---
type: "Bill"
title: "Failure to Appear/Citation."
description: "Failure to Appear/Citation."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 440"
citation: "North Carolina SB 440 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. CLODFELTER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-13"
last_action: "2003-04-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/703e52dc-16ce-427d-a98a-05093f2d5611"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S440&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "67dcb36a554d57c83813a08808f94d81d727e6338d082c2d6a0c8561d8b23092"
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 440 (2003) — Failure to Appear/Citation.

## 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/S440v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S440v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S440v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-15** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S440v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **105–12** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **87–25** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-04-21** Ch. SL 2003-15 `became-law`
- **2003-04-21** Signed By Gov. 4/19/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-04-14** Pres. To Gov. 4/11/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-04-10** Ratified
- **2003-04-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2003-04-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2003-04-07** Placed On Cal For 4/8/2003
- **2003-04-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-04-03** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-31** Ref To Com On Judiciary 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`
- **2003-03-17** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-13** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/703e52dc-16ce-427d-a98a-05093f2d5611`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).