---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amend Nursing Practice Act."
description: "Amend Nursing Practice Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 356"
citation: "North Carolina SB 356 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CRIMINAL RECORDS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "NURSING", "NURSING BOARD", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEN. RAND", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-02"
last_action: "2009-06-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce661f46-d93d-4283-a190-ca12f1dca4eb"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S356&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f4907f523b916b6ef3983d038511c189ecdbcc5104d8eeb8c71ca2cc0c611190"
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 356 (2009) — Amend Nursing Practice Act.

## 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/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v3.pdf)
5. **SL2009-133** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S356v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **50–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rand — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-06-19** Ch. SL 2009-133 `became-law`
- **2009-06-19** Signed By Gov. 6/19/2009 `executive-signature`
- **2009-06-10** Pres. To Gov. 6/10/2009 `executive-receipt`
- **2009-06-09** Ratified
- **2009-06-08** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-06-04** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2009
- **2009-06-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2009-06-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-06-01** Re-ref Com On Judiciary III `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-01** Cal Pursuant 32(a)
- **2009-06-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-18** Ref to the Com on Health, if favorable, Judiciary III, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-03-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-03-12** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2009-03-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-03** Ref To Com On Health Care `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce661f46-d93d-4283-a190-ca12f1dca4eb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).