---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic Notice - Guilford County."
description: "Electronic Notice - Guilford County."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 181"
citation: "North Carolina SB 181 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "CHARTERS", "COUNTIES", "ELECTIONS", "ELECTIONS BOARDS", "INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY", "INTERNET", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "NOTIFICATION", "POLITICAL PARTIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "GUILFORD COUNTY", "FORSYTH COUNTY", "WINSTON-SALEM", "CHAPTERED", "ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-06"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5a6e0cd0-8d8a-443c-b74e-5685236dff2e"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S181&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "f62f575e8c372f0aab0667623f43903d1ec05f610cfaf721f1653d42c14627c1"
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 181 (2017) — Electronic Notice - Guilford County.

## 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/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S181v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S181v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S181v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S181v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S181v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2017-210** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S181v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **30–16** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **58–57** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lowe — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-10-05** Ch. SL 2017-210 `became-law`
- **2017-10-05** Ratified
- **2017-10-05** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-10-05** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2017-10-05** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2017-10-05** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2017-10-05** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-10-05** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-10-05** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-10-04** Placed On Cal For 10/05/2017
- **2017-10-04** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-10-04** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-10-04** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-10-04** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-29** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-29** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-06-14** Re-ref Com On Finance `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-13** Serial Referral To Finance Added
- **2017-06-01** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government I `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-27** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-27** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2017-04-27** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2017-04-26** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-26** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-26** Placed on Today's Supplemental Calendar
- **2017-04-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-25** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2017-04-25** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-03-07** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5a6e0cd0-8d8a-443c-b74e-5685236dff2e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).