---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expand Remote Drivers License Services."
description: "Expand Remote Drivers License Services."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 245"
citation: "North Carolina SB 245 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE; CRIMES; DEATH & DYING; DMV; DRIVERS LICENSES; FUNERAL SERVICES; HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES; ID SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; LICENSES & PERMITS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; RETAILING; TITLE CHANGE; TRANSPORTATION DEPT.; CHAPTERED; ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT; NAMED LAWS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Newton", "Lazzara"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-05"
last_action: "2025-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c103e6f9-67d3-4815-ae9f-c2c7378eb879"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S245"
source_hash: "2ed07659da418468ffe5e0f5fd8668813b264fa9bbda9db0ed72f5a5500623e1"
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 245 (2025) — Expand Remote Drivers License Services.

## 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/S245v0.pdf)
2. **A1: AMCA-39-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/7380/0/S245-AMCA-39-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S245v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S245v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S245v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S245v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S245v5.pdf)
8. **SL 2025-91** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S245v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **109–7** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Newton — primary (person)
- Lazzara — primary (person)
- Brinson — cosponsor (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-09-30** Ch. SL 2025-91 `became-law`
- **2025-09-30** Signed by Gov. 9/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-09-24** Pres. To Gov. 9/24/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-09-23** Ratified
- **2025-09-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-09-22** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-09-22** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-09-22** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-07-31** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-31** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2025-07-31** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-07-30** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-07-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-07-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-07-30** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-07-29** Placed On Cal For 07/30/2025
- **2025-07-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-07-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-04-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-16** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-04-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-03** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-05** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c103e6f9-67d3-4815-ae9f-c2c7378eb879`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).