---
type: "Bill"
title: "Cash Converters Must Keep Purchase Records."
description: "Cash Converters Must Keep Purchase Records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 144"
citation: "North Carolina SB 144 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FINANCIAL SERVICES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOANS", "PAWNBROKERS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MANSFIELD"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-02-24"
last_action: "2011-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb3c0650-3858-4590-bedd-28707a8abd93"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S144&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "a931c69a40fc989a3aa999449473fec1d8879249e00f579939eb7ceebb0bcceb"
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 144 (2011) — Cash Converters Must Keep Purchase Records.

## 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/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S144v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S144v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S144v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S144v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S144v4.pdf)
6. **SL2011-325** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S144v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9\To Concur — **45–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **113–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Davis — cosponsor (person)
- East — cosponsor (person)
- Goolsby — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Mansfield — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Pate — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Rouzer — cosponsor (person)
- Rucho — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)
- Vaughan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-27** Ch. SL 2011-325 `became-law`
- **2011-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/27/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-17** Ratified
- **2011-06-16** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-16** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-16** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2011-06-16** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-16** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/15/2011
- **2011-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-15** Serial Referral to Finance Stricken
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-14** Assigned To Commerce and Job Development Subcommittee on Business and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-04** Ref to the Com on Commerce and Job Development, if favorable, Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-05-02** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-04-28** Placed On Cal For 5/2/2011
- **2011-04-28** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-28** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-28** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-04-28** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-02-28** Ref to Commerce. If fav, re-ref to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-02-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-02-24** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb3c0650-3858-4590-bedd-28707a8abd93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).