---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act."
description: "The Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 318"
citation: "North Carolina HB 318 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS; COUNTIES; EMERGENCY SERVICES; IMMIGRATION; JAILS; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; NOTIFICATION; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SHERIFFS; VETOED; ALIENS; CHAPTERED; VETO OVERRIDDEN"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Jones", "Carson Smith", "D. Hall"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-05"
last_action: "2025-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d4d21fd-a204-4c20-ac78-bfbb0d8e172c"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H318"
source_hash: "1c661e22f2ab9695053f119f03d1875f8bea8777ca16a4e5caab6fbbbf782b46"
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 318 (2025) — The Criminal Illegal Alien Enforcement Act.

## 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/H318v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASA-22-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/5048/0/H318-ASA-22-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H318v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H318v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H318v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H318v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H318v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2025-85** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H318v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 11 Veto Override — **30–19** (pass) · upper
- Veto Override — **72–48** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Jones — primary (person)
- Carson Smith — primary (person)
- D. Hall — primary (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Potts — cosponsor (person)
- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Winslow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-29** Ch. SL 2025-85 `became-law`
- **2025-07-29** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2025-07-29** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-07-29** Veto Received From House
- **2025-07-29** Veto Overridden `veto-override-passage`
- **2025-07-03** Placed On Cal For 07/29/2025
- **2025-07-03** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2025-06-30** Placed On Cal For 07/14/2025
- **2025-06-30** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2025-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2025
- **2025-06-20** Received from the Governor
- **2025-06-20** Vetoed 06/20/2025 `executive-veto`
- **2025-06-10** Pres. To Gov. 6/10/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-10** Ratified
- **2025-06-10** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-10** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-10** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-10** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-10** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Amend Tabled A1
- **2025-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-04** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-04** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-02** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-29** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-28** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
- **2025-04-28** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-28** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d4d21fd-a204-4c20-ac78-bfbb0d8e172c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).