---
type: "Bill"
title: "Underground Safety Revisions."
description: "Underground Safety Revisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 247"
citation: "North Carolina HB 247 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSTRUCTION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION & DISTRIBUTION; INFRASTRUCTURE; NOTIFICATION; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; REPORTS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TITLE CHANGE; UTILITIES; UTILITIES COMN.; WATER & SEWER SYSTEMS; CHAPTERED; CABLE & SATELLITE TV; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; UNDERGROUND DAMAGE BOARD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Watford", "Zenger"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f43084f0-3a0f-4e50-92d7-9c6dff1d71e6"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H247"
source_hash: "b151aa85a01e8c0be89a75ad28cd774436c579c8cc89110155bd30c13b194dd4"
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 247 (2025) — Underground Safety Revisions.

## 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/H247v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H247v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H247v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H247v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H247v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-21** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H247v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **111–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Watford — primary (person)
- Zenger — primary (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Penny — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-26** Ch. SL 2025-21 `became-law`
- **2025-06-26** Signed by Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-19** Ratified
- **2025-06-18** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-18** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-17** Placed On Cal For 06/18/2025
- **2025-06-17** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-17** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-17** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-11** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-04** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** Re-ref to Agriculture, Energy, and Environment. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-27** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-03-27** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-03-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Placed On Cal For 03/26/2025
- **2025-03-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-03-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-25** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-25** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-24** Re-ref to the Com on Energy and Public Utilities, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-19** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03** Ref to the Com on Energy and Public Utilities, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f43084f0-3a0f-4e50-92d7-9c6dff1d71e6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).