---
type: "Bill"
title: "Off-Duty Correctional Officers/Conceal Carry."
description: "Off-Duty Correctional Officers/Conceal Carry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 78"
citation: "North Carolina SB 78 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "WEAPONS", "CHAPTERED", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Daniel", "Randleman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2015-02-11"
last_action: "2015-04-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a2bba48-a010-4295-8455-b58b14a79e29"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S78&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "7bf33cfc56534370c3cb2367e97ab5a2dde40886f180ea6f70414fe0411864a9"
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 78 (2015) — Off-Duty Correctional Officers/Conceal Carry.

## 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/S78v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ASA-5-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2015/974/0/S78-ASA-5-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S78v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S78v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S78v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S78v4.pdf)
7. **SL2015-5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S78v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **107–9** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **45–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Daniel — primary (person)
- Randleman — primary (person)
- Brock — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Rabin — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-04-09** Ch. SL 2015-5 `became-law`
- **2015-04-09** Signed by Gov. 4/9/2015 `executive-signature`
- **2015-04-02** Pres. To Gov. 04/02/2015 `executive-receipt`
- **2015-04-02** Ratified
- **2015-04-01** Ordered Enrolled
- **2015-04-01** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-04-01** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-04-01** Added to Calendar
- **2015-04-01** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2015-04-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-03-16** Ref To Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-16** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-03-12** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2015-03-12** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2015-03-11** Engrossed
- **2015-03-11** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2015-03-11** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2015-03-11** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2015-03-10** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2015-03-10** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2015-02-16** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-16** Withdrawn From Com
- **2015-02-12** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2015-02-12** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3a2bba48-a010-4295-8455-b58b14a79e29`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).