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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarify Powers of State Auditor."
+description: "Clarify Powers of State Auditor."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 549"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 549 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["AUDITING & AUDITS; COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES; COUNCIL OF STATE; EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INVESTIGATIONS; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; STATE AUDITOR; STATE EMPLOYEES; UNC; VETOED; CHAPTERED; VETO OVERRIDDEN; GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPT."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["B. Jones", "Setzer", "Torbett"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-26"
+last_action: "2025-07-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af18819e-2818-4696-a3b5-1a408b8f94d6"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H549"
+source_hash: "c0f3193eade95dc141863746cc9a7dd247123a4361303e7508d4e9c7ea76d6e1"
+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 549 (2025) — Clarify Powers of State Auditor.
+
+## 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/H549v0.pdf)
+2. **A1: ARN-10-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/5631/0/H549-ARN-10-V-2)
+3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v1.pdf)
+4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v2.pdf)
+5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v3.pdf)
+6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v4.pdf)
+7. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v5.pdf)
+8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v6.pdf)
+9. **SL 2025-83** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H549v7.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Motion 11 Veto Override — **30–19** (pass) · upper
+- Veto Override — **72–48** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- B. Jones — primary (person)
+- Setzer — primary (person)
+- Torbett — primary (person)
+- Adams — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+- Winslow — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-07-29** Ch. SL 2025-83 `became-law`
+- **2025-07-29** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
+- **2025-07-29** Placed on Today's Calendar
+- **2025-07-29** Veto Received From House
+- **2025-07-29** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
+- **2025-07-03** Placed On Cal For 07/29/2025
+- **2025-07-02** Received from the Governor
+- **2025-07-02** Vetoed 07/02/2025 `executive-veto`
+- **2025-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-25** Ratified
+- **2025-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2025-06-24** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2025
+- **2025-06-19** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
+- **2025-06-19** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
+- **2025-06-19** Special Message Sent To House
+- **2025-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-18** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2025-06-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-11** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-11** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-05-07** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-07** Regular Message Received From House
+- **2025-05-07** Regular Message Sent To Senate
+- **2025-05-06** Ordered Engrossed
+- **2025-05-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-06** Amend Failed A2 `amendment-failure`
+- **2025-05-06** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-01** Placed On Cal For 05/06/2025
+- **2025-05-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 1, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-26** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af18819e-2818-4696-a3b5-1a408b8f94d6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
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