---
type: "Bill"
title: "Burt's Law."
description: "Burt's Law."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 445"
citation: "North Carolina SB 445 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGING", "CLINICS", "COMMISSIONS", "CRIMES", "DISABLED PERSONS", "HEALTH SERVICES", "INSTITUTIONALIZED PERSONS", "MENTAL HEALTH", "MHDDSAS COMN.", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SEX OFFENSES", "SUBSTANCE ABUSE", "CHAPTERED", "NAMED LAWS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krawiec", "Newton"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-25"
last_action: "2015-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2a2c046c-9fbb-4866-b515-d4f5a39652df"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S445&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5f0fb3447d7feb791ee2ef4728be864252d1cee9d0d2e276836c00f7b3033231"
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 445 (2015) — Burt's Law.

## 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/S445v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATG-16-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/3898/0/S445-ATG-16-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S445v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S445v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S445v3.pdf)
6. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S445v4.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S445v5.pdf)
8. **SL2015-36** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S445v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **119–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Krawiec — primary (person)
- Newton — primary (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Wells — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-05-26** Ch. SL 2015-36 `became-law`
- **2015-05-26** Signed by Gov. 5/26/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-05-19** Pres. To Gov. 05/19/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-05-18** Ratified
- **2015-05-14** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-05-14** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-13** Placed On Cal For 05/14/2015
- **2015-05-13** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2015-05-13** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-05-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-05-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-05-07** Placed On Cal For 05/12/2015
- **2015-05-07** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-05-06** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-22** Ref To Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-22** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-21** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-04-21** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-04-20** Engrossed
- **2015-04-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-20** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-16** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-04-16** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-06** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-03-26** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2a2c046c-9fbb-4866-b515-d4f5a39652df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).