---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Business Corporations Act."
description: "Amend Business Corporations Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 388"
citation: "North Carolina HB 388 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS; COMMERCE; CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT; DEATH & DYING; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ESTATES; FINANCIAL SERVICES; INCORPORATION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; MINORS; OCCUPATIONS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SECRETARY OF STATE; TELESERVICES; TRUSTS; WILLS; RECORDS; LIABILITY; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 9
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-12"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/39227cac-1975-4384-ab89-a592bd802341"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H388"
source_hash: "846232f2628cdd1488d8af9d8e80d1d903ed6792e2cf388de5db16b649805db2"
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 388 (2025) — Amend Business Corporations 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/H388v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATG-64-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6674/0/H388-ATG-64-V-3)
3. **A3: ATG-65-V-9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6750/0/H388-ATG-65-V-9)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H388v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H388v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H388v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H388v4.pdf)
8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H388v5.pdf)
9. **SL 2025-33** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H388v6.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **113–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-33 `became-law`
- **2025-06-30** Signed by Gov. 6/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** Ratified
- **2025-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-25** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2025
- **2025-06-24** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-24** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-24** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-23** Engrossed
- **2025-06-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-23** Amend Adopted A3 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-19** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2025
- **2025-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-19** Amend Tabled A2
- **2025-06-19** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** 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
- **2025-04-03** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** Placed On Cal For 04/02/2025
- **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 Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-13** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-12** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/39227cac-1975-4384-ab89-a592bd802341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).