---
type: "Bill"
title: "Ag Disaster Fund/Certain Counties."
description: "Ag Disaster Fund/Certain Counties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/nc"
legislature: "North Carolina General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 77"
citation: "North Carolina SB 77 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["AGRICULTURE", "AGRICULTURE DEPT.", "DISASTERS & EMERGENCIES", "EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT", "EMERGENCY SERVICES", "PRESENTED", "PUBLIC", "RATIFIED", "CHAPTERED"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ballard", "Sawyer"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-18"
last_action: "2019-03-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bfaf06b3-95d5-46cf-8e6b-2b814f727bad"
source_url: "http://www.ncleg.net/gascripts/BillLookUp/BillLookUp.pl?Session=2019&BillID=S77&votesToView=all"
source_hash: "b444b5ded041be77e270a91998f018417c1992bd9256d931a75e758d265f7694"
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 77 (2019) — Ag Disaster Fund/Certain Counties.

## 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/S77v0.pdf)
2. **Edition 1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v1.pdf)
3. **Ratified** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v2.pdf)
4. **SL 2019-3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2019/Bills/Senate/PDF/S77v3.pdf)

## Votes

- Second Reading — **49–0** (pass) · upper
- Second Reading — **114–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ballard — primary (person)
- Sawyer — primary (person)
- B. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Daniel — cosponsor (person)
- J. Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- McInnis — cosponsor (person)
- Mohammed — cosponsor (person)
- Perry — cosponsor (person)
- Sanderson — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Steinburg — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-08** Ch. SL 2019-3 `became-law`
- **2019-03-08** Signed by Gov. 3/8/2019 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-08** Pres. To Gov. 3/8/2019 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-07** Ratified
- **2019-03-06** Ordered Enrolled
- **2019-03-06** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Placed On Cal For 03/06/2019
- **2019-03-05** Cal Pursuant Rule 36(b)
- **2019-03-05** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** Ref To Com On Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** Regular Message Received From Senate
- **2019-02-26** Regular Message Sent To House
- **2019-02-25** Passed 3rd Reading `passage, reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Passed 2nd Reading `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-20** Re-ref Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Reptd Fav `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-19** Re-ref to Agriculture/Environment/Natural Resources. If fav, re-ref to Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Withdrawn From Com
- **2019-02-19** Ref To Com On Rules and Operations of the Senate `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Passed 1st Reading `reading-1`
- **2019-02-18** Filed `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bfaf06b3-95d5-46cf-8e6b-2b814f727bad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official North Carolina legislature records).