---
type: "Bill"
title: "School Playgrounds Available to Public."
description: "School Playgrounds Available to Public."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 315"
citation: "North Carolina SB 315 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PARKS & RECREATION AREAS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RECREATION & LEISURE", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pate", "Tillman"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-17"
last_action: "2015-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2f96ab0-0118-4b23-9474-e31e4b68de52"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S315&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b9c96a0c9e5c26559f8c21a2ee2759c6272798224522a71046cdfb6962b025ff"
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 315 (2015) — School Playgrounds Available to Public.

## 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/S315v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S315v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S315v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S315v3.pdf)
5. **SL2015-64** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S315v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **44–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **116–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pate — primary (person)
- Tillman — primary (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Hise — cosponsor (person)
- Rabin — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith-Ingram — cosponsor (person)
- Van Duyn — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-06-11** Ch. SL 2015-64 `became-law`
- **2015-06-11** Signed by Gov. 6/11/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-06-05** Pres. To Gov. 06/05/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-06-04** Ratified
- **2015-06-03** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-06-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-06-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-06-02** Placed On Cal For 06/03/2015
- **2015-06-02** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-06-02** Serial Referral To Local Government Stricken
- **2015-06-02** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-09** Ref to the Com on Education - K-12, if favorable, Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-06** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-04-06** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-04-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-01** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-04-01** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-24** Re-ref Com On Education/Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-24** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-18** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2f96ab0-0118-4b23-9474-e31e4b68de52`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).