---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mecklenburg/Police Countywide Jurisdiction."
description: "Mecklenburg/Police Countywide Jurisdiction."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 5"
citation: "North Carolina SB 5 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "RATIFIED", "SESSION LAWS", "SHERIFFS", "MECKLENBURG COUNTY", "CORNELIUS", "DAVIDSON", "HUNTERSVILLE", "MATTHEWS", "PINEVILLE", "MINT HILL", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bishop", "Tarte"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2017-01-25"
last_action: "2017-06-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bd4b8855-cac7-4b77-8a2f-ee5318ab91cd"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S5&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "246316ec903cfe84737b8dc84cb34902d0f669ab34b869aadb5dfab5e4ebbfed"
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 5 (2017) — Mecklenburg/Police Countywide Jurisdiction.

## 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/S5v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S5v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S5v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S5v3.pdf)
5. **Edition 4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S5v4.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S5v5.pdf)
7. **SL 2017-42** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S5v6.pdf)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Bishop — primary (person)
- Tarte — primary (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-06-22** Ch. SL 2017-42 `became-law`
- **2017-06-22** Ratified
- **2017-06-21** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-06-21** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-06-21** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-06-21** Added to Calendar
- **2017-06-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-06-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-01** Re-ref Com On State and Local Government II `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-01** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-26** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-25** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2017-04-25** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2017-04-24** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-04-24** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-04-20** Placed On Cal For 04/24/2017
- **2017-04-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2017-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2017-04-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-03-07** Re-ref Com On Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-02-02** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-02** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-01-26** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-26** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-01-25** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bd4b8855-cac7-4b77-8a2f-ee5318ab91cd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).