---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enhance Protection of Victims and Witnesses."
description: "Enhance Protection of Victims and Witnesses."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 268"
citation: "North Carolina SB 268 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "EVIDENCE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "WITNESSES", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. STEVENS", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McKissick"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-08"
last_action: "2011-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47ad28ed-fdd5-4d15-828f-ef4bcefc88bf"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S268&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "db07db1eeede759cec474e5e4d0c84cabe05cc0f9d4a174af379b7f162028f2c"
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 268 (2011) — Enhance Protection of Victims and Witnesses.

## 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/S268v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S268v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S268v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S268v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S268v4.pdf)
6. **SL2011-190** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S268v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **115–0** (pass) · lower
- House Amd\Motion 9\To Concur — **41–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McKissick — primary (person)
- Allran — cosponsor (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- D. Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Mansfield — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Stevens — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)
- Vaughan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-23** Ch. SL 2011-190 `became-law`
- **2011-06-23** Signed By Gov. 6/23/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-18** Ratified
- **2011-06-17** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-17** Placed On Cal For 6/17/2011
- **2011-06-17** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2011-06-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2011-06-16** Amend Adopted 1 `amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2011-06-15** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-15** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-15** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-08** Ref To Com On Judiciary Subcommittee A `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-07** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-07** Placed On Cal For 6/7/2011
- **2011-06-07** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-06-07** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-27** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-27** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-03-09** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-08** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47ad28ed-fdd5-4d15-828f-ef4bcefc88bf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).