---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Confidence in Elections."
description: "Public Confidence in Elections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 223"
citation: "North Carolina SB 223 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPROPRIATIONS", "BOARDS", "BUDGETING", "COMPUTERS", "CONTRACTS", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS BOARDS", "ELECTIONS", "STATE BOARD OF", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "ETHICS", "FISCAL NOTES", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICE", "INTERNET", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PURCHASING", "RATIFIED", "SEN. KINNAIRD", "SEN. ALLRAN", "CHAPTERED", "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-02-24"
last_action: "2005-08-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/32f3733d-5825-4e8b-9121-0247382ca94d"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S223&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1a9045d71d8f28f2a7eb1977d50df79619d30420e817b6edc1f1c4c79401ccd1"
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 223 (2005) — Public Confidence in Elections.

## 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/S223v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v4.pdf)
6. **Edition 5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v5.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v6.pdf)
8. **SL2005-323** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S223v7.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **104–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Berger of Franklin — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Blake — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Cowell — cosponsor (person)
- Dalton — cosponsor (person)
- Dorsett — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Garrou — cosponsor (person)
- Garwood — cosponsor (person)
- Goodall — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hagan — cosponsor (person)
- Horton — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Jacumin — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Malone — cosponsor (person)
- Nesbitt — cosponsor (person)
- Presnell — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Shaw — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Snow — cosponsor (person)
- Soles — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
- Thomas — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-08-26** Ch. SL 2005-323 `became-law`
- **2005-08-26** Signed By Gov. 8/26/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-08-19** Pres. To Gov. 8/17/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-08-16** Ratified
- **2005-08-13** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2005-08-12** Placed On Cal For 8/13/2005
- **2005-08-12** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2005-08-12** Placed On Cal For 8/12/2005
- **2005-08-12** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2005-08-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-08-11** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2005-08-11** Placed On Cal For 8/11/2005
- **2005-08-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-08-11** Reptd Fav As Amended `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-08-10** Re-ref Com On Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2005-08-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-08-02** Re-ref Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2005-08-02** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-08-01** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2005-08-01** Rec From Senate
- **2005-07-28** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-07-27** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-07-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-07-26** Re-ref Com On Appropriations/Base Budget `referral-committee`
- **2005-07-26** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-07-26** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-02-28** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/32f3733d-5825-4e8b-9121-0247382ca94d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).