.
S840: Teacher Licensure Modifications. (starting around 31:15 into the recording) The bill that was heard removes one type of test for teacher prep programs, instead emphasizing performance metrics to insure teacher quality.
Senate Health Committee, April 29, 2026
This committee heard two bills, both of which were proposed committee substitutes which were for discussion only:
H390: Alleviate the Dangers of Surgical Smoke. This bill has been “gutted and amended” to become a bill about billing practices among prepaid health practices/ Medicaid health plans. The measures would require more detailed itemized bills for claims greater than $250,000 and align claims operations with national standards for coding, edits and claims adjudication. Also, the bill would direct inpatient hospital and lab services to outpatient settings.
H727: Marriage/Family Therapy Mods. (starting around 19:50 in the recording) This bill has been “gutted and amended” to become a bill about limiting the Medicaid reimbursement for certain facility fees. It would limit places where hospital systems could charge facility fees to hospital buildings and buildings specifically designed as part of the hospital campus.
House Select Committee on Involuntary Commitment and Public Safety, April 14, 2026
Agenda:
Overview of Committee Report — presentation by Jessica Boney, Staff Attorney at Legislative Analysis Division, NCGA
Report with committee’s findings and recommendations: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105615
House Select Committee on Involuntary Commitment and Public Safety, March 18, 2026
Agenda:
Data Collection — presentation by Sam Thompson, Executive Director of N.C. Health Information Exchange Authority & Trip Stallings, Executive Director of N.C. Longitudinal Data System, from the N.C. Department of Information Technology
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105408
LME/MCO’s Perspective on Mobile Crisis Teams — presentation by Allison Gosda, Chief of Clinical Services at Partners Health Management & Sean Schreiber, Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation and Strategy Officer at Alliance Health
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105406
The Intersection of Guardianship, Involuntary Commitment, and Capacity to Proceed — presentation by Meredith Smith, JD, Associate Professor at UNC School of Government & Mark Botts, JD, Associate Professor at UNC School of Government & Shea Denning, JD, Director of North Carolina Judicial College at UNC School of Government
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105409
Involuntary Commitment in North Carolina — presentation by Dr. Christopher Sharp, Senior Fellow at Cicero Institute
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105398
Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Medicaid, March 10, 2026
Remarks from the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) – presentation by Devdutta Sangvai, Secretary, DHHS
Medicaid Enrollment and Financial Update – Melanie Bush, Interim Deputy Secretary, NC Medicaid, DHHS & Chris Gordon, Chief Financial Officer, DHHS
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105332
Children and Families Specialty Plan Implementation: DHHS presentation – Michael Leighs, Deputy Secretary, Opportunity and Wellbeing, DHHS & Melanie Bush, Interim Deputy Secretary, NC Medicaid, DHHS
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105333
Children and Families Specialty Plan Implementation: Healthy Blue Care Together – Angela Boykin, CEO Healthy Blue
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105334
Medicaid Autism Benefits: DHHS Perspective – Devdutta Sangvai, Secretary, DHHS
Melanie Bush, Interim Deputy Secretary, NC Medicaid, DHHS
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105335
Medicaid Autism Benefits: Patient/Parent Perspective – Kerri Erb, MPA, Chief Program and Policy Officer, Autism Society of North Carolina, Whitney Sukonick, MA, LPA, BCBA, Clinical Director, Autism Society of North Carolina and Meredith McCumbee, mother and board member, Autism Society of North Carolina
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105336
Medicaid Autism Benefits: Provider Perspective – Matt Filer, Chief Executive Officer, Mosaic Pediatric Therapy & Keith Laabs, Chief Executive Officer, Kind Behavioral Health
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105337
Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Health and Human Services, March 10, 2026
Agenda: (We had a technical difficulty with the video, but we do have audio)
State Auditor Examination of DHHS – presentation by State Auditor Dave Boliek
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105346
Access to Maternity Care in North Carolina (starts 29:45) – presentation by Erin Fraher, Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC Chapel Hill
Slides: https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105355
Access to Child Care in North Carolina (starts 54:05) – Opening remarks by DHHS Sec. Devdutta Sangvai, presentations by Candace Witherspoon, Director, Division of Child Development and Early Education, DHHS and (starts 1:10:40) Jenny Varner, President, Davidson-Davie Community College
Slides (DHHS): https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105347
Slides (DDCC): https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105348
Facility Fees (starts 1:29:10) – Presentation by Josh Dobson, President and CEO of the NC Healthcare Association and (starts 1:34:35) Peter Daniel, Executive Director, North Carolina Association of Health Plans
Slides (NCHA): https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105350
Slides (NCAHP): https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewDocSiteFile/105349