---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various Local Election Changes."
description: "Various Local Election Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 17"
citation: "North Carolina HB 17 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CHARTERS; CITY COUNCILS; COUNTIES; ELECTIONS; LOCAL; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MUNICIPALITIES; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SESSION LAWS; TERM LENGTHS & LIMITS; TITLE CHANGE; ROCKINGHAM COUNTY; ROWAN COUNTY; CHAPTERED; CHINA GROVE; MADISON; FAITH"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-06-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/272a294d-2a9e-415b-99c6-f0e0d910696a"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H17"
source_hash: "a6422207f9a705de4e00f9d4c67f988c711b2688ac9f1805128ceb7ee1aadefd"
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 17 (2025) — Various Local Election 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/H17v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H17v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H17v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H17v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H17v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H17v5.pdf)

## Votes

- M11 Concur — **111–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
- Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-04** Ch. SL 2025-5 `became-law`
- **2025-06-04** Ratified
- **2025-06-03** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-03** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-02** Placed On Cal For 06/03/2025
- **2025-06-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-27** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-05-23** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-05-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-05-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Elections. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-03-06** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-03-06** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-03-05** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-04** Placed On Cal For 03/05/2025
- **2025-03-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-03-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-04** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-24** Re-ref to the Com on Election Law, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-02-13** Re-ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Election Law, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-02-13** Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
- **2025-02-03** Re-ref to the Com on Election Law, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-03** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-01-30** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-01-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/272a294d-2a9e-415b-99c6-f0e0d910696a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).