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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fostering Care in NC Act."
description: "Fostering Care in NC Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 612"
citation: "North Carolina HB 612 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["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"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bell", "Chesser", "Loftis"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 52
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-31"
last_action: "2025-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7dee7522-f700-4f86-813b-968ee923ec43"
source_url: "https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookUp/2025/H612"
source_hash: "f152fc991c274d8e87a4a918c17a531f071656a9c1ae72073a08696cd307e0ec"
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 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](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ACI-21-V-5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/5634/0/H612-ACI-21-V-5)
3. **A1: ATC-15-V-9** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2025/6503/0/H612-ATC-15-V-9)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v4.pdf)
8. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v5.pdf)
9. **Edition 6** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v6.pdf)
10. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v7.pdf)
11. **SL 2025-16** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.ncleg.gov/Sessions/2025/Bills/House/PDF/H612v8.pdf)
## Votes
- Second Reading — **460** (pass) · upper
- M11 Concur — **1090** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7dee7522-f700-4f86-813b-968ee923ec43`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).