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
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO ALLOW CONS ECUTIVE 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
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(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
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4. For a remote renewal, renewal: 15
I. Of a license that complies with regulations adopted 16
pursuant to the REAL ID Act of 2005, 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 may 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
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SECTION 2. This act becomes effective January 1, 2026, and applies to licenses 27
renewed on or after that date. 28