---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sexual Battery."
description: "Sexual Battery."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2003"
identifier: "SB 912"
citation: "North Carolina SB 912 (2003)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ASSAULT", "CRIMES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEX OFFENSES", "SEN. CLODFELTER", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2003-04-02"
last_action: "2003-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e668cbe6-7657-490c-a024-368542536c27"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2003&BillID=S912&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "202b78e8dec35f5ce77a6b29c822dfb280bfad2801776e0ef102140158a0940c"
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 912 (2003) — Sexual Battery.

## 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/S912v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S912v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S912v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S912v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2003-252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2003/Bills/Senate/PDF/S912v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **47–1** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clodfelter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2003-06-27** Ch. SL 2003-252 `became-law`
- **2003-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/26/2003 `executive-signature`
- **2003-06-18** Pres. To Gov. 6/17/2003 `executive-receipt`
- **2003-06-16** Ratified
- **2003-06-12** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-06-10** Placed On Cal For 6/11/2003
- **2003-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-06-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-05-26** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-26** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2003-05-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2003-05-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-24** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-24** Rec From Senate
- **2003-04-22** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2003-04-17** Placed On Cal For 4/22/2003
- **2003-04-17** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2003-04-17** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2003-04-03** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2003-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e668cbe6-7657-490c-a024-368542536c27`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).