---
type: "Bill"
title: "Motor Vehicle Dealers."
description: "Motor Vehicle Dealers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 421"
citation: "North Carolina HB 421 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE; DMV; FRANCHISES; LICENSE PLATES; LICENSES & PERMITS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; RETAILING; TRANSPORTATION; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Jones", "Tyson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c773f97-8175-4a27-8899-104256cfe64f"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H421"
source_hash: "de9567015603c49cc93a59418cc61c06806e62e18be39c500b058b085cd3ec30"
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 421 (2025) — Motor Vehicle Dealers.

## 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/H421v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H421v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H421v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H421v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-22** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H421v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **107–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Jones — primary (person)
- Tyson — primary (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Colvin — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Zenger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-26** Ch. SL 2025-22 `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** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Re-ref to Transportation. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-05** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-05-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Placed On Cal For 05/01/2025
- **2025-04-30** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2025-04-29** Placed On Cal For 04/30/2025
- **2025-04-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0c773f97-8175-4a27-8899-104256cfe64f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).