---
type: "Bill"
title: "Alarm Registration Info Not Public Record."
description: "Alarm Registration Info Not Public Record."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "HB 797"
citation: "North Carolina HB 797 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ALARM SYSTEMS", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC RECORDS", "RATIFIED", "SAFETY", "SAFETY EQUIPMENT", "RECORDS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Farmer-Butterfield", "S. Martin", "Stam"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-04-14"
last_action: "2015-08-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4e3c04d-fe79-44b5-a578-e64e86f775cf"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=H797&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "01fcba868454d5d3b3dd7b20cde3d77ea4191ae52c6bdca927b7424a86c2c2ed"
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 HB 797 (2015) — Alarm Registration Info Not Public Record.

## 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/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H797v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H797v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H797v2.pdf)
4. **SL2015-189** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/House/PDF/H797v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **47–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Farmer-Butterfield — primary (person)
- S. Martin — primary (person)
- Stam — primary (person)
- Avila — cosponsor (person)
- B. Turner — cosponsor (person)
- C. Graham — cosponsor (person)
- Conrad — cosponsor (person)
- Floyd — cosponsor (person)
- Horn — cosponsor (person)
- Jones — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Saine — cosponsor (person)
- Wray — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-08-05** Ch. SL 2015-189 `became-law`
- **2015-08-05** Signed by Gov. 8/5/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-31** Pres. To Gov. 7/31/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-07-30** Ratified
- **2015-07-29** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-07-29** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-07-29** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-07-21** Placed On Cal For 07/29/2015
- **2015-07-21** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2015-07-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-07-15** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-07-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-04-28** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Received From House
- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-23** Placed On Cal For 04/27/2015
- **2015-04-23** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-15** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-15** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-14** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4e3c04d-fe79-44b5-a578-e64e86f775cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).