---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alena's Law and Office of Vital Records Changes."
description: "Alena's Law and Office of Vital Records Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 537"
citation: "North Carolina HB 537 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH & DYING; DHHS; DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC RECORDS; RATIFIED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; VITAL RECORDS; RECORDS; CHAPTERED; NAMED LAWS; TELECOMMUTING"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Greene"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-26"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e6018eae-383b-4d84-870b-0f78366e9543"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H537"
source_hash: "b1666771c32bdeb04a62320d71aa15fabff219a5f378c42031f4111fadb3d192"
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 537 (2025) — Alena's Law and Office of Vital Records Changes.

## 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/H537v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H537v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H537v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H537v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2025-44** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H537v4.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **108–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **42–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Greene — primary (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Arp — cosponsor (person)
- Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- Loftis — cosponsor (person)
- McNeely — cosponsor (person)
- Pickett — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-44 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-25** Ratified
- **2025-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-24** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2025
- **2025-06-19** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-19** Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-19** Special Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-19** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-19** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-18** 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`
- **2025-06-09** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-28** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-28** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-17** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** Placed On Cal For 04/16/2025
- **2025-04-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-15** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-15** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-09** Re-ref Com On Judiciary 1 `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** Ref to the Com on Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery, if favorable, Judiciary 1, 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/e6018eae-383b-4d84-870b-0f78366e9543`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).