---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ensuring Privacy of Student Records."
description: "Ensuring Privacy of Student Records."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "SB 815"
citation: "North Carolina SB 815 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "DATA SYSTEMS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PRESENTED", "PRIVACY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "STUDENTS", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barefoot", "Brock"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2014-05-20"
last_action: "2014-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3f718a41-7276-4d35-ab35-dc5889488516"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=S815&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7d02b3aab995d5e38e1f0f231747cd5131a1db602ac80978a27fc7690041d21d"
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 815 (2013) — Ensuring Privacy of Student 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/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S815v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S815v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S815v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S815v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S815v4.pdf)
6. **SL2014-50** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S815v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barefoot — primary (person)
- Brock — primary (person)
- Cook — cosponsor (person)
- Curtis — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Randleman — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Soucek — cosponsor (person)
- Tillman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-07-01** Ch. SL 2014-50 `became-law`
- **2014-07-01** Signed by Gov. 7/1/2014 `executive-signature`
- **2014-06-26** Pres. To Gov. 06/26/2014 `executive-receipt`
- **2014-06-25** Ratified
- **2014-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
- **2014-06-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2014
- **2014-06-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2014-06-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-06-18** Ref To Com On Education `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-06-17** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2014-06-17** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2014-06-16** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-16** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-11** Placed On Cal For 06/16/2014
- **2014-06-11** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2014-06-11** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-06-04** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-04** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2014-06-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-27** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-27** Withdrawn From Com
- **2014-05-21** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-05-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3f718a41-7276-4d35-ab35-dc5889488516`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).