---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarify Motor Vehicle Dealer Laws."
description: "Clarify Motor Vehicle Dealer Laws."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 295"
citation: "North Carolina SB 295 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE; CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT; FRANCHISES; MOTOR VEHICLES; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; RETAILING; TRANSPORTATION; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson", "Lazzara"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-13"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/de4e1273-3eac-4768-b64e-64f67cf70299"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S295"
source_hash: "8b2272d14f9a8f811efdf33a47bb3074a7194a04629469c491951929b4adcc53"
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 295 (2025) — Clarify Motor Vehicle Dealer Laws.

## 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/S295v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S295v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S295v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S295v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S295v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-41** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S295v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **109–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Lazzara — primary (person)
- B. Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Barnes — cosponsor (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Galey — cosponsor (person)
- Hanig — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Overcash — cosponsor (person)
- Sawyer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-41 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/25/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** Ratified
- **2025-06-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-23** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-20** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2025
- **2025-06-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2025-06-18** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-17** Placed On Cal For 06/18/2025
- **2025-06-17** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-17** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-11** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** Re-ref to the Com on Transportation, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** 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`
- **2025-05-06** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2025-05-06** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-05-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-17** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/de4e1273-3eac-4768-b64e-64f67cf70299`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).