---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professors in the Classroom."
description: "Professors in the Classroom."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 448"
citation: "North Carolina SB 448 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "EMPLOYMENT", "HIGHER EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "OCCUPATIONS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "STATE EMPLOYEES", "TEACHERS", "CHAPTERED", "GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barefoot", "Newton"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-28"
last_action: "2017-06-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b58f914-22a1-4141-985f-5ed829602100"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S448&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "312b99adf3e3c7e85cbe5eaecca7dfde8ba68d282f7e29ac3dba80bc448d1ebe"
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 448 (2017) — Professors in the Classroom.

## 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/S448v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S448v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S448v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2017-91** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S448v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barefoot — primary (person)
- Newton — primary (person)
- Krawiec — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-30** Ch. SL 2017-91 `became-law`
- **2017-06-30** Signed by Gov. 6/30/2017 `executive-signature`
- **2017-06-27** Pres. To Gov. 6/27/2017 `executive-receipt`
- **2017-06-26** Ratified
- **2017-06-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-21** Placed On Cal For 06/22/2017
- **2017-06-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-06-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-08** Re-ref Com On Education - K-12 `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-08** 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`
- **2017-04-11** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-10** Re-ref to Education/Higher Education. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-10** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-03-29** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b58f914-22a1-4141-985f-5ed829602100`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).