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type: "Bill"
title: "Various Education Changes."
description: "Various Education Changes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 959"
citation: "North Carolina HB 959 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; EDUCATION BOARDS; ELEMENTARY EDUCATION; EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH SERVICES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERNET; KINDERGARTEN; LITERACY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MEDIA; MENTAL HEALTH; PRESENTED; PUBLIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC INSTRUCTION DEPT.; RATIFIED; SAFETY; STEM; SECONDARY EDUCATION; STUDENTS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELEPHONES; TELESERVICES; TITLE CHANGE; CHAPTERED; MOBILE PHONES & DEVICES; SOCIAL MEDIA; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blackwell", "K. Hall"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-04-10"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0ff4226-4f27-46fb-a911-d9611ec46bfb"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H959"
source_hash: "b526a3af02b441119fed31d18360c9dd1f6b3fcc85501dbeb97b883a3ac064ef"
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 959 (2025) — Various Education 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/H959v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H959v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H959v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H959v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H959v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2025-38** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H959v5.pdf)
## Votes
- C RPT Adoption — **1110** (pass) · lower
- Conference Report Motion 8 To Adopt — **451** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blackwell — primary (person)
- K. Hall — primary (person)
- Biggs — cosponsor (person)
- Dixon — cosponsor (person)
- Pike — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-07-01** Ch. SL 2025-38 `became-law`
- **2025-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-26** Ratified
- **2025-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2025-06-25** Conf Report Adopted
- **2025-06-24** Conf Com Reported
- **2025-06-24** Conf Report Adopted
- **2025-06-24** Added to Calendar
- **2025-06-24** Conf Com Reported
- **2025-06-19** Conf Com Appointed
- **2025-06-18** Conf Com Appointed
- **2025-06-11** Failed Concur In S Com Sub
- **2025-06-05** Placed On Cal For 06/11/2025
- **2025-06-05** Cal Pursuant 36(b)
- **2025-06-04** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in S Com Sub
- **2025-06-04** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2025-06-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Amend Tabled A3
- **2025-06-03** Amend Tabled A2
- **2025-06-03** Amend Tabled A1
- **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 Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2025-05-08** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-05-08** Special Message Received From House
- **2025-05-08** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2025-05-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-05-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-07** Added to Calendar
- **2025-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2025-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-14** Ref to the Com on Education - K-12, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-14** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** Filed `introduction`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d0ff4226-4f27-46fb-a911-d9611ec46bfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).