---
type: "Bill"
title: "Polk School Acquisition."
description: "Polk School Acquisition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 288"
citation: "North Carolina SB 288 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "EMINENT DOMAIN", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PROPERTY", "RATIFIED", "POLK COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. APODACA"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-04"
last_action: "2003-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a886d51-68c0-4d51-bb18-1d42b1338293"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S288&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "edcb528783cb9a5097e794d635cb778c0aa1edfd926987adfdd5af511d38d104"
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 288 (2003) — Polk School Acquisition.

## 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/S288v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S288v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S288v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-89** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S288v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **114–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-29** Ch. SL 2003-89 `became-law`
- **2003-05-29** Ratified
- **2003-05-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-05-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-05-26** Placed On Cal For 5/27/2003
- **2003-05-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-16** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-31** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-31** Rec From Senate
- **2003-03-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-03-25** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-05** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a886d51-68c0-4d51-bb18-1d42b1338293`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).