---
type: "Bill"
title: "Facilitate Response to Disasters."
description: "Facilitate Response to Disasters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 498"
citation: "North Carolina SB 498 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["COMMERCE", "CORPORATIONS", "FOR-PROFIT", "CORPORATIONS", "NONPROFIT", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "FUELS", "INFRASTRUCTURE", "LICENSES & PERMITS", "PERSONNEL", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "SHIPPING", "TAX EXEMPTIONS", "TAX WITHHOLDING", "TAXATION", "TAXES", "CORPORATE INCOME", "TAXES", "INDIVIDUAL INCOME", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Jackson", "Blue"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-04-02"
last_action: "2019-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/60f9e5cc-f442-4de3-a9ee-af317a5803dd"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S498&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "9d4fafa70c245bcdd53467c9c1cdab0c1d7f0ea55d5fefa95f44d8ca357e5e1a"
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 498 (2019) — Facilitate Response to Disasters.

## 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/S498v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S498v1.pdf)
3. **Edition 2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S498v2.pdf)
4. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S498v3.pdf)
5. **SL 2019-187** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S498v4.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower
- Second Reading — **46–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Jackson — primary (person)
- Blue — primary (person)
- Britt — cosponsor (person)
- Burgin — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Newton — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Sawyer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-08-01** Ch. SL 2019-187 `became-law`
- **2019-08-01** Signed by Gov. 8/1/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-24** Pres. To Gov. 7/24/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-07-23** Ratified
- **2019-07-22** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-07-22** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-22** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-17** Placed On Cal For 07/22/2019
- **2019-07-16** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-07-16** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-11** Re-ref Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-11** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-10** Ref to the Com on Finance, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-10** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-07-10** Special Message Received From Senate
- **2019-07-10** Special Message Sent To House
- **2019-07-10** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-07-10** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-10** Placed on Today's Calendar
- **2019-07-10** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-09** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-09** Com Substitute Adopted
- **2019-07-09** Reptd Fav Com Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-07-09** Re-ref to Finance. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-07-09** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-04-03** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-04-02** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/60f9e5cc-f442-4de3-a9ee-af317a5803dd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).