---
type: "Bill"
title: "Surry Sheriff Vacancy"
description: "Surry Sheriff Vacancy"
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 102"
citation: "North Carolina SB 102 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BLANK BILL", "COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "POLITICAL PARTIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SHERIFFS", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. GARWOOD", "SURRY COUNTY", "WILKES COUNTY", "STOKES COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-19"
last_action: "2003-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbc763a2-daa4-4691-917b-7daa2e71c35c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S102&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "54dad8cea7dc27163fd695bf54dbd62a5151efbca538f1996ccfb057e053da8c"
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 102 (2003) — Surry Sheriff Vacancy

## 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/S102v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S102v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S102v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S102v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-39** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S102v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **108–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Garwood — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-14** Ch. SL 2003-39 `became-law`
- **2003-05-14** Ratified
- **2003-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-05-12** Placed On Cal For 5/13/2003
- **2003-05-07** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-29** Ref To Com On Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-29** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-24** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-23** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-04-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-15** Re-ref Com On State Government, Local Government, and Veterans' Affairs `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-15** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2003-02-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fbc763a2-daa4-4691-917b-7daa2e71c35c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).