---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rucho Senate 2."
description: "Rucho Senate 2."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 455"
citation: "North Carolina SB 455 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CENSUS", "ELECTIONS", "GENERAL ASSEMBLY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REDISTRICTING", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. BROCK", "SEN. BROWN", "SEN. RUCHO"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Brock", "Rucho"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-03-29"
last_action: "2011-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/102d31d3-2964-447e-9f9f-4b67b597c26f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S455&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3b59843cb00371ed9791fad06938fc4f66f7f111e2f6f3ca13e8e8a16948cbab"
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 455 (2011) — Rucho Senate 2.

## 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/S455v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S455v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S455v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S455v3.pdf)
5. **SL2011-402** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S455v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **67–52** (pass) · lower
- Third Reading — **67–52** (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.

- **2011-07-27** Ch. SL 2011-402 `became-law`
- **2011-07-27** Ratified
- **2011-07-27** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-07-27** Placed On Cal For 7/27/2011
- **2011-07-27** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-07-27** Reptd Fav `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 Tabled 3
- **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/102d31d3-2964-447e-9f9f-4b67b597c26f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).