---
type: "Bill"
title: "The Projects for Advancing Vehicle-Infrastructure Enhancements (P.A.V.E.) Act."
description: "The Projects for Advancing Vehicle-Infrastructure Enhancements (P.A.V.E.) Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 948"
citation: "North Carolina HB 948 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AUTHORITIES; COMMERCE; COUNTIES; COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; ELECTIONS; INFRASTRUCTURE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MASS TRANSIT; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION; RATIFIED; RETAILING; ROADS & HIGHWAYS; SESSION LAWS; TAXATION; TAXES", "SALES & USE; TRANSPORTATION; MECKLENBURG COUNTY; CHAPTERED; METRO TRANSPORT AUTHORITY"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 10
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-10"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5550ac77-97f0-4f5f-9459-2c222985c2af"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H948"
source_hash: "95842639e2db702c781ef6865d1fffdc7f13b25c028c88320bfadc2e9d599b45"
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 948 (2025) — The Projects for Advancing Vehicle-Infrastructure Enhancements (P.A.V.E.) 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/H948v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABG-25-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6620/0/H948-ABG-25-V-1)
3. **A1: ABG-28-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/7012/0/H948-ABG-28-V-3)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v4.pdf)
8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v5.pdf)
9. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v6.pdf)
10. **SL 2025-39** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H948v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **39–3** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **101–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Budd — cosponsor (person)
- Carney — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- Dew — cosponsor (person)
- Greenfield — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
- Lopez — cosponsor (person)
- Majeed — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-39 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-01** Pres. To Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** Ratified
- **2025-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-26** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-26** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-26** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-26** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-26** Engrossed
- **2025-06-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-25** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-24** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-24** Ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-06-24** Special Message Received From House
- **2025-06-24** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-24** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2025
- **2025-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-18** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-11** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5550ac77-97f0-4f5f-9459-2c222985c2af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).