US state regulation
North Carolina
Every state-level regulation PlainRegWatch tracks for North Carolina - across data privacy, AI, food chemical bans, right to repair and worker protection, with status, effective dates and official sources.
- Tracker score
- 17/100 Bottom 10%
- Regulations tracked
- 1 Bottom 10%
- Enacted into law
- 1
- Categories regulated
- 1/5
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QUIET pending desk. 0 pending · 1 enacted · 1/5 policy areas with rows.
The verdict
North Carolina is a thin, floor-band archive: 1 tracked row and 17/100, with 1 enacted across 1 of 5 areas (Employment & Worker Protection leads).
- 17/100
- tracker (floor tercile)
- 1
- tracked rows (thin tercile)
- 1
- enacted into law
- Employment & Worker Protection
- WORKER-LED lead area
Tracker score is a 0–100 portal-derived measure: weighted counts of records marked enacted across five covered categories, normalized to the top result, not enforcement strength, legal burden, or an official state rating.
State archive posture brief
North Carolina legislative archive posture
Entity-varying stamps from North Carolina's rows in the five-category PlainRegWatch archive, volume band, enactment share, tracker score, and corpus rank, not a clone nationwide scaffold.
- 1 Tracked rows in archive
- 1 Enacted into law 100% share
- 0 Pending bills tracked
- 17/100 Portal tracker score
- #46 Of 51 by volume
- #46 Of 51 by tracker score
- Alaska Nearest volume peer 1 rows
- 1 Of 5 policy areas Employment & Worker Protection
Enacted-volume neighbourhood
Enacted statute count among nearest archive-volume peers (snapshot 2026-07-16).
Archive-volume peers
State context
North Carolina's pending heat vs the tracked state corpus
QUIET pending desk: North Carolina is below the peer average for tracked volume and below the peer average for tracker score. Highlighted point = this state.
PlainRegWatch methodology: tracker score is a normalized enacted-count index, not legal burden. Placement method.
Policy coverage
North Carolina enacted mix · WORKER-LED
Worker-protection-led shelf: each card is live from North Carolina's rows (enacted counts only), with links into the national category hubs.
North Carolina regulatory footprint index
A single 0-100 index combining North Carolina's standing on 3 of 3 tracked measures: enacted-law volume, portal tracker strictness, and tracked-category breadth. This describes how extensive North Carolina's tracked regulatory footprint is, not a judgment of good or bad governance. A missing measure would drop out and redistribute its weight rather than deflating the index.
33/100
Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures
- Enacted volume
- F 1 tracked
29th percentile nationwide
- Tracker strictness
- F 17/100
29th percentile nationwide
- Category breadth
- D 1 categories
45th percentile nationwide
Benchmarked live against every state reporting each measure in the current portal tracker. Not a legal, compliance, or governance-quality score; PlainRegWatch's own weighting (enacted volume 40%, tracker strictness 35%, category breadth 25%).
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Read with North Carolina
Nearest archive-volume peers and tracker-score poles for North Carolina (THIN · FLOOR · QUIET), replacing the old fixed Related strip.
THIN FLOOR QUIET WORKER-LED
Alaska · THIN
Alaska tracks 1 rows (more by 0 than North Carolina); tracker stamp FLOOR vs FLOOR.
Arkansas · THIN
Arkansas tracks 1 rows (more by 0 than North Carolina); tracker stamp FLOOR vs FLOOR.
Georgia · THIN
Georgia tracks 1 rows (more by 0 than North Carolina); tracker stamp FLOOR vs FLOOR.
Idaho · THIN
Idaho tracks 1 rows (more by 0 than North Carolina); tracker stamp FLOOR vs FLOOR.
Florida (MID score pole)
Florida sits near North Carolina on archive volume yet stamps MID while this page stamps FLOOR.
Employment & Worker Protection hub · WORKER-LED
North Carolina's lead category is Employment & Worker Protection (1 enacted) under the WORKER-LED archive stamp.
Source: State regulatory filings (IAPP / MultiState aggregation) North Carolina state-rule registry · 2009 North Carolina: 1 tracked · 1 enacted · tracker 17/100 (THIN/FLOOR). Status reflects the latest legislative tracker snapshot.
Counts and tracker score are North Carolina's rows in the curated five-category archive · as of July 2026.