---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact."
description: "Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 231"
citation: "North Carolina HB 231 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMPACTS; EMPLOYMENT; INTERSTATE COOPERATION; LICENSING & CERTIFICATION; OCCUPATIONS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SOCIAL SERVICES; SOCIAL WORKERS; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campbell", "Potts", "Reeder"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-26"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3ee0d1ac-eeb6-4dcb-a1cd-0f7c6fd8800d"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H231"
source_hash: "5e7015f2c92728b222b3d12e3d9e713dee39ea574f9cf024847a0e3f26ed2a44"
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 231 (2025) — Social Work Interstate Licensure Compact.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H231v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H231v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H231v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H231v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H231v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Campbell — primary (person)
- Potts — primary (person)
- Reeder — primary (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Cervania — cosponsor (person)
- Crawford — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
- Lambeth — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Price — cosponsor (person)
- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-13** Ch. SL 2025-7 `became-law`
- **2025-06-13** Signed by Gov. 6/13/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-12** Pres. To Gov. 6/12/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-12** Ratified
- **2025-06-11** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** Placed On Cal For 04/01/2025
- **2025-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3ee0d1ac-eeb6-4dcb-a1cd-0f7c6fd8800d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).