NC · Officeholder
RState Representative · District 47
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: North Carolina House District 47
John Lowery is a Republican member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for District 47, appointed in October 2025, and is seeking election to the seat in the November 3, 2026 general election.[2] The General Assembly lists his occupation as Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe of NC.[1]
John Lowery was appointed to North Carolina House District 47 on October 7, 2025, by the Robeson County Republican Party Executive Committee to replace Jarrod Lowery (R), and he assumed office on October 13, 2025.[2][1] Ballotpedia lists a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke among his education.[2] The General Assembly lists Robeson County for the district and records 0.5 terms of service in the House.[1] The Republican primary scheduled for March 3, 2026, was canceled.[2]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
John Lowery is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina House District 47 as R. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
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
Most contested
Regulatory Reform Act of 2025.
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 ↗
May 21, 2025 · Failed 49–57 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Continuing Budget Adjustments.
Appropriates $500 million a year in recurring funds for Medicaid, funds for the State Auditor and State Board of Elections, and about $714 million for capital projects, and exempts the State Board of Elections from the state information technology department's article.
Jun 25, 2025 · Failed 45–63 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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 ↗
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 ↗
On the version voted Jul 28, 2026: Changes election law, including shortening early voting for primaries and runoffs, requiring county boards to remove deceased voters within a week of receiving federal lists, and making other-state voter data non-public.
Aug 4, 2026 · Passed 62–47 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Eliminating "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)" in Public Higher Educ
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 25, 2025 · Passed 64–47 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Eliminating "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)" in Public Education.
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 ↗
Promoting Wholesome Content for Students.
Requires public schools to adopt library policies under which community advisory committees review books for quality and age-appropriateness, requires removal of material that fails the criteria, including depictions of sexual activity, and lets parents or county residents sue over violations.
Apr 16, 2025 · Passed 63–46 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Sedimentation Act and Other Environmental Changes.
Requires General Assembly approval before state environmental agencies sign agreements with the U.S. EPA, and directs the Department of Environmental Quality to seek revisions to its sedimentation-control agreements to streamline requirements and to ask EPA to consult it on proposed federal rules.
May 6, 2025 · Passed 63–43 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Sets timelines and procedures for state review of Clean Water Act 401 water quality certifications, creates permitting rules for upland basin marinas, and excludes certain man-made ditches from the Coastal Area Management Act.
Jun 24, 2025 · Passed 66–45 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
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 ↗
Most contested
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.
May 7, 2025 · Passed 66–47 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Parents' Medical Bill of Rights.
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.
May 6, 2025 · Passed 68–41 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Baby Boxes/Newborn Safety Device.
Lets 24-hour-staffed fire, rescue and emergency department buildings install temperature-controlled newborn safety devices where a parent can leave an infant up to 30 days old, with alarms, signage and annual state inspection.
May 1, 2025 · Passed 75–33 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
State Transportation Improvement Program (STIP) Grant Anticipation Notes.
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 ↗
Pharmacy Benefits Manager Provisions.
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 ↗
Expand Remote Drivers License Services.
Jul 30, 2025 · Passed 109–7 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Unauthorized Public Camping & Sleeping.
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.
May 7, 2025 · Passed 69–42 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Liability/Unfair/Deceptive Development Actions.
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.
May 1, 2025 · Passed 67–39 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Expedited Removal of Unauthorized Persons.
Lets a property owner start an expedited court process to remove an unauthorized person occupying residential property, with a hearing no later than 48 hours after service.
Jun 26, 2025 · Passed 76–32 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Social Media Protections for Minors Under 16.
May 6, 2025 · Passed 106–6 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
General Statutes Commission Electronic Signatures.
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 ↗
Protecting Students in a Digital Age.
Requires school boards to adopt internet policies blocking student social media and TikTok on school devices, adds required lessons on social media's health effects, and requires schools to bar student phone use during instructional time, with exceptions.
Jun 11, 2025 · Passed 106–1 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 1 of 198 party-divided votes on file.
Civil Procedure Amendment.
What it does: Extends the deadline to sue over gender transition care to 10 years after the patient turns 18, removes the cap on noneconomic damages for such claims, and bars state funds for gender transition surgery or hormones fo…
Voted yes · most Republicans voted no · Democrats 42–0, Republicans 4–62
May 6, 2025Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
Equality in State Agencies/Prohibition on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
With most of their party · Passed 60–48 · Yes 60–No 48 · Democrats 0–46, Republicans 60–0
Jun 26, 2025Official record ↗
Town of Maggie Valley/Deannexations.
With most of their party · Passed 56–50 · Yes 56–No 50 · Democrats 0–44, Republicans 56–4
Jun 11, 2025Official record ↗
Regulatory Reform Act of 2025.
With most of their party · Failed 49–61 · Yes 49–No 61 · Democrats 47–0, Republicans 1–61
Jun 24, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 49–57 · Yes 49–No 57 · Democrats 44–0, Republicans 3–57
May 21, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 59–48 · Yes 59–No 48 · Democrats 0–44, Republicans 59–2
Jun 11, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 62–47 · Yes 62–No 47 · Democrats 0–46, Republicans 62–0
Aug 4, 2026Official record ↗
City of Greensboro/Deannexations.
With most of their party · Passed 60–47 · Yes 60–No 47 · Democrats 0–44, Republicans 60–1
Jun 11, 2025Official record ↗
Clarify Powers of State Auditor.
With most of their party · Passed 62–48 · Yes 62–No 48 · Democrats 1–46, Republicans 61–0
Jun 24, 2025Official 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.
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.
Motion: R3 Ruled Mat'l C RPT Adoption
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.
Motion: C RPT Adoption
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.
Motion: Second Reading
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.
Motion: R2 Ruled Mat'l M11 Concur
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.
Motion: R3 Ruled Mat'l C RPT Adoption
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.
Motion: R2 Ruled Mat'l C RPT Adoption
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.
Motion: C RPT Adoption
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.
Motion: C RPT Adoption
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.
Motion: Third Reading
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.
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