Americans for Prosperity – North Carolina’s (AFP-NC) legislative agenda outlines a clear roadmap to break down barriers to opportunity that inhibit North Carolinians from improving their lives and reaching their full potential.

AFP-NC will focus its legislative priorities on: ensuring every family in North Carolina can provide their child with learning opportunities best fit for their individual needs; that North Carolinians have access to affordable and high-quality health care; AFP-NC will advocate for policies that protect personal property rights while opposing anti-competitive policies; advocate for a society of openness that is protected through our First Amendment rights; and continue to fight for a justice system in North Carolina that protects people and preserves public safety while ensuring equal justice for all.

2023 Legislative Priorities

Foundational Education Reform: Support an individualized approach that respects and cultivates each student’s unique potential and that meets each student where they are. We support legislation that funds students rather than systems.

Economic Progress: Reform state taxes so they are fair, low, and predictable while making state government spending live within its means.

Health Care: Continue to cut needless red tape to make health care more accessible and affordable.

Freedom of Speech: Foster openness, respect, and toleration. Protect the diversity of views and promote courageous collaboration across differences.

Criminal Justice Reform: Take meaningful steps towards ending the cycle of poverty and recidivism that our current justice system perpetuates with reforms that are smart on crime and soft on taxpayers.

Support an individualized approach that respects and cultivates each student’s unique potential and that meets each student where they are. We support legislation that funds students over systems.

Americans for Prosperity believes the purpose of education is to help students discover, develop, and apply their unique abilities. Each and every student must have access to an education that unleashes their extraordinary potential – regardless of their family income or ZIP code. We support policies that help us move away from a one-size-fits-all approach that dominates our current education system and closer to a system of personalized learning. 

• Introduce and pass legislation that funds students over systems.

• Support an individual approach that respects and cultivates each students unique potential and that meets each student where they are.

Continue to cut needless red tape to make health care more accessible and affordable.

Americans for Prosperity empowers people to earn success, contribute to their communities, and live meaningful lives. This requires a health care system that helps more people access better care at a lower cost – where health care providers compete to offer the best health care products and services at the best prices to meet the needs of patients. Unfortunately, many state and federal laws act as barriers to access and innovation, and some are calling for proposals that would further exacerbate the problems caused by these barriers, such as implementing a single payer system or expanding Medicaid.  Instead, we should work to remove bureaucratic barriers and reimagine our approach to health care.

• Ensure Medicaid remains available for our most vulnerable by opposing expansion and promoting a personal option for health care.

• Remove unnecessary red tape which prohibits highly trained advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) from practicing to their full scope.

• Develop a plan to quickly phase out all medical certificate of need policies, which are needlessly holding back our trusted health care community from meeting the needs they see in their communities.

• Improve access to quality care by supporting telehealth legislation which allows health care providers to practice telehealth within and across state lines.
  

Take meaningful steps towards ending the cycle of poverty and recidivism that our current justice system perpetuates with reforms that are smart on crime and soft on taxpayers.

An effective criminal justice system protects people and preserves public safety, respects human dignity, provides opportunity for people with criminal records, and ensures equal justice for all under the law.  Americans for Prosperity supports smart-on-crime, soft-on-taxpayer reforms that make our communities safer and improve lives.

• Protect due process rights of the citizens of North Carolina including their presumption of innocence as it applies to the dissemination of booking photographs.

• Open an appropriately regulated medical cannabis market which will ensure North Carolinians can access the most transformative treatments while reducing the harms presented by a robust black market.