---
type: "Bill"
title: "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid."
description: "Law Enforcement Mutual Aid."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 629"
citation: "North Carolina HB 629 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "INTERSTATE COOPERATION", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SHERIFFS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McNeill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-08"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5096580-db50-438c-a912-32d4f0d355c0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=H629&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3b057ff5d7d5fd74f8687aa622dc78ee07f29610ed9bc019aa05d28b92c1a8bb"
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 629 (2019) — Law Enforcement Mutual Aid.

## 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/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H629v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H629v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H629v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H629v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H629v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-130** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/House/PDF/H629v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **118–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- McNeill — primary (person)
- C. Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Carter — cosponsor (person)
- Goodwin — cosponsor (person)
- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Hurley — cosponsor (person)
- Pierce — cosponsor (person)
- Pittman — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Sasser — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-19** Ch. SL 2019-130 `became-law`
- **2019-07-19** Signed by Gov. 7/19/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-10** Pres. To Gov. 7/10/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-09** Ratified
- **2019-07-08** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-08** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-07-04** Placed On Cal For 07/08/2019
- **2019-07-04** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2019-07-02** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2019-07-02** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-07-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-27** Placed On Cal For 07/01/2019
- **2019-06-27** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2019-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-04** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-04** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-06-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-29** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-30** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-30** Regular Message Received From House
- **2019-04-30** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-04-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-04-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-04-26** Placed On Cal For 04/29/2019
- **2019-04-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-04-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-25** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-25** Re-ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-15** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-09** Ref to the Com on Judiciary, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5096580-db50-438c-a912-32d4f0d355c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).