---
type: "Bill"
title: "Protect Right to Hunt and Fish."
description: "Protect Right to Hunt and Fish."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2017"
identifier: "SB 677"
citation: "North Carolina SB 677 (2017)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ANIMALS", "CONSTITUTION", "NC", "ELECTIONS", "FISH & WILDLIFE", "HUNTING & FISHING", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "REFERENDUMS & INITIATIVES", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britt", "Sanderson"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-06-06"
last_action: "2018-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/034bf1c9-19a2-4622-87e7-a9154aae8b18"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2017&BillID=S677&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "5c632f739d25b93d082d9a4003b7acfec2d5a654763e4ae2f1d95e015247153f"
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 677 (2017) — Protect Right to Hunt and Fish.

## 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/S677v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARIY-137-V-5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2017/7336/0/S677-ARIY-137-V-5)
3. **A1: Scanned Document** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.net/ViewBillDocument/2017/7243/0/S677-A-NBC-2495)
4. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S677v1.pdf)
5. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S677v2.pdf)
6. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S677v3.pdf)
7. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S677v4.pdf)
8. **SL 2018-96** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2017/Bills/Senate/PDF/S677v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **92–23** (pass) · lower
- Motion 9 To Concur — **41–6** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britt — primary (person)
- Sanderson — primary (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Tucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-06-25** Ch. SL 2018-96 `became-law`
- **2018-06-25** Ratified
- **2018-06-25** Ordered Enrolled
- **2018-06-25** Concurred In H Amend S677v3 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-25** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2018-06-25** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Amend
- **2018-06-25** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2018-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-25** Amend Failed A4 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-06-25** Amend Failed A3 `amendment-failure`
- **2018-06-25** Amendment Withdrawn A2 `amendment-withdrawal`
- **2018-06-25** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-21** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2018
- **2018-06-21** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2018-06-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-21** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2018-06-21** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2018-06-21** Special Message Sent To House
- **2018-06-20** Engrossed
- **2018-06-20** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2018-06-20** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2018-06-20** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-20** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2018-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-20** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2018-06-20** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-06-19** Re-ref to Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2017-06-07** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2017-06-06** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/034bf1c9-19a2-4622-87e7-a9154aae8b18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).