---
type: "Bill"
title: "Marriage by District Court Judge."
description: "Marriage by District Court Judge."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 262"
citation: "North Carolina SB 262 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BLANK BILL", "COURTS", "DISTRICT COURT", "JUDGES", "MARRIAGE & FAMILY", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "TITLE CHANGE", "SEN. RAND", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-02-28"
last_action: "2005-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cad3ca4-e7e9-44f4-9734-d8a296d561d1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S262&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "93b4e5789a7f88a23dbb1d233253d1802abce27eda2e9675f18a764a45cfcf5a"
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 262 (2005) — Marriage by District Court Judge.

## 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/S262v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S262v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S262v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S262v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-56** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S262v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **99–18** (pass) · lower
- A1 Stam\Second Reading — **38–79** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rand — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-05-24** Ch. SL 2005-56 `became-law`
- **2005-05-24** Became Law W/o Signature `became-law`
- **2005-05-16** Pres. To Gov. 5/13/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-05-12** Ratified
- **2005-05-11** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-11** Amend Failed #1 `amendment-failure`
- **2005-05-09** Placed On Cal For 5/10/2005
- **2005-05-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-05-09** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-26** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-26** Rec From Senate
- **2005-04-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-04-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-19** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-19** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2005-03-01** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cad3ca4-e7e9-44f4-9734-d8a296d561d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).