---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish New Nurse Licensure Compact."
description: "Establish New Nurse Licensure Compact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 550"
citation: "North Carolina HB 550 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COMMISSIONS", "COMPACTS", "EMPLOYMENT", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INTERSTATE COOPERATION", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "LOCAL", "MEMBERSHIP", "NURSING", "NURSING BOARD", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT COMN."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boswell", "G. Adcock", "Szoka"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-04"
last_action: "2017-07-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/544bc0f5-7909-441e-a4fd-f457c1a395e8"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H550&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c356439f490e3b48576025dcdc1793a87983f3a725acff15b76a49c84da33dd6"
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 550 (2017) — Establish New Nurse Licensure Compact.

## 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/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H550v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H550v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H550v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2017-140** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H550v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boswell — primary (person)
- G. Adcock — primary (person)
- Szoka — primary (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- B. Richardson — cosponsor (person)
- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Gill — cosponsor (person)
- Grange — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Insko — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- S. Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-20** Ch. SL 2017-140 `became-law`
- **2017-07-20** Signed by Gov. 7/20/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-29** Pres. To Gov. 6/29/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-29** Ratified
- **2017-06-28** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-28** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2017-06-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-25** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-25** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-04-25** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-04-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-21** Placed On Cal For 04/24/2017
- **2017-04-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-04-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-06** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-05** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/544bc0f5-7909-441e-a4fd-f457c1a395e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).