---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abolish Brunswick County Coroner."
description: "Abolish Brunswick County Coroner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 215"
citation: "North Carolina SB 215 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORONERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "BRUNSWICK COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2015-03-10"
last_action: "2016-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae5395ec-ab76-46b4-8241-8c60ab158bc6"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S215&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "fd2177023ed7bad6eefd18e7a54cddd085192a900db14270a92ffc1fe562bad3"
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 215 (2015) — Abolish Brunswick County Coroner.

## 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/Senate/PDF/S215v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S215v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S215v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2016-46** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S215v3.pdf)

## Sponsors

- Rabon — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-06-29** Ch. SL 2016-46 `became-law`
- **2016-06-29** Ratified
- **2016-06-28** Ordered Enrolled
- **2016-06-28** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-28** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/28/2016
- **2016-06-23** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2016-06-22** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2016
- **2016-06-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2016-06-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-09** Re-ref Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-09-17** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2015-09-17** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-09-17** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2015-09-17** Special Message Sent To House
- **2015-09-17** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-09-17** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-09-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-09-15** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-09-15** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-31** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-31** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-23** Re-ref to Health Care. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-11** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ae5395ec-ab76-46b4-8241-8c60ab158bc6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).