---
type: "Bill"
title: "Improve Adult Care Home Regulation."
description: "Improve Adult Care Home Regulation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "HB 657"
citation: "North Carolina HB 657 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CERTIFICATES OF NEED", "CLINICS", "DHHS", "EMPLOYMENT", "FINES & PENALTIES", "HEALTH SERVICES", "HOSPITALS", "INSPECTIONS", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MEDIATION & ARBITRATION", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "REPORTS", "SOCIAL SERVICES", "SOCIAL SERVICES DEPTS.", "STUDIES", "CHAPTERED", "CONTINUING CARE FACILITIES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Burr", "Dobson", "White"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-06"
last_action: "2017-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2614f058-7921-4604-8e4f-bc390ae90bc2"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=H657&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "54f6e882640e3da5025415d0a810dddcaf4ace106db4b75d0f542e660f481083"
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 657 (2017) — Improve Adult Care Home Regulation.

## 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/H657v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H657v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H657v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H657v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2017-184** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/House/PDF/H657v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Burr — primary (person)
- Dobson — primary (person)
- White — primary (person)
- Bert Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Boswell — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Earle — cosponsor (person)
- Faircloth — cosponsor (person)
- Farmer-Butterfield — cosponsor (person)
- G. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Holley — cosponsor (person)
- Hunter — cosponsor (person)
- R. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Sauls — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-25** Ch. SL 2017-184 `became-law`
- **2017-07-25** Signed by Gov. 7/25/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-26** Ratified
- **2017-06-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-21** Placed On Cal For 06/22/2017
- **2017-06-21** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2017-06-19** Placed On Cal For 06/21/2017
- **2017-06-19** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2017-06-15** Placed On Cal For 06/19/2017
- **2017-06-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-18** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-05-16** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-16** 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** Regular Message Received From House
- **2017-04-27** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-04-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-25** Placed On Cal For 04/26/2017
- **2017-04-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-04-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-25** Serial Referral To Judiciary I Stricken
- **2017-04-20** Re-ref Com On Health `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-11** Ref to the Com on Aging, if favorable, Health, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2614f058-7921-4604-8e4f-bc390ae90bc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).