republic-os/legislation/us/states/nc/2025/hb-612.md

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Bill	Fostering Care in NC Act.	Fostering Care in NC Act.	us/states/nc	North Carolina General Assembly	2025	HB 612	North Carolina HB 612 (2025)	bill	ADOPTION; ATTORNEYS; BOARDS; CHILD ABUSE; CHILD CUSTODY; COUNTIES; COURTS; CRIMES; CRIMINAL RECORDS; DHHS; EMPLOYMENT; FOSTER CARE; GUARDIANSHIP; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MINORS; OCCUPATIONS; PERSONNEL; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; RATIFIED; SEX OFFENSES; SOCIAL SERVICES; SOCIAL SERVICES BOARDS; SOCIAL SERVICES DEPTS.; RECORDS; CHAPTERED; FAMILY ISSUES	enacted	Bell Chesser Loftis	11	52	2	2025-03-31	2025-06-26	openstates	ocd-bill/7dee7522-f700-4f86-813b-968ee923ec43	https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H612	f152fc991c274d8e87a4a918c17a531f071656a9c1ae72073a08696cd307e0ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-nc

North Carolina HB 612 (2025) — Fostering Care in NC Act.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. A1: ACI-21-V-5 (committee substitute) — source
3. A1: ATC-15-V-9 (committee substitute) — source
4. Edition 1 (committee substitute) — source
5. Edition 2 (committee substitute) — source
6. Edition 3 (committee substitute) — source
7. Edition 4 (committee substitute) — source
8. Edition 5 (committee substitute) — source
9. Edition 6 (committee substitute) — source
10. Ratified (committee substitute) — source
11. SL 2025-16 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Second Reading — 46–0 (pass) · upper
• M11 Concur — 109–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bell — primary (person)
• Chesser — primary (person)
• Loftis — primary (person)
• Ager — cosponsor (person)
• Almond — cosponsor (person)
• Alston — cosponsor (person)
• Baker — cosponsor (person)
• Ball — cosponsor (person)
• Belk — cosponsor (person)
• Branson — cosponsor (person)
• Brisson — cosponsor (person)
• Brockman — cosponsor (person)
• Buansi — cosponsor (person)
• Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Cairns — cosponsor (person)
• Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Carney — cosponsor (person)
• Carson Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Carver — cosponsor (person)
• Cervania — cosponsor (person)
• Charles Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Clampitt — cosponsor (person)
• Clark — cosponsor (person)
• Cotham — cosponsor (person)
• Crawford — cosponsor (person)
• Cunningham — cosponsor (person)
• Dahle — cosponsor (person)
• Dixon — cosponsor (person)
• Echevarria — cosponsor (person)
• G. Pierce — cosponsor (person)
• Gable — cosponsor (person)
• Greenfield — cosponsor (person)
• Harrison — cosponsor (person)
• Hawkins — cosponsor (person)
• Helfrich — cosponsor (person)
• Humphrey — cosponsor (person)
• Huneycutt — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffers — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson — cosponsor (person)
• Johnson-Hostler — cosponsor (person)
• K. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Liu — cosponsor (person)
• Longest — cosponsor (person)
• Lopez — cosponsor (person)
• Lowery — cosponsor (person)
• McNeely — cosponsor (person)
• Miller — cosponsor (person)
• Morey — cosponsor (person)
• Moss — cosponsor (person)
• N. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
• Penny — cosponsor (person)
• Pickett — cosponsor (person)
• Potts — cosponsor (person)
• Prather — cosponsor (person)
• Pyrtle — cosponsor (person)
• Reeder — cosponsor (person)
• Rhyne — cosponsor (person)
• Rubin — cosponsor (person)
• Schietzelt — cosponsor (person)
• Scott — cosponsor (person)
• Setzer — cosponsor (person)
• Shepard — cosponsor (person)
• Strickland — cosponsor (person)
• T. Brown — cosponsor (person)
• Torbett — cosponsor (person)
• Turner — cosponsor (person)
• Tyson — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Warren — cosponsor (person)
• Wheatley — cosponsor (person)
• White — cosponsor (person)
• Willingham — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)
• Winslow — cosponsor (person)
• Zenger — cosponsor (person)
• von Haefen — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-06-26 Ch. SL 2025-16 became-law
• 2025-06-26 Signed by Gov. 6/26/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-06-20 Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-06-19 Ratified
• 2025-06-18 Ordered Enrolled
• 2025-06-18 Concurred In S Com Sub amendment-passage
• 2025-06-18 Added to Calendar
• 2025-06-18 Cal Pursuant 36(b)
• 2025-06-18 Special Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
• 2025-06-18 Special Message Sent To House
• 2025-06-17 Engrossed
• 2025-06-17 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2025-06-17 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-06-17 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2025-06-16 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-11 Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2025-06-11 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-05 Re-ref Com On Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-06-05 Com Substitute Adopted
• 2025-06-05 Reptd Fav Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2025-05-27 Withdrawn From Com
• 2025-05-07 Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Regular Message Received From House
• 2025-05-07 Regular Message Sent To Senate
• 2025-05-06 Ordered Engrossed
• 2025-05-06 Passed 3rd Reading passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Passed 2nd Reading reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Amend Adopted A1 amendment-passage
• 2025-05-01 Placed On Cal For 05/06/2025
• 2025-05-01 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2025-04-30 Placed On Cal For 05/01/2025
• 2025-04-30 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2025-04-29 Placed On Cal For 04/30/2025
• 2025-04-17 Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
• 2025-04-17 Withdrawn From Cal
• 2025-04-15 Placed On Cal For 04/29/2025
• 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 Com Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08 Re-ref Com On Judiciary 1 referral-committee
• 2025-04-08 Reptd Fav committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-02 Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Added
• 2025-04-02 Serial Referral To Judiciary 1 Added
• 2025-04-02 Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken
• 2025-04-02 Serial Referral To Judiciary 2 Stricken
• 2025-04-01 Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 Passed 1st Reading reading-1
• 2025-03-31 Filed introduction

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7dee7522-f700-4f86-813b-968ee923ec43. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).