---
type: "Bill"
title: "Copy Costs in Indigent Cases."
description: "Copy Costs in Indigent Cases."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 593"
citation: "North Carolina SB 593 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ATTORNEYS", "COURT CLERKS", "COURTS", "FEES", "FISCAL NOTES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. KINNAIRD", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-03-15"
last_action: "2005-08-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38dcf1e4-e954-41c3-94e5-f8f7547c4fa4"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S593&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fdefbb5b21a646c7a3ea8361e4fcfd737cd04423ac33f68c9e27e8ec589cbafd"
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 593 (2005) — Copy Costs in Indigent Cases.

## 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/S593v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S593v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S593v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S593v3.pdf)
5. **SL2005-251** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S593v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- Rand — cosponsor (person)
- Weinstein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-08-04** Ch. SL 2005-251 `became-law`
- **2005-08-04** Signed By Gov. 8/4/2005 `executive-signature`
- **2005-07-28** Pres. To Gov. 7/28/2005 `executive-receipt`
- **2005-07-27** Ratified
- **2005-07-26** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-07-25** Placed On Cal For 7/26/2005
- **2005-07-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-07-19** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-05-27** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-05-27** Rec From Senate
- **2005-05-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-05-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-04-19** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2005-04-19** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-04-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-03-16** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2005-03-15** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/38dcf1e4-e954-41c3-94e5-f8f7547c4fa4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).