---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wake Forest Force Limit."
description: "Wake Forest Force Limit."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 355"
citation: "North Carolina SB 355 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONSTRUCTION", "COUNTIES", "ELECTRICITY", "EMPLOYMENT", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PERSONNEL", "RATIFIED", "UTILITIES", "SEN. REEVES", "SEN. CARRINGTON", "WAKE COUNTY", "WAKE FOREST", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MALONE", "SEN. STEVENS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 12
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2003-03-10"
last_action: "2003-05-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/30044131-1703-43eb-9a79-c70a6abe053f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S355&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "6e5aad0ca14587cbb0e00a132c6b98b58aba50016881c5c8b4f22f81f7c9d12c"
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 355 (2003) — Wake Forest Force Limit.

## 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/S355v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S355v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S355v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-32** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S355v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Carrington — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Reeves — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-05-05** Ch. SL 2003-32 `became-law`
- **2003-05-05** Ratified
- **2003-05-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-30** Placed On Cal For 5/1/2003
- **2003-04-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-07** Ref To Com On Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-07** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-11** Ref To Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/30044131-1703-43eb-9a79-c70a6abe053f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).