As introduced: - Prohibits retail grocery stores from using electronic shelf labels to engage in dynamic pricing for food, beverages, and household essential goods. - Defines "dynamic pricing" as a practice by which a retail price is increased, decreased, or otherwise changed during the course of a business day or more frequently than once in a 24-hour period. - Allows a retail grocery store to use an electronic shelf label to: - Display a price that does not change more than once in a 24-hour period. - Correct a pricing error. - Comply with state or federal law. - Apply a price reduction or markdown that is uniformly available to all consumers. - Allows a temporary sales price, promotional price, or manager's special, so long as the price is set on a nondiscriminatory basis and is not changed more than once in a 24-hour period through an electronic shelf label. - Directs the Department of Health and Human Services to establish a nutrition incentive program to increase the purchasing power of SNAP benefits for healthy foods, such as the Double-Up Food Bucks program. - Establishes several new state programs to purchase food from North Carolina farmers for distribution to food assistance programs, provide targeted food assistance to military members and veterans, and fund mobile markets and grocery stores in underserved areas. - Expands the authorized uses of the Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund to include grants and technical assistance for local farmland preservation efforts. - Appropriates state funds to cover the loss of federal receipts for the administrative costs of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
Apr 28, 2026 | H | Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House |
Apr 28, 2026 | H | Passed 1st Reading |
Apr 27, 2026 | H | Filed |
| Last Action | Apr 28, 2026 |
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| Year | 2025 |
| Bill Type | Bill |
| Created | Apr 28, 2026 |
| Updated | Apr 29, 2026 |