NC · Officeholder
RState Senator · District 11
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: North Carolina Senate District 11
Lisa Barnes is a Republican member of the North Carolina State Senate who has represented District 11 since January 1, 2021, and is on the ballot for re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] She previously served in the North Carolina House of Representatives, District 7, from 2019 to 2021.[1]
Barnes graduated from Southern Nash High School, earned an A.A. from Peace College and a B.A. in political science from North Carolina State University.[1] Ballotpedia lists her career experience as working as a real estate paralegal and in the agribusiness industry.[1]
For the 2025-2026 session, Ballotpedia lists Barnes as chair of the Agriculture, Energy, and Environment Committee and the Appropriations on Agriculture, Natural and Economic Resources Committee, and a member of the Appropriations/Base Budget, Education/Higher Education, Rules and Operations of the Senate, and Health Care committees.[1]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Lisa Barnes is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for North Carolina Senate District 11 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
Apr 16, 2025 · Passed 28–19 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Jun 24, 2026: Makes a range of tax law changes, including updating the state's link to the federal tax code, creating a Hurricane Helene timber-loss deduction, applying the 8% rental car tax to peer-to-peer rentals, and creating a 40% credit for rehabilitating corporate campuses.
Jun 23, 2026 · Passed 27–18 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).
Opts North Carolina into the federal tax credit for donations to scholarship granting organizations, and directs the State Education Assistance Authority to list qualifying organizations and carry out the state's participation.
Jun 3, 2026 · Passed 30–19 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Realign Congressional Districts 2025.
Changes the boundaries of North Carolina's congressional Districts 1 and 3, redrawing part of the state's U.S. House district map.
Oct 20, 2025 · Passed 25–20 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Sep 23, 2025: Tightens pretrial release rules for people charged with violent offenses or with significant criminal histories, requires mental health evaluations for some defendants before release, and makes other changes to criminal and court procedures.
Sep 22, 2025 · Passed 28–19 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
On the version voted Jun 26, 2025: Lets authorized nonpublic-school employees and volunteers with a concealed handgun permit and extra annual training carry firearms on campus; lets permit holders carry handguns at worship on shared school-church property; raises penalties for assaulting or threatening officials, adding local elected officers.
Jul 29, 2025 · Passed 29–19 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency.
Directs the state Medicaid agency to disenroll Planned Parenthood Federation of America and associated entities as providers and engage others. Requires hospitals and surgical facilities to give written good-faith estimates for scheduled services on request, capping final bills at 5% above the estimate.
Sep 22, 2025 · Passed 28–20 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Govt Mandates Increase Healthcare Costs.
Requires any bill adding a health insurance mandate, including coverage, cost-sharing or prior-approval rules, to repeal at least as many existing mandates and fund its cost unless an actuarial note shows savings, and applies mandates effective July 1, 2025, or later to the State Health Plan.
Feb 12, 2025 · Failed 18–27 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Changes the State Board of Dental Examiners from dentists elected by dentists to appointees of the Governor, legislative leaders and the Labor Commissioner, sets a 10-member board of six dentists, two hygienists and two public members, and limits service to two three-year terms.
Apr 30, 2025 · Passed 27–19 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Eliminating "DEI" in Public Higher Ed.
On the version voted Jul 29, 2025: Bars public colleges and universities from endorsing or compelling belief in listed "divisive concepts" about race and sex, keeping diversity, equity and inclusion offices, or treating people differently based on federally protected traits, with exceptions for protected speech, research and legally required policies.
Apr 9, 2025 · Passed 28–18 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Eliminating "DEI" in Public Education.
On the version voted Jul 29, 2025: Bars public schools from promoting or compelling belief in listed "divisive concepts" about race and sex, teaching them except neutrally under state standards, keeping diversity, equity and inclusion offices, or treating people differently by federally protected traits, and bars state-backed teacher training on those concepts.
Mar 11, 2025 · Passed 28–18 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA).
