Destin Hall is a Republican state representative from North Carolina House District 87 who has served since 2017, is Speaker of the House, and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2]He is an attorney.[1][2]
Hall was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, in 1987.[1]He received a B.S. in business administration from Appalachian State University in 2009 and a J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2014.[1]He worked as an associate attorney at SeiferFlatow and as a partner and attorney at Fleischer & Hall, and as of November 2025 he was a partner at Wilson, Lackey, Rohr & Hall, P.C.[1]
Hall assumed office in the North Carolina House on January 1, 2017, succeeding George Robinson.[1]The North Carolina House of Representatives unanimously elected him Speaker on January 8, 2025, and Ballotpedia reports that he was the youngest House speaker since 1819 at the time of his election.[1]The General Assembly's website lists him as House Speaker, representing Caldwell and Watauga counties.[2]
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Republicans voted. How topics are assigned
›Jobs & cost of living115 with · 0 against115 votes
On the version voted Sep 23, 2025: Changes dozens of state regulations, including barring local street paving standards stricter than the state's, limiting local rules on displaying American flags on private property, easing wastewater and stormwater permitting, and expanding where restaurants and food businesses may use liquor for cooking.
Jun 24, 2025 · Failed 49–61 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Lets Guilford County municipalities that levy no property tax receive 25% of their per-capita share of local sales tax proceeds, if their council adopts a resolution.
Jun 17, 2025 · Passed 67–46 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Bars state agencies from DEI programs in hiring, staffing or training, and bars state and local governments from using public money for DEI. Sets State Auditor compliance audits, removal of violating employees, civil penalties and lawsuits.
Jun 26, 2025 · Passed 60–48 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Jun 24, 2026: Requires state public safety, prison, Highway Patrol and SBI leaders to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, ends state benefits and housing aid for noncitizens lacking legal status where federal law allows, and waives tort immunity for cities and counties with sanctuary ordinances when an unauthorized immigrant commits a crime there.
Lets U.S. citizens 18 or older who are not otherwise prohibited carry a concealed handgun without a permit, raises line-of-duty death payments to $150,000, and increases penalties for firearm assaults on law enforcement and other first responders.
Jun 11, 2025 · Passed 59–48 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Bars public school units from teaching or requiring affirmation of listed "divisive concepts" (such as one race or sex being inherently superior), from discriminatory practices, and from keeping diversity, equity and inclusion offices; requires annual compliance certification.
Jun 25, 2025 · Passed 67–48 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Removes the Math III high school graduation requirement, counts computer science as a math course, adds a U.S. history test for graduation, and requires the UNC system to match its minimum math admission requirements to the graduation requirements.
On the version voted Jun 25, 2025: Bars UNC campuses and community colleges from endorsing or compelling belief in listed "divisive concepts," from discriminatory practices, and from keeping diversity, equity and inclusion offices; requires their governing boards to adopt policies implementing these rules.
Jun 24, 2026 · Passed 71–47 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Sets rules for new data centers of 100 megawatts or more, including site assessments, closed-loop or liquid cooling with no evaporative cooling, electric contracts that shield other customers from costs, and a ban on local incentives; also delays a swine-waste energy requirement to 2029.
Removes the interim carbon reduction target for electric utilities, allows alternative recovery of financing costs for baseload plants under construction, changes fuel-cost and performance-based ratemaking rules, and authorizes securitization of coal plant retirement costs.
Jul 29, 2025 · Passed 74–46 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Directs a UNC study of water and wastewater regionalization; folds the Haw River, Deep River and Contentnea Creek subbasins into the Cape Fear and Neuse basins, ending interbasin transfer certificates between them; and extends a 2020 nutrient offset rule to all Neuse local governments.
Jun 26, 2025 · Passed 66–42 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Orders the Division of Health Benefits to disenroll Planned Parenthood and associated entities as Medicaid providers, end their Medicaid contracts, and engage other providers for services they provided.
Oct 22, 2025 · Passed 61–47 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires the State Health Director to issue a standing order by October 1, 2025, letting pharmacists dispense human-use ivermectin without a prescription, with civil and criminal liability immunity for the director and pharmacists.
