---
type: "Bill"
title: "Various Disaster Recovery Reforms."
description: "Various Disaster Recovery Reforms."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 251"
citation: "North Carolina HB 251 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE CODE; ADMINISTRATIVE RULES; AGRICULTURE; AGRICULTURE DEPT.; BUILDING CODE COUNCIL; BUILDING CODES; BUILDINGS; COMMISSIONS; COUNCILS; CRIMES; DEFINITIONS; DEQ; DHHS; DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES; DISCRIMINATION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY SERVICES; ENVIRONMENT; EROSION; FUNDING; GRANTS; HEALTH SERVICES; HOUSING; INSURANCE; INSURANCE DEPT.; INSURANCE", "HEALTH; MEDICAID; MEDICAL CARE COMN.; POVERTY; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC OFFICIALS; RATIFIED; SAFETY; SOCIAL SERVICES; SOILS; TRESPASSING; CHAPTERED; STATE FIRE MARSHAL"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Balkcom", "Greene", "Hastings"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f5dfe2c5-2ec1-4de9-8457-cb4d1af6a7c7"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H251"
source_hash: "307d0075a0a6f92f29abbb24aa92887c09440b8fbe7ea9e8f222166859de617b"
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 251 (2025) — Various Disaster Recovery 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/H251v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASA-18-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/3484/0/H251-ASA-18-V-1)
3. **A1: Amendment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6248/0/H251-A-NBC-16313)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v4.pdf)
8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v5.pdf)
9. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v6.pdf)
10. **SL 2025-18** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H251v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **42–1** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Balkcom — primary (person)
- Greene — primary (person)
- Hastings — primary (person)
- Ager — cosponsor (person)
- Almond — cosponsor (person)
- Bell — cosponsor (person)
- Blackwell — cosponsor (person)
- Blust — cosponsor (person)
- Branson — cosponsor (person)
- Brisson — cosponsor (person)
- Cairns — cosponsor (person)
- Carver — cosponsor (person)
- Cotham — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Eddins — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Kidwell — cosponsor (person)
- Liu — cosponsor (person)
- Lowery — cosponsor (person)
- Penny — cosponsor (person)
- Ross — cosponsor (person)
- Scott — cosponsor (person)
- Turner — cosponsor (person)
- Tyson — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)
- Willingham — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-06-26** Ch. SL 2025-18 `became-law`
- **2025-06-26** Signed by Gov. 6/26/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-19** Pres. To Gov. 6/19/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-18** Ratified
- **2025-06-17** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-17** Concurred In S Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-12** Placed On Cal For 06/17/2025
- **2025-06-12** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-11** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-10** Engrossed
- **2025-06-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-10** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-03** Placed On Cal For 06/10/2025
- **2025-06-03** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2025-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-21** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-21** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2025-05-21** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-19** Re-ref to Regulatory Reform. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** Regular Message Received From House
- **2025-04-02** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-04-01** Ordered Engrossed
- **2025-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2025-03-31** Placed On Cal For 04/01/2025
- **2025-03-31** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-26** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-18** Re-ref Com On Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-03** Ref to the Com on Judiciary 1, if favorable, Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f5dfe2c5-2ec1-4de9-8457-cb4d1af6a7c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).