---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets."
description: "Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 805"
citation: "North Carolina SB 805 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "COMPUTERS", "EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES", "FINANCIAL SERVICES", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY", "MEDIA", "POWER OF ATTORNEY", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY", "TELECOMMUNICATIONS", "TRUSTS", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-05-03"
last_action: "2016-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a358cf71-d9cc-4e26-947e-2db475b47d59"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S805&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "eb68e0f255245385db6f0afbbc271bd6eafcb68742649b872147f9a0c7a8b89a"
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 805 (2015) — Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets.

## 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/S805v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S805v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S805v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2016-53** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S805v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **110–1** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hartsell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-06-30** Ch. SL 2016-53 `became-law`
- **2016-06-30** Signed by Gov. 6/30/2016 `executive-signature`
- **2016-06-24** Pres. To Gov. 06/24/2016 `executive-receipt`
- **2016-06-23** Ratified
- **2016-06-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2016-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-22** Added to Calendar
- **2016-06-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2016-06-22** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-02** Ref To Com On Judiciary IV `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-02** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2016-06-01** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2016-06-01** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2016-05-31** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-05-31** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-05-26** Placed On Cal For 05/31/2016
- **2016-05-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-05-17** Re-ref Com On Judiciary I `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-17** Withdrawn From Com
- **2016-05-04** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-05-03** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a358cf71-d9cc-4e26-947e-2db475b47d59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).