Prohibits any state or local government or nonstate entity to use funds or public monies to promote, support, fund, implement, or maintain discriminatory programs such as diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibits any state or local government or nonstate entity to apply for, accept, or utilize federal money that require compliance with discriminatory programs; prohibits diversity, equity, and inclusion practices in state and local hiring; requires the Auditor to conduct periodic compliance audits; permits private action.

Prohibits any person or nonprofit organization from providing a public agency with personal information or compel the release of personal information; prohibits any public agency from releasing, publicizing, or publicly disclosing personal information; prohibits any public agency from requesting or requesting nay current or prospective contractor or grantee from providing a list of nonprofit organizations that has provided financial or nonfinancial support; exempts reports disclosures required by state law, warrants, discovery, evidence, voluntary release, collection of information in reports filed with the Secretary of State, information derived from a donation, national securities law; provides for penalties; UPDATE - included in state budget S.257. UPDATE - new status.

Prohibits any person or nonprofit organization from providing a public agency with personal information or compel the release of personal information; prohibits any public agency from releasing, publicizing, or publicly disclosing personal information; prohibits any public agency from requesting or requesting nay current or prospective contractor or grantee from providing a list of nonprofit organizations that has provided financial or nonfinancial support; exempts reports disclosures required by state law, warrants, discovery, evidence, voluntary release, collection of information in reports filed with the Secretary of State, information derived from a donation, national securities law; provides for penalties; redirects $500 million for Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in western North Carolina; $60 million for child care subsidy rates; appropriates funding for a child care workforce pilot program and mental and behavioral health programs in child care.

Reduces the number of early voting days in the state.

Creates new rules for nonprofits operating nonpartisan voter registration drives; prohibits organizations from using actual voter registration application forms during voter registration drives; requires the NC State Board of Elections to create a sample voter registration form with information about registering to vote that organizations could distribute during voter registration drives; requires organizations seeking to sponsor or conduct voter registration drives to register with their county boards of election and provide a variety of information about their nonprofit’s structure and their plans for a voter registration drive.

Makes public certain legislative correspondence, including correspondence regarding bills appropriating state funds to businesses and nonprofits, correspondence with lobbyists and lobbyist principals regarding legislation, and correspondence with state agencies regarding business interests of the legislator.

Subjects "publicly funded entities" to investigations by the State Auditor, and defines such entities as "any individual, private corporation, institution, association, board, or other organization that receives, disburses, or otherwise handles State or federal funds"; requires the State Auditor to investigate allegations of improper governmental activities of State agencies and employees and publicly funded entities, including misappropriation, mismanagement, or waste of State resources, fraud, violations of State or federal law, rule or regulation by State agencies or State employees administering State or federal programs, and substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety; provides for referrals to proper authorities when actionable allegations surface; provides State Auditor with access to persons, records, papers, reports, vouchers, correspondence, books, databases, datasets, digital records, and any other documentation in possession of a publicly funded entity that pertains to either amounts received under a State, federal, or local government grant or contract, or amounts received, disbursed, or handled on behalf of the State, federal or a local government, and where these funds pay for social or medical services, it allows the State Auditor access to the records of recipients these services; allows State Auditor to examine and inspect all property, equipment, and facilities of any publicly funded entities if those items were paid for by State or federal funds; provides for injunctive relief if a person fails or refuses to provide the Auditor with access to persons and records, as required; limits the State Auditor's audit or investigation of a publicly funded entity to the State or federal funds it received, disbursed, or handled. UPDATE - new status.

Requires all local government invoices to be itemized, disclosing the payee, amount paid, items or services purchased, and performance dates' requires local government websites to link to all quarterly invoices, unredacted unless otherwise required by law; allows for public inspection of invoices for jurisdictions without websites; requires local government websites to provide links to top three bidders on every project, service, or goods purchased with tax dollars, with quarterly updates, unredacted unless otherwise required by law.

Requires the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to certify that a state benefits, including TANF, food and nutrition services, housing, medication assistance, child care subsidies, foster care and adoption assistance, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, work first cash assistance, Medicaid, state and local grants and contracts, retirement, disability, unemployment, and caregiver support, are not being used to benefit “unauthorized aliens.” UPDATE - AMENDED - Requires Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to cease providing State-funded benefits to noncitizens residing in the U.S. without permission, and to develop a method for verifying immigration status of applicants; requires a report on the success of steps taken to implement the bill, and a list of State-funded benefits that cannot be withheld under federal law; requires the DHHS to cease providing unauthorized noncitizen residents with benefits including TANF, early intervention services, rental or housing assistance, medication assistance, child care subsidy, foster care and adoption assistance, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, Work First cash assistance and related services, Medicaid, single-stream funding, inpatient psych services, State-County hospital assistance, Home and Community Care Block Grant programs, and caregiver support programs; also ends eligibility of unauthorized noncitizen residents for publicly funded housing benefits, including Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), rental assistance and transitional housing programs, KEY rental assistance and subsidized housing assistance programs, Housing Choice Vouchers, NC Home Advantage Mortgage, NC 1st Home Advantage down payment, and HOME Investment Partnership programs, community living programs, essential single-family rehabilitation program, Affordable Housing Development Fund program, and the Emergency Solutions Grants program; requires State government to verify immigration status before providing unemployment benefits; waives governmental immunity for cities and counties that adopt sanctuary ordinances.

Prohibits employers, including nonprofits, from entering into noncompete agreements with employees who are paid less than $75,000 per year.