Gives parents access to a minor child's medical records, with exceptions. Limits minors' own consent to pregnancy care and, from age 16, treatment of reportable diseases with a prescription of 10 days or less. Extends emergency no-consent treatment rules to physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Lets local governments borrow money to speed up regional and division transportation projects scheduled for state funding, repaying it from expected state or federal money, after signing an agreement with the Department of Transportation.
May 7, 2025 · Passed 100–11 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to pay pharmacies at least federal benchmark drug costs, bars them from charging pharmacies various fees or stopping pharmacists from mentioning cheaper drugs, limits pharmacy audits, and requires quarterly reports on drug costs and manufacturer price concessions.
Apr 29, 2025 · Passed 106–9 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Bars cities and counties from allowing regular public camping or sleeping on public property, except on sites a governing board designates by majority vote for up to one year and the state health department certifies, with safety, sanitation and behavioral-health standards.
Lets courts award attorneys' fees to people who win civil actions against local governments over development approvals, requires fees for intentional violations or delay, and requires punitive damages up to 10 times damages for flagrantly unfair or deceptive conduct meant to prompt a suit.
Creates felonies for selling drugs in posted drug-free zones around homeless service facilities, and bars local governments from allowing regular camping or sleeping on public property except at sites they designate for up to a year with Labor Department certification.
Jun 30, 2026 · Passed 73–40 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Sets rules for new data centers of 100 megawatts or more, including site assessments, closed-loop or liquid cooling with no evaporative cooling, electric contracts that shield other customers from costs, and a ban on local incentives; also delays a swine-waste energy requirement to 2029.
Clarifies that business contracts with reciprocal attorneys' fee provisions may be signed by hand or electronically, and that notary applicants must sign initial applications in pen and ink while the Secretary of State may accept other signatures electronically.
Feb 26, 2025 · Passed 114–1 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Jun 23, 2026: Bars foreign parties tied to adversarial governments from acquiring or holding interests in agricultural land or land within 50 miles of a military installation. Holdings before April 1, 2027 may continue but must be registered; later acquisitions must be sold within one year.
Jun 30, 2026 · Passed 111–2 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
HB 147 · NC HOUSE
Various Local Provisions XI.
YesVOTED
Motion: R3 Ruled Mat'l M11 Concur
Removes the satellite annexation cap for Bear Grass, writes the Currituck County Game Commission's waterfowl blind rules into law with online applications and flexible fees, and requires ward-based primaries in Hickory when more than two candidates file for a ward.
Makes technical, clarifying and other changes to the 2026 state budget law, including adjustments to Hurricane Helene recovery grants and programs, budget procedure rules, and several local and board appointment provisions.
On the version voted Jul 29, 2026: Changes court laws, including when juvenile records may be disclosed, giving any attorney of record access to the trial file in indigent appeals, assigning superior court judges to districts with a county over 1 million people, and Judicial Standards Commission definitions.
On the version voted Jul 28, 2026: Adjourns the 2025 General Assembly session in stages, reconvening August 31, September 28, October 26, November 16 and November 30, 2026, each limited to veto overrides, appointments, election laws and certain other matters, then adjourns sine die December 18, 2026.
On the version voted Aug 5, 2026: Removes the satellite annexation cap for Bear Grass, writes the Currituck County Game Commission's waterfowl blind rules into law with online applications and flexible fees, and requires ward-based primaries in Hickory when more than two candidates file for a ward.
Adds parts of Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Air Station New River and Stones Bay to Jacksonville's city limits, limits city police powers and annexation north of N.C. Highway 24, and ends the city's zoning authority outside its limits.
On the version voted Aug 5, 2026: Makes technical, clarifying and other changes to the 2026 state budget law, including adjustments to Hurricane Helene recovery grants and programs, budget procedure rules, and several local and board appointment provisions.
On the version voted Jul 29, 2026: Adjusts the 2026 budget act: redirects several directed grants, moves authorization of the America's Semiquincentennial license plate into GS 20-63, delays an insurance regulatory charge change to 2027, and appropriates $225,000 for State Fire Marshal and $300,000 for Labor Department positions.
On the version voted Jul 29, 2026: Makes dozens of regulatory changes, including de novo review of rule interpretation by administrative law judges and courts, higher penalties for water theft and littering, limits on local glazing requirements, and new rules on accessory dwelling units and mining permits.
Creates a process for cities and towns to remove land from their limits, either on their own initiative after a report and public hearing or on a petition signed by all owners, with consent required from any local government taking over services.