---
type: "Bill"
title: "Senate Redistricting - 1C."
description: "Senate Redistricting - 1C."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2001"
identifier: "SB 798"
citation: "North Carolina SB 798 (2001)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BLANK BILL", "ELECTIONS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REDISTRICTING", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. BALLANCE", "SEN. METCALF", "SEN. MILLER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2001-04-02"
last_action: "2001-11-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e779f61c-7538-4537-be1f-dcaf6e6153dc"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2001&BillID=S798&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "13fb94e3a0d6c0993c664ead3c75431e29d4ec755768ba72ed84bd778a43b96c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-nc"]
---

# North Carolina SB 798 (2001) — Senate Redistricting - 1C.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S798v1.pdf)
2. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S798v2.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S798v3.pdf)
4. **SL 2001-458** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2001/Bills/Senate/PDF/S798v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **57–55** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **60–52** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ballance — cosponsor (person)
- Metcalf — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, B — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2001-11-13** Ch. SL 2001-458 `became-law`
- **2001-11-13** Ratified
- **2001-11-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2001-11-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2001-11-06** Cal For Immediate Consid
- **2001-11-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-09-21** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2001-09-21** Rec From Senate
- **2001-09-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2001-09-19** Amend Failed #2 `amendment-failure`
- **2001-09-19** Amend Failed #1 `amendment-failure`
- **2001-09-19** Placed On Cal For 9/19/2001
- **2001-09-19** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2001-09-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2001-04-03** Ref To Com On Redistricting `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e779f61c-7538-4537-be1f-dcaf6e6153dc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).