---
type: "Bill"
title: "Harrison's Law."
description: "Harrison's Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 375"
citation: "North Carolina SB 375 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES; ASSAULT; BOARDS; COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES; CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES; CORPORATIONS", "NONPROFIT; CRIMES; EDUCATION; EDUCATION BOARDS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; HIGHER EDUCATION; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MINORS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPT.; RATIFIED; SECONDARY EDUCATION; SECRET SOCIETIES; STUDENTS; UNC; UNC BOARD OF GOVERNORS; CHAPTERED; STUDENT DISCIPLINE; NAMED LAWS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barnes", "Galey"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-20"
last_action: "2025-07-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79f02984-1751-4f1a-a3f7-40952a96c159"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S375"
source_hash: "2521f5009427ddb85f620b058ddd40201029461c80059cda17f061e0519ea8fe"
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 375 (2025) — Harrison's Law.

## 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/S375v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S375v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S375v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S375v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S375v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S375v5.pdf)
7. **SL 2025-73** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S375v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **97–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barnes — primary (person)
- Galey — primary (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- Overcash — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-09** Ch. SL 2025-73 `became-law`
- **2025-07-09** Signed by Gov. 7/9/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-30** Pres. To Gov. 6/30/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** Ratified
- **2025-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-26** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-26** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2025-06-26** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-26** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-26** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2025-06-26** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-25** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-25** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-25** Reptd Fav Com Sub 2 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-03** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `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
- **2025-05-08** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-07** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2025-05-07** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-05-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-05-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-05** Sequential Referral To Education/Higher Education Stricken
- **2025-04-10** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-24** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79f02984-1751-4f1a-a3f7-40952a96c159`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).