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H49 • 2025

Filial Debt Fairness Act.

Filial Debt Fairness Act.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Hastings, Lambeth, Reeder, Campbell, Almond, Chesser, Cohn, N. Jackson, Loftis, McNeely, Ross, Carson Smith, Ward, Warren
Last action
2025-03-06
Official status
Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Filial Debt Fairness Act.

Filial Debt Fairness Act.

What This Bill Does

  • Filial Debt Fairness Act.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-06 House

    Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  2. 2025-03-06 House

    Withdrawn From Com

  3. 2025-02-05 House

    Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  4. 2025-02-05 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  5. 2025-02-04 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Filial Debt Fairness Act.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 49

Short Title: Filial Debt Fairness Act. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Hastings, Lambeth, Reeder, and Campbell (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
February 5, 2025
*H49-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE STATE'S FILIAL RESPONSIBILITY LAW. 2
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 3
SECTION 1. G.S. 14-326.1 reads as rewritten: 4
"§ 14-326.1. Parents; failure to support. 5
(a) Requirement and Punishment. – If any person being of full age, and having sufficient 6
income after reasonably providing for his or her own immediate family shall, without reasonable 7
cause, neglect to maintain and support his or her parent or parents, if such parent or parents be 8
sick or not a ble to work and have not sufficient means or ability to maintain or support 9
themselves, such person shall be deemed guilty of a Class 2 misdemeanor; upon conviction of a 10
second or subsequent offense such person shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. 11
(b) Multiple Responsible Parties. – If there be more than one person bound under the 12
provisions of the next preceding paragraph to support the same parent or parents, they shall share 13
equitably in the discharge of such duty. 14
(c) Construction. – Nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring a person to be 15
liable or otherwise responsible for a debt c ontracted for or otherwise incurred by the person's 16
parent or parents." 17
SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law. 18