---
type: "Bill"
title: "Nursing Home/Medication Errors."
description: "Nursing Home/Medication Errors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 1016"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1016 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONFIDENTIALITY", "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES", "DHHS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "NURSING HOMES", "OCCUPATIONS", "PHARMACEUTICALS", "PHARMACISTS", "PRESENTED", "PRIVACY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "SEN. BERGER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-02"
last_action: "2003-08-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bac75090-7e50-41dc-b079-7b3f9de51ed1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S1016&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f1ee896d742537f59e24281a05567e5a08d60dfa76b23a0b0ba8650fe3bdf798"
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 1016 (2003) — Nursing Home/Medication Errors.

## Version chain

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

1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1016v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1016v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1016v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1016v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1016v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2003-393** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1016v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **103–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 8\To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-08-07** Ch. SL 2003-393 `became-law`
- **2003-08-07** Signed By Gov. 8/7/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-18** Pres. To Gov. 7/17/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-07-16** Ratified
- **2003-07-15** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2003-07-14** Placed On Cal For 7/15/2003
- **2003-07-14** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2003-07-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-07-08** Postponed To 7/10/2003
- **2003-06-25** Postponed To 7/2/2003
- **2003-06-19** Postponed To 6/25/2003
- **2003-06-18** Placed On Cal For 6/19/2003
- **2003-06-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-01** Ref To Com On Health `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-01** Rec From Senate
- **2003-05-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-30** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-03** Ref To Com On Health & Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bac75090-7e50-41dc-b079-7b3f9de51ed1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).