---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various Education Changes."
description: "Various Education Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 125"
citation: "North Carolina SB 125 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPOINTMENTS; APPROPRIATIONS; BOARDS; BUDGETING; COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES; COMMUNITY COLLEGES; COMMUNITY COLLEGES BOARD; COMMUNITY COLLEGES OFFICE; CONTRACTS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATION", "STATE BOARD OF; FUNDS & ACCOUNTS; HIGHER EDUCATION; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SESSION LAWS; TUITION; UNC; UNC BOARD OF GOVERNORS; CHAPTERED; COMMUNITY COLLEGE BOARDS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Corbin", "Lee"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e422afef-bee6-4d42-89cc-187fc4968c50"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S125"
source_hash: "47ff5e4ab2fa23df1b43190a8cc352af5e5fe5776ebefebd4b6090b94d2fab92"
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 SB 125 (2025) — Various Education Changes.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S125v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABN-14-V-6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6314/0/S125-ABN-14-V-6)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v4.pdf)
7. **SL 2025-56** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S125v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Corbin — primary (person)
- Lee — primary (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-03** Ch. SL 2025-56 `became-law`
- **2025-07-03** Signed by Gov. 7/3/2025 `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 H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2025
- **2025-06-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-16** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2025-06-12** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-11** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-11** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-10** Placed On Cal For 06/11/2025
- **2025-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Re-ref to the Com on Higher Education, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-06** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2025-03-05** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-03-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-04** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-26** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-24** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-02-24** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e422afef-bee6-4d42-89cc-187fc4968c50`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).