---
type: "Bill"
title: "Extend Certain Rights to Catawba Nation."
description: "Extend Certain Rights to Catawba Nation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 655"
citation: "North Carolina SB 655 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BOARDS; COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES; COMMISSIONS; COMMUNITY COLLEGES; COUNTIES; COURTS; CULTURAL RESOURCES; NATURAL & CULTURAL RESOURCES DEPT.; DMV; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY SERVICES; FISH & WILDLIFE; HIGHER EDUCATION; HUNTING & FISHING; LANGUAGES; LAW ENFORCEMENT; LICENSE PLATES; LICENSES & PERMITS; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MINORITIES; MOTOR VEHICLES; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SPORTS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEPHONES; TRIBES & TRIBAL GOVERNMENT; CHAPTERED; BOXING COMN.; MOBILE PHONES & DEVICES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPT.; INDIAN HERITAGE COMN.; 911 BOARD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alexander", "Overcash"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-25"
last_action: "2025-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae8797a7-3c7f-476c-b484-643c1b6257cb"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/S655"
source_hash: "1aac94b50907460445d0c0355901e4730c64036de339265bfc87659a2ee7e9d5"
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 655 (2025) — Extend Certain Rights to Catawba Nation.

## 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/S655v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S655v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S655v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S655v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S655v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-57** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/Senate/PDF/S655v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **37–5** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **105–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Alexander — primary (person)
- Overcash — primary (person)
- Bradley — cosponsor (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Craven — cosponsor (person)
- Galey — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-03** Ch. SL 2025-57 `became-law`
- **2025-07-03** Signed by Gov. 7/3/2025 `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
- **2025-06-18** 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`
- **2025-06-18** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-18** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-18** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-05** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 1, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-05** 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`
- **2025-05-01** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-26** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae8797a7-3c7f-476c-b484-643c1b6257cb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).