---
type: "Bill"
title: "Wake Cty Towns Donate Retired Service Animals."
description: "Wake Cty Towns Donate Retired Service Animals."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 849"
citation: "North Carolina SB 849 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "COUNTIES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "WAKE COUNTY", "YANCEY COUNTY", "KNIGHTDALE", "GARNER", "CARY", "WAKE FOREST", "MORRISVILLE", "CHAPTERED", "APEX", "ZEBULON", "ROLESVILLE", "LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICE ANIMALS"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barringer", "Chaudhuri"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2016-05-10"
last_action: "2016-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/79effc3f-56f9-4248-8135-dbc27cdfefb1"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S849&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "19a36fb15d40b7a9a2e24c133df45f7334a76ea8964196de71210c91baf0b7f5"
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 849 (2015) — Wake Cty Towns Donate Retired Service Animals.

## 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/S849v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S849v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S849v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S849v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S849v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2016-38** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S849v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barringer — primary (person)
- Chaudhuri — primary (person)
- Foushee — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-06-27** Ch. SL 2016-38 `became-law`
- **2016-06-27** Ratified
- **2016-06-24** Ordered Enrolled
- **2016-06-24** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-23** Placed On Cal For 06/24/2016
- **2016-06-23** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2016-06-23** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2016-06-23** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-23** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-22** Placed On Cal For 06/23/2016
- **2016-06-22** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2016-06-22** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-07** Ref To Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2016-06-06** Special Message Sent To House
- **2016-06-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-02** Placed On Cal For 06/06/2016
- **2016-06-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2016-06-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-05-11** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-11** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-05-10** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/79effc3f-56f9-4248-8135-dbc27cdfefb1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).