---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow Absentee Voting/1st Craven Sanitary Dis."
description: "Allow Absentee Voting/1st Craven Sanitary Dis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2013"
identifier: "SB 851"
citation: "North Carolina SB 851 (2013)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "RATIFIED", "CRAVEN COUNTY", "CHAPTERED", "SANITARY DISTRICTS", "TAX DISTRICTS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2014-05-27"
last_action: "2014-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/564f7f2f-0195-4eb1-938b-59e45346876c"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2013&BillID=S851&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "3ce55c13d31d4f2f2fdea2bbb3d983c739a63b065e513e1083c1ddca0ef15bbd"
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 851 (2013) — Allow Absentee Voting/1st Craven Sanitary Dis.

## 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/S851v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S851v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S851v2.pdf)
4. **SL2014-54** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2013/Bills/Senate/PDF/S851v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-07-03** Ch. SL 2014-54 `became-law`
- **2014-07-03** Ratified
- **2014-07-02** Ordered Enrolled
- **2014-07-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-07-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-07-01** Placed On Cal For 07/02/2014
- **2014-07-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2014-07-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-06-30** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-06-26** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2014-06-26** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2014-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2014-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2014-06-24** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2014-05-28** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2014-05-27** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/564f7f2f-0195-4eb1-938b-59e45346876c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).