PRIVATE SCHOOL SECURITY ACT.

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View NCGA Bill Details(link is external)2025-2026 Session
Senate Bill 280 (Public) Filed Wednesday, March 12, 2025
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS AT NONPUBLIC SCHOOLS MAY CARRY CERTAIN WEAPONS ON EDUCATIONAL PROPERTY WHEN AUTHORIZED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR AND TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON MAY CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN ON EDUCATIONAL PROPERTY THAT IS THE LOCATION OF BOTH A SCHOOL AND A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP WHEN ATTENDING WORSHIP SERVICES AND OTHER SACERDOTAL FUNCTIONS AT THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.
Intro. by Jarvis, B. Newton, Overcash.
Status: Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House (House action) (May 8 2025)

SOG comments (1):

Long title change

Submitted by jhenders@sog.unc.edu on

Amendment to the 2nd edition changed the long title. Previous long title was AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS AT PRIVATE SCHOOLS MAY CARRY CERTAIN WEAPONS ON EDUCATIONAL PROPERTY WHEN AUTHORIZED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD OF TRUSTEES OR SCHOOL ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR AND TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON MAY CARRY A CONCEALED HANDGUN ON EDUCATIONAL PROPERTY THAT IS THE LOCATION OF BOTH A SCHOOL AND A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP WHEN ATTENDING WORSHIP SERVICES AND OTHER SACERDOTAL FUNCTIONS AT THE PLACE OF RELIGIOUS WORSHIP.

Bill History:

S 280

Bill Summaries:

  • Bill S 280 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: May 7 2025 - View Summary

    Senate amendment to the 2nd edition makes the following changes.

    Makes changes throughout GS 14-269.2 to refer to "nonpublic schools" instead of "private schools." Makes conforming changes to the act's long title. 

    Courts/Judiciary, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law and Procedure, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education
    GS 14
  • Bill S 280 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Apr 30 2025 - View Summary

    Senate committee substitute makes the following changes to the 1st edition.

    Deletes proposed GS 14-269.2(g)(9) to except persons in a place of religious worship located on educational property owned, used, or operated by the membership of the place of religious worship from the statute's provisions concerning weapons on educational property so long as the person is attending worship services or sacerdotal functions. Instead amends subsection (k1), which exempts from the statute's provisions persons who have a concealed handgun permit, or are exempt from obtaining a permit, and who meet five criteria. Expands the fourth criteria for the exemption under subsection (k)(1) to require that the person's possession and carrying on education property be, at any time, in a building that is a place of religious worship while the person is attending worship services or other sacerdotal functions in the building as an alternative to the existing qualification that the possession and carrying on education property be outside of school operating hours. Defines attending.

    Courts/Judiciary, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law and Procedure, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education
    GS 14
  • Bill S 280 (2025-2026)
    Summary date: Mar 12 2025 - View Summary

    Adds two new defined terms to GS 14-269.2, which sets forth those circumstances when weapons on campus or other educational property is a crime. Defines school administrative director as any person authorized by the school’s board of trustee to act on the private school’s behalf. Defines school board of trustees to mean the governing body of any private school, and for parochial schools, includes the designated board that oversees the general affairs of a religious institution affiliated with the private parochial school. Adds two new exemptions to the statute as follows:

    • An employee or volunteer of a private school who meets all of the six listed criteria, including having received written authorization from the school board of trustees or the school administrative director to possess and carry a firearm or stun gun on the educational property that is owned, used, or operated by the private school and being a holder of a concealed handgun permit; and
    • A person in a regularly used and clearly identified place of religious worship that is located on educational property owned, used, or operated by the membership of the place of religious worship while the person is attending worship services or sacerdotal functions at the place of religious worship. Specifies that “attending” includes ingress and egress between the place of religious worship and the designated parking area for the place of religious worship.

    Applies to offenses committed on or after December 1, 2025.

    Courts/Judiciary, Criminal Justice, Criminal Law and Procedure, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education
    GS 14
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