---
type: "Bill"
title: "Britny's Law: IPV Homicide."
description: "Britny's Law: IPV Homicide."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 600"
citation: "North Carolina SB 600 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "DEATH & DYING", "DOMESTIC VIOLENCE", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SENTENCING", "WOMEN", "HOMICIDE", "CHAPTERED", "NAMED LAWS", "FAMILY ISSUES"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Barefoot", "J. Jackson"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-04-04"
last_action: "2017-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/18be6bc5-d122-4c55-a71c-b03ca031e08f"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S600&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1bfbf20ff619f61d1bcb7a20640d406c456214810129eedb3080d999c69d3d24"
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 600 (2017) — Britny's Law: IPV Homicide.

## 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/S600v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S600v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S600v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S600v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2017-94** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S600v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **48–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **110–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Barefoot — primary (person)
- J. Jackson — primary (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Harrington — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-07-11** Ch. SL 2017-94 `became-law`
- **2017-07-11** Signed by Gov. 7/11/2017 `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`
- **2017-06-22** Added to Calendar
- **2017-06-22** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** Withdrawn From Cal
- **2017-06-20** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2017-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2017-06-08** Re-ref Com On Judiciary II `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`
- **2017-04-25** 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`
- **2017-04-20** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-20** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-04-05** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-05** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-04-04** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/18be6bc5-d122-4c55-a71c-b03ca031e08f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).