RESTORING RIVALRIES ACT.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
House Bill 469 (Public) Filed Thursday, March 20, 2025
AN ACT TO REQUIRE HIGH-ENROLLMENT CONSTITUENT INSTITUTIONS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA TO REGULARLY COMPETE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER IN FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL, BASEBALL, AND SOFTBALL.
Intro. by B. Jones, K. Hall, McNeely, Schietzelt.
Status: Ref to the Com on Higher Education, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Appropriations, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action) (Mar 24 2025)

Bill History:

H 469

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill H 469 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Mar 20 2025 - View Summary

    Includes whereas clauses.

    Enacts GS 116-40.14, stating the legislative purpose of the act is to ensure that UNC high-enrollment constituent institutions (NC State and UNC-Chapel Hill) regularly compete against one another in eligible sports, defined as football, men's and women's basketball, baseball, and softball. Sets forth other defined terms. Defines high-enrollment institution. Requires each academic year for all eligible sports, a high-enrollment institution: (1) play at least one home or away game each academic year against another high-enrollment institution for football, men’s basketball, and women’s basketball and (2) play a series of at least three home games or three away games against another high-enrollment institution for baseball and softball. Applies beginning with the 2026-27 academic year. 

    Education, Higher Education, Government, State Agencies, UNC System
    GS 116
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