---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Public Enter. Customer Billing Privacy."
description: "Amend Public Enter. Customer Billing Privacy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 537"
citation: "North Carolina SB 537 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AIRPORTS", "AVIATION", "PRESENTED", "PRIVACY", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RATIFIED", "TRANSPORTATION", "SEN. RAND", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-03-25"
last_action: "2003-07-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd4c553a-c091-4c90-a42f-c41016c526d3"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S537&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "18f81fac42e825dd842bc64eaf260bee356a279e5b50775f89820b0d34e7ef1f"
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 537 (2003) — Amend Public Enter. Customer Billing Privacy.

## 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/S537v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S537v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S537v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-287** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S537v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rand — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-07-07** Ch. SL 2003-287 `became-law`
- **2003-07-07** Signed By Gov. 7/4/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-25** Pres. To Gov. 6/24/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-23** Ratified
- **2003-06-19** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-18** Placed On Cal For 6/19/2003
- **2003-06-12** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-15** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-15** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-10** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-03-26** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2003-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd4c553a-c091-4c90-a42f-c41016c526d3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).