---
type: "Bill"
title: "Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs."
description: "Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 402"
citation: "North Carolina HB 402 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMIN. HEARINGS OFFICE; ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES; CONSTITUTION", "NC; COUNCIL OF STATE; GENERAL ASSEMBLY; GOVERNOR; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SEPARATION OF POWERS; VETOED; CHAPTERED; VETO OVERRIDDEN; CODIFIER OF RULES; EXECUTIVE ORDERS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Chesser", "Zenger"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 47
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2025-07-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/faf45db0-20c3-43be-a8d1-8e322552f2ba"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H402"
source_hash: "8adcd16821f92c4bcae54a6d1dce114bd1e76506aecd9675254c57027efcad4e"
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 402 (2025) — Limit Rules With Substantial Financial Costs.

## 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/H402v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATQ-56-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6243/0/H402-ATQ-56-V-3)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H402v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H402v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H402v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H402v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H402v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2025-82** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H402v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Veto Override — **73–47** (pass) · lower
- Motion 11 Veto Override — **30–19** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bell — primary (person)
- Chesser — primary (person)
- Zenger — primary (person)
- Adams — cosponsor (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Brody — cosponsor (person)
- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- Gable — cosponsor (person)
- Gillespie — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Greene — cosponsor (person)
- Hastings — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- K. Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Paré — cosponsor (person)
- Penny — cosponsor (person)
- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
- Potts — cosponsor (person)
- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Schietzelt — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Setzer — cosponsor (person)
- Shepard — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- Tyson — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — 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 2025-82 `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
- **2025-06-27** Received from the Governor
- **2025-06-27** Vetoed 06/27/2025 `executive-veto`
- **2025-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-18** Ratified
- **2025-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-17** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2025
- **2025-06-12** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-10** Engrossed
- **2025-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Amend Tabled A2
- **2025-06-10** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **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`
- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Regulatory Reform. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-28** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-17** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** Amend Failed A1 `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/16/2025
- **2025-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-15** 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`
- **2025-04-15** Serial Referral To Commerce and Economic Development Stricken
- **2025-03-18** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 1 `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** Ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Judiciary 1, if favorable, Commerce and Economic Development, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/faf45db0-20c3-43be-a8d1-8e322552f2ba`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).