---
type: "Bill"
title: "Child Care Regulatory Reforms."
description: "Child Care Regulatory Reforms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 412"
citation: "North Carolina HB 412 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHILD CARE COMN.; COMMISSIONS; COUNCIL OF STATE; DAY CARE; DHHS; INSURANCE; INSURANCE DEPT.; INSURANCE", "LIABILITY; LICENSES & PERMITS; MINORS; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; REPORTS; SESSION LAWS; SOCIAL SERVICES; STUDIES; LIABILITY; CHAPTERED; INSURANCE COMMISSIONER"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arp", "Lambeth", "Paré"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 51
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/96841256-5b6b-42aa-9eac-477ca6990863"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H412"
source_hash: "95b6333a263e81acd6e6e4aece0c4d00fb8d4eafcb82fe124fde5a58ab773aea"
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 412 (2025) — Child Care Regulatory Reforms.

## 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/H412v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ACI-4-V-3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/4636/0/H412-ACI-4-V-3)
3. **A1: Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6118/0/H412-A-NBC-16212)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v4.pdf)
8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v5.pdf)
9. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v6.pdf)
10. **SL 2025-36** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H412v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Conference Report Motion 8 To Adopt — **46–0** (pass) · upper
- C RPT Adoption — **111–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Arp — primary (person)
- Lambeth — primary (person)
- Paré — primary (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
- Strickland — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-36 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** Ratified
- **2025-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-25** Conf Report Adopted
- **2025-06-24** Conf Report Adopted
- **2025-06-24** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-24** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** Conf Com Reported
- **2025-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2025
- **2025-06-24** Conf Com Reported
- **2025-06-11** Conf Com Appointed
- **2025-06-10** Conf Com Appointed
- **2025-06-10** Failed Concur In S Com Sub
- **2025-06-09** Placed On Cal For 06/10/2025
- **2025-06-09** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-05** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-05** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-04** Engrossed
- **2025-06-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-04** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-22** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-22** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-05-22** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-16** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-16** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-16** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-15** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-04-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-15** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-04-10** Placed On Cal For 04/15/2025
- **2025-04-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-08** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Serial Referral To Judiciary 1 Stricken
- **2025-04-08** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Added
- **2025-03-20** Serial Referral To Judiciary 1 Added
- **2025-03-20** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
- **2025-03-20** Serial Referral To Judiciary 2 Stricken
- **2025-03-18** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/96841256-5b6b-42aa-9eac-477ca6990863`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).