---
type: "Bill"
title: "Realign Congressional Districts 2025."
description: "Realign Congressional Districts 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 249"
citation: "North Carolina SB 249 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CAMPAIGN FINANCE; ELECTIONS; POLITICAL ACTIVITY; POLITICAL PARTIES; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; REDISTRICTING; REPORTING; TITLE CHANGE; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alexander", "Daniel"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-10-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0697440-2fa2-477c-b8ff-fbfd13a2d865"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S249"
source_hash: "8d17465d41cadab479c6cff2d67ac153d0df1d637b7eb78ce0bd93275f17a0e8"
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 249 (2025) — Realign Congressional Districts 2025.

## 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/S249v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-95** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S249v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading M4 Previous Question — **65–49** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **66–48** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alexander — primary (person)
- Daniel — primary (person)
- Galey — cosponsor (person)
- Jarvis — cosponsor (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-10-22** Ch. SL 2025-95 `became-law`
- **2025-10-22** Ratified
- **2025-10-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-10-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-22** Amend Failed A1 `amendment-failure`
- **2025-10-21** Placed On Cal For 10/22/2025
- **2025-10-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-10-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-21** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-10-21** Ref to the Com on House Select Committee on Redistricting, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-10-21** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2025-10-21** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-10-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-10-21** Amend Tabled A6
- **2025-10-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-10-20** Amend Tabled A5
- **2025-10-20** Amend Tabled A4
- **2025-10-20** Amend Tabled A3
- **2025-10-20** Amendment Ruled Out-of-Order A2
- **2025-10-20** Amend Tabled A1
- **2025-10-20** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-10-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-10-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-10-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-10-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** Re-ref to Elections. 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/a0697440-2fa2-477c-b8ff-fbfd13a2d865`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).