---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Disclosure Charitable Solicitations."
description: "Public Disclosure Charitable Solicitations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2011"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "North Carolina SB 556 (2011)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ADVERTISING", "CHARITABLE DONATIONS", "COMMUNICATIONS", "CORPORATIONS", "NONPROFIT", "NOTIFICATION", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED", "SEN. MCKISSICK"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2011-04-11"
last_action: "2011-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db56a9f6-677d-4ba8-a578-f7ce818db870"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2011&BillID=S556&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "056c3fb549adb0b91c1d3638675e6c762ad4e92fe2bb2ca3ab84c78e3b8fcd57"
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 556 (2011) — Public Disclosure Charitable Solicitations.

## 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/S556v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v2.pdf)
4. **SL2011-319** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2011/Bills/Senate/PDF/S556v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **102–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Atwater — cosponsor (person)
- Bingham — cosponsor (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- D. Berger — cosponsor (person)
- Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Kinnaird — cosponsor (person)
- McKissick — cosponsor (person)
- Meredith — cosponsor (person)
- Purcell — cosponsor (person)
- Rabon — cosponsor (person)
- Stein — cosponsor (person)
- Vaughan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-06-27** Ch. SL 2011-319 `became-law`
- **2011-06-27** Signed By Gov. 6/27/2011 `executive-signature`
- **2011-06-20** Pres. To Gov. 6/20/2011 `executive-receipt`
- **2011-06-18** Ratified
- **2011-06-17** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-16** Placed On Cal For 6/16/2011
- **2011-06-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2011-06-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-13** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-06-09** Passed 2nd & 3rd Reading `passage, reading-2, reading-3`
- **2011-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/9/2011
- **2011-06-08** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2011-06-08** Placed On Cal For 6/8/2011
- **2011-06-08** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-06-08** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-08** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-05-02** Re-ref Com On Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2011-04-12** Ref To Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2011-04-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db56a9f6-677d-4ba8-a578-f7ce818db870`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).