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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Strengthening Victims' Rights."
+description: "Strengthening Victims' Rights."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2017"
+identifier: "HB 551"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 551 (2017)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "CONSTITUTION", "NC", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "DEFINITIONS", "ELECTIONS", "NOTIFICATION", "PAROLE & PROBATION", "INMATES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SENTENCING", "VICTIMS RIGHTS", "DISTRICT ATTORNEYS", "CHAPTERED", "CIVIL ACTIONS"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Destin Hall", "Dollar", "R. Turner"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2017-04-04"
+last_action: "2018-06-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ee2a1fa-2a6d-4d05-938b-772b56dc791d"
+source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H551&votesToView=all"
+source_hash: "4b8f16de92e81b0085957ff91c181c998b6022ec0a0f5f6a16476a20b30b185e"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
+---
+
+# North Carolina HB 551 (2017) — Strengthening Victims' Rights.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v2.pdf)
+4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v3.pdf)
+5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v4.pdf)
+6. **SL 2018-110** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v5.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
+- M11 Concur — **107–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Destin Hall — primary (person)
+- Dollar — primary (person)
+- R. Turner — primary (person)
+- Ager — cosponsor (person)
+- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
+- Arp — cosponsor (person)
+- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Ball — cosponsor (person)
+- Beasley — cosponsor (person)
+- Bert Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blust — cosponsor (person)
+- Boles — cosponsor (person)
+- Boswell — cosponsor (person)
+- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
+- Brenden Jones — cosponsor (person)
+- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- C. Graham — cosponsor (person)
+- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
+- Corbin — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Davis — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
+- Duane Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Dulin — cosponsor (person)
+- Earle — cosponsor (person)
+- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
+- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
+- Fraley — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Adcock — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
+- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
+- Grange — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanes — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardister — cosponsor (person)
+- Henson — cosponsor (person)
+- Holley — cosponsor (person)
+- Horn — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
+- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
+- Iler — cosponsor (person)
+- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
+- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Malone — cosponsor (person)
+- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
+- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
+- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Presnell — cosponsor (person)
+- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
+- Ross — cosponsor (person)
+- S. Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Saine — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
+- Speciale — cosponsor (person)
+- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
+- Stone — cosponsor (person)
+- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
+- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
+- Terry — cosponsor (person)
+- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
+- Watford — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Wray — cosponsor (person)
+- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-06-27** Ch. SL 2018-110 `became-law`
+- **2018-06-27** Ratified
+- **2018-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2018-06-26** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2018-06-25** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2018
+- **2018-06-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2018-06-25** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
+- **2018-06-25** Special Message Sent To House
+- **2018-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2018-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2018-06-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
+- **2018-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-25** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2018-06-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-06-20** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-20** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2017-04-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2017-04-27** Special Message Received From House
+- **2017-04-27** Special Message Sent To Senate
+- **2017-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2017-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2017-04-26** Placed On Cal For 04/27/2017
+- **2017-04-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2017-04-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2017-04-26** Serial Referral To Judiciary I Stricken
+- **2017-04-05** Ref to the Com on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
+- **2017-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2017-04-04** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2ee2a1fa-2a6d-4d05-938b-772b56dc791d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+