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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Various Disaster Recovery Reforms."
+description: "Various Disaster Recovery Reforms."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 251"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 251 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES; AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURE DEPT.; BUILDING CODE COUNCIL; BUILDING CODES; BUILDINGS; COMMISSIONS; COUNCILS; CRIMES; DEFINITIONS; DEQ; DHHS; DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES; DISCRIMINATION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY SERVICES; ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FUNDING; GRANTS; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSING; INSURANCE; INSURANCE DEPT.; INSURANCE", "HEALTH; MEDICAID; MEDICAL CARE COMN.; POVERTY; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SAFETY; SOCIAL SERVICES; SOILS; TRESPASSING; CHAPTERED; STATE FIRE MARSHAL"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Balkcom", "Greene", "Hastings"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-27"
+last_action: "2025-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5dfe2c5-2ec1-4de9-8457-cb4d1af6a7c7"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H251"
+source_hash: "307d0075a0a6f92f29abbb24aa92887c09440b8fbe7ea9e8f222166859de617b"
+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 251 (2025) — Various Disaster Recovery Reforms.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v0.pdf)
+2. **A1: ASA-18-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/3484/0/H251-ASA-18-V-1)
+3. **A1: Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6248/0/H251-A-NBC-16313)
+4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v1.pdf)
+5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v2.pdf)
+6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v3.pdf)
+7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v4.pdf)
+8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v5.pdf)
+9. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v6.pdf)
+10. **SL 2025-18** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v7.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Amendment 1 — **42–1** (pass) · upper
+- M11 Concur — **113–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Balkcom — primary (person)
+- Greene — primary (person)
+- Hastings — primary (person)
+- Ager — cosponsor (person)
+- Almond — cosponsor (person)
+- Bell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Blust — cosponsor (person)
+- Branson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
+- Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
+- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
+- Liu — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- Penny — cosponsor (person)
+- Ross — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-26** Ch. SL 2025-18 `became-law`
+- **2025-06-26** Signed by Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-18** Ratified
+- **2025-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2025-06-17** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-12** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2025
+- **2025-06-12** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
+- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
+- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
+- **2025-06-10** Engrossed
+- **2025-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-10** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-03** Placed On Cal For 06/10/2025
+- **2025-06-03** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2025-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-21** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-21** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2025-05-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Regulatory Reform. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2025-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2025-04-01** Ordered Engrossed
+- **2025-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Placed On Cal For 04/01/2025
+- **2025-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-26** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-18** Re-ref Com On Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-03** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 1, if favorable, Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-27** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5dfe2c5-2ec1-4de9-8457-cb4d1af6a7c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+