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S611 • 2025

Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals.

Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals.

Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Grafstein, Murdock, Everitt, Batch, Bradley, Garrett, Salvador, Smith, Waddell
Last action
2025-03-26
Official status
Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals.

Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals.

What This Bill Does

  • Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals.

Limits and Unknowns

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Bill History

  1. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

  2. 2025-03-26 Senate

    Passed 1st Reading

  3. 2025-03-25 Senate

    Filed

Official Summary Text

Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals.

Current Bill Text

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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
S 1
SENATE BILL 611

Short Title: Allow Consecutive Remote License Renewals. (Public)
Sponsors: Senators Grafstein, Murdock, and Everitt (Primary Sponsors).
Referred to: Rules and Operations of the Senate
March 26, 2025
*S611-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ALLOW CONSECUTIVE REMOTE LICENSE RENEWALS FOR NON-REAL 2
ID COMPLIANT DRIVERS LICENSES. 3
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 4
SECTION 1. G.S. 20-7(f) reads as rewritten: 5
"(f) Duration and Renewal of Licenses. – Drivers licenses shall be issued and renewed 6
pursuant to the provisions of this subsection: 7
… 8
(6) Remote renewal or conversion. – Subject to the following requirements and 9
limitations, the Division may offer remote renewal of a drivers license or 10
remote conversion of a full provisional license issued by the Division: 11
a. Requirements. – To be eligible for remote renewal or conversion under 12
this subdivision, a person must meet all of the following requirements: 13
… 14
4. For a remote renewal, renewal: 15
I. Of a license that complies with regulations adopted 16
pursuant to the REAL ID Act of 20 05, 49 U.S.C. § 17
30301, the most recent renewal was an in -person 18
renewal and not a remote renewal under this 19
subdivision. 20
II. Of a drivers license that is not REAL ID compliant, a 21
person ma y remotely renew a license on two 22
consecutive occasions. After two consecutive remote 23
renewals, a non-REAL ID compliant license shall be 24
renewed in person. 25
…." 26
SECTION 2. This act becomes effective January 1, 2026, and applies to licenses 27
renewed on or after that date. 28