---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rucho-Lewis Congress 3."
description: "Rucho-Lewis Congress 3."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 453"
citation: "North Carolina SB 453 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CENSUS", "ELECTIONS", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REDISTRICTING", "NATIONAL ELECTIONS", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BROCK", "SEN. BROWN", "SEN. RUCHO"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brock", "Rucho"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-29"
last_action: "2011-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/656ae31a-7d8a-4e00-ace7-0476d788cdcf"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S453&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "64383bdacaffac070c52412fd6c154276e555cb678b3d9496f27ba34fd17b5c7"
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 453 (2011) — Rucho-Lewis Congress 3.

## 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/S453v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v4.pdf)
6. **SL2011-403** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S453v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9\To Concur — **28–17** (pass) · upper
- Third Reading — **68–51** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Brock — primary (person)
- Rucho — primary (person)
- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)
- Brown — cosponsor (person)
- Brunstetter — cosponsor (person)
- Clary — cosponsor (person)
- Dannelly — cosponsor (person)
- Forrester — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Walters — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-07-28** Ch. SL 2011-403 `became-law`
- **2011-07-28** Ratified
- **2011-07-27** Concurred In H/com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2011-07-27** Placed On Cal For 7/27/2011
- **2011-07-27** Rec To Concur H Com Sub
- **2011-07-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-07-27** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-07-27** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-07-27** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-07-27** Placed On Cal For 7/27/2011
- **2011-07-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-07-27** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-25** Ref To Com On Redistricting `referral-committee`
- **2011-07-25** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-07-25** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-07-25** Amend Failed 3 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-07-25** Amend Failed 2 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-07-25** Amend Failed 1 `amendment-failure`
- **2011-07-23** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2011-07-23** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-30** Ref To Com On Redistricting `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-03-29** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/656ae31a-7d8a-4e00-ace7-0476d788cdcf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).