---
type: "Bill"
title: "Physical Therapy Practice Act Modifications."
description: "Physical Therapy Practice Act Modifications."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 536"
citation: "North Carolina HB 536 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS; FEES; HEALTH SERVICES; LICENSING & CERTIFICATION; OCCUPATIONS; PHYSICAL THERAPY; PHYSICAL THERAPY BOARD; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; CHAPTERED; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Campbell", "Lambeth", "Rhyne"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-26"
last_action: "2026-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b956c01-a82f-4826-b0fa-4d5d07d90eb8"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H536"
source_hash: "98ce26d54bf1b00c1e92d06b01f1a1770542486512da3ee89a2beee47e4fb806"
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 536 (2025) — Physical Therapy Practice Act Modifications.

## 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/H536v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H536v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H536v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H536v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2026-16** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H536v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **112–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Campbell — primary (person)
- Lambeth — primary (person)
- Rhyne — primary (person)
- Chesser — cosponsor (person)
- Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
- Reeder — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-06-22** Ch. SL 2026-16 `became-law`
- **2026-06-22** Signed by Gov. 6/22/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-06-18** Ratified
- **2026-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2026-06-17** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2026-06-16** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2026
- **2026-06-16** Withdrawn From Com
- **2026-06-15** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2026-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2026-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2026-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-04** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-06-03** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-06-03** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2026-06-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-05-28** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2026-05-28** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-06-16** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-06-16** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-06-12** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-06-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Placed On Cal For 06/11/2025
- **2025-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-10** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-29** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b956c01-a82f-4826-b0fa-4d5d07d90eb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).