Opts North Carolina into the federal tax credit for donations to scholarship granting organizations, and directs the State Education Assistance Authority to list qualifying organizations and carry out the state's participation.
Jun 3, 2026 · Passed 30–19 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Rocky Mount/Louisburg Utility Revenue/Advisory.
Limits Rocky Mount's transfers of electric and natural gas revenue to other city funds, creates a nine-member public utilities advisory committee there, limits Louisburg's transfers of electric revenue, and repeals a 2021 law on Louisburg's use of electric rates for economic development.
Jul 1, 2026 · Passed 29–18 · 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 30–18 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Regulatory Reform Act of 2026.
Makes environmental and procurement changes, including Environmental Management Commission approval of DEQ fee adjustments, cutting the underground petroleum tank annual fee from $498 to $100, and authorizing job order contracting.
Jun 24, 2026 · Passed 27–14 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Drug-Free Zones/Unauthorized Public Camping.
On the version voted Jun 30, 2026: 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 24, 2026 · Passed 26–16 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Land Use Clarification and Changes.
Requires commercial zoning to permit public school buildings by right or special use, phases out cities' extraterritorial planning jurisdiction by county population starting October 1, 2026, and clarifies that existing use rights survive approval of added uses.
May 6, 2025 · Passed 33–12 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control.
Bars most local governments outside the coastal area from requiring a minimum number of off-street parking spaces, and lets local governments offer optional incentives for extra stormwater controls. Also changes stormwater rules for existing impervious surface.
Jun 23, 2026 · Passed 44–1 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
NC Farmland and Military Protection Act.
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 23, 2026 · Passed 42–3 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
GSC Uniform Comm. Code/Emerging Technologies.
Updates the state's commercial code, as recommended by the General Statutes Commission, adding rules for transferring and controlling electronic records and electronic money and for using them as loan collateral, effective October 1, 2025.
Mar 27, 2025 · Passed 45–1 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Parking Lot Reform/Stormwater Control.
Bars most local governments outside the coastal area from requiring a minimum number of off-street parking spaces, and lets local governments offer optional incentives for extra stormwater controls. Also changes stormwater rules for existing impervious surface.
Jun 23, 2026 · Passed 44–1 · with most RepublicansOfficial record ↗
Voted with most of their party on all 168 party-divided votes on file.
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
Realign Congressional Districts 2025.
With most of their party · Passed 25–20 · Yes 25–No 20 · Democrats 0–20, Republicans 25–0
Oct 20, 2025Official record ↗
Defund Planned Parenthood & Cost Transparency.
With most of their party · Passed 28–20 · Yes 28–No 20 · Democrats 0–20, Republicans 28–0
Sep 22, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 28–21 · Yes 28–No 21 · Democrats 0–20, Republicans 28–1
Apr 22, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 28–19 · Yes 28–No 19 · Democrats 0–19, Republicans 28–0
Sep 22, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 28–19 · Yes 28–No 19 · Democrats 0–19, Republicans 28–0
Apr 16, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 27–18 · Yes 27–No 18 · Democrats 0–18, Republicans 27–0
Jun 23, 2026Official record ↗
Govt Mandates Increase Healthcare Costs.
With most of their party · Failed 18–27 · Yes 18–No 27 · Democrats 18–0, Republicans 0–27
Feb 12, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 29–19 · Yes 29–No 19 · Democrats 0–19, Republicans 29–0
Jul 29, 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: Conference Rpt Third Reading
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: Conference Rpt Motion 8 To Adopt
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: Conference Rpt Motion 8 To Adopt
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: Conference Rpt Second Reading
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: Second Reading
On the version voted Aug 4, 2026: Appoints people to boards and commissions, including community college trustees and a Special Superior Court judge, on the recommendation of the Senate leader and House Speaker, and corrects earlier appointments.
Motion: Amendment 1
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.
Motion: Amendment 2 Motion 1 To Table
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.
Motion: Amendment 3 Motion 1 To Table
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.
Motion: Amendment 5
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.
Motion: Amendment 6 Motion 1 To Table
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.
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