---
type: "Bill"
title: "Strengthening Victims' Rights."
description: "Strengthening Victims' Rights."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 551"
citation: "North Carolina HB 551 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "CONSTITUTION", "NC", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "DEFINITIONS", "ELECTIONS", "NOTIFICATION", "PAROLE & PROBATION", "INMATES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "SENTENCING", "VICTIMS RIGHTS", "DISTRICT ATTORNEYS", "CHAPTERED", "CIVIL ACTIONS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Destin Hall", "Dollar", "R. Turner"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-04"
last_action: "2018-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2ee2a1fa-2a6d-4d05-938b-772b56dc791d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H551&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "4b8f16de92e81b0085957ff91c181c998b6022ec0a0f5f6a16476a20b30b185e"
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 551 (2017) — Strengthening Victims' Rights.

## 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/H551v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2018-110** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H551v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **45–1** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **107–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Destin Hall — primary (person)
- Dollar — primary (person)
- R. Turner — primary (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Alexander — cosponsor (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Ball — cosponsor (person)
- Beasley — cosponsor (person)
- Bert Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Boles — cosponsor (person)
- Boswell — cosponsor (person)
- Bradford — cosponsor (person)
- Brenden Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- C. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
- Cleveland — cosponsor (person)
- Corbin — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Duane Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Dulin — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Fraley — cosponsor (person)
- G. Adcock — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Goodman — cosponsor (person)
- Grange — cosponsor (person)
- Hanes — cosponsor (person)
- Hardister — cosponsor (person)
- Henson — cosponsor (person)
- Holley — cosponsor (person)
- Horn — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- McElraft — cosponsor (person)
- McNeill — cosponsor (person)
- Murphy — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Presnell — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- S. Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Saine — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Speciale — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- Stone — cosponsor (person)
- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Terry — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- Watford — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)
- Yarborough — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-27** Ch. SL 2018-110 `became-law`
- **2018-06-27** Ratified
- **2018-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2018-06-26** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-25** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2018
- **2018-06-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2018-06-25** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2018-06-25** Special Message Sent To House
- **2018-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2018-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-25** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2018-06-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-20** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-27** Special Message Received From House
- **2017-04-27** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-26** Placed On Cal For 04/27/2017
- **2017-04-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-04-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-26** Serial Referral To Judiciary I Stricken
- **2017-04-05** Ref to the Com on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House, if favorable, Judiciary I `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/2ee2a1fa-2a6d-4d05-938b-772b56dc791d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).