---
type: "Bill"
title: "Kilah's Law/Increase Child Abuse Penalties."
description: "Kilah's Law/Increase Child Abuse Penalties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "HB 75"
citation: "North Carolina HB 75 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILD ABUSE", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "CRIMINAL RECORDS", "MINORS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arp", "Horn", "Stevens"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2013-02-06"
last_action: "2013-04-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/539c484a-f1b9-4781-a909-d0be04d66270"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=H75&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "05e4ac4cc0b6c9d6daeb142dae28bebb6df56912d37ee86ae2a5c2ef8a7e047b"
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 HB 75 (2013) — Kilah's Law/Increase Child Abuse Penalties.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H75v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H75v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H75v2.pdf)
4. **SL2013-35** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/House/PDF/H75v3.pdf)

## Votes

- SECOND READING — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arp — primary (person)
- Horn — primary (person)
- Stevens — primary (person)
- B. Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Brody — cosponsor (person)
- Bumgardner — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Fisher — cosponsor (person)
- Ford — cosponsor (person)
- Glazier — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Hollo — cosponsor (person)
- Iler — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jeter — cosponsor (person)
- Jordan — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Moffitt — cosponsor (person)
- R. Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Riddell — cosponsor (person)
- Saine — cosponsor (person)
- Szoka — cosponsor (person)
- Torbett — cosponsor (person)
- Warren — cosponsor (person)
- Whitmire — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-04-24** Ch. SL 2013-35 `became-law`
- **2013-04-24** Signed by Gov. 4/24/2013 `executive-signature`
- **2013-04-19** Pres. To Gov. 4/19/2013 `executive-receipt`
- **2013-04-18** Ratified
- **2013-04-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2013-04-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-04-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-04-11** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-11** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-03-13** Ref To Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-03-13** Rec From House
- **2013-03-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2013-03-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2013-03-11** Placed On Cal For 03/12/2013
- **2013-03-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2013-03-11** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-02-20** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2013-02-13** Ref to the Com on Judiciary Subcommittee C, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2013-02-07** Ref to the Com on Judiciary Subcommittee B, if favorable, Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2013-02-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2013-02-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/539c484a-f1b9-4781-a909-d0be04d66270`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).