---
type: "Bill"
title: "Orange County Voting Centers."
description: "Orange County Voting Centers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2005"
identifier: "SB 98"
citation: "North Carolina SB 98 (2005)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS BOARDS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PILOT PROGRAMS", "RATIFIED", "SEN. KINNAIRD", "CHAPEL HILL", "ORANGE COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2005-02-09"
last_action: "2005-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c23eb0d-25e9-44de-a57d-e6b2c1720654"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2005&BillID=S98&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "79e95ac2548a81beac33699900d0c3dc1e94623eac145631a556130e2d2b6a34"
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 98 (2005) — Orange County Voting Centers.

## 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/S98v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S98v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S98v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S98v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S98v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S98v5.pdf)
7. **SL2005-256** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2005/Bills/Senate/PDF/S98v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **31–17** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **61–51** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2005-08-11** Ch. SL 2005-256 `became-law`
- **2005-08-11** Ratified
- **2005-08-10** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2005-08-08** Placed On Cal For 8/10/2005
- **2005-08-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2005-08-04** Placed On Cal For 8/8/2005
- **2005-08-04** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2005-08-04** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2005-08-04** Amend Failed #2 `amendment-failure`
- **2005-08-02** Postponed To 8/4/2005
- **2005-07-28** Postponed To 8/2/2005
- **2005-07-27** Postponed To 7/28/2005
- **2005-07-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2005-07-26** Amend Failed #1 `amendment-failure`
- **2005-07-25** Postponed To 7/26/2005
- **2005-07-18** Postponed To 7/25/2005
- **2005-07-14** Placed On Cal For 7/18/2005
- **2005-07-13** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2005-07-13** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-06-02** Ref To Com On Election Law and Campaign Finance Reform `referral-committee`
- **2005-06-02** Rec From Senate
- **2005-06-01** Engrossed
- **2005-06-01** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2005-06-01** Amend Adopted #1 `amendment-passage`
- **2005-06-01** Placed On Cal For 6/1/2005
- **2005-06-01** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2005-06-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2005-02-10** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2005-02-09** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c23eb0d-25e9-44de-a57d-e6b2c1720654`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).