---
type: "Bill"
title: "Restore Driving Privileges/Competency."
description: "Restore Driving Privileges/Competency."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 350"
citation: "North Carolina HB 350 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURT CLERKS", "COURTS", "DMV", "DRIVERS LICENSES", "INCOMPETENTS", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "MENTAL HEALTH", "MOTOR VEHICLES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION DEPT.", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Richardson", "Farmer-Butterfield", "Hurley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-24"
last_action: "2015-07-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0d7ff25-c343-4236-b51b-08e1e83999f2"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H350&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9c720de3f78db17631097d9a1b8039e51e27837b640eca93094d5dcd033e8602"
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 350 (2015) — Restore Driving Privileges/Competency.

## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H350v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H350v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H350v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H350v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-165** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H350v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Richardson — primary (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — primary (person)
- Hurley — primary (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- R. Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- R. Turner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2015-07-23** Ch. SL 2015-165 `became-law`
- **2015-07-23** Signed by Gov. 7/23/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-23** Pres. To Gov. 7/23/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-07-22** Ratified
- **2015-07-21** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-07-21** Concurred In S/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-20** Placed On Cal For 07/21/2015
- **2015-07-16** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2015-07-15** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2015-07-15** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-07-14** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-07-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-07-02** Placed On Cal For 07/14/2015
- **2015-07-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-06** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-06** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-05-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-05-05** Re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-05** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-22** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-22** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-22** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-21** Added to Calendar
- **2015-04-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-14** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-26** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b0d7ff25-c343-4236-b51b-08e1e83999f2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).