---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retiring of State Flags."
description: "Retiring of State Flags."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2009"
identifier: "SB 866"
citation: "North Carolina SB 866 (2009)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADMINISTRATIVE RULES", "FLAGS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "STATE SYMBOLS", "SEN. HOYLE", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2009-03-25"
last_action: "2010-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fda4dde-225f-426a-8d8e-4501785db912"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2009&BillID=S866&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "0673ef026bfbeb5cb02da92f44bc1eb786534fd98b23084798fade2f009bad91"
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 866 (2009) — Retiring of State Flags.

## 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/S866v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S866v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S866v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S866v3.pdf)
5. **SL2010-189** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/PDF/S866v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 8\To Concur — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Boseman — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Hoyle — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jacumin — cosponsor (person)
- Jenkins — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Swindell — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-08-03** Ch. SL 2010-189 `became-law`
- **2010-08-03** Signed By Gov. 8/3/2010 `executive-signature`
- **2010-07-02** Pres. To Gov. 7/2/2010 `executive-receipt`
- **2010-07-01** Ratified
- **2010-06-30** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2010-06-29** Reptd Fav To Concur `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-06-22** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-22** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2010-06-22** Rec From House
- **2010-06-21** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2010-06-10** Postponed To 6/21/2010
- **2010-06-09** Placed On Cal For 6/10/2010
- **2010-06-09** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2010-06-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-05-19** serial referral stricken bill is re-referred to Judiciary III
- **2010-05-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2009-05-18** Ref to the Com on Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House, if favorable, Environment and Natural Resources, if favorable, Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2009-05-13** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2009-05-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-03-26** Ref To Com On Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fda4dde-225f-426a-8d8e-4501785db912`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).