---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow Repeat Referral to Teen Court."
description: "Allow Repeat Referral to Teen Court."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 617"
citation: "North Carolina HB 617 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "JUVENILE CODE", "MINORS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Faircloth", "Murphy", "Ross"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-04"
last_action: "2019-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e49b8525-8477-487b-822e-a3d2f0f6c5fe"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H617&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9aee4109ac15a9fd502f25d19c41cddc8ef12a420df5e939a69756360bed5920"
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 617 (2019) — Allow Repeat Referral to Teen Court.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H617v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H617v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H617v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2019-41** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H617v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **43–3** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Faircloth — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Ross — primary (person)
- Brockman — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-21** Ch. SL 2019-41 `became-law`
- **2019-06-21** Signed by Gov. 6/21/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/18/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-17** Ratified
- **2019-06-13** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-12** Placed On Cal For 06/13/2019
- **2019-06-12** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-05** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-24** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-17** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-17** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-04-17** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-16** Added to Calendar
- **2019-04-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-15** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-08** Ref to the Com on Judiciary, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e49b8525-8477-487b-822e-a3d2f0f6c5fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).