---
type: "Bill"
title: "Report Race & Ethnicity Data - Public Health."
description: "Report Race & Ethnicity Data - Public Health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2007"
identifier: "SB 4"
citation: "North Carolina SB 4 (2007)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES", "DATA SYSTEMS", "DHHS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS", "MINORITIES", "OCCUPATIONS", "PHARMACEUTICALS", "PHARMACISTS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC HEALTH", "RATIFIED", "REPORTING", "SHERIFFS", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. SNOW"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2007-01-24"
last_action: "2008-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e3aac09-d044-4280-90aa-fc83876039a7"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2007&BillID=S4&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "ad8fc6013e638c6ef544b06c95f6ca1ec213ece48c0aab60f75b634f91254e14"
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 4 (2007) — Report Race & Ethnicity Data - Public Health.

## 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/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S4v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S4v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S4v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S4v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S4v4.pdf)
6. **SL2008-119** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2007/Bills/Senate/PDF/S4v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **42–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Goodall — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Snow — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2008-07-28** Ch. SL 2008-119 `became-law`
- **2008-07-28** Signed By Gov. 7/28/2008 `executive-signature`
- **2008-07-18** Pres. To Gov. 7/18/2008 `executive-receipt`
- **2008-07-18** Ratified
- **2008-07-17** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2008-07-17** Placed On Cal For 7/17/2008
- **2008-07-17** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2008-07-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2008-07-16** Placed On Cal For 7/17/2008
- **2008-07-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2008-07-16** Withdrawn From Comm
- **2008-07-16** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2008-07-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-03-21** Ref to the Com on Health and, if favorable, to the Com on Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2007-03-15** Engrossed
- **2007-03-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-03-15** Amend Adopted 2 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-03-15** Amendment Withdrawn 1 `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2007-03-15** Amend Recon 1
- **2007-03-15** Reconsidered 3rd Reading
- **2007-03-15** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2007-03-15** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2007-03-14** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2007-03-13** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-02-12** Ref To Com On Judiciary ll (Criminal) `referral-committee`
- **2007-01-25** Held As Filed
- **2007-01-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3e3aac09-d044-4280-90aa-fc83876039a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).