---
type: "Bill"
title: "Industrial Disaster Unemployment Benefits."
description: "Industrial Disaster Unemployment Benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 8"
citation: "North Carolina SB 8 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "EMPLOYMENT", "EMPLOYMENT SECURITY COMN.", "INSURANCE", "UNEMPLOYMENT", "MANUFACTURING", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "UNEMPLOYMENT", "WORK SAFETY", "SEN. KERR", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 15
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-02-04"
last_action: "2003-03-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d460ea7-277e-42e0-a9f1-5cc87f734872"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S8&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b7027afbdb5f1fd471497433b437bc42ddfefca0baaa33d5024f5c77b1752e67"
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 8 (2003) — Industrial Disaster Unemployment Benefits.

## 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/S8v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S8v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S8v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2003-1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S8v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-03-03** Ch. SL 2003-1 `became-law`
- **2003-03-03** Signed By Gov. 2/27/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-02-27** Pres. To Gov. 2/26/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-02-26** Ratified
- **2003-02-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-02-26** Placed On Cal For 2/26/2003
- **2003-02-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-02-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-02-18** Ref To Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-18** Rec From Senate
- **2003-02-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-02-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-02-10** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-05** Held As Filed
- **2003-02-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5d460ea7-277e-42e0-a9f1-5cc87f734872`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).