HB 698 North Carolina House · 2025-2026 Session

Center for Missing Persons to Highway Patrol.

HB 698 transfers the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons from the Department of Public Safety to the State Highway Patrol. This bill consolidates all the Center's existing functions, powers, and duties under the direction of the State Highway Patrol. The Commander of the State Highway Patrol will now oversee the Center's operations, including its role as a central repository for missing persons information and the AMBER Alert System. This change primarily affects the administrative structure responsible for managing missing persons cases and related alerts at the state level.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Apr 2025

Committee Review

May 2025

House Passage

May 2025

Senate Passage

Governor

Introduced Apr 2, 2025 Last action May 8, 2025

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What changed between versions

Edition 1 → Edition 2 · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to remove sponsor information and committee referral details from the header, while retaining the core legislative text. The substantive content regarding the Center for Missing Persons remains unchanged, with no modifications to scope, funding, eligibility, or operational requirements.

TECHNICAL

Removed sponsor names (Representatives Miller and Pyrtle) and committee referral information from the bill header.

Deleted the 'Committee Substitute Favorable 4/30/25' designation from the bill title page.

Adjusted line numbering and formatting in the header section to reflect the new edition version.

Floor votes · House May 7, 2025

How they voted

108–5

Passed · 8 other

Total votes 121

May 7, 2025

D Democratic46

37 Yea 5 Nay 4

80% Yea

I Independent2

2 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican73

69 Yea 4

94% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

May 8, 2025

Committee

Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate

upper

May 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed 3rd Reading

lower

May 7, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav

lower

May 6, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

May 6, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav

lower

Apr 30, 2025

Committee

Re-ref Com On State and Local Government

lower

Apr 30, 2025

Lower · Passed

Reptd Fav Com Substitute

lower

Apr 3, 2025

Committee

Ref to the Com on Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery, if favorable, State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Introduced

Filed

lower

1 primary · 4 co-sponsors