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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted."
+description: "Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
+legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 248"
+citation: "North Carolina SB 248 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["ADOPTION; COURT CLERKS; COURTS; DEEDS; MINORS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; PUBLIC RECORDS; RATIFIED; RECORDATION OF INSTRUMENTS; REGISTER OF DEEDS; SOCIAL SERVICES; STATE EMPLOYEES; STATE REGISTRAR; VITAL RECORDS; RECORDS; CHAPTERED; FAMILY ISSUES"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Johnson", "Lazzara"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-03-06"
+last_action: "2025-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b88c197-7984-4335-b06f-294d710671dd"
+source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S248"
+source_hash: "e3d461b752e794fe03ff09650996bf0092f3cd6f7059506c660270d89159f90e"
+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 SB 248 (2025) — Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted.
+
+## 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/Senate/PDF/S248v0.pdf)
+2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v1.pdf)
+3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v2.pdf)
+4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v3.pdf)
+5. **SL 2025-9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v4.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Second Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower
+- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Johnson — primary (person)
+- Lazzara — primary (person)
+- Britt — cosponsor (person)
+- Craven — cosponsor (person)
+- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
+- Hise — cosponsor (person)
+- Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
+- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
+- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
+- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Sawrey — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-06-13** Ch. SL 2025-9 `became-law`
+- **2025-06-13** Signed by Gov. 6/13/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-05** Ratified
+- **2025-06-04** Ordered Enrolled
+- **2025-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-04** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-04** Added to Calendar
+- **2025-06-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
+- **2025-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-29** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-05** Regular Message Received From Senate
+- **2025-05-05** Regular Message Sent To House
+- **2025-05-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-29** Com Substitute Adopted
+- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-10** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Withdrawn From Com
+- **2025-03-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-06** Filed `introduction`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b88c197-7984-4335-b06f-294d710671dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).
+