---
type: "Bill"
title: "Affordable Housing."
description: "Affordable Housing."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 316"
citation: "North Carolina SB 316 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["HOUSING", "LOCAL GOVERNMENT", "MUNICIPALITIES", "PLANNING & ZONING", "POVERTY", "PRESENTED", "PROPERTY", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Krawiec", "Wells"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-03-20"
last_action: "2019-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/595803f8-e1e9-46e0-b2c4-785015d6f77b"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S316&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "8a7053ed6d514b0590e8a2141f20d2ce7614fb53bc1e418f7ab1073d25ba14c3"
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 316 (2019) — Affordable Housing.

## 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/S316v0.pdf)
2. **A1: ARN-12-V-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://webservices.ncleg.gov/ViewBillDocument/2019/4305/0/S316-ARN-12-V-1)
3. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S316v1.pdf)
4. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S316v2.pdf)
5. **Edition 3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S316v3.pdf)
6. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S316v4.pdf)
7. **SL 2019-144** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S316v5.pdf)

## Votes

- Third Reading — **117–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **117–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Krawiec — primary (person)
- Wells — primary (person)
- Edwards — cosponsor (person)
- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-07-19** Ch. SL 2019-144 `became-law`
- **2019-07-19** Signed by Gov. 7/19/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-11** Pres. To Gov. 7/11/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-10** Ratified
- **2019-07-09** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-09** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-08** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-06-26** Placed On Cal For 07/08/2019
- **2019-06-26** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-06-26** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-20** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-06-17** Re-ref to the Com on Regulatory Reform, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-17** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-05-07** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-07** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-05-06** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-05-02** Engrossed
- **2019-05-02** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-05-02** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-05-02** Amend Adopted A1 `amendment-passage`
- **2019-05-01** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-30** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-30** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-04-30** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-11** Re-ref to State and Local Government. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-11** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-03-21** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-03-20** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/595803f8-e1e9-46e0-b2c4-785015d6f77b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).