---
type: "Bill"
title: "Abolish Caswell County Coroner."
description: "Abolish Caswell County Coroner."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2015"
identifier: "SB 880"
citation: "North Carolina SB 880 (2015)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CORONERS", "COUNTIES", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "CASWELL COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2016-05-17"
last_action: "2016-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/621d827a-f61d-433a-990b-b53e72c6557a"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2015&BillID=S880&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "cde6b83a122377c2c5e19e6c7ea66ac9ec1f135bc8382338042370c1d50e0d1f"
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 880 (2015) — Abolish Caswell County Coroner.

## 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/S880v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S880v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S880v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2016-39** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2015/Bills/Senate/PDF/S880v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **107–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodard — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-06-27** Ch. SL 2016-39 `became-law`
- **2016-06-27** Ratified
- **2016-06-23** Ordered Enrolled
- **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 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-06-13** Ref To Com On Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-13** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2016-06-09** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2016-06-08** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2016-06-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2016-06-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2016-05-18** Ref To Com On State and Local Government `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-18** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2016-05-17** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/621d827a-f61d-433a-990b-b53e72c6557a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).