---
type: "Bill"
title: "Massage Board Membership."
description: "Massage Board Membership."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 311"
citation: "North Carolina SB 311 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["APPOINTMENTS", "BOARDS", "COUNCIL OF STATE", "GOVERNOR", "HEALTH SERVICES", "LICENSING & CERTIFICATION", "MASSAGE THERAPY", "MASSAGE THERAPY BOARD", "MEMBERSHIP", "OCCUPATIONS", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "PUBLIC OFFICIALS", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bishop"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-19"
last_action: "2019-07-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08efd76c-cda0-4607-8d6b-5c14cfd3933e"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S311&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "1097260fbe15dfc824c6e1c4f3e8dd3eb0576053d826ea91b03e28340a490336"
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 311 (2019) — Massage Board Membership.

## 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/S311v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S311v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S311v2.pdf)
4. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S311v3.pdf)
5. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S311v4.pdf)
6. **SL 2019-114** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S311v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **112–0** (pass) · lower
- Motion 9 To Concur — **48–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bishop — primary (person)
- Lowe — cosponsor (person)
- Waddell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-11** Ch. SL 2019-114 `became-law`
- **2019-07-11** Signed by Gov. 7/11/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-01** Pres. To Gov. 7/1/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-06-28** Ratified
- **2019-06-27** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-06-27** Concurred In H Com Sub `amendment-passage`
- **2019-06-26** Special Message Received For Concurrence in H Com Sub
- **2019-06-25** Special Message Sent To Senate
- **2019-06-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-06-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-24** Placed On Cal For 06/25/2019
- **2019-06-24** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-24** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-09** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-09** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-08** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-05-08** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-05-07** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-07** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-06** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-05-02** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-02** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-05-02** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-25** Re-ref to Commerce and Insurance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-25** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-03-20** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-20** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-19** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08efd76c-cda0-4607-8d6b-5c14cfd3933e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).