---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarify Cleveland Board of Education Election."
description: "Clarify Cleveland Board of Education Election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 560"
citation: "North Carolina SB 560 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["BOARDS", "COUNTIES", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "EDUCATION", "EDUCATION BOARDS", "ELECTIONS", "ELEMENTARY EDUCATION", "KINDERGARTEN", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MAGISTRATES", "POLITICAL PARTIES", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SECONDARY EDUCATION", "SESSION LAWS", "TITLE CHANGE", "CLEVELAND COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britt", "J. Jackson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-03-30"
last_action: "2017-08-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8e8fd3e9-dd25-4f00-ac33-27e589568cb8"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S560&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "150a5f27fe15eb235bf5d4fe119778174468249794bf5cfd621b05a10d5d4e51"
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 560 (2017) — Clarify Cleveland Board of Education Election.

## 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/S560v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S560v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S560v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S560v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2017-200** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S560v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Motion 9 To Concur — **38–2** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **106–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Britt — primary (person)
- J. Jackson — primary (person)
- Lee — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-08-03** Ch. SL 2017-200 `became-law`
- **2017-08-03** Ratified
- **2017-08-03** Ordered Enrolled
- **2017-08-03** Concurred In H/Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2017-08-03** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2017-08-03** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2017-08-03** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2017-08-03** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2017-08-03** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2017-08-03** Added to Calendar
- **2017-08-03** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-08-03** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **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** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-04-13** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-13** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-03-30** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8e8fd3e9-dd25-4f00-ac33-27e589568cb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).