---
type: "Bill"
title: "Fill Certain Vacancies/Alexander & Burke Co."
description: "Fill Certain Vacancies/Alexander & Burke Co."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 12"
citation: "North Carolina SB 12 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COUNTIES", "COUNTY COMMISSIONERS", "LAW ENFORCEMENT", "LOCAL", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "SHERIFFS", "BURKE COUNTY", "ALEXANDER COUNTY", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 7
action_count: 30
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-31"
last_action: "2019-03-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdffc3c2-cbfb-4f2d-b485-2dba0adbede0"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S12&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "50ac1e9768dd88c53b31147dc64a1847c9ee4ab6b8b3b71718da67fe97d8767b"
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 12 (2019) — Fill Certain Vacancies/Alexander & Burke Co.

## 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/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S12v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABD-1-V-2** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/354/0/S12-ABD-1-V-2)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S12v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S12v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S12v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S12v4.pdf)
7. **SL 2019-5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S12v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Amendment 1 — **36–9** (pass) · upper
- Motion 9 To Concur — **40–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wells — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-19** Ch. SL 2019-5 `became-law`
- **2019-03-19** Ratified
- **2019-03-18** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-03-18** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-14** Placed On Cal For 03/18/2019
- **2019-03-14** Regular Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2019-03-14** Regular Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-03-13** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-13** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-11** Placed On Cal For 03/13/2019
- **2019-03-11** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-03-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-06** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Ref to the Com on State and Local Government, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-19** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-02-19** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-02-18** Engrossed
- **2019-02-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-18** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-02-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-12** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-06** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-04** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bdffc3c2-cbfb-4f2d-b485-2dba0adbede0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).