---
type: "Bill"
title: "EMS Personnel Provisions."
description: "EMS Personnel Provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 975"
citation: "North Carolina HB 975 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES; ANIMALS; COMMISSIONS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEDICAL CARE COMN.; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; TITLE CHANGE; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WEAPONS; CHAPTERED; LAW ENFORCEMENT ANIMALS; WORKING ANIMALS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["N. Jackson", "Scott"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-10"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a2f01c8c-d87c-438e-884a-d64746ee2cb3"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H975"
source_hash: "9a2d7e9a3d1e57ea7997c4c13a1962bc1227bfa87a541b16313a4c7e55ddd1a8"
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 975 (2025) — EMS Personnel Provisions.

## 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/H975v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H975v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H975v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H975v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H975v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-42** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H975v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **37–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- N. Jackson — primary (person)
- Scott — primary (person)
- Balkcom — cosponsor (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-42 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** Ratified
- **2025-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-24** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2025
- **2025-06-19** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-19** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-19** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2025-06-09** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-01** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **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`
- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 3 `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Ref to the Com on Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery, if favorable, Judiciary 3, 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/a2f01c8c-d87c-438e-884a-d64746ee2cb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).