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H811 • 2025

CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

Budget Firearms Taxes
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Paré, Zenger, Tyson, Moss, McNeely, Ward, Willingham, Winslow
Last action
2025-06-16
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Effective date
2025-07-01

Plain English Breakdown

Using official source text because the generated explanation was unavailable or could not be confirmed against the official bill text.

CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

H811-SMTC-10(CSTCa-7)-v-3 (2025-06-11): CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

What This Bill Does

  • H811-SMTC-10(CSTCa-7)-v-3 (2025-06-11): CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

Limits and Unknowns

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Amendments

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Filed

Plain English: 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 811: CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

  • 2025-2026 General Assembly HOUSE BILL 811: CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.
  • Committee: House Regulatory Reform.
  • If favorable, re - refer to Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Date: June 11, 2025 Introduced by: Reps.
  • Paré, Zenger, Tyson, Moss Prepared by: Kara McCraw Staff Attorney Analysis of: PCS to First Edition H811-CSTCa-7 Kara McCraw Director *H811-SMTC-10(CSTCa-7)-v-3* Legislative Analysis Division 919-301-1269 This bill analysis was prepared by the nonpartisan legislative staff for the use of legislators in their deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-16 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  2. 2025-06-16 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-06-16 Senate

    Regular Message Received From House

  4. 2025-06-12 House

    Regular Message Sent To Senate

  5. 2025-06-11 House

    Passed 3rd Reading

  6. 2025-06-11 House

    Passed 2nd Reading

  7. 2025-06-11 House

    Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)

  8. 2025-06-11 House

    Reptd Fav Com Substitute

  9. 2025-06-10 House

    Serial Referral To Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House Stricken

  10. 2025-06-10 House

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

  11. 2025-06-10 House

    Withdrawn From Com

  12. 2025-04-08 House

    Ref to the Com on Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

  13. 2025-04-08 House

    Passed 1st Reading

  14. 2025-04-07 House

    Filed

Official Summary Text

H811-SMTC-10(CSTCa-7)-v-3
(2025-06-11): CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older.

Current Bill Text

Read the full stored bill text 
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 2
HOUSE BILL 811
Committee Substitute Favorable 6/11/25

Short Title: CC Firearm Safety Instruction 18 and Older. (Public)
Sponsors:
Referred to:
April 8, 2025
*H811-v-2*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO MAKE AVAILABLE COMPREHENSIVE FIREARM SAFETY INSTRUCTION 2
COURSES AT NORTH CAR OLINA COMMUNITY COLL EGES TO INDIVIDUALS 3
EIGHTEEN YEARS AND OLDER. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1.(a) Article 6A of Chapter 115D of the General Statutes reads as 6
rewritten: 7
"Article 6A. 8
"Motorcycle Safety Instruction. 9
… 10
"§ 115D-73. Firearm safety instruction course. 11
(a) The State Board of Community Colleges, in consultation with the North Carolina 12
Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission, law enforcement agencies, and 13
firearms associations, shall develop the standards, curriculum, and criteria for instructors for a 14
comprehensive firearm safety instruction course. 15
(b) Each communi ty college shall offer the comprehensive firearm safety instruction 16
course in accordance with the requirements established by the State Board of Community 17
Colleges. The comprehensive firearm safety instruction course shall be offered each semester as 18
a noncurricular extension course to make the instruction as accessible as possible to all citizens 19
18 years and older who seek to enroll." 20
SECTION 1.(b) The State Board of Community Colleges shall develop the 21
comprehensive firearm safety instruction course required by this section no later than August 1, 22
2025. Community colleges shall offer the comprehensive firearm safety instruction course 23
beginning with the 2025 fall semester. 24
SECTION 2. There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Community 25
College System Office the sum of one million dollars ($1,000,000) annually in recurring funds 26
for the 2025 -2026 and 2026 -2027 fiscal years to develop and provide funds to community 27
colleges to establish a comprehensive firearm safety instruction course, as required by Section 1 28
of this act. 29
SECTION 3. Section 2 of this act is effective July 1, 2025. The remainder of this act 30
is effective when it becomes law. 31