---
type: "Bill"
title: "Break or Enter Pharmacy/Increase Penalty."
description: "Break or Enter Pharmacy/Increase Penalty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 151"
citation: "North Carolina SB 151 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES", "COURTS", "CRIMES", "CRIMINAL PROCEDURE", "HEALTH SERVICES", "PHARMACEUTICALS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "RETAILING", "SENTENCING", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Britt", "McInnis"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-26"
last_action: "2019-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a1c76d2-1b9f-4910-a21d-cbf6213560ff"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S151&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "4153a861534864298e811abf869235dbc5854a09b62a55d077c536196955b3c6"
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 151 (2019) — Break or Enter Pharmacy/Increase Penalty.

## 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/S151v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ABD-3-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/1476/0/S151-ABD-3-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S151v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S151v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S151v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S151v4.pdf)
7. **SL 2019-40** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S151v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **113–3** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **40–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Britt — primary (person)
- McInnis — primary (person)
- J. Davis — cosponsor (person)
- Johnson — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-06-21** Ch. SL 2019-40 `became-law`
- **2019-06-21** Signed by Gov. 6/21/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-06-14** Pres. To Gov. 6/14/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-13** Ratified
- **2019-06-12** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-12** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-12** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-10** Placed On Cal For 06/12/2019
- **2019-06-10** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-05** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-23** Re-ref to the Com on Judiciary, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-23** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-18** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-18** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-03-20** Ref to the Com on Judiciary, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-20** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-03-19** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-03-18** Engrossed
- **2019-03-18** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-18** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-18** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-03-14** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-12** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-03-12** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-28** Re-ref to Judiciary. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-27** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4a1c76d2-1b9f-4910-a21d-cbf6213560ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).