---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits."
description: "Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 665"
citation: "North Carolina SB 665 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["DEATH & DYING", "ESCHEATS", "INSURANCE", "INSURANCE", "LIFE", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-03-26"
last_action: "2015-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/23f6e98d-6dd8-4af9-a9aa-e0e8a1bab888"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S665&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "c356041a10ff0a07526cd7e1e4a39ecf432944e36832fea882bb6d3df2b1f26f"
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 665 (2015) — Unclaimed Life Insurance Benefits.

## 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/S665v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ATU-7-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/4305/0/S665-ATU-7-V-1)
3. **A1: Scanned Document** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/6186/0/S665-A-NBC-1049)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S665v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S665v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S665v3.pdf)
7. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S665v4.pdf)
8. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S665v5.pdf)
9. **SL2015-236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S665v6.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **47–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Apodaca — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-09-01** Ch. SL 2015-236 `became-law`
- **2015-09-01** Signed by Gov. 9/1/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-27** Pres. To Gov. 08/27/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-08-26** Ratified
- **2015-08-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-08-25** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-24** Placed On Cal For 08/25/2015
- **2015-08-24** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2015-08-20** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2015-08-20** Ordered Engrossed
- **2015-08-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-08-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-08-20** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-08-19** Placed On Cal For 08/20/2015
- **2015-08-19** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-08-19** Serial Referral To Insurance Stricken
- **2015-08-19** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-04-29** Ref to the Com on Judiciary I, if favorable, Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-04-28** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-04-27** Engrossed
- **2015-04-27** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-27** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-27** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-04-23** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-30** Ref To Com On Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-30** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/23f6e98d-6dd8-4af9-a9aa-e0e8a1bab888`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).