---
type: "Bill"
title: "Perpetual Care of Certain Cemeteries."
description: "Perpetual Care of Certain Cemeteries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 210"
citation: "North Carolina HB 210 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CEMETERIES; CEMETERY COMN.; COMMISSIONS; FINES & PENALTIES; LICENSES & PERMITS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; REPORTING; CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Penny"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/655c51f4-c9f9-4523-b561-435f3ee7e42c"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H210"
source_hash: "27f53d32d28c7061cbd23e614ebacc6bbd1b67a2a909a5317c36dff34aab42a9"
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 210 (2025) — Perpetual Care of Certain Cemeteries.

## 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/House/PDF/H210v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ACO-12-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/7009/0/H210-ACO-12-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H210v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H210v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H210v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H210v4.pdf)
7. **SL 2025-68** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H210v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **108–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Penny — primary (person)
- Belk — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
- Cervania — cosponsor (person)
- Charles Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Colvin — cosponsor (person)
- Dahle — cosponsor (person)
- F. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Harrison — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- Logan — cosponsor (person)
- Morey — cosponsor (person)
- Moss — cosponsor (person)
- Quick — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-07** Ch. SL 2025-68 `became-law`
- **2025-07-07** Signed by Gov. 7/7/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-01** Pres. To Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-30** Ratified
- **2025-06-26** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-26** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-25** Placed On Cal For 06/26/2025
- **2025-06-25** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-25** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-25** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-25** Engrossed
- **2025-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-25** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2025
- **2025-06-24** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2025-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-17** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-06-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-11** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-11** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-01** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-05-01** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-30** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-30** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-29** Placed On Cal For 04/30/2025
- **2025-04-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-27** Ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/655c51f4-c9f9-4523-b561-435f3ee7e42c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).