---
type: "Bill"
title: "Occupational Licensing Board Reports."
description: "Occupational Licensing Board Reports."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 1485"
citation: "North Carolina SB 1485 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EMPLOYMENT", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REPORTING", "SEN. WEBSTER", "SEN. KERR", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. STEVENS", "SEN. NESBITT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2006-05-17"
last_action: "2006-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a0da89c-9442-4be3-ab9e-20994e5fe256"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S1485&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "819a4b068f07d2327981b7d494fa0d0547649bd5e5c6364def65e9bbd1302cf1"
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 1485 (2005) — Occupational Licensing Board Reports.

## 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/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1485v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1485v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1485v2.pdf)
4. **SL2006-70** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S1485v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **109–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bland — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Kerr — cosponsor (person)
- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Snow — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Webster — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2006-07-11** Ch. SL 2006-70 `became-law`
- **2006-07-11** Signed By Gov. 7/10/2006 `executive-signature`
- **2006-07-03** Pres. To Gov. 6/30/2006 `executive-receipt`
- **2006-06-30** Ratified
- **2006-06-29** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-29** Placed On Cal For 6/29/2006
- **2006-06-29** Cal For Immediate Consid
- **2006-06-29** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2006-06-29** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-06-08** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2006-06-08** Rec From Senate
- **2006-06-06** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2006-06-05** Placed On Cal For 6/6/2006
- **2006-06-05** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2006-06-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2006-05-18** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2006-05-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a0da89c-9442-4be3-ab9e-20994e5fe256`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).