---
type: "Bill"
title: "Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted."
description: "Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 248"
citation: "North Carolina SB 248 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADOPTION; COURT CLERKS; COURTS; DEEDS; MINORS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; PUBLIC RECORDS; RATIFIED; RECORDATION OF INSTRUMENTS; REGISTER OF DEEDS; SOCIAL SERVICES; STATE EMPLOYEES; STATE REGISTRAR; VITAL RECORDS; RECORDS; CHAPTERED; FAMILY ISSUES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Johnson", "Lazzara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9b88c197-7984-4335-b06f-294d710671dd"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S248"
source_hash: "e3d461b752e794fe03ff09650996bf0092f3cd6f7059506c660270d89159f90e"
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 248 (2025) — Birth Certificates for Persons Adopted.

## 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/S248v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S248v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Johnson — primary (person)
- Lazzara — primary (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Craven — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Sawrey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-13** Ch. SL 2025-9 `became-law`
- **2025-06-13** Signed by Gov. 6/13/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-06** Pres. To Gov. 6/6/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-05** Ratified
- **2025-06-04** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-04** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-29** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-06** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2025-05-05** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-05-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-10** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9b88c197-7984-4335-b06f-294d710671dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).