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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Fostering Care in NC Act."
+description: "Fostering Care in NC Act."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 612"
+citation: "North Carolina HB 612 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ADOPTION; ATTORNEYS; BOARDS; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD CUSTODY; COUNTIES; COURTS; CRIMES; CRIMINAL RECORDS; DHHS; EMPLOYMENT; FOSTER CARE; GUARDIANSHIP; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MINORS; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL SERVICES; SOCIAL SERVICES BOARDS; SOCIAL SERVICES DEPTS.; RECORDS; CHAPTERED; FAMILY ISSUES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Chesser", "Loftis"]
+version_count: 11
+action_count: 52
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-31"
+last_action: "2025-06-26"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dee7522-f700-4f86-813b-968ee923ec43"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H612"
+source_hash: "f152fc991c274d8e87a4a918c17a531f071656a9c1ae72073a08696cd307e0ec"
+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 612 (2025) — Fostering Care in NC Act.
+
+## 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/H612v0.pdf)
+2. **A1: ACI-21-V-5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/5634/0/H612-ACI-21-V-5)
+3. **A1: ATC-15-V-9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6503/0/H612-ATC-15-V-9)
+4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v1.pdf)
+5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v2.pdf)
+6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v3.pdf)
+7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v4.pdf)
+8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v5.pdf)
+9. **Edition 6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v6.pdf)
+10. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v7.pdf)
+11. **SL 2025-16** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v8.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
+- M11 Concur — **109–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bell — primary (person)
+- Chesser — primary (person)
+- Loftis — primary (person)
+- Ager — cosponsor (person)
+- Almond — cosponsor (person)
+- Alston — cosponsor (person)
+- Baker — cosponsor (person)
+- Ball — cosponsor (person)
+- Belk — cosponsor (person)
+- Branson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
+- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
+- Buansi — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Carney — cosponsor (person)
+- Carson Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Carver — cosponsor (person)
+- Cervania — cosponsor (person)
+- Charles Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark — cosponsor (person)
+- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
+- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
+- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
+- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
+- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
+- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
+- G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
+- Gable — cosponsor (person)
+- Greenfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
+- Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
+- Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
+- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
+- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
+- Johnson-Hostler — cosponsor (person)
+- K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Liu — cosponsor (person)
+- Longest — cosponsor (person)
+- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
+- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
+- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Morey — cosponsor (person)
+- Moss — cosponsor (person)
+- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
+- Penny — cosponsor (person)
+- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
+- Potts — cosponsor (person)
+- Prather — cosponsor (person)
+- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
+- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
+- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
+- Rubin — cosponsor (person)
+- Schietzelt — cosponsor (person)
+- Scott — cosponsor (person)
+- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
+- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
+- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
+- T. Brown — cosponsor (person)
+- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
+- Turner — cosponsor (person)
+- Tyson — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Warren — cosponsor (person)
+- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
+- White — cosponsor (person)
+- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+- Winslow — cosponsor (person)
+- Zenger — cosponsor (person)
+- von Haefen — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-26** Ch. SL 2025-16 `became-law`
+- **2025-06-26** Signed by Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-19** Ratified
+- **2025-06-18** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2025-06-18** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-18** Added to Calendar
+- **2025-06-18** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
+- **2025-06-18** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
+- **2025-06-18** Special Message Sent To House
+- **2025-06-17** Engrossed
+- **2025-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-17** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-11** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-11** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2025-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-05** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-05** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2025-06-05** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-27** 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 Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-01** Placed On Cal For 05/06/2025
+- **2025-05-01** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2025-04-30** Placed On Cal For 05/01/2025
+- **2025-04-30** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2025-04-29** Placed On Cal For 04/30/2025
+- **2025-04-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-04-17** Withdrawn From Cal
+- **2025-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
+- **2025-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-15** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-08** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 1 `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-02** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Added
+- **2025-04-02** Serial Referral To Judiciary 1 Added
+- **2025-04-02** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
+- **2025-04-02** Serial Referral To Judiciary 2 Stricken
+- **2025-04-01** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-31** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dee7522-f700-4f86-813b-968ee923ec43